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Oakland Year 57. Games 1 – 19 197

Mar

28

2024

There’s always money in the cabbage stand.

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 151

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 ...

Post Season 205

Oct

2

2023

Post, from the Latin Post, meaning behind or after. See also the Greek root Apo, meaning from or descent from. cf. The Oakland A’s season mercifully ended, a true Posterior of a season. The advance decay to the corpse of the Oakland A’s season prevented an insightful post-mortem. A relentless assault by A’s ownership upon ...

Home’s last stand 98

Sep

15

2023

Ten more games for the home fans to see what Mister Fisher’s penury hath wrought.

Sooner or LAA-TOR (Home 11) 48

Sep

1

2023

A. Love is gonna getcha? B. A change is gonna come? C. They’re just going to deceive you?

A Visit to District Nine 57

Aug

11

2023

Wherein the ugly, unloved, vaguely sketchy refugee Athletics are quarantined in hot sweaty unpleasant lands that no one else wants. Alex Jensen on radio pxp, up from the Stockton Ports for the trip. He’s good! "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."

The Home Nine 56

Aug

5

2023

The local ballists return, briefly, to host two against the Gyros and three with the Rangers. Enjoy a few days by the Bay before the DC-St. Lou sauna trip. A 4pm Saturday start is stupid. "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."

Road 7: Independence Date League-Vestiture Doctrine 78

Jul

4

2023

The old time adage was that the team in first place on the Fourth of July would win the pennant. Per this SI article in the pre-divisional era the July 4 leaders won the pennant 63% of the time. So, not particularly predictive. Dropped to 56% in the post-divisional-but-pre-wild-card era, and the entire concept of ...

The Golden 5th Road Trip to Unlimited Devolution 209

Jun

2

2023

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 ...