"Half a league.  Half a league.  Cannons to the right of me.  Cannons to the left of me.  Cannons in front of me."

This excerpt made me think of our season in a nutshell.  Every time we believe that we are starting to make progress in one area- BOOM!- we quickly find out that we are staring down the barrel of a gun.

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Well as a celebration that May is now over combined with the win today, I thought it was okay to come out and post and in-game thread diary that affects the division.  The Mariners are currently trying like hell to make up the deficit and have cut it to 4-3 as of now.  Let's see if our end to May can end with a Mariner victory and get us a little closer, as Hawk would say, to the "bad guys."

With all of the technology improvements in today's world... it takes the younger folks to help us middle-aged (30's style) people keep up with everything.  I humbly request the aid of the most intelligent sports-bloggers around.  It's new laptop time and I feel clueless even after educating myself over the last couple of weeks.

So many of you have posted live shots of TV on AN and if Directv monopolizes EI, I will promise to do the same once I figure it all out.

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I know it's crazy to post pictures from Spring Training now but I did put the time into taking them so I wanted to share them with the good people of AN.  I hope you enjoy them.

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SI has published their version of proposed starters for this year's All-Star game and it continues to baffle me as to the blatant disregard of players who deserve to make the ballot.  

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/john_donovan/05/31/al.allstars/index.html

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Phil Nevin has been traded to Chicago for Jerry Hairston.

Click here....

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2464915

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As a person who has lived near the KC area and hung out with several of their fans... I find this completelely humorous yet very sad at the same time.  I apologize if this may have been posted elsewhere.

"Chad Carroll auctioned off 25 years of loyalty to the Royals for only $278.47" which seems like a "roll back" price equivalent to what their owner, David Glass, spends on his entire roster.

Read story...
  http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/mlb/05/03/bc.bba.royals.allegiance.ap/index.html

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I have a lot to learn about digital cameras and not enough time before leaving for Phoenix.  PLEASE HELP!

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Just read this Susan Slusser article a few minutes ago and didn't see if anyone else posted it or not.

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Why does everyone hate Nick Swisher?  He is a good player and should play all the time.  Everyone is hating him and for what?  

People need to quit hating Huston Street because of all the saves he blew this year.  The guy is rookie of the year but why doesn't anyone like him?  He is a good closer and doesn't throw as hard as Dotel but he's good.

How come nobody thinks Blanton did a good job?  He probably doesn't know how to pitch yet but he's only a rookie and Redman probably would have done much better anyway, right?  Blanton is a good pitcher.  He pitches good.  Nobody knows how good of a pitcher he is yet but I'm tellin you everyone will like him more next year.

Dan Johnson is a great player but he gets no respect from anyone around here.  Does anyone really know that he is a good player for being a rookie?  No one respects him but you'll see how wrong you were about him after another year of playing for the A's.  He is going to be great.

The A's may not have any chance next year with the team they are fielding but people need to not dog them for the year they had this year.  They could have been much worse and finishing second ain't all that bad really is it?  At least they won the AL West and Texas hasn't lately and everyone's payroll is higher.