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Dale Murphy didn’t bunt, you jackass. Hey, a run.

1. This is me this morning:

2. I read this story in ninth grade and only years later did I realize it was *that* Roald Dahl.
3. Notwithstanding the source, I wonder if this is true. If so, financial regulation reform it would kill technology start-ups.
…it would require that start-ups seeking angel investments file with the [...]

Do other people get the same “Unresponsive script” note whenever making a new post?
The A’s are quite a platoon-free team, but Eric Patterson is really really not being platooned, as he is in against a tough LHP, for reasons I cannot fathom.
Odds are high that at least one of the A’s or Sharks will win [...]

Study: New ballpark would bring billions of dollars to Oakland, Alameda County
Claiming they are still in the game when it comes to keeping the A’s in Oakland, city officials and others trying to keep the team in town released results of a study Wednesday claiming a new waterfront baseball park is worth millions to the [...]

I predict Daric Barton will hit his first HR in this game.
In lieu of lineups, I give you places where it’s got to be (a?) Nation’s.
Fremont
Vacaville
East Bay
West Bay
Napa (when you need a break)
Benicia
Livermore
Pittsburgh
Out Orinda way

According to trainer Steve Sayles, via PR man Bob Rose, [Brett Anderson's] strain [is] in the musculotendinous junction

[Original lyrics here.]
Musculotendinous Junction, as performed by the Dr. James Andrews Sisters
Feelin’ low
Pitchin’ slow
Don’t want to go
Right back where J. Devine is bound
Way down south in Birmingham
I mean south in Alabam’
There’s an old place where pitchers go
To get [...]

Ice Cube has produced a short documentary for espn about the relationship between late 80’s hip-hop and the LA Raiders. He says:
It was a team we could identify with, from the neighborhood that we came from. The Lakers was real glitzy and glamour; the Dodgers were seen as a little out of reach. [...]

Sheets vs. Wade Davis
Pennington, Barton, Sweeney, Chavez, Kouzmanoff, Gross, Powell, Patterson, Rosales

UPDATE: Barton starting, batting 2
Link.
It appears that there is no decision on Barton yet; Tolleson would not be a starter, so it looks to me like they are planning for Barton missing a few games. So either Barton will go on the DL or a pitcher will be sent down.
Tolleson is an IF who was [...]

If people are interested, I’ll post more of my friend’s experience in Haiti here – they’re longer posts and I don’t want to over-fill the grill.