FREE KRAUT!

A’s already up 4-0. Braden vs Danks. Rosales in at SS. Boof Bonser recalled from Sacto for the pen, Bowers back down.

No idea when we’ll have the servers switched over.

Brett Anderson returns! Cust and Barton back in the lineup!
Oh, fucking great:
Rain is in the forecast. and the tarp was on for a while earlier. Tomorrow is supposed to be the day for real rain, potentially much of the day.

Pertinent updates:
• Anderson (dur) activated
• Bailey retroactively DL’ed (hunh: I missed elcroata’s ** retroactive-DL post [...]

SPECIAL LIMITED-EDITION CANADIAN KOTD!!!!

Le Kraut King est mort! Vive le Kraut King! (Seriously, though, could anyone make head or tail of that article? Do Winnipeggians … uh, Winnipudlians … Winipedias … have some weird Daily Variety-type local patois?)
Hands off my government kraut, you filthy Quebecois Randians!
Did anyone else know that Mark McGuire is “kraut-minded”?

BONUS ANTIPODEAN [...]

FUCK YOU GEREN YOU CLUELESS TOAD Rajai Run! A’s up 1-0 going to bottom 1.
I expect that’s the last run we’ll see tonight from the A’s. No Cust, no Barton, no actual night off for Zk.
Mazzaro vs CJ Wilson.

This arose out of a set of emails at work, and I figured I’d post it here since I hadn’t really thought through it before.  First off, here’s the list (the third column is career ERA+, by baseball-reference, as a starting point):
Dallas Braden     05-09-2010 96  Oakland 4, Tampa Bay 0
Mark Buehrle      07-23-2009 121 Chicago [...]

He’s fighting male genital mutilation
McMegan Is Always Wrong, Chapter XVI
1, 2, 5, 54, 64
Welcome to FK, Goldman Sachs employees!
In college, I played shofar for Goldman Sachs and the Liberal Funk
Drum is really down on Obama, Part II:
You know, if I’d wanted Dick Cheney as president I would have just voted for him.

Duncan Black keeps his [...]

Crisp, Barton, Suzuki, Cust, Kouzmanoff, Ellis, Watson (LF), Davis (RF) and Pennington.  Trevor Cahill vs. the ever-so-fondly remembered ex-Athletic Colby Lewis.
Some unfinished business from last night regarding the run the A’s scored, and the play where Coco Crisp was running from first base, nobody covered second and Crisp went on to third.  Crisp was credited [...]

I’ll leave the links to you, but I wanted to talk about the first challenge since Obama’s election where us Californians can have an impact: Filibuster reform.
Be warned, this is going to be liberal advocacy, so feel free to skip it and drop links, etc.

Gio vs Eel Ffilc
Rosales in at SS. Rajai in LF. Cust at DH.
Maybe Geren’s been standing in the OF during BP.

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiinteresting. MLB promises to pay for spring special election. If it’s necessary. That’s … weird.