Good morning, campers!

Since there was no Yanks/Tigers game last night, I finally got off my ass and scanned the September A's magazine.

• Cover story on Swish. I thought this piece was kind of a snore, but YMMV.
  
• Indepth piece on Kirk Saarloos: "My personality fits in great here...I love my job and I enjoy what I do, but I like to have fun doing it. And in this organization, they don't try and cookie-cut you; they allow you to be what you are."
  
• Leading Off: randomness on Blanton, Harden, Big Frank, and Bradley. A thing on where the guys like to hang out when they're home. Jay Witasick's answer slays me.
  
• He Said/She Said/He Said with Bobby Crosby, his girlfriend, and Adam Melhuse. Is it me or does Bobby's girl kinda look like Tinkerbell?
  
• Cool piece on Kendall and the mechanics of calling an inning. I really recommend this.
  
• Neat piece on the A's audio engineer and the relationship between the A's clubhouse and music.
  
• Dinner on the Diamond photos: notable because we finally see what Dan's Jess looks like. Also, I continue to have a crush on Jamie Kotsay, for no conceivable reason.

If you're not reading Z's blog, you're totally missing out. I bet if he could update 20 times a day, he would. Heh.

Check the whole thing out here

just the first installment, i have way more to add but got this much done first. enjoy!!! for RICH HARDEN fans, you'll see quite a bit. There is also a good shot of Barry i took with a Metallica shirt. i really did that one ;)