FREE KRAUT!

That’s a deep cut for the heads out there. At nine games this is actually the A’s longest road trip of 2023. Good practice for 2024’s 162 game road trip. Answer: Miami, Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee Question: What are three cities I’d just as soon have colonoscopies as visit, Alex? "Kraut will get you through times ...

It’s a divisional trip, as the A’s spend the weekend in Robert Earl Keen’s hometown, facing the Astros in a Friday night game and then afternoon games on Saturday and Sunday. From there it’s on to Seattle for four night games vs. the Mariners. Bang your trash can to the rhythm of this one.

First stop is in one of the A’s increasingly numerous ancestral homes, Paris of the Plains. It is where Green and Gold became the team colors, but aside from that the franchise history there is pretty dang forgettable. The A’s are 6-26, the Royals are 8-24 and if either team gets swept, it should be ...

Ken and Vince both very emotional in their radio open. "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."

Yes, this A’s team brings out the expletives. Now it’s Mets and Cubs. They visit on a quick six-game homestand, hoping to feast on the Athletics and their league-worst 3-10 record. In a quirk of the new schedule, by the end of the month the A’s will have hosted more teams from the National League ...

Emphasis on the “FB”, I’m afraid. Don’t want to be treated this-a-way, but that’s how it goes some seasons. First off, the A’s are going where the climate suits my clothes, in April anyway, for three in the hideous Trop. The weather really is nice in Florida in April, not too humid, not too hot, ...