I know you are wondering, why would the A’s take on a player who seems to have left his best years behind him at the tender age of 28.  I know you have read several times about Conor’s past success as a hitter, and how his recent bout of Valley Fever killed his last season, but the Contra Costa Times has informed us of a far greater use for Conor (and possibly the reason for the trade) - Actor.  By now you have all seen those pretty funny A’s commericials starring the players.  Now imagine  how great they will be with a talented theater major whose dad starred in JAG (although I know him from Bones). 

Conor’s already put those talents on display with his star-turn on General Hospital. 

General Hospital everybody!  This man can act.  Can you feel the excitement level growing?  I don’t know about you, but I vote he does the commercial for the next fireworks night.

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  Sure.  Why not?  (Link)

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This is Jaden Smith, star of the new Karate Kid movie.  The Karate Kid is the story of a young American boy who moves from Detroit to Beijing and falls afoul of a group of bullies who also happen to be evil kung fu masters.  Despite his total lack of prior experience, after just a few weeks of training he beats them all down like so many red-headed stepchildren in the big kung fu tournament.  And then he takes their woman.  (RETROACTIVE SPOILER ALERT!)

The lesson of this movie, as every other lesson life has taught us for the last 250 years or so?  AMERICA IS BETTER AT EVERYTHING THAN EVERYBODY.  AND IF YOU BEAT US AT ANYTHING, IT’S ONLY BECAUSE WE WEREN’T REALLY TRYING.

Just remember that, England. 

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Incredible bit of news about the ref for the U.S. -England match on Saturday from Leander Schaerlaeckens of ESPN.com:

JOHANNESBURG — Carlos Eugenio Simon is a piece of work. Last season, the Brazilian referee was suspended for the final six weeks of the domestic season by the Brazilian federation. Why? Because he had commited “a repetition of mistakes”… plus they had reason to believe he was complicit in bribery. And he was thought to be incompetent, too — so incompetent, in fact, that one Brazilian club president called him a “crook, a scoundrel and a shameless b—–d & he must be in someone’s pocket,” according to The Guardian. Another chief complaint is the flurry of spurious red cards emerging from his breast pocket.

 Oh, and did I mention he’ll be refereeing England-USA on Saturday?

 But the ref and his assistants have much bigger worries than sending the red card-prone Americans off. There’s the British to be sent off, after all.

 To ensure that notoriously potty-mouthed England striker Wayne Rooney stays in check, the referees have brushed up on their English swear words, committing to memory a list of the 20 worst, reports the British media. England is rightfully nervous that the man once described as the assassin-faced baby (Michael Owen was his babe-faced assassin counterpart at the time) is at all times on the cusp of a sending off.

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Is everybody ready for the world’s biggest event? I am jazzed and have talked myself into a fantastic U.S. run to the Semi’s. Saturday’s match against England will be very telling, can we pull off another outing like the one we had against Spain? If so, the sky’s the limit. Gooch on d is the key, we need his physical play and I look for Dempsey to man up on offense.

Best world cup memory for me was being in Mexico back in 2002 when we took it to Curveballcity’s homeland. They had an enormous party planned for after the game, instead, we walked jubilantly to the taco stand to take in some delicious victory tacos.

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