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The real Clemens trial

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As far as I’m concerned, the real Roger Clemens trial will be for the newspapers covering the event, since the judge has put a media gag order on everyone involved. How will they keep this interesting without any actual information?

Well, the Daily News took a hell of a step today.

By far the most interesting thing about the entire baseball steroids scandal, to me, has always been that Victor Conte played bass in Tower of Power. How perfectly random.

And not only did the News convince him to write about it, they included a link to his recent composition, the BALCO Bebop, based on Take Me Out To The Ballgame.

It’s cheesy as all get-out, but the dude can really play:

What’s happening in Oakland?

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So I think maybe the reports of Billy Beane’s decline were greatly exaggerated.

The A’s currently have in their starting rotation Trevor Cahill, a 22-year-old with a 168 ERA+, Gio Gonzalez, a 24-year-old with a 126 ERA+, Brett Anderson, 22 with a 123 mark, Vin Mazzaro, 23 with a 113, and familiar king-of-the-hill Dallas Braden, freshly 27 with a 124 rate.

But here’s the sort of interesting part: Of the five, only Gonzalez really strikes many batters out, and not really a ton. Cahill and Anderson get a lot of ground balls, but nearly everyone on Oakland’s staff is outperforming his peripherals.

So what’s that about? Most likely it has something to do with the A’s big park and good defense and a little bit of good luck. But I want to stay open to the possibility that Beane has figured out something about pitching that the stats community hasn’t picked up on yet.

I kind of doubt it. But then Braden is going on his third straight season of being about a run better than his xFIP, and Andrew Bailey’s like that too. Certainly far stranger things have happened within the normal course of randomness, but I’d like to be able to maintain this mancrush on Billy Beane as long as possible because he sort of looks like Norm MacDonald, so it helps me identify “my type.”

Anyway, Jeff Fletcher of AOL Fanhouse and I preview the A’s-Yanks series here:

That’s Numberwang!

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I’m heading to Darryl Strawberry’s restaurant today for a special, awesome Baseball Show episode, then out to Citi Field for Jon Niese and Anibal Sanchez. I’ll be back up and posting when I get there, but in the interim, please enjoy more absurdity from Mitchell and Webb. I know this is brilliant but I can’t figure out why:

Amazing

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At long last, the second installment of the Super Delicious Ingredient Force series. These are… wow. It’s like someone at Taco Bell is targeting an ad campaign specifically at me, ironic because they already have me locked up. It’s perfect.

Talking Mets with Cerrone

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Busy day here means heavy video day on TedQuarters. Matt and I follow up on the question I asked here last week about whether the Mets seem to be in better or worse shape than they were last year at this time. Also, Matt hasn’t hit nearly as many home runs as Ralph Kiner.