Athletics Nation

pfft

The WSox don't have the prospects.

Three-way trade?

The Sox might not have the prospects, but since Ellis is a bit undervalued around baseball, could Beane get a veteran back that he could flip for more prospects then Ellis would bring in?

Threepwood XX - March 2, 2008 reply

I'm really happy with the game threads so far. 2.0 used to freeze up on Firefox after ~200 comments, but 3.0 is smooth and fast. And CXCX lets me read through a whole game thread in less than 5 minutes. Now if people would just fanpost more often, I could waste a full day's work online again.

what's for lunch?

I'm having seconds from brunch: homemade whole-wheat cheddar scones and late-winter-greens salad. And espresso. Lots of espresso.

monkeyball - March 2, 2008 reply

PB&J and a Soy Mocha

Heaven.

Polish sausage with kraut and spicy mustard.

Jennifer - March 2, 2008 reply

coffee

greendatitiz - March 2, 2008 reply

subway

(nothing is open on Sunday)

I haven't had breakfast yet

not sure whether to have it or go straight to lunch...

OaklandSi - March 2, 2008 reply

go straight to lunch

or just eat a breakfast item with a lunch item...works great.

the other day i had bacon and eggs, and then a sandwich. if you're not full yet, you can pack in more food.

such is life when you're trying to gain weight.

flipgatey3 - March 2, 2008 reply

at this point

I'm not looking to gain any weight, but thanks!

(for those who care, I had a light breakfast, and will go straight to dinner...)

OaklandSi - March 2, 2008 reply

got any extra scones? those sound good...

gigglingone - March 2, 2008 reply

Didn't have breakfast

But mac and cheese was lunch.

thejd44 - March 2, 2008 reply

19986 down...

Jennifer - March 2, 2008 reply

A's offense #1 in MLB

I just wanted to be able to say that once this season. ;-)

Team R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO OBP SLG AVG
1. Oakland Athletics 35 53 13 2 7 34 91 13 21 .472 .705 .411

tangential discussion per monkeyball's request...

My wife says I look better in this picture than in real life. --------------------------------------------->

Isn't that, like, really mean?

I wouldn't let her...

become a contestant on Moment of Truth.

I never thought

Anything could make me more uncomfortable than an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, but that show might do it.

We need to see you...

in real life to judge. :-)

Here's a more recent photo

Nice calculator

Are you sure that

that picture isn't doctored to make you look better too?

Hayyyyyyyyyyy

great shot with a lot of realism of being at home on a day off. LOL....

Damn

I won't be able to be on here while the game is on. I'm going to a BBQ! (I'm getting my bbq muscles ready for the tailgating), so all ya'll better have something fun for me to read when I get back with a full tummy.

I'm taking the radio with me though.

Just that thought made me shiver-happy. I'm going to a bbq and get to hear a baseball game. Life is good again!

ChickenStanley - March 2, 2008 reply

A's lineup

Buck
Ellis
D.J.
Crosby
C-Gon
Hannahan
Denofria
Rowen
Murphy

dammit!

I wanted to see Cust maintain his multi-category lead in ST stats.

Just because they are starting

does not mean that they will be in the lineup past half of the game. Particularly this time of the year.

Is Crosby 4th some kind of sick Geren joke?

I know he won't hit there during the regular season, but he very well could be the worst offensive player in that lineup. Is it one of those "we want this turd to get more at bats" sort of things?

thejd44 - March 2, 2008 reply

Well he needs them.

Roops!

Bowen at catcher

Denorfia too. I give up.

One Denorfia mis-spelling down,

19,999 to go!

Nico - March 2, 2008 reply

waiting for someone to stumble on

Read Info

i'm still waiting for

DeNorfia or Jeremey Belvins

flipgatey3 - March 2, 2008 reply

Atkins knocks one off the wall

Pods scores

1-0 Rockies

Gaaaaaaaaaak!!!!

Dana Eveland sucks! The team is too flawed! Blow up the team, Billy!!!!!

I'm in mid-season form.

Nico - March 2, 2008 reply

canseco says that nico is juiced

i mean, how can you all ready be in mid season form?

i say where there is smoke there is fire.....

greendatitiz - March 2, 2008 reply

C-Gon guns out Atkins at the plate

Ray and Ken are highly impressed.

Sweet Throw

From CarGon. I think hes gonna make the team outta camp if he keeps this up.

Newbie

I'm new to this site. I'm looking for some info on navigation etc. Anything like that here?

I think we are all noobs to AN 3.0

navigation?

like a map?

gigglingone - March 2, 2008 reply

Look over to the welcome

thread located on the right.

Welcome, fellow SAN LeANdrAN!

(assuming you are from your handle)
We have a new (in the last couple of weeks) software package so we're all still figuring it out. (I was going to say "groping around" but we pretty much do that all the time. We have a glossary of frequently used terms and memes but it is temporarily absent. Feel free to ask specific questions -- we will mock you for a while but eventually someone will answer.

thx from the Cherry City

I found the "C" "X" info, so that's working pretty good. But what's the "action" and "up"? All the comments started to get collapsed after I went off to the A's page. I reloaded this page and got everything back and saw your comment. Never saw it arrive....

If you click "Actions"

you can then click either "Flag" or "Rec". Flag flaggs a that comment for admin attention or something. It's not really set up to work right now. Rec recommends a comment. On the front page, on the right, there's a listing of "recommended fanposts" that have been recommended by other users.

Elvez - March 2, 2008 reply

And in the Edit Settings area of your profile

you can change your comment preferences to auto-refresh and always display expanded comments.

I think we are all noobs to AN 3.0

DJ

Bloop Single.

DJ with a squib single

Crosby up, 2 outs

Crosby..

out 6-3.

What inning is it?

top 2

..

top 2nd?

I wish the broadcast team didn't have to push the all you can eat seating.

so much... push it so much.

top 2nd?

TY

I am waiting to get an email from Gameday audio. I can't remember my password.

The All you can eat thing

Makes me uncomfortable. I am fat already ...it's the last thing I would do is buy tics to eat like a hog for a game.

Do it..

once every 2 weeks, you be fine.

LOL

Syphon you enabler! But Naw I want to stay away from that stuff.

Haha..

good decision.

How many females

say "I am fat already?"

I have questions, but I don't think any of them are appropraite to ask a stranger.

thejd44 - March 2, 2008 reply

Maybe a lot.

all you can eat is bad for everyone

in order to make it a fair deal for the money you'd have to eat more than your total caloric needs for one day, even for a healthy big guy.

Yeah and that's what I would do too.

That's why I will never buy those tix. I love icecream.

Is any of the Coliseum food all you can eat, or just anythign that comes with nacho cheese?

Yeah

sauerkraut is all you can eat.

Rockies get a double from Ianetta

and thats it.

1-0 Rockies

Bottom 2

Are any of you watching the game on MLBTV?

Or is it not on?

not on

btw I havent paid for mlb audo yet, buts its FREE from last year

Not on.. Im listening

to MLB game day audio.

Didn't you get the email..

saying they were automatically charging your account this year?

yikes, No!

Mine said

Auto-renewal on March 10 unless I tell them otherwise.

Yeah

That's right.

I had the MLB.tv premium, paid for the whole year

I think Im gonna do month to month. Thanks for the headsup.

I got one

Unless you opt out they said they're charging the card from last year's subscription.

I'm broke

I had better opt out.

when did you get it?

Around when?

A couple weeks back

as I recall.

thanks

I think that my spam filter ate mine.
How does one go about opting out?

You had to click a button...

but if you didn't get the email ...email them I guess. But it's only 15 bucks...turn in your bottles and cans...and get the dough.

Sign in to your mlb.com account

Top right of the homepage. Then navigate to "Account", and it's in there in the settings somewhere.

They emailed me a new one.

I need to set one I can remember.

I never got that email

mlb.tv really does have iffy customer service in many ways.

Yeah i am still waiting

for a password. I better go request it again.

Andrew Brown pitching

Top 3

EVEland done for the day

Whens my boy..

James SImmons gonna get into a game?

Why do you like his so much?

Any particular reason?

I loved his..

Getty image from picture day. :)

Ill prob change my..

avatar 20 times this season.

2 Ks for Brown

Bottom 3

Bowen
Murphy
Buck

OK!

I'm on now and right off it's commercial time !

Yay! Here I am!

baseballgirl - March 2, 2008 reply

Hey ya BBG!

When are you going to live blog?

Funny/random comment. Saw an ANer at church this morning.

baseballgirl - March 2, 2008 reply

Who was it?

Blez? ( jk)

What tipped you off?

Was it the request for nacho cheese at the communion rail or the intercession for Chavy's back in the Prayers of the People?

I wish the preacher would stop pushing the all-the-host-you-can-eat pews section

monkeyball - March 2, 2008 reply

A's goes down..

1-2-3. On to the top of the 4th.

Cotroneo

"Everyone except the giants a legitimate contender in the NL West"

lol

Baseball Tonight 2008

on ESPN right now (1:00 p.m. PST)

That show

never has much A's news.

Oh, come now

I'm sure the A's are on there every time we play the Red Sox or the Yankees!

Yeah

LOL and for those games ...they get two mins of coverage while the RS and Yanks get 30 mins.

Passed ball

2-0 Rockies

Bowen!

Damn!

what happened

robofavant56 - March 2, 2008 reply

passed ball or wild pitch/ don't remember which

Passed ball

Mark Redman pitching!

I dont like Mark Ellis being called

"Elly." Just saying, it doesn't sound very tough.

thejd44 - March 2, 2008 reply

whatever

Elly rides the unicorn like a man.

I think we need a "ride the ____" euphemism scale a la clown college/Pepperdine/Harvard

• Ride BART
• Ride the Segway
• Ghostride the Volvo
• Ride the unicorn

monkeyball - March 2, 2008 reply

I do like it.

Unicorn doesn't sound much tougher does it?

Hey would you ever mess with a Unicorn?

They're good luck.

And I bet they can do damage with that horn

thejd44 - March 2, 2008 reply

The running of the ...

unicorns?

Prancing

The prancing of the unicorms.

thejd44 - March 2, 2008 reply

Avenging Unicorn

LINK

cagrrrl - March 3, 2008 reply

Ok that was quick

123 for the A's.

Going to top of the 5th

Podsenik

I drafted him in fantasy last year and he was hurt all year.

Atkins knocks one off the wall

Pods scores

1-0 Rockies

2-0?

2-0

on the passed ball

yeah WTF

for some reason, the commenting is scrwed up.

I tried to reply to your post, about pods and it posted my old comment

Poppy said before that...

she had that problem sometimes. It's an odd bug.

I had this happen a couple of times too

Clockwerks knows about it.

thanks

what browser and operating system do you use?

did you have a preview open at the bottom at the time?

we're still trying to figure out how to reliably recreate the problem so we can fix it.

any other clues would be helpful.

Trei Brundrett - March 2, 2008 reply

OS X Leopard, Safari 3.0

I was originally trying to reply. It kept cycling through my old comments, there was no "preview", it was greyed out saying "posting".

I then tried to do a regular post instead of replying.

I clicked preview, it showed my real post. Then when I hit post, the old atkins post appeard.

Exactly my experience, BTW

except I'm using Tiger not Leopard yet.

thanks

Is that another repeat post?

Are you living in last week's episode of Lost?

Lucy, Where are you?

Snoopy, It is dinnertime

He already ate...

Woodstock.

Forgot all about that character...

You need

a pic of Charlie B for your avatar.

Charlie+A's+Pez=Super Cool

Check it out!

It's perfect!

Charlie, go look !

Or just one of snoopy for that matter.

Just would not know how to get it up there. That part of website I am naive about. Learned a lot in past six or seven years, but being 64 I am a long ways behind the power curve. Used to be pig pen on cb radios way back then.

You can't be worse than I am .

I want to change my avatar too...I found the pic I want but I can't get it to show on my avatar. I am hopeless when it comes to all of this. That's why I kept begging clockwerks and co. to put the blockquote button ...link button etc in.

Alright, lets do this.

If you find a pic you like online, right click on it, and choose "Save Image As" (Firefox) or "Save Picture As" (Internet Explorer), and save the picture on your computer.

Then go to your profile. IM4Oakgal, yours is here. Charlie, here.

Click on "Edit Profile" at the top of the page.

Then click on "Browse" next to "Profile Image", find the picture you just saved, double-click on it. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "UPDATE".

You should be good to go.

If you want to search for some images online, Google Images is a good place to start.

I'll try it.

I was able to do it when I put up the puppies...but then when I doubled click after that I have not been able to change the image. But thanks for the detailed advice. Too many people forget that the details are needed when someone is really stuck. So thanks for your thoughtful reply, Pie.

Thanks HigherPie,

Will give it a shot later after game... Appreciate info.

I think it worked! thx

Looks like it did. Congrats!

Cute.

Clicked on photo and got your bio/jokes...

Shows how much I know about what I am doing. Thought it was a pic I could use for an aviator. LOL Like I say I know what I am doing, but not how blogs and stuff work otherwise.

I missed it...

Did he say how Sabathia did against Willis?

A's offense

taking the day off.

2-0 Rockies

top 6

Who is this Gissel?

looking good so far

they said...

he's a 30-yr old with only one previous cup of coffee in the majors. Looks like it was with the Rockies back in 2004.

Vintage Mark Redman

Wait? Redman is doing good right now, so isn't calling it Vintage Mark Redman an insult?

Zonis - March 2, 2008 reply

Gissel played in Japan the past two seasons,

going 1-9 with era about 5.21 last season. Was 14-2 at Colo Springs in 2004 so once was a prospect.

OT clockwerks

everytime I click reply to someone, its showing old comments. If I hit cancel it keeps cycling through old comments.

Only way to fix is refresh, I think.

X the old comments.

what do you mean?

If you push C and then X

That's how to erase old comments.

OK I'll try that next time

Erase the yellow

I meant.

Simmons is pitching

Simmons is pitching for the 1st time

theblackpearl - March 2, 2008 reply

Now I can't

take a basthroom break.

Me..

Either!

Simmons did not impress in intrasquad game as I recall.

Steve Phillips on BBTN...

picks the M's to win the AL West and McLaren to win Manager of the Year. Thoughts?

They actually did mention the A's on the show. In connection, of course, with the opening season series against the Red Sox in Japan.

My "crazy" (but not really) prediction for 2008:

The A's finish with a better record than the Mariners.

This prediction is no longer valid if Blanton and Street are traded before the season starts.

thejd44 - March 2, 2008 reply

They wont mention

the A's all show.

I think that

the Mariners have a good chance. They did well in the division last year for most of the season and their team is better with Bedard not worse. I don't think a lot of our AN analysts are seeing the team realistically.

I dont trust..

a team that out scored the previous season.

"Got"

out scored that is.

we'll see

if they can roll a 20 in the luck department again. if not, they'll win fewer games this season than last.

A team without a ton of talent

was very healthy and outperformed their pythagorean record by 9 games.

Bedard improves the team, but they gave up a LOT to get him. When you factor in the Bedard improvement (3-4 games? If that?), a likely regression to the mean, plus a normal amount of injuries they're no better than a .500 team. And it's completely reasonable that guys like Vidro and Sexson will get even worse and totally ruin an offense that isn't that good anyway. I don't think 75 wins is a ridiculous guess, though I expect more like 79-80.

thejd44 - March 2, 2008 reply

thejd,

We will see. Bedard is huge. I had him in fantasy last year and he's a strikeout machine.

Ah, a lovely sound wafting into the broadcast booth

Let's go, Oakland! X X XXX!

Can't wait to hear it in person.

ChoCoBoCro!

HR Crosby!

Opposite field for Crosby

theblackpearl - March 2, 2008 reply

Croz must not have overswung at that pitch

Uh oh

Bobby Crosby homers again.

Crosby homers AGAIN!

Goodness

baseballgirl - March 2, 2008 reply

Crosby goes yard!

Very good signs...

If he can keep it up and have a come back year, that solves alot of problems.

yup

Crosby, Crosby, and Crosby.

Henry Rodriguez pitching

a lot of praise from him in early Spring Training reports.

sorry FOR him

Will he be...

HRod?

what about Hot Rod

That would be great

if he earns the name!

Simmons out of game already???

How did he do???

great

1IP, no hits, no walks, 1 K

Thanks, pickinmachine

Crosby in ST

PLAYER AVG G AB R H TB 2B 3B HR RBI
B Crosby .286 5 14 5 4 8 1 0 1 2 (2007)
B Crosby .277 23 65 12 18 32 5 0 3 12 (2006)
B Crosby .196 22 56 11 11 15 4 0 0 5 (2005)

What about...

this year? (so far).

Not including today (sorry)

B Crosby .167 2 6 1 1 4 0 0 1 2

TY Pie.

He just mentioned Joe Kennedy

I had a burst of sadness.

That happens to me

every time he they say Bill King :-(

But Bill lived a full life.

Joe left a little child.

Is De Los Santos..

in camp?

NM ...

They just said he wasnt on the game broadcast.

Do not recall his being given a mlb invite; should be

at the minor league camp in another day or so.

Yeah...

2 sec after i typed that they said he would be in minor camp soon.

Believe that I read something about 3 March on that

Will operate for a month with 4 teams for different levels

Play 2 games at home and 2 on the road each day after a couple weeks of conditioning...

De la Santos may be our best new face in the minor league camp...

Rally time

runners at 1st and 2nd.

Knoedler up

Knoedler pops out

Going to the 9th

2-1 Rockies

Knoedler supposed to be still up and coming catcher

Looking forward to seeing if he can continue to improve with the bat and as a fielder. Only been a catcher for a short time. Giants prospect as I recall. Highly regarded and signed as a minor league 6 year free agent...

Why isn't Fosse going to Japan?

They've been talking about it, but I missed the reason if they explained it.

games are probably on ESPN only

True.

But he could still go along for the radio side, you'd think. Maybe he doesn't want to have the long flight.

yeah

Either that or the A's are too cheap

How about them kids!

Nice

Yay, Conrad!

Triple!

Kimberly - March 2, 2008 reply

THAT'S MY BRO-IN-LAW

looks like a keeper to me...

can we sign him to a minor league deal if he doesn't make the major league roster?

Lets Go Oakland!

Brooksy

That's the cycle in 4 ABs. Can you guys tell I'm selling?

hey are you the same Dex from gaslamo ball?

Hilarious stuff over there.

Yes

But today I am an Athletic

Woo hoo! Tied up!

a hit with RISP

remember how hard those were to come by last year??

I love spring.

tosk - March 2, 2008 reply

Pinch hit Cust!!!

This is a must-win ballgame.

you're fired

Cunningham up

one out runner at second

Yeeeeaaaah!

A'S WINNNN!!!

Kimberly - March 2, 2008 reply

YAY KIDS!!!

gotgreen - March 2, 2008 reply

tie game

who the hell is this brooks conrad guy and where did he come from?

he's Dex's bro-in-law...

ASU guy, stuck behind Biggio and Burke in the Astros system, as I recall. Right, Dex?

21, 24, and 22 hr the last three years in AAA

anyone know how he is defensively at 2b?

the scouting report

Undersized overachiever. For years, he's been stuck with a "no tools, all skills" label. Jackie Moore really liked him at Round Rock and did his best to try to get him to the show, playing him at all the infield positions, but no luck.

A's signed him believe it or not to be a backup to

a AAA infielder (Melillo, I believe I recall), he hit .218 last season with over 140 K's. With the scouting report one would think he had no talent at all... similar to pitcher A's sent out earlier who went 1-9 in Japan.

the scouting report explained

I don't believe in the scouting report. The year before the .218 season, he led the minor leagues in extra base hits. Most triples in PCL. Outperformed Burke and Biggio and didn't get a look at a major league spot even after the rosters opened up at the end of the season.

I'm rooting for him to make the club and stick it to the Astros. :) Go Brooks!

Will keep an eye open

when he plays. I hope he succeeds.

How did the A's get him?

Dex said he was an invitee...

in yesterday's game thread.

He was a Minor League Free Agent

And based on his minor league numbers he looks like organizational filler and not much more. A 27 year old hitting 218/305/420 in AAA isn't exactly amazing.

thejd44 - March 2, 2008 reply

Essentially what I posted at the same time that you did... organizational filler.... LOL

Still pumping out the postings....

I won't make excuses for him

Though I don't think the Astros were going to ever give him a shot. In recent years they've been much more concerned with Biggio's final career stats than ever actually getting a second baseman who could play.

I think the Astros organization is pretty poor

but I'm not sure Conrad is a real major league talent. At least nobody special. I'm sure he could find a spot on a bench somewhere.

thejd44 - March 2, 2008 reply

a's win!!

BOOOOM!!!!

A's Win!!!!!!!!!

Podsednik!

In honor of whom (although he didn't get hit in the head this time):

the best part of that pic

is his elf hat

and he looks like he's achieved enlightenment.

It's because the folks at SouthSideSox

had dubbed Pods "Peter Pan" last season, apparently because of his boyish enthusiasm and his delusion that he could fly, he could fly, he could fly.

I'll refrain from posting the ani-gif

of the ball hits Podsednik in the head last year - only because there were too many complaints about an 'eyeworm' the last time I did it.

doctorK - March 2, 2008 reply

I like how KenKo called that like it mattered.

Good pitching today

Eveland a little shaky, but solid pitching from the A's today.

Nice to see Simmons, Rodriguez, and Blevins on the scene.

Also notable

Carlos Gonzalez throwing out Atkins at the plate. His "++ arm" (as DeFranceco describes it) as advertised.

Does anyone know...

...when the Cactus League World Series starts? I want to get tickets now!

I am really liking what I am seeing...timely hitting, good fielding and aggressive on the basepaths. Not to mention some lively arms. I don't know why everyone is down (in the press) on this team. I think from the looks of things we are going to better than mediocre. Fun at least. GO A'S

since72 - March 2, 2008 reply

We having been stating since the trades began that this team

was going to be enjoyable to watch this year. Even if this is just spring training, the talent is showing itself by rising to the top. Great time to watch an interested ball club.

such grammar LOL

What gives?

MLB radio no longer lets you listen to Extra Innings?

That sucks.

when I had mlb.com audio in 2005

they would often cut off before extra innings...so this isn't a new thing

OaklandSi - March 2, 2008 reply

ugh

1) this thread takes FOREVER to load
2) i have to hit page down like 50 times
3) i finally get to the bottom as it finishes loading, and for some reason it takes me right back to the top!

interesting

1) it takes about 7 seconds to load for me on average. how long is it taking for you?

2) do you click page down instead of scrolling? do you have to click it so many times because the page is long? or does your browser not recognize your page down keypress because it's loading?

3) if you clicked the "# comments" link at the bottom of the story from the home page, we anchor that to the top of the comments section so that you pass the content of the story and get right into the comments. when the page stops loading it might be trying to pop back up to that anchor.

I'm sure I've asked you this before and I really should put it on file for you regulars, but what browser/operating system are you using? and what kind of internet connection do you have?

Also, do you see any of the page load? If so, can you tell if there are certain things that are taking a long time to load?

We've been tuning the performance of the page, so I'm really curious what would be causing a slow load time for you.

If anyone else is running into a significantly slow load time, please let us know with as much detail as possible.

Trei Brundrett - March 2, 2008 reply

Sorry to hear it X.

It loads quickly for me, as do all of the threads. It seems to me that most of the people reporting trouble use macs.