THIS IS NOT MY DESK

I escaped.


I am headed to the game tonight and tomorrow afternoon to see Rich Harden pitch.


One of the only outlets I have had in the last week is to create all of the user log-ins and fake patients we will use for training over the next month - using the A's organization roster for names and some of my favorite players in A's history.


In training next week Dr. Zito might give nurse Myron an order for a CBC and EKG on patient Crosby.




Something that is bothering me; I whipped through the Forum today was that there seems to be a lot of ill-conceived notions about what I have written. Can someone find where I stated succinctly that, "the 2006 A's will not make the playoffs"? And not in the context of discussing the run differential, the style of management and the mishandling of the bullpen - "...if they keep this up the A's won't make the playoffs". Find it for me so I can learn. And try to lineup the anit-Swisher statements to see what I have actually written rather than what you THINK I have written.


It gets very tiresome to have to talk people off the ledge when they consistently claim you wrote or said something you haven't.




I do think I might have a chance to touch on the MVP and other awards talk as well as the other decisions that will have to be made over the next two weeks of baseball. And I will touch on the run differential and how the 2006 A's are being mentioned a one of the teams in the all time "playing-over-their-heads" debate. The 2006 Marlins being another.


The Forum also might get an overhaul over the next two weeks.


Go hit the WebChat tonight.