karate for breakfast

It was a typical Saturday morning in the A's clubhouse today: lots of chatter, lots of card playing and lots of ... martial arts??? In what's become a franchise tradition, team chaplain Donnie Moore gives a motivational martial arts display. Fifteen thin stacks of concrete were set up for Moore to try and karate chop with his hand. Moore does work for an organization called Radical Reality, giving martial arts demonstrations that tie in life lessons for young people. According to a member of the A's media relations staff, Moore can also roll up a frying pan with his bare hands (I still can't get a visual of this in my head) and rip a phone book in half. No word on whether Moore broke through all 15 blocks of concrete. A team meeting was held at the same time as the demonstration, and reporters were cleared out of the clubhouse.