Old Time Family Baseball

From Peter Hartlaub at the San Francisco Chronicle’s Big Event blog: “I’ve never seen a more depressingly out-of-date sports calendar than the current Oakland A’s version. I would offer this as a gift to an Oakland A’s fan only if I wanted to watch them burst into tears.”

Apparently Billy Beane didn’t have the whole “You can’t start Pena at first tonight” conversation with the calendar’s general manager, who I imagine is a rather frail old man who makes his living painstakingly hand-crafting MLB team calendars in a dusty workshop behind a freight yard.

Hartlaub continues: “Apparently the scorching June 7 major league debut of Jemile Weeks was too late for deadline. In retrospect, the safest move would have been to make the entire calendar about Jemile Weeks. Jemile Weeks hitting. Jemile Weeks fielding. Jemile Weeks buying a Sprite at the vending machine.”

See, wait for it, the bright side of this is that the 2015 calendar may just have four studs in form of the prospects that Beane has been acquiring by jettisoning those calendar guys. I mean, there’s an epidemic failure in the calendar industry to understand what Oakland As players should be prominently featured.

(Via the always effervescent NotGraphs)