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 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 ...
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. ...
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, 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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.