Category: Oakland Athletics
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The Final Days of the A’s in Oakland & the Team in Sacramento
As regular viewers of this blog knows, I am long suffering about the A’s move to Las Vegas. During this period, I have posted many videos of Brodie Brazil, the NBC Bay Area Sports announcer. Well, that’s ending as well, though Brazil may still be around, but not as an…
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Reggie Jackson, Racism, and MLB’s Corruption
I got Reggie Jackson’s autograph when I was about twelve years old. I had no idea who he was or any of the Oakland A’s players who signed my program from a banquet my father, brother, and I attended. I wish I had kept the program with autographs to the…
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Dave Zirin interviews Bruce Maxwell
Dave Zirin, author of Welcome to the Terrordome and What’s My Name, Fool?, two books I love about the intersections of sports and politics hosts a podcast called The Edge of Sports which became a multimedia broadcast when The Real News Network, an anti-corporate news source, picked it up looks…
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D. A. Strikes Again
I keep saying I’ve said my piece about John Fisher and Rob Manfred, but I’ll always share what D.A. has to say about this travesty.
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Field of Schemes*
With the Sacramento Bee running a positive article on the A’s temporary move to Sacramento (including what I only hoped was an ironic “Play Ball” headline in apocalyptic font size; and Marcos Bretón’s accompanying commentary calling the move “smart.” (Smart for whom, Marcos?) I felt the need to throw a…
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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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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…
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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.…
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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…
BURGER SCOOT 