Note: This is a reposting of an article written during the changeover; however, new material was added.  If you already read it, you may want to comment on Michael Kay's buffoonery.

Billy Beane never wrote a book.  Billy Beane never had a cute name for his tenure in Oakland.  But everyone from MLB Network's Mitch Williams to the broadcast crew of last week's Reds/White Sox game would have you believe it. 

Most broadcasts rely on that crutch for some lively fifth inning banter.  The scenario usually plays out as such: Player x draws a walk.  Player x played for AAA Sacramento, and was a September call-up for the Athletics.  "Yep, he's one of those players out of the Oakland system." 

And the analyst, as was the case last Saturday in Cincinnati,