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Games 81-101: Winning is incredibly hard, Wash 231

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 ...

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.

2024: Once more unto the breach, dear friends 230

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 154

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 Fifth: The L Word 87

May

26

2023

Kotsay might be thinking of a different home fifth. In his playing days he was known as a wine guy; I gotta imagine it’s straight hard liquor now. It was inevitable that we’d be talking about losing this year. Riding an eight game losing streak, returning home for two series against very strong teams, then ...

Homestand 4: Ranger Danger 138

May

11

2023

Only 114 days till the Man burns, by which time we’ll know whether the AAs quest for historic ineptitude is really for real. Current projection is -605. Next steps on the trail, 4 against the AL West leading Rangers and 3 against the NL West 2nd placed Diamondbacks.

Homestand 3: Red M&M 166

Apr

28

2023

The original voice actor for the red M&M was Mel Blanc, who was succeeded by Ian MacKelleon, which I originally misread as Ian McKellen, which would have been some fine trivia. 3 vs the Reds including Earth Day a week late (featuring a breakfast tailgate) and a Tony Kemp poster, an off-day, and 3 vs ...

Homestand 1 – Angels & Guardians 241

Mar

30

2023

A stuttering start, with an off day between Opening Day and the weekend’s two afternoon games against the Angels, and another after the Guardians leave town and the A’s head to Florida.