Re: Arias/Davis.

Really anxious to see if they anwser that one.

in asking why he believes Jamey Wrong is a good 8th inning guy.

“Hi Mr. Washington. Thanks for taking some of your valuable time to answer our questions. Mine is: in your albeit brief exposure to some of our young pitchers coming up through the pipe, do you find some of them are reminiscent of the pitchers you had in OAK? For example: Frank Chipmunk-Cheeks Francisco throws hard but is a little wild, kind of like Billy Koch was in his one year with the A’s; C.J. Wilson’s kind of flaky but nice like Zito was; Matt Harrison has the exact same repertoire that Mark Mulder had in OAK: fastball; change; and a slider that Mulder would for some reason later ditch for a curveball in his 3rd year in STL, etc. Thanks!”

I’m hoping he says stuff like “Hurley has Tim Hudson-like potential” or “If you poke the pleasingly plump Warner Madrigal in the bellybutton he giggles just like the equally convex-stomached Ricardo Rincon did”.