A'S BaseballAthletics BaseballSchool BaseballLeague BaseballAthletics RockA S Stuff BaseballOakland A S BaseballOakland SportsOakland AthleticsForwardFind Cash Advance, Debt Consolidation and more at Get the best of Insurance or Free Credit Report, browse our section on Cell Phones or learn about Life Insurance. is the site for Cash Advance.It’s really true that you can never tell what you’ll see upon walking into the Oakland A’s clubhouse. It could be players challenging themselves to coat their gums with nuclear hot sauce. It could be a full sized Darth Vader helmet painted in the A’s Green and Gold gracing the center of the room. Or it could be players taking turns wearing a large white unicorn mask. Saturday pregame, it was the unicorn’s turn. To be clear, the A’s have had a unicorn with them for a couple of years now. The backpack that the relievers fill with sunflower seeds, candy and nuts for the couple of hours they will spend in the bullpen has a unicorn on the back of it.

Dan Otero, currently the junior man in the pen in terms of service, carries it with him before each game, and he’s grown so attached to the backpack he might argue to keep doing backpack duty once someone with less service time shows up. But what’s with the new unicorn? For that, we need to introduce someone who’s not a member of the bullpen, but who once was, starter Jesse Chavez. “I was out at Urban Outfitters Friday and saw it and I didn’t buy it,’’ Chavez said Saturday. “I was thinking all night I should have. So I went back today and got it. Now we have a unicorn head to keep the unicorn backpack company.’’ Several members of the A’s took turns trying on the unicorn mask, Chavez, Otero and infielder Nick Punto among them. If it’s new, and if it’s a little bit weird, it fits right in with the A’s.Oakland A S BaseballBaseball RettaOakland BabyA'S BaseballOakland A'SAthletics A SAthletics BaseballOakland AthleticsBullpen UnicornForwardThe Oakland Athletics announced a new giveaway for Sunday, August 24.

Designed by A's relievers Sean Doolittle and Ryan Cook, meet (drum roll) the Bullpen Unicorn Backpack!Mariners continue backpack tradition MINNEAPOLIS -- When rookie right-handed reliever Shawn Kelley went on the 15-day disabled list last week, he left behind the pink backpack that he's been carrying around during the regular season. The "Hello Kitty" backpack still travels with the team, even without Kelley, but has been put in storage until its owner returns. With rookie and former backpacker Chris Jakubauskas now in the starting rotation, he no longer is qualified to pack a 'pack -- which is strictly a Mariners bullpen tradition. Demonstrating his creative side, Mariners reliever Mark Lowe, the current bullpen rookie hazer, decided that another kind of backpack was needed. So he purchased an Army-issued, camouflage backpack, along with a metal ammo case, and the items have become left-hander Garrett Olson's constant companion. "There aren't any rookies in the bullpen," Olson said, "so we decided to go with something a little more serious than a 'Hello Kitty' backpack.

We're a serious bunch out there, and it never fails to go with a military theme." The backpack gets filled with "rations" on a daily basis, ranging from candy snacks to fruit. "It's basically a survival kit," Olson said. "There are even some translation books, just in case we need to refer to something in another language, other than English."wizzy backpack The newest addition to the kit is a gray plastic bat.under armour ozzie backpack A Twins fan sitting in the right-field seats during Saturday night's game at the Metrodome accidentally dropped the bat onto the field, and a club employee picked it up.caribee ops backpack review "It was generously donated to us," Olson said. teton backpack 3700

"Actually, we confiscated it from him and it's now our rally stick. It was present when [Adrian] Beltre hit that home run. It also can be used as antennae." Olson landed the backpack job when Kelley went on the DL with a strained left oblique. "It was between me and [Sean] White," Olson said. eberlestock gs05m gunslinger rifle backpack"We have the least amount of time [in the big leagues]. mybackpack saasIt's an honor to be carrying it around. And this one's better than the pink 'Hello Kitty' backpack."This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. Working almost exclusively with leather and corduroy to give the collection a sense of “normality,” Prada riffed on simplicity, authenticity and the naïf, favoring the crude and unsophisticated over the polished and urbane.

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Farrell told that what has distinguished his company is its focus on quality and that now, with the Shutterstock deal, BFA’s work would have a larger reach. Ben Pfeifer, general manager of Shutterstock Editorial, said his firm is a “tech company” at heart and that it chose to work with BFA because of its reputation in the industry. “We want to partner with people who are masters of their class and get out of the way,” he said. “We are laser-focused on getting the customer jazzed to buy from us. The way to win is to focus on the customer full stop.” The privately owned BFA, which was founded in 2010 by photographers Billy Farrell, David X Prutting, Joe Schildhorn and Neil Rasmus, will continue to showcase and offer its content for purchase through its own Web site. “BFA is the gold standard, go-to photographic agency that continues to raise the bar; because images matter to BFA, it has built up an enviable level of trust with brands that provide it with unparalleled access to some of the leading events in fashion and entertainment,” said Shutterstock founder and chief executive officer Jon Oringer.