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Games 102- , or, The Final 61* 38

Jul

22

2024

Running the table with a 61-game winning streak would produce the sixth 100-win season in Oakland history (Dick Williams 1, Tony La Russa 2, Art Howe 2). On the other end of it, 24-37 (.393) or better is required to avoid the fourth 100-loss season (Jim Marshall 1, Mark Kotsay 2). Their current winning percentage ...

Games 81-101: Winning is incredibly hard, Wash 228

Jun

23

2024

The A’s hit the halfway point of the final season on Monday in Anaheim. They’re playing the entire season series against the Angels in the next five weeks, 13 out of 28 games between two of the three sub-.400 teams in the American League. Since that glorious early May day when the A’s reached .500 ...

The start of the last hundred. Games 62-80 186

Jun

3

2024

Game 62 starts the series with the Mariners, then the Blue Jays. then to San Diego and Minnesota. The A’s are staying ahead of the Angels, which has been delightful. I kinda like Scioscia this year, but he is still Scioscia. Hate watching their games have brought me joy. Seems as though the gambling scandal ...

The Last Waltz (or, MLB Stops Making Sense) 14

May

30

2024

Maybe Scorsese will make a film about it. Though I like Jonathan Demme’s concert opus better. Anyway, my procrastinating has allowed Fisher to poke a sharp stick into my eye one last time. Ticket demand is high for the last ever MLB game in Oakland* and now the only seats left are upper deck outside ...

Games 41-61 136

May

11

2024

It’s Mid series but a roundish number. There is a guy Named Estes scheduled to start for the A’s today. The internet tells me he pitched for the A’s last year. I have my doubts. He was drafter by the Braves, so I assume he came over for Olson or Murphy. He faces a team ...

Games (4)20 – 40: This is what space smells like 144

Apr

18

2024

The A’s head east for a 10-game road trip starting Friday, visiting the Vogts for 3, the Yankees for 4 and then the Orioles for 3. Fisher may get a chance to see Aaron Judge hit some exciting home runs. Judge is at .183/.330/.380 through his first 88 PA of the season so he might ...

Oakland Year 57. Games 1 – 19 212

Mar

28

2024

There’s always money in the cabbage stand.

Spring training 2024, wherein Fisher and Kaval sit on a cactus 248

Feb

23

2024

The A’s open a 33-game preseason schedule on Saturday in Mesa when they take on the Colorado Rockies. That’s the first of 29 in Arizona; there are also pairs at Las Vegas Ballpark against the Brewers on March 8-9 and the usual home-and-home with the Giants on March 25-26, before Stephen Vogt brings the Guardians ...

2024: Once more unto the breach, dear friends 229

Jan

17

2024

Or close up the wall with our East Bay dead. In case FK croaks for good I thought it was important that future scholars can search internet archives and note that the Kraut kept going at least into the last year of the A’s time in Oakland, and/or the functional existence of the United States. ...

Irritable Bowl Syndrome 153

Dec

15

2023

Another new thread to keep FK seasonably appropriate on the eve of Bowl Season. It starts tomorrow with seven games, the last of which features our local heroes Cal in Shreveport LA, a town named after an Army Corps of Engineers captain named Shreve. Cal will battle traditional rivals Texas Tech, with whom they are ...