Idiots Write About Sports

There is perhaps no more disconcerting feeling than flipping on the telecast of the team whom you follow in lieu of having any productive or interesting hobbies and laying eyes on guy in your team’s uniform on the pitching mound that you had no idea even was in your organization.

Ryan Glynn pitches for Oakland? Really? Since when? Is this the same Ryan Glynn who used to pitch for Texas? What’s he doing with us? How’d he wind up here? Say… did we trade Mulder and Hudson at some point?

Apparently, Ryan Glynn got called up to Oakland sometime between when I put the lamb chops under the broiler and when I opened the rioja to let it breathe a little. And now, he’s starting against the Blue Jays.

I feel like such a fraudulent fan right now.

Referenced by SFist, in the entry A's Brand Baseball: The Boys of Summer?:
In May, when the A's were busy losing twenty of twenty-four games, and trotting out starting pitchers that even A's bloggers didn't know were affiliated with the organization, we here at A's Brand Baseball were considering a change in strategery. Not ......

Yeah, you're not the only one who was surprised at the callup.

I was at the game and expecting Etherton to make the start. I had no idea that Glynn was in the Oakland Organization.

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