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LATEST ARTICLES ( 248 )

• Brian Kingman Talks About Life After Death.

  

  Brian Kingman, your author. I recently e-mailed ex-Athletics pitcher Brian Kingman– informing him that the first player on the 1981 team that he had played for... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• So Long, J.D., You Will Be Missed.

  

  This trade hurt; J.D. was easily one of my top 5 favorite Athletics of all time. “We needed to do something that wasn’t timid. Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Hot Dog Eating a Hot Dog.

  

  John Kilduff–Rickey Henderson 1980 Topps rookieAs longtime readers know, I like to incorporate different facets of life into this blog, mostly from the realm... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Denny McLain, Beer, Dinosaurs and Jean Paul Sartre.

  

  “Get off my lawn!”“Poured a caramel, amber, clear color with five fingers of khaki, frothy head, which settled nicely. Lots of bubbles streaming up from the... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• A’s Sign Bobby Hill Look-alike to 3 Year Deal.

  

  I wasn’t exactly thrilled nor upset when I heard about the Athletics signing free agent Billy Butler to a 3 year, 30 million dollar deal. Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• I’m Just a Gun Cleanin’ Fool.

  

  This is a short piece of fiction inspired by a very real moment of reality. God, I love Leila.Sounds like she is feeding the dogs right now. Jesus, those tits... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Hank Bauer Had a Very Bad Day.

  

  This is a short piece of fiction inspired by a very real situation.Hank Bauer slammed down his glass of scotch as his wife, Charlene looked on. Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Gene Tenace, the 1972 World Series and the Crazy Guy.

  

  Don’t shoot!By Gene Tenace“Well, if you gotta go, Gene, at least it will be on national television.”–Reggie JacksonIn the 1972 World Series (against the... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Billy and The Mick.

  

  The air is getting more crisp in the mornings and I’m looking forward to Fall and sweaters and hot coffee in the early AM hours. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Watch out Josh Reddick! Joe Rudi Was the Original Spiderman.

  

  1969 ToppsI was elated to receive this personalized autograph in the mail, and since the season is over for the Oakland ball-club, I thought that this would be ... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• The Invariable Oakland DH…a Strange and Funny Day.

  

  “Strikeouts are boring–besides that they’re fascist.”–Crash DavisI could only laugh when I received these autographs in the mail on the same day! It was uncanny. Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Billy Beane Pundits Are Ruling the Media These Days…my Argument Against Their...

  

  Feeling the heat.By Colonel Harland SandersProcess over results every time. All. The. Time. Process is how you sustain success. Process is how you give... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• The Oakland Athletics and Their Horrible “gag Job.”

  

  Just “making it” doesn’t cut it anymore. Throughout the cursing, nail-biting, pacing and punching, (there is now a small hole in my desk.) the media has... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Wild Card….ummmm…yay?

  

  Josh Reddick somehow let his right ball fall out.The entity that is the Oakland Athletics continued their on-going mind fuck by making the playoffs on Sunday. Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• The Billy Beane Failure Chronicles…part 1

  

  He’s a stone cold fox! Also nicknamed “Captain Clutch.”Even a “genius” can make mistakes. Nikola Tesla made bizarre contraptions such as an earthquake machine... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• The Yo-pocalypse That Never Actually Happened.

  

  Voodoo dolls can be purchased for the folks who believe in such nonsense.Some believe that a superstition is anything that people believe that is based on... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Angels Win the West. Ho Hum.

  

  Elephants never forget.The “Los Angeles” Angels clinched the Western division last night, finally living up to their “potential” and bloated pay-roll. Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Eric Chavez Retires, the A’s Are Really, Really Bad, and the Summer is Ending...

  

  battered, stained and sad.The A’s have continued their frustrating nose dive into oblivion, now only percentage points in front of the Mariners, and a half... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• Jack Kerouac and Baseball.

  

  “Writers are a different breed of lonely and resistant re-arrangers of things; anxious malcontents, children afflicted at birth with some presentiment of loss. Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS

• A Moment of Bravado (and a Message to the Angels) as the Last Month of the Seaso...

  

  Is it time to panic? Was it all wishful thinking? Do we have a rational chance? I’m not sure if I wrote about the following experience on this blog. Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2014 BASEBALL, SPORTS