HAPPY BIRTHDAY RACHEL!!! To one of my dearest friends and my only OT: I know I am blessed to have your friendship. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and dreams with me. And thank you for listening to my crazed babblings. Much love to you!
A’s won, 6-2. Barry Zito got the win. 🙂
Speaking of freak boy Zito, this just made me laugh!
A’s lefty Barry Zito has a pretty serious routine on the day he pitches, too. And don’t you dare do anything that might take him off it. Every second is precious.
“Seriously, dude, this is something I have to do,” Zito says. “Just give me my little freak time once every five days and I’m good.”
If you know anything about Zito, you’re smiling right now. He gets his little freak time every day. This is a guy who used to travel with stuffed animals and is single-handedly trying to bring ’70s porn fashion — bright, striped silk shirts and no underwear — back into the mainstream.
Urban Legends: Very superstitious
I was not only smiling, I was laughing! Even before I read the part about “if you know anything about Zito.” And what’s the no underwear thing? LOL!
On a big frown note: Mark Mulder won’t be making his Saturday start for sure. But, we’ll be at the ballpark anyway. It’s Tim Hudson Bobblehead Day! 😉
DARN IT! Looks like Mark Mulder isn’t likely to start on Saturday. Alas! One of the reasons I’m going to Saturday’s game is because I want to see Mulder pitch! Oh well…
That baseball story is simmering quite nicely in my head. LOL! I’ve started writing a kind of outline of the thing. I seem to think about it when I’m at work, while I’m sticking paper in file folders. 😛
A’s lost Wednesday night, 8-5. Grrrrr!
I’m a little put-off by Yahoo’s latest move regarding email accounts. I can no longer check my Yahoo email through my email client unless I want to fork over $$$ for it. I have to check online. It’s inconvenient to say the least! I don’t know how long I’ll be able to stand it…
No shocker: Fans let Giambi have it – A little reaction from the fans on Tuesday night? LOL!
Oh! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKEY! Wow, I remember when you were a baby! 😉
A’s lost, 2-1.
All right, my stance on Jason Giambi is surely softening. I’ll never like the fact that he’s a Yankee, but that’s just me, a Yankee non-lover. 😛 But honestly, I miss him and the energy he brought to the team. I hope he doesn’t think too badly of the boos that greeted him on Tuesday night in Oakland.
Carlos Peña says it nicely and so I quote:
I would love to see the crowd give him some love. Maybe Thursday. Get your booing out of the way, and on his last day here, let him know how much you enjoyed him while he was here. Tell him you miss him in a positive way. Give him a giant cheer — a standing ovation — every time he hits on his last day here.
So, I’m at the A’s official site. My daily trip. And here’s an article on Jason Giambi, one time A’s first baseman, now on the much hated Yankees.
When Jason Giambi, one of my all time favorite A’s players, signed with the New York Yankees, I felt gutted. Betrayed. Angry. Deserted. How could he sign with THEM?! And that feeling of anger simmers in me now, though it’s lost some heat since reading that article. Has the healing begun?
As I respect the Yankees’ place in baseball history, so too must I respect Jason’s place in A’s history. He was a major and positive influence on the team and I think I will always be grateful for that. And I did adore him for the player he was, for the leader he became.
I just wish he wasn’t a Yankee!
If I were going to the game on Tuesday night (the first of three against the Yankees in their only regular season appearance in Oakland), I would probably cheer for Giambi at his introduction or first at-bat. Then I’d boo him thereafter for the Yankee he is.
Am I a baseball chick or what? 😉
