Subdeacon Joe Posted September 26, 2024 Posted September 26, 2024 They won. Been over an hour since the game ended and many of the fans still haven't left. The announcers are still reminiscing, still getting emotional about it. After 56 years there will never again be an Oakland A's home game.
J-BAR #18287 Posted September 26, 2024 Posted September 26, 2024 Bummer. I graduated from college in 1967 and took my first job in Kansas City, where I saw one of the last Kansas City Athletics games before Charlie Finley moved them to Oakland. Catfish Hunter pitched. I liked the As except when they were playing the Royals.
J-BAR #18287 Posted September 27, 2024 Posted September 27, 2024 Moneyball, both the book and the movie, will ensure the A's legacy, no matter what happens from here on.
Blackwater 53393 Posted September 27, 2024 Posted September 27, 2024 Having been to Oakland and seen the conditions in and around the stadium, I can’t blame them for leaving!!
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted September 27, 2024 Posted September 27, 2024 5 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said: Having been to Oakland and seen the conditions in and around the stadium, I can’t blame them for leaving!! Oakland doesn't deserve a team. Hell... Oakland doesn't deserve to exist! My buddies and I used to go to a LOT of games "back in the day" - college and after. Many, many games would have only a few hundred people scattered throughtout a stadium that held something like fifty thousand. Their first World Series game wasn't a sellout! The Coliseum actually wasn't that bad - until they butchered it to make Al Davis happy. Then it was beyond awful.
Subdeacon Joe Posted September 27, 2024 Author Posted September 27, 2024 6 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said: Hell... Oakland doesn't deserve to exist! "There's no "there" there."
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted October 3, 2024 Posted October 3, 2024 On 9/27/2024 at 5:23 AM, Subdeacon Joe said: "There's no "there" there." For what it's worth - and that ain't much - I was born in Oakland. But I grew up up mostly in Texas, and returned when I was 16 and "graduated" from high school there. Castlemont HS, at one time a wonderful school but by my time arguably one of the ten worst in the country (if not the absolute worst). During my time there it would make national news for race riots, shootings, and worse. I was one of perhaps 30 "white" kids out of a student body of over two thousand. 'Twas not pleasant; downright brutal, in fact. Definitely not the classic "high school experience." New York Times headline from three years earlier Castlemont HS in the "Good Old Days" Same school, "modern" times
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