OT: Oakland A's use Michigan Helmet for Player of the Game Award
First post here and blog experience is limited so don't kill me, but this was some cool stuff to me and I figured I would share it with the MGoCommunity.
For those of you who follow @CoachJim4UM on twitter, you would most likely have already seen his shout out to Billy Butler a few days back with an image of Country Breakfast wearing a Michigan helmet and in a 3-point stance. I am actually a close friend of Billy's and he knows my obsession for everything UM. Following that post, he sent me a pic of the helmet in his locker.
He explained that this looks to be a season long tradition for the A's and the Winged Helmet will be the "award" for Oakland's Player of the Game. The player will be entrusted with the helmet until it is re-awarded to the next POG.
Anyway, thought that was worth sharing, and something that Michigan can hang their hat/helmet on!
I'll run it by him and see if he has a problem with it. Nothing really too identifiable in the pic, just Oakleys and wrist bands so I don't see an issue, but I know players and how close to the vest they like to keep stuff as it pertains to social media.
Thats awesome, thanks for sharing
Post more often, great story.
Cool beans dadio.
Should be everyone's POG award.
Thanks for the info, OP.
Disclaimer: I don't watch/follow baseball at all.
Am I crazy or am I reading this correctly. There is a guy named Country Breakfast?
I took it as Harbaugh posting food pics of his Cracker Barrel breakfast.
Here's the tweet, all but confirming the return of the helmet stickers
S/O to Billy Butler...Today's A's Jungle Lion. 3 Run Shot in the 5th!! Will send 3 Stickers 4 the Helmet pic.twitter.com/YjgvYFF9qr
— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) April 14, 2015
April 15th, 2015 at 10:23 PM ^
That stance is poor for youth football.
/s
April 16th, 2015 at 10:30 AM ^
AUTM!
April 16th, 2015 at 11:33 AM ^
Thats Cool
Pomeranz was quick to say he’s not a Michigan fan, since he’s a proud Ole Miss alum. Asked if he’d worn it, Pomeranz said, ‘ “I wore it earlier. Not for the interviews.”
Well, no one's perfect and an appropriate award for an Ole Miss fan is not precisely something you want to keep large amounts of in a locker room necessarily. The helmet will have to do, but I don't get why you wouldn't want to wear the block "M" for interviews. Maybe this is my fandom talking.
balances out the ugly green and white!!
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This means either Oakland is still in play or Michigan is opening up a satellite campus in Oakland.
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Hey.
Hey Raiders.
Hey.
u mad?
April 15th, 2015 at 10:48 PM ^
April 15th, 2015 at 11:13 PM ^
Raiders didn't do anything wrong... you should be mocking 49ers management.
Legit cool story, bro. Thanks for sharing. Hope you feel the MGoLove for your first post
April 15th, 2015 at 11:01 PM ^
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"The A's to me, the way they compete, the team, the different way they think, they are jungle lions. Zoo lions get tired of zebra after a while and want filet mignon. Not jungle lions."
- Coach Harbaugh
Ignore the fact that Lions don't live in jungles... and that zoo lions aren't feed zebra. Go A's! Go Blue!
April 15th, 2015 at 11:15 PM ^
Maybe it's a fuck lion. Do they live in the jungle?
April 15th, 2015 at 10:36 PM ^
Oakland is leading the majors in ERA and Runs scored....yet have a 5-5 record.
In that Tweet, Harbaugh is going to send 3 Helmet Stickers to put on that bad boy. That means we won't have to wait until the fall to see what these stickers are going to look like!