Archive update

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This site exists only as an archive of an ambitious but ultimately failed experiment; it will not be updated.  The Second Foundation exists, but you’ll have to find it yourself.

-salb918

Bob Melvin Fired, replaced with Daily Link Dump

Effective immediately.

Wait a second.  A.J. Hinch?  Late ’90s catcher-of-the-future A.J. Hinch?  The guy who put up a 328/420/568 minor league line in 1997 and was at one point a top-50 prospect?

Hey, is that Corey Koskie? (September 13, 2000 - Dave Ross/Oakland Tribune, via Flickr, without permission)

Hinch, you will recall, arrived in Oakland in 1998 in the same position-player bumper crop that yielded Eric Chavez, Miguel Tejada, Ben Grieve, Scott Spiezio, and Adam Piatt.  He’s best remembered for being packaged with Grieve and Angel Berroa for Cory Lidle, Johnny Damon, and Mark Ellis.

The incoming and outgoing talent in that trade looks a little silly eight years down the line, huh?

Hinch and Eric Byrnes were teammates on the 2000 squad.  While it’s not that strange to have a manager manage a former teammate – Joe Girardi is doing it in New York and Ozzie Guillen did it in Chicago – what is strange is that Hinch is only two years older than Byrnes.

{edited to remove universal strikethrough pervading the rest of Free Kraut, fsu}

Baby’s bottle

Your beer baby is weak!

Matt Holliday, circa 1983?

From yesterday’s Braves-Mets tilt.

Sluggerrr sez Go RRRoyals!

For the Win!

Daily graphing

Edit by JediLeroy:

Condiment Bar: 4/17/09

Vlad’s tits hurt.

Manager Mike Scioscia said an MRI Thursday revealed a strained pectoral muscle. The 34-year-old Guerrero was to fly to Los Angeles to see team orthopedist Dr. Lewis Yocum on Friday.

Oh man, the dreaded Lewis Yocum.  You know what comes next:  Tommy John Jenna Jameson surgery.

So I’m juvenile.  Sue me.  I’m sick of staring at this f—ing thesis.  Like the last five years of my life are worth spilling over a 100 pages of electronic ink.  Nobody’s going to read this s— anyway.  Boobies.

Game thread: A’s set sights on eliminating douchebaggery everywhere

Red Sox:
Late night law commercial
Can’t hit the inside fastball
Big Poopy
The man with an unfortunate former B-R URL
Teh Boras fail
Teh Canadian fail, eh?
Some guy named Nick Green
Welcome back, Kottaras

A’s:
The Demon Barber of Hegenberger Street
California, California, Califoooorrniiiaaa…
VOJC
It would be so nice
Lord of the Unicorns
Romantic Haiku Muse
The other Suzuki
This guy still sucks
Little House on the Prairie

XbX edit: anti-Boston rally Pitch f/x

Okajima vs Holliday

Danny edit:

Ziegler vs Varitek

DLD 04/14/2009

So many things about last night’s win.

Jason Varitek must have forgotten who was chugging toward the plate. I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen such as a half-assed attempt at block and tag at home plate. How long before the Red Sox front office starts a whisper campaign against Captain Cambridge?

Giambi…if you didn’t get on base so damned much (.452 OBP), you wouldn’t have to run the bases. Your choice.

On the other hand, maybe Ryan Sweeney and Orlando Cabrera should just forget about getting on base at all.

Speaking of Giambi, great job going the other way twice last night. Bay was definitely caught off-guard, and while he’s not a douchebag of the highest Red Sockian order, the faceplant was a nice touch for A’s partisans everywhere.

At least the other Red Sox corner outfielder can catch the ball. Oh, wait.

• Rajai Davis and Jack Cust have a few things in common: can’t bunt, can’t play defense, can’t run the bases intelligently, will often strike out looking, can’t beat out double play grounders. But Jack Cust is huge and hits home runs and gets on base 55% of the time, and Rajai Davis is fast and…is fast.

DLD 04/06/09 and Game 1 Thread

via Bullpen Baker

via LA Times

Let’s. Do. This.