2016 MLB Regular-Season Thread

"How's your wife and my kids?"

 

They're playing the White Sox 12 times in the next two weeks?

 

True. But in addition to San Francisco and the Peninsula, you've got the rest of Northern California and Northern Nevada to draw from. For all the woes of the Coliseum, it's right next to a major (granted, a very congested one) and its connected via skyway to BART. And as previous ownership showed in the 80s, put a winning team in Oakland and it will draw. Oakland is losing the Warriors to San Francisco and the smart money has the Raiders leaving as well. It's a city looking for a team to rally around. Instead, you get "Come watch this guy, and come back next year when he's with the Red Sox."

 

Yeah. Before and after they bowed to the great god Davis. But a new ballpark bump lasts what, two years? Then you need another reason to draw people in.

 

Giggity.

 

So I'm watching the "Must C" highlights of the imbroglio, and at one point the Royals announcers (I presume) made some mention of other teams' "bullying" and how the Royals weren't going to stand for it anymore. What the fuck was up with that?

 

Lousy baseball? Haven't they made the playoffs like five times since the book came out?

 

Still waiting for Clooney to play Dayton Moore in the sequel to Moneyball. Larry the Cable Guy can be Billy Butler.

 

Between 1968 and 1992, the A's outdrew the Giants in 17 of 25 seasons. If there's any team who knows what it's like to languish under bad owners in a football stadium owned by an overwhelmed city, it's the Giants.

The A's immediate/surrounding area -- Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano and Napa Counties -- has more than enough people (who aren't Giants fans) to support them. Their biggest problems arrived 20 years ago and never left: A horrible stadium and owners who care more about clearing profits than spending money on a winning team.

 

The Royals really need to trade Ventura and get a healthy Brett Eibner back in the lineup.

Raise your hand if you thought that was something a KC fan would be saying this June.

 

June 8, 1955

Koufax called up to Brooklyn for debut.

Lasorda sent down.

 

Yep, in the early 90's my firm held tickets to the As and I remember I couldn't get any of the Sunday tickets then when I tried to get some on game day, it was sold out and 50,000 strong.

Even in the 70's and 80's, the A's were the winners and the Giants were the survivors in the freezer, Candlestick Park.

The tide only turned when ATT (Originally Pac Bell Park) was built in 2000.