1.  dont u guys get it?

beane wants to manage this team himself so hes going to find a guy willing to be the front man. black and washington? not the guys.

2.  from what i've been reading here Billy Bean is kind of a little problem.

3.  "There is something rotten in the Coliseum parking lot."

"That's because you're down-wind of the tire factory. Here, turn toward the Sunshine Biscuit Factory."

"Aaaaah... that's much better. Say, Forstatio... why are we wearing pantaloons?"

"Beats me, boss."

4.  Why doesn't Beane just name himself manager? Why is this not an option?

5.  4 Because Beane is smart enough to realize he'd make a terrible, awful, horrible manager. He'd be bad because of the same obsessive impatience that made him a terrible player.

Beane gets too emotional with play-to-play decision making. He has enough trouble watching games live even from the distance that the GM position affords him.

6.  5

so who is he gonna hire ALREADY!

7.  Is Beane waiting until all of the higher profile candidates are hired to justify hiring Bob Geren to the fans? It doesn't make that much sense, but it's all I can think of. Unless Beane is waiting to drive down the next manager's salary. Hmm.

8.  i wouldn't wanna work for Billy Beane PERIOD!! reading some of you're the A's stuff makes me scared!!

9.  Following the Hamlet script, Wolffius, having dispatched King Macha to a better world, would usurp the manager position himself. However, I can't decide which A's player should play the part of Queen Gertrude?

In the end, Wolffius and Hamlet end up bankrupting each other, and Gerenbras lays claim to team ownership.

Something is rotten in the state of Califormark.

10.  I'm not sure who Queen Gertrude would be but, given the self-destructive histrionics, I'm positive that Milton Bradley is Ophelia.

11.  To Beane, or not to Beane...That is the question.

Whether tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of Joe Morgan, or to take arms against a sea of...

Yup, that's all I remember.

12.  If Geren is such a managerial prospect, why aren't other managerless teams interested in him? I already know the answer, but it was worth asking.

The A's new mamanger: Billy Geane

13.  Oops. Professor spelled manager wrong in the above comment.

14.  Mmm. Interchangeable, managers are. Worry should you not.

15.  5. Ok, well that makes sense. It's been a while since I read moneyball, I forgot that Beane is a maniac during game time.

Ok, then answer me this, smart guy. If Beane's so good a running an organization, especially one that can develope young talent that conforms to his ideas, why can't he develope a managerial candidate that can conform to his ideas?

Shouldn't he have found some schlub he likes from his playing days and groomed him in the A's minor league system for the past couple years, so he'd have a replacement ready now.

Its kinda funny how Beane seems to find it easier to replace MVP's and Cy Young award winners than managers.

16.  15 Bob Geren is the "groomed" candidate.

And the number of managerial candidates that have accepted other jobs before the A's could make an offer has now grown to three. Manny Acta is apparently going to take the Nationals' job.

17.  On the off chance you haven't seen this yet, the courting of the high-tech fan has begun in Oakland.

Stadium of the future swings for the fences
http://tinyurl.com/yekkg9

Good news for the missus, Bleacher bums will view instant replays at their seats with laptop computers. :)

18.  Maybe Beane's looking for that special someone who {{hearts}} Fremont?