Interesting ESPN profile and story on Ron's future at the Rangers.  As the writer portrays it, his job is up in the air despite Texas' success.  It seems that Nolan Ryan & Co. are not impressed enough with Wash to offer him an extension right now.  Seems like Wash is getting some tough unlove for his tough-love approach to Rangers ball.  What do you think? Here's the article.  And here are a few extra words to make this meet the 75 minimum; boy, AN has changed since "back in the day."

My namesake may not start the All-Star game. It seems that's more of a bummer to me than Dan Haren.

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Heh.

From the article:
"The World Series victory of the 2007 Oakland Athletics in six games over the Atlanta Braves is sure to go down in history as the unlikeliest championship of all time, making last year’s fluke 83-win St. Louis champs look like a sure thing of Calvinistic proportions. It isn’t simply that Beane has assembled a championship team with the lowest payroll of any team playing today; he pulled off the feat with the lowest payroll in recorded history—in the ballpark of negative $7 million—thanks to some creative dealmaking that had several players paying the team out of their own pockets for roster spots."

Quoth Barry, in the rag after another horrible outing against the A's: "Just keep having fun, keep staying loose, keep playing baseball. We can't beat ourselves before we get out there. You can't not go out and have fun playing baseball. That's the key to a good second half, a nice summer."'

Now ain't that an A's 'tude? An East Bay attidue?

But it doesn't work in SanFran, and never will.

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I don't really have a clue why I find these things, but Anaheim comes up again.  Or, rather, a chill Northern wind blows up the arse of an Anaheimer.

Money Quote: "Now that we know that Southern California’s offerings in terms of the great outdoors are vastly superior to the paltry oceans, forests, lakes, mountains, ski hills, hiking trails, white water rapids, national parks, waterfalls and wildlife reserves that are within a short distance of Ottawa, we’ve realized the errors of our ways."

Heh.

From MSN City Guides:

"Anaheim: Downtown Anaheim
Just a mile and a half from Disneyland, downtown Anaheim should have thrived these past 50 years just from people getting lost and ending up there on the way to and from the park. If only 3 percent of the park’s estimated 14 million yearly visitors somehow stumbled into the central city, more than a thousand people a day would pass the businesses at Broadway and Harbor. And what are those? Two tall bank towers, the public library and a Carl’s Jr. restaurant that looks like it was built during the Kennedy administration and hasn't been remodeled since. The nearby Center Street Promenade offers a few more options—including a small jewelry store and a couple of cafes—but you couldn't spend an afternoon there."

From tonight...
Rev Halofan is on it again... typical behavior and not the "that was long ago" BS he was spouting here a short time ago.

The fact that that blog is still on SB reflects neither well on SB nor on Blez' anemic defense of free speech.  Both of which combine to reflect badly on the idea of free speech by left-leaning folk.  HH Chavez remains an embarrassment to SB.  I'm sure more will come through the night and through the weekend from that knuckle-dragging, foul-mouthed loser who, somehow, remains a gleam in the eye of Kos and Blez.  Shame on both of you.  One of you should know better.  The other definitely does.

bad math, you're right.
you are also banned for being a complete asshole. goodbye.
by Rev Halofan on Fri Sep 22, 2006 at 03:08:06 PM EST
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You do know the A's have scored 10 more
runs then the Angels right?
Might want to think about who has the shitty offense.
by Axl Foley on Fri Sep 22, 2006 at 02:58:54 PM EST
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It was this post
what got him banned.
by Rev Halofan on Fri Sep 22, 2006 at 03:08:28 PM EST
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Full story at
http://starbulletin.com/2006/07/30/sports/story03.html

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Me, I like satire. So I read a lot of it. "Anonymous Lawyer" is one such site. Found this on the way to reading other things... Here, AL comments on a trip to an Angels game. Humorous. To make 300 words, here's the article. But please link above to give the author some hits. Wednesday, July 19, 2006 I left work early yesterday and took Anonymous Son to the Angels game, way out in Anaheim. I don't know why. I don't know why they call themselves the Los Angeles Angels now. No one in Los Angeles gets on the 5 and drives through that traffic to get out to Anaheim to see the Angels play. They're no more Los Angeles than the valley is. I mentioned to a few associates that I was going to see the game, while I gave them an assignment to keep them in the office all night, and they looked at me like I was crazy. They didn't even know where Anaheim was. Never heard of it. I only knew because I had to do document review out there as an associate once, for some client in the middle of some industrial park out in the sticks. I don't who these people were at the game. They weren't from Los Angeles, and they didn't look like lawyers. Well, some of them were probably from the city. Like Dodgers fans, they left the game in the sixth inning to beat the traffic back, even though there's never any traffic going back, it's just getting out of the city at 5:00. Because Anonymous Son was with me, I didn't even need to use the blow-up doll I have for the passenger seat so I can use the HOV lane and save some time. I love the HOV lanes. Very smart move by the state. The Angels won, although a 9th inning rally from the Indians made it close. Anonymous Son wanted a funnel cake. I didn't let him get one. It's a nice stadium out there. They renovated it a few years ago. Added a waterfall to the outfield, some fireworks when an Angel hits a home run. I think we should have vendors in the office who go around the halls giving away drinks and food. It would be really convenient to not have to get up to get something to eat. I'm going to bring it up at the next partner meeting. Since I got last minute tickets, they were pretty high up, but I gave an usher a $20 to let us sneak into the good seats, so it wasn't like I had to expose Anonymous Son to any poor people. My wife and I are trying to keep him away from those for as long as I can, to keep him unspoiled. Unspoiled may be the wrong word. Untainted. Unspoiled is harder. I sent an e-card to the incoming class of associates, just a week away from the Bar Exam. I hope they appreciated it. You can send one here, from me, to your colleagues taking the bar exam too. I thought it would be a nice service to provide, save you from having to write your own. I'm hoping for some failures this year. Not that it's good for the firm, but it's just so much fun to know. To watch someone wandering the halls, knowing he's thinking about how everyone around him knows he failed the bar. It's one of the highlights of the year.

For no real reason... except that I wrote this last season and forgot about it until I was cleaning out computer files today...

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