Oakland Park Baseball

Dude, these are sweet! We should get more of these. If Lino is reading, he should take a look at his swinging picture, as it illustrates exactly why he pulls everything to such extremes.

So this may go without saying, but... fuck the yankees.

I never seem able to time my holidays around the live games. There will be one in December, right? I'll be back for Thanksgiving, and then again in mid-December.

I don't know if anyone knows folks in L.A., but as long as I'm at UCLA, does having a southern extension of Oakland Park Baseball sound feasible? Baseball is a big thing in SoCal, and there's plenty of parks and sunny days. I see those LA fans like Lino and Juan. Is this doable? Hell, if its far sou...

Hah! Hah! All these Korea fans. I was there too, among about fifty or so Japan fans in the whole damn stadium. The problem is that Koreans keep immigrating and Japanese people have become so white... like me. Up with Japan!

Rock.

Who would want Bradley at this point? He just needs to go back to Texas where he didn't lose his mind for the bulk of the season. As for Rowand, he stated that he signed with a loser in order to have a single destination for the duration of his contract. He would be pissed about being traded, even i...

You guys got two games in? What the hell? I went for like six straight weeks and we couldn't get a double header in.

I was mostly kidding about any conscious attempt to get people away from Bonds' memory. But don't you think a left-fielder in this day and age should be able to hit a few home runs and take a few walks? I would say between Sanchez, Lewis, Winn, Schierholtz, etc. they have enough potential leadoff hi...

I still don't accept the validity of that 9th inning. As far as I'm concerned, we won. First, new players were supposed to go to my team since you had gotten Arthur when we arrived, so that should have been Kevin hitting. Next, Arthur was breaking all the baserunning rules, including coming in to pi...

So I'm watching the Giants game and rooting for them against the Rockies, and once again Eugenio Velez is being used in left field. Is this part of the Giants' efforts to get people to forget about Barry Bonds? Did the Giants say to themselves that in order to help the fans get over Bonds they would...

Ken makes a good point. You almost want to vote for all three.

See, only by having idiosyncratic habits like Ken can you have a distinctive theme song. It's like Nate or I do anything best characterized by 80s dance music.

Oh and I went 6 for 7, since my first AB was a sac fly (after 3 ROEs -- we didn't have a hit that first inning!). I don't know if that changes my average. I believe Jason only had one hit, and the home team certainly didn't score 9 in the 9th inning. Oh and I just verified that Steve's average is li...

I can't understand peoples' attitudes about being 'shown up.' As a Patriots fan all I heard a few seasons ago is that they were jackasses for 'running up the score.' Now what the hell does that mean? In essence it means we know we'll lose and you should have the decency to treat us like little kids ...

I like what I'm hearing! Granted these are my new stats as of the third game or something, right?

But yeah, clearly Ken is PotG. He didn't make errors at third and raked.