Edgy MD

Details are still spilling out. Don't know the whole package. But Oakland really jacks up there, don't they?

Gotta get Laggy in to pinch-run for Abreu here, right?

Just... just... bag league-wide crazy hat days. You want to salute 'Merica, let the teams come up with their own designs to do it.

Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel go from the Cubs to the A's. BOOM! A's send big shot shorstoppin' prospect Addison Russell.

Makes a man appreciate Tejada, though.

This game needs some badass Lino Urdaneta action.

H8 the shift!

Zvon wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Campbell's a little out of his depth at third, huh? Ugh. I'm both surprised and disappointed how bad he's been at 3rd. It's the reason guys like him are fine at any position as long as they hit, but not so fine if they have to hold down the position for an extended period. You don't have the reps to know what to do in every situation, but you can do OK on your instincts. See the ball, catch the ball. But once your instincts fail you once or twice, you start doubting them, and then you're really in trouble.

Campbell's a little out of his depth at third, huh?

Campbell doubles home Dudu from first. That was a very beardy RBI.

"I don't know about you, but I would go out and get a... a superstar." Thanks, Ron. I'll get right on it.

Lucas' homer was a case in point of the stupid placement of the railing on the Party City Deck. It forced a replay when the rail knocked the ball back into play, and it robbed the outfielder of a chance at making a pullback play.

Some gorgeous skies over the stadium in his photos.

Darvish swinging an bat. Doubled with it, too.

Also, did Keith tell him to get a dog? Reports in: Lower back contusion. X-rays negative. Matsuzaka may get a stay of execution on his booting from the rotation.

Keith on umps taking 11 minutes to sort out a replay call last night in the Oakland-Toronto game: "Everybody was afraid" OK, Keith.

Ashie62 wrote: Does {NAME REMOVED} do sex for money? Are you trying to get the board shut down? Can we, like, start a think-twice-before-we-hit-submit policy? I know it surely might help me.

Ashie62 wrote: Yes and it already is.... Nonsense and nonsense. Come on. Get back into the rowboat. Neither of those statements is supportable.

I don't get it. One of the most amazing players in the game's history, a 40-40 Gold Glove shorstop who, heading toward becoming the All Time Homerun King while playing for the flagship franchise in the sport, has been all-but-banished, humiliating him, his image-proud team, and the culture of the game. A whole generation of superstars --- Clemens, McGwire, Sosa.... guys with numbers that make most Hall of Famers look silly --- have been actively outed by the league after their careers, leaving them with this huge embarrassment every January when the Hall of Fame votes are tabulated and the giants are ignored. What exactly would demonstrate commitment to you? Or do you not want any commitment, so you see any effort as lacking in credibility? Even with the salary relief, the Rodriguez situation alone has cost the Yankees and the league tens of millions of dollars.

Implication being that the Mets' management does not? I think the proof of that will be in the pudding.

Jon Favreau writes, directs, and stars in the title role, as a successful but burnt-out high-end LA chef. He saboutages his career by picking a fight with a food critic and some hyjinx attempt to ensue as he attempts to revitalize his career and re-connect with his son. Son is played by, I think, the same kid who was in Lego Movie, so he's like got a sweet spot as the kid who redeems semi-lousy, self-absorbed dads. (I checked this out. Different kid.) Anyhow, I have similar problems that I had with Lego Movie, in that this was a spirited movie, but it's execution just wasn't true to that spirit, the scenes feeling served up as cliched and predictable as the menu items he was tired of cooking. That's bad, isn't it? But maybe it's me. The people around me were certainly ooohing and aahing and laughing and cackling. I didn't feel it. Narrative arc felt way disjointed, and themes felt forced. I was looking at the end for Disney to have played some part in the production. Favreau brings in a lot of big shot supporting talent, including his Iron Man buddies Scarlet Johanssen and Robert Downey. (Makes you wonder how much trouble Gwyneth is, that she didn't get a courtesy call.) Also there's Sof�a Vergara and Bobby Carnevale and John Leguizamo as the loyal, spirited buddy who tries to keep the enthusiasm going until our hero can pull himself out of the dumps. But it wasn't doing much to pump up my spirits. Again, others in the theater were slopping it up. Maybe I don't watch enough cooking TV, and there were just scenes I'm not as conditioned to respond to as the others were. But maybe I just need to look past the food porn and high calorie soundtrack padding. Maybe there's something meta going on, and the chef picking a fight with a food critic was just a big analogy for a Hollywood filmmaker picking a fight with a film critic. A big fuck you from Hollywood to the critics they depend on for their self-esteem. YEAH! You tell those hatin' bloggers, you aggrieved, mega-rich filmmakers!! But you know, I don't particularly like Hollywood's idea of down and out. Favreau mopes and feels sorry for himself and treats his kid coldly as he drives back and forth in this gleaming Mercedes Benz, bouncing between his spicy Cuban ex-wife played by a supermodel, and his smokey Scandinavian restaurant hostess/apparent friend-with-bennies played by a super-hero. And of course they both care deeply for him, even as he grows increasingly self-centered. Oh, boo-hoo for you. There's a great movie about John Favreau as a talented but broken, dispirited man with a colorful, energetic buddy trying to keep him going until he can pull himself up. Its name is Swingers and it came out in 1996.

It sounds like you're not exaggerating at all.

And Alfredo Aceves gets a 50-game suspension from the league for drug use --- or so the league can look like they care.

Disagree.