Royals

This thread is for discussing the Royals, who are playing against the A’s right now.

Dividing Things Into Categories

The 2008 A’s had a .686 team OPS, which was the worst team mark in the AL since the 2003 Detroit Tigers, who went 49-113. 2009 carry-overs from the that team are hitting at a remarkably similar clip.

In other words, not even their MOTHERS! could pretend that they had even a shred of offensive talent, or really any other type of human worth.

A’s players not on the ’08 team so far:

.219/.293/.319

I feel bad that the A’s suck, but I feel worse that these players’ MOTHERS! were too reticent in exercising their constitutional rights.

Game Thread

Crafty righthander Justin Duchscherer has avoided the bobble-jinx today, so the A’s are in good shape.

via slusser

Copeland era comes to an end. Kennedy is starting batting 7th. Petit down. Gray up.  Someone on the scout.com boards said that someone on the radio said that geren said that Bobby C. will get most of the starts at 3B. Boo. Also there is some other nonsense about other 3bmen.

In other news, I need to stop looking at **…

Lineup:

Giese

Jjjsixsix is awesome. Jennifer is also awesome.

This is:

1 — recommended bleachers attire when Giese is pitching, and/or

2 — the money you could be saving with Gieseco, after it got mugged by that fence-building yokel (w/ apologies to Frank Rizzo)

Boo

Bob Geren Has No Charm in the Nation’s Ads

Fuck you.

Fuck you.

You’re cool.

You’re old.

Game Thread

My internet and tv are working! Go me! Go A’s! Boooo umpire!

DLD: I’m Good at Titles

But not at fun graphs/graphics, or links, or interesting prose, or damnit I don’t have anything to post. I blame the swine flu. Ok, I just looked around for a little longer. There are no links. None. If you go to **, you might notice that our secret is out… also, fk is criticized for too much spice. Here is a picture of favorite spice:

Bonus picture: Chris Jakubauskas’s gameday photo:

note to soaker: we actually tried to invite you (and WC for that matter) but were unable to find you email address, so instead the “trail of breadcrumbs” plan was adopted.

New Thread!

Here is a cute otter, courtesy of the good folks at cuteotters.com:

Because it is timely

if i was funny like jeff i’d post something funny but i’m not so you get this. title added for people who like to click things on the right. click click click. oh well at least we’re not about to be swept by the twins.