I frequent a blog called "This Song is Sick"... It's mostly hip hop songs and dubstep remixes of random songs that I don't know anything about... Anyway! Randomly, a song/music video about Dave Neihaus and the Seattle Mariners popped up... I don't like the Mariners (in fact, I strongly dislike/hate the Mariners,) but as a life long fan of baseball and hip hop, I appreciate this. I have a feeling some of you might, too.

I got this magazine from Comcast in the mail and Nick Swisher is on the cover... There's also a short article/Comcast commercial by Mychael Urban.

I think they might give these away at Comcast offices, so if you want one you can try picking one up there.

Click the thumbnail for a readable view:

KPIX 5's Game Day did a feature on Fanfest the other night... Here's the segment:

http://www.youtube.com/w/?v=-WRgjpzbRqI

Higher quality downloadable WMV file (25.7 MB) here:

http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1QZYYMQ341E3332WOE3PISPZER

If anybody REALLY wants a good quality copy (maybe if you were interviewed or something?) I can probably get you the MPEG-2 file ripped straight from my Tivo or get you a DVD...

Mychael Urban was on Stayin' Hot with Seth & Bone on MLB Radio at about 2:45PM Pacific, this is an Mp3 of the interview:

Mychael Urban on MLB Radio (7MB)

The link goes to Yousendit.com, a file hosting service. The Mp3 will be there for 25 downloads or 7 days, whichever comes first.

http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20050926&c ontent_id=1224947&vkey=pr_oak&fext=.jsp&c_id=oak

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Oakland A's today announced that they have agreed to terms with right-handed pitcher Dan Haren on a four-year contract through the 2009 season with a club option for 2010.

Haren is 13-12 with a 3.81 ERA in 33 starts with the A's this year. He is tied for second in the American League in games started, tied for fourth in complete games (3), ranks sixth in strikeouts (157) and is eighth in innings pitched (210.0). The 25-year old right-hander started slowly this year as he was 1-7 with a 4.87 ERA over his first 10 starts through May 26. Since then, he has gone 12-5 with a 3.40 ERA over his last 23 starts, including a career high and A's season-best nine-game winning streak from May 31 to August 7. The winning streak included five no decisions, all A's wins, and his 14 consecutive starts in an Oakland victory tied the club record set by Chuck Dobson in 1971.

The A's acquired Haren on December 18, 2004 from St. Louis along with Kiko Calero and Daric Barton in exchange for Mark Mulder. He made his Major League debut with the Cardinals in 2003, going 3-7 with a 5.08 ERA in 14 starts. Haren went 3-3 with a 4.50 ERA in 14 games, five starts, for St. Louis last year and has a career record of 19-22 with a 4.19 ERA in 61 games, 52 starts.

The A's now have eight players under contract beyond the 2005 season, not including Scott Hatteberg (club option for 2006) and Keiichi Yabu (club option 2006). In addition to Haren, the other seven players and the years they are signed through are: Eric Chavez (2010, club option 2011), Bobby Crosby (2009), Keith Ginter (2006), Rich Harden (2008, club option 2009), Jason Kendall (2007), Mark Kotsay (2008) and Barry Zito (2006).

Just in case anybody wants to take a break from watching Kendall run home over and over and over......

All files are in .WMV format. I recommend you right-click & save as and play them from your hard drive to avoid buffering.

Big thanks to tanghamilton for hooking me up with a place to upload these!

1971 - Reggie Jackson hits the transformer at the All-Star Game
1973 - Reggie Jackson, Game 7
1989 - Jose Canseco upper-deck shot
1997 - Mark McGwire goes long at Jacobs Field
1999 - Olmedo Saenz 3-run walk off vs. SF

FP Santangelo and Larry Krueger filled in for The Razor & Mr. T and they had Eric Chavez on at 5:05 PM today.

Same as before, download this soon, I'm not leaving it up forever (I'll keep it up as long as this diary is on the front page.)

He talks about the slump at the beginning of the season, Eric Byrnes leaving, the speech on the bus, Tony Phillips ripping on him when he was a rookie, the Manny situation in Boston, etc. Very good interview. The very beginning was cut off, but all they talked about was how to pronounce his name and then they asked Chavez about the slow start.

Right-click, Save As:

Click Here 2.4 MB

The quality isn't as good and I think there are some skips but it should work for the most part.

Larry Krueger had Billy Beane on tonight. (Sportsphone 680.)

Download this soon, I'm not leaving it up forever (I'll try to keep it up as long as this diary is on the front page.)

Right-click, Save As:

Click Here 4.7 MB

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From the Baseball Prospectus newsletter:

Chat with Billy Beane, Fri, Jul 29, 02:00 pm. To join the chat or submit questions ahead of time, visit:

Click here: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/chat/chat.php?chatId=140

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All files are in .WMV format except where there's an asterisk*, in which case they're in Real Media format. I recommend you right-click & save as and play them from your hard drive to avoid buffering.

1989 - Jose Canseco's upper-deck HR vs. Toronto in the ALDS (1.2MB)
1989 - The return of Rickey Henderson (2.7MB)

1989 - Game 1 - Tony Phillips 1st RBI of the World Series (1.2MB)
1989 - Game 1 - Dave Parker's HR (1.3MB)
1989 - Game 1 - Walt Weiss' HR (818KB)
1989 - Game 1 - Dave Stewart's Shutout (6.3MB)

1989 - Game 2 - Terry Steinbach's HR (1.4MB)

1989 - Game 3 - Jose Canseco vs. Scott Garrelts (3.4MB)
1989 - Game 3 - Jose Canseco's HR (1.6MB)
1989 - Game 3 - Mark McGwire's Defense (706KB)

1989 - Game 4 - Rickey Henderson's leadoff HR (3.1MB)
1989 - Game 4 - Mike Moore's 1st career hit (1.8MB)
1989 - Game 4 - Bottom of the 9th (4.5MB)

2000 - Barry Zito strikes out 5 (1.4MB)
2000 - Olmedo Saenz vs. Roger Clemens (1.4MB)
2000 - Randy Velarde's unassisted triple play (2.7MB)

2003 - Eric Byrnes hits for the cycle in San Francisco* (3.4MB)
2003 - Ramon Hernandez walk-off bunt*

The World Series clips are from The Oakland Athletics World Series DVD by Q Video. You can buy this DVD at the Coliseum or on eBay, among other places. This is a must-own for any A's fan. The 2000 clips are from an Oakland A's DVD called "They Can Play!" which you can still buy at the Coliseum out in front when they have that tent with the outdated and obscure A's memorabilia (i.e. Ben Grieve ROY Beanie Babies, Spring Training t-shirts, John Jaha framed baseball cards, etc.) The DVD is short and dated, but what do you want for $2.00? The Real Media files are files I downloaded at one time or another and had on my computer.

I plan on adding more clips, most likely from the 3 WS in the 70's, more from 2000 and any others I can find. I'll post a Part 2 thread when I can get some together.

As heard on Extra Innings:

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