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I knew it was a trick
I just entered to the most recent MLB contest and was given these
instructions to follow. Who actually goes through all these steps? Promotions shouldn’t make a fan/customer feel taken advantage of — just sayin’.
You’ve just earned an entry into our weekly drawing for a Sharp AQUOS®
32″ Class (31-1/2″ Diagonal) LCD TV and now you’re on deck to see if
you’re a potential instant winner. Please follow the steps below.
- Click PRINT GAME PIECE to print your instant win game piece.
- Locate a participating retailer by entering your zip code into retail
locator. - Bring your printed game piece to a participating retailer provided.
- Once at the participating retailer, hold up the printed game piece to the in-store display to find out if you’re a winner.
Okay, maybe I’m a little tense on trading day. Like an old friend with a cheap warm beer Ray Ratto of the SF Chronicle assuaged my fears by confirming them and telling me that the whole thing would be a big bore for both the A’s and the Giants. It was a surprisingly relaxing blow: don’t bother believing in the A’s or going to any more games this year, the A’s are sunk. They’ll break your heart next year too, but if you hold on, they might be good in 2010.
If Beane were my boyfriend, I would have dumped him a long time ago. I’m sick of hearing, “it’s gonna be better next year” “we’re going to really kick *ss later in the season” or “The A’s are thinking ‘long term’” “Just wait till you see what these prospects can do”. Not that I don’t think Beans an awesome GM. I wouldn’t want anyone else to be our GM in fact, but it’s just hard to put your heart into a team of promises. Promises weaker than the cluttered ad campaigns I see on the BART everyday. Promises without stories. If we’re a rag-tag team, then I want some good stories about it — like the Dodgers. They’re full of great stories about their antics, and it just makes winning all the better.
I realize I’m a little too hard on the A’s. I’m sure
they’ve got some great plans up their sleeves. It’s a sunny day in
the bay, and I’m curious to see what unfolds by tomorrow morning.
6-14, Stomper Steals Show From A’s Game.
(Friday night)
I’m waiting for the train home at the Coliseum’s BART station, 11pm.
The cement seats smell like urine and I haven’t quite come to terms
with being in third place – the playoffs nowhere in sight.
We saw it coming. The Rangers have out played us before. In fact, every time that we’ve played them this year…
But let’s go back to a time when the A’s first landed in Tokyo as spring training’s darlings; looking good in custom suits, ready to take on 2007′s World
Champions, and win the series. When summer had just begun and we were ESPN’s top team. Back when we could have done it, when the fan’s had faith and when Stomper, the A’s mascot, was merely a side
show.
Stomer’s got some hot dance moves. He
and some kid did a little hip hop dance
show that ended with the kid doing a flip over Stomper’s shoulder. It was so sweet.
In fact, it might have been the only sweet aspect to tonights game against the Rangers where the A’s just gave up half way through and started playing like the Giants. Bay Area bottom feeders shoveling dirt over our graves one pitch and missed catch at a time. Who cares about the A’s now?
(Saturday Morning)
Okay, let’s do the numbers.
The Game: Comparing the Alexa rankings (the lower the
ranking = the higher the site’s traffic) of the top sites from google
web searches. Whoever has the lowest total ranking wins!
Oakland Athletics Alexa rankings of top Google Web Search:
1. mlb.com #208
2. wikipedia.org #8
3. go.com #65
4. cnn.com #53
6. yahoo.com #1
7. athleticsnation.com #143,039 (Click this link! It will take you to an awesome post!!)
8. sfgate.com #863
9. sportsline.com #591
10. shop.mlb.com #208
Total: 146,317
Texas Rangers Alexa rankings of top Google Web Search:
1. mlb.com #208
2. txdps.state.tx.us #2572 (Dept of Public Safety website)
3. texasranger.org #946,308 (Texas Ranger museum)
4. imdb.com #33
5. cnn.com #53
6. texasrangers.org #5,363,006 (totally awesome site!)
7. go.com #65
8. wikipedia.org #8
9. yahoo.com #1
10. lsjunction.com #451,765
Total: 6,763,939
A’s win! But I’m mad that none of these mentioned that an orange cat had ran across the field in the 4th inning last night.
Other than that, this was fun. I got to learn the history of the actual Texas rangers from this google search. I’m reading Blood Meridian by Cormick McCarthy, so I’m pretty into it — not enough to be a fan, of course.
Last night, I wore my glasses and brought my laptop to the game. At the restaurant in the coliseum, the guys at the table next to me asked if I was a scout. My laptop’s about 7 years old with neon pink duct tape holding the battery in place, but I pretended that I was a scout anyway. I work with the Nationals but lived in San Francisco.
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ferral cat runs onto the on-deck circle during the Texas Rangers vs.
Oakland Athletics baseball game Friday, July 25, 2008, in Oakland,
Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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