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A’s sign Gabe Gross

nanotrebuchet posted this in Conversation starter on January 31st, 2010

Ew.
(See what I did there?)
UPDATE: A’s flip Aaron Miles + PTBNL for Willy Taveras and Adam Rosales.

January 31st, 2010 | Category: Conversation starter | 47 comments

Don’t you have any PRIDE?!? The Grill 012910

monkeyball posted this in The Grill on January 29th, 2010

dogs will hurt you, but cats kill

Via Poppy, 2010 A’s Promo Sked
I hotly anticipate watching this in all its glory

Transcript
12/12 (though I did have to guess on a couple)
I am starting to see what Twitter is good for (esp w/my new iPhone)
Free shipping through Monday on some nice items
I endorse this take
I do not endorse [...]

January 29th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: The Grill | 211 comments

Some Team Projections

mikeA posted this in Conversation starter on January 28th, 2010

CAIRO (I don’t know what that is) has the A’s last.
PECOTA has the A’s….. first.
West W L RS RA AVG OBP SLG
10 Oakland Athletics 87 75 791 737 .263 .342 .418
3 Seattle Mariners 86 76 794 741 .275 .347 .412
2 Texas Rangers 85 77 883 842 .275 .346 .459
4 Los Angeles Angels 76 86 830 [...]

January 28th, 2010 | Category: Conversation starter | 42 comments

Grill 1/27/10 Silence of the Monkeys

Leopold Bloom posted this in The Grill on January 27th, 2010

Okay, I’m working my ass of in a sign shop, supporting the capitalist system I don’t even believe in, but I gotta post the post for the monkey and the promise to the monkey and the silence of the monkey.
Tell me, Clarice, when you lie your head down to go to sleep at night, do [...]

January 27th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: The Grill | 162 comments

Sheets Signs

mikeA posted this in Uncategorized on January 26th, 2010

link
Free agent right-hander Ben Sheets has signed with the A’s, CBSSports.com has learned.
Sheets agreed to terms on a one-year deal for more than $8 million. He passed a physical today, and the deal is expected to be announced this afternoon.
Excellent.

January 26th, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 58 comments

Your trajectory for the week: The Grill 012510

monkeyball posted this in The Grill on January 25th, 2010

Great
Good
Bad
Awful
Terrible

January 25th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: The Grill | 205 comments

Ziss tschould give you a dim view of human potential

monkeyball posted this in F(il)M on January 23rd, 2010

This is the single most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen (at least, in the category of “Things designed specifically to appeal to me”): Werner Herzog reads Curious George.

January 23rd, 2010 | Category: F(il)M | 2 comments

Money talks: The Grill 012210

monkeyball posted this in Conversation starter, The Grill on January 22nd, 2010

I know that he’s hinted at this before, yet never spelled it out quite so clearly … still: WTF?
I’m not allowed to engage in public arguments with other writers

How does a professional disparager honor a nondisparagement clause?
Went well beyond the facts of the case to overrule two important precedents? Facile and unpersuasive? Black comedy?
Politicians [...]

January 22nd, 2010 | Category: Conversation starter, The Grill | 128 comments

Value Over Replacement … Priest?

monkeyball posted this in Conversation starter on January 22nd, 2010

Uh.
{checks calendar}
Hunh.
Grant Desme, one of the Oakland A’s top prospects, has decided to retire from baseball in order to pursue the priesthood

January 22nd, 2010 | Category: Conversation starter | 54 comments

A predicate that we all subscribe to: The Grill 012110

monkeyball posted this in The Grill on January 21st, 2010

Whatever
Yikes
Also yikes
Geez, isn’t this the way it always is? You and your pals get together to share some common interests and values, and then once things get big and successful, the Man comes in and starts making you follow “rules”: “bans on suicide bombings against civilians, burning down schools, or cutting off ears, lips and [...]

January 21st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: The Grill | 89 comments
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