What’s All This Then?

There is a deafening, thunderous hush in MLB right now involving Carlos Beltran and the Oakland Athletics. Now, the two may or not be intertwined, but there is definite activity going on in the Oakland A’s front office and with Scott Boras, the slime ball agent for Beltran.

There is enough activity that Beltran may have been mentioned in the same sentence as Oakland.

Should you get your hopes up?

No.

Not unless the A’s unload some of the dead wood in the process.

Eric Byrnes has been named the team’s starter in centerfielder. For now.

This means one of several things: Byrnes worked his ass off and continues to prove he can be an everyday player, the A’s are showcasing Byrnes as possible trade bait (Byrnes is only signed through the end of the season) or Billy Beane has finally pulled his head out of his ass and realized that Terrence Long does not deserve to be on the A’s 25 man roster and that means somebody has to go out in his place.

Or, it could be a combo of all of those things.

Whatever.

The A’s are staring to use Byrnes in their advertising.

Sorry, let’s restate that.

The A’s are actually advertising.

They are putting print ads and billboards in northern California. This is a wonderful step in the right direction. Put the thought lout there and it might take hold.

Okay, back to the ads.

One print ad has a request directed to Eric Byrnes’ mother to clone a few more Eric Byrnes.

We’ll try and scan and take some pictures of some of the local A’s ads and throw them on the blog next week.