"Is this Heaven?" "No, it’s the BART lot."

Midweek Day Game: seductive gateway drug. The first one’s $2. Next thing you know it you’re unshaven, unemployed, and drinking beers at 11 AM.

It’s sooooooooo good.

Sadly, I am fully employed. And partially shaven. Despite these obstacles, I will soon be savoring a gourmet brunch of burrito and Suds-Over-Asphalt, after which I'll repair to my choice of sun-kissed Coliseum seats.

Scratch a fan alone at a ballgame and you’ll find a geek. And maybe tetanus. No geek-denier me, I’ll wear it today, and if fickle technology and fickle'r motivation allow I’ll bust out the laptop and keep you posted in this thread. If it works I'll post again before first pitch.

This is gonna kill my chances with the ladies.

Happy May Day! If you’re reading this you’re probably not shutting down the West Coast ports with the ILWU today.

Workers (with unchecked internet slack access…call it "slackcess") of the World Unite! As most of you know, it’s International Workers’ Day! Our friends at the IWW tell us that "Most Americans don't realize that May Day has its origins here in this country and is as "American" as baseball and apple pie."

That’s all the hook I need!

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“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”

As we continue our sporadic series of DLDs which for no good reason hook on a common cultural touchstone which to all appearances has no relation whatsoever to the A’s or even baseball.  But they do all mean something to me.  So there!  Previously: John Lee Hooker, Robert Anton Wilson, Dead Kennedys, Ned Flanders.

Now: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Doors!

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Inspired by Apricot’s awesome HOWTO DLD IN 3.0 DLD of yesterday, I thought I’d check and see what this brave new world was like for myself. Also, with the recommend system now working, Zonis’ Bug Report fAnPOsT has dropped out of sight, so please use this space to post weekend links and 3.0 bug reports. I have some of both:

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With the news that Andy Pettitte may tell Congress he discussed HGH with Roger Clemens and trainer Brian McNamee, Deadspin provides the definitive cultural comparable to the Clemens-Pettitte saga of frenemies:  the modern classic film "Mean Girls".  

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I know, I know, at T minus seven days it’s almost too late already.  You coulda stopped this...you coulda posted a DLD.  So there!  And what’s more, you get only one link.

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I’m a little short on feel-good links today.  So let’s try some feel-bad ones!

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Dump closed on Thanksgiving, maybe, but not on weekends.  hward86 relays the breaking rumor that Troy Glaus and Scott Rolen will be birds of a new feather next year.  Here’s the mlbtraderumors.com link.

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