Am I bad person for laughing out loud at the video where Milton Bradley got tackled by his own manager and ended up injured?

Where is Ken Macha when you need him?

How is Jorge Velandia still playing in the major leagues?

Suppose, for a moment, that the A's sign Barry Bonds next year...and you wanted both Bonds and Jack Cust in the lineup on the same day...which one would you put in the field? Would you play a real centerfielder (Kotsay/Denorfia) beside your choice and sit one of (Swisher/Buck/Barton)?  Or would you put Buck or Swisher in CF?

When Bob decided to rename the divisions after the best player from the winning team who played his entire career with that team (Tim Salmon, for instance), it got me wondering. Which retired A's players actually qualify? The A's don't keep players like Tim Salmon for their whole careers; they all leave one way or another. Which one of the following possibilities (those with over 100 career games) would Bob have picked if the A's had won the AL West instead of the Angels?

Player	Games
Lance Blankenship	461
Troy Neel	230
Steve McCatty	222
Mike Norris	204
Jose Herrera	141
Mark Acre	114
Jeff Jones	112
Herb Washington	105
John Briscoe	102

Or would Bob have weaseled out of this tough decision and just went with an active player like Eric Chavez or Mark Ellis instead?

How did Rusty Greer become a prototype? Seems like every other OF prospect is compared to him these days. Seems pretty random to me. Can I start using Toaster writers as my prototypes, instead?

It's driving me nuts, and I can't put my finger on it: whose swing does Daric Barton remind me of? I want to say it's kinda like a cross between Ted Williams and Jon Weisman, but that's not quite it.

Doesn't Jerry Blevins remind you of Bob Timmermann with a better fastball?

Isn't disallowing Dallas Braden from using his screwball like not allowing Mark Donohue to write long paragraphs? You're taking away his genius.

When is Philip going to fork over my hard-won Cesar Izturis bobblehead to me?

Is anybody out there interested in sharing some partial season tickets for next year? One of the people in my group is dropping out. Email me at catfish AT zombia.com if you have any interest.