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Feb 11, 2008 Jan 17, 2012 6 64909

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Athletics Nation AN Opening Night Tailgate

Well, we made it (barely). The season is upon us! Come out and revel with us on Friday, April 1.

We'll plan to meet up in the usual spot: North Lot A, end of Rows 12-14 (if you come over the BART bridge make a right down the ramp towards D gate. We'll be along the edge of the parking lot.) Can someone post the pic of our spot?

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Athletics Nation DLD with me: 12.09.10


You don't have to talk about Jack Cust, or Adrian Beltre, or Carl Crawford, or Lew Wolff, or stadium issues, or meta.

Just join me in the dump.

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Athletics Nation DLD 11.22.10—The AN Recipe Repository, or, You're Making Me Hungry!


It's the week of Thanksgiving, and most probably everyone is planning on overeating/indulging/pigging out on Thursday, so I thought we'd do a little food prep and share our recipes, which we've been meaning to do for a long time. Also, dump links (baseball and nonbaseball, who really cares anymore) and waste time, as per usual.

There's some food lore that goes along with AN tailgates. I hope to see some of our most famous recipes here; I'm sure people will be clamoring for them.

Join me below for some food porn.

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Athletics Nation DLD 08.30.10—Monday, Monday

Happy Monday, y'all. Time to dump freshly.

 

The Emmy's were last night. Did you watch? I sure didn't. Here's some dish:

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Athletics Nation DLD 6.18.10: Slackers!

Ok, so yesterday sucked. It's time to get up off the mat, people! It's Friday!

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Athletics Nation DLD 6.16.10: What the heck is going on in Oakland? (Or: Why bunting is bad)


Stolen title from this JoePo tweet, who today graces us with this piece:

The Day Moneyball Died

Holy $#@$!%. Somebody tell that man to stop doing that immediately. Holy #@!$#@$. Seven of his league-leading nine sacrifice bunts were, just as he said, bunting a runner from second to third with nobody out. This isn’t just a waste of an out, it’s crumpling an out, stomping on it with disdain, and then purposely not putting it into the recycle bin. Why would you do this? There’s no double play in order. A single might score the run. According to the BaseballProspectus Run Matrix, bunting a runner from second to third reduces a team’s run expectation level from 1.09 runs to .93 runs.

Just because we like to argue about bunting. And mushrooms.

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