Solidarnosc

In solidarity with Hayward teachers, this blog is on a two-day slowdown, but I'm scratching my head about this quote from Blez's latest Straight A's column on FSNBayArea.com.

The A's are still the Ramones of baseball, whereas the Giants remain the Bee Gees.

I don't follow.. Does that mean that the A's are punk rock, while the Giants are disco? Anyway, the Ramones of baseball start a four-game series with the L.A. Angels of Anaheim (the Van Halen of baseball?) that might be tough. Harden pitched yesterday and Loaiza is on the DL, so the A's are throwing their C-F starters (Gaudin, Kennedy, Haren, Blanton) up against the Angels in Anaheim (sorry, L.A. of Anaheim). It's like the Ramones facing Van Halen without Joey, Johnny, or Dee Dee. A 2-2 split would be a great result.

ESPN Classic has started showing late 1970s episodes of This Week in Baseball. Watching these shows from the days of the Ramones and Van Halen brings back memories of that pre-ESPN age when baseball highlights on TV were a big deal. The TWIB "Jet Set" theme music makes me want to go out in the back yard and play whiffle ball, and I don't even have a back yard anymore!