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A Date That Will Live in Infamy
Well, they did it. The billionaire baseball owners voted unanimously to move the Athletics to Las Vegas. Barring any surprises, the team will be the Las Vegas Athletics by 2028. Sickening. Though, there’s still controversies: the proposed 33,000-seat ballpark that would be located on only 9 acres, architects claim that is not enough space to… Read more
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Nation’s Unruly Giant
Recently, while my wife and I were running errands in and around the north area of Sacramento County we decided to have lunch at In-N-Out Burger off of Truxel Road. The food was what I expected for the California chain–good if not unique. On our ride back we noticed across Truxel Road a new hamburger… Read more
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I Was Almost a Dwarf
Recently, I recalled (thanks to my wife: my one-woman brain trust) that my parents once worried that I was going to grow up a dwarf–that I might have Achondroplasia. It’s true! And looking at the images of dwarfish children at Achondroplasia.com I can see similarities between these little people and my kindergarten/first/second grade self. … Read more
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If the A’s Do Indeed Move…
I was tabling at the west steps of the Capitol with the Sacramento chapter of the League of Women Voters (a post on my new volunteer gig to come soon) when someone commented on how someday soon my Oakland A’s baseball cap will be an anachronism and that I should buy a Giants cap to… Read more
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A’s Closer Trevor May on John Fisher
Here’s a fuller transcription of May’s choice words on John Fisher. “Now that it’s official to the A’s organization and every single person part of it, I love all of you,” May said. “Every single one of you. Except for one guy and we all know who that guy is. Sell the team, dude. I… Read more
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A Few Would If’s
“Under Fisher, the term Moneyball is no longer a novel idea based on analytics and underdog achievement. It instead has become the cynical ploy of a billionaire doing whatever he can to suck the profits out of his team, without even trying to put a competitive product on the field.” Read more
