Category: Oakland
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I’ll believe any of these when one happens
Don’t get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for Brody Brazil. I just wonder if this is more wishful thinking than anything else.
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Year End Wrap Up for the A’s
I thought I wasn’t going to post about the A’s anymore unless something significant happened. I lied. Here’s a bitter-sweet piece by Brodie Brazil I thought was worth re-posting. Nothing new here, just a Thank You from one of the Bay Area’s biggest A’s fan to all the A’s fans…
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Goodbye A’s. Hello B’s!
Oakland is getting another baseball team. No, there has not been any talkabout Oakland getting an expansion team. Oakland is getting the Ballers. TheOakland Ballers have obtained $2 million in initial funding from 50 investorslinked to Oakland and the wider East Bay region. In addition, ownershipwill soon have a crowdsourcing site…
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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…
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MLB versus Oakland
Check out CBS Sports commentator Damon Amendolara’s short but brutal comment on the state of the Athletics organization and MLB . I love how Brodie (in his usual polite manner) criticizes Fisher on the contradictions in his third and final interview with ESPN. Finally, here Brazil again pointing out MLB’s…
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Two Angry A’s Fans and One Polite Brodie Brazil
I used to waste my time on YouTube watching baseball clips from Jomboy and other podcasters with a YouTube channel. These days, I hunt YouTube for the video that makes me hate John Fisher the most. Not good for this old man’s health. If the A’s do move, maybe I…
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Another Reason Why Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist: Their Bagmen
As a rule I hate billionaires. Like AOC and Bernie says, I believe they “should not exist.” But like flies and mosquitos I guess they have their place. On second thought, we definitely could live without billionaires, though professional sports would look very different. I also question the existence of…
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Baseball Fans Are Starting to Realize That the Owners Are Not Their Friends
If you peel back the curtain of professional baseball, there’s a labor battle between players and owners that has been raging for more than a century… Baseball Fans Are Starting to Realize That the Owners Are Not Their Friends
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Oakland and the 2023 All-Star Game
Oakland’s mayor Sheng Thao met with MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred toting 31 copies of the plans, proposals, and all of the work that has gone into the Howard Terminal project that proved the City of Oakland has been working in good faith with John Fisher and the Oakland A’s to…
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