All posts tagged "Oakland Athletics"

• 95.7 FM The Game

  2011 year in review: Top 10 stories in sports talk radio

  I wrote an all-encompassing year-in-review post this morning for SB Nation Bay Area titled “Bay Area Sports in 2011: the Year of...

• Billy Beane

  Billy Beane’s philosophy: go small until you get a new home (fans be damned)

  The Oakland Athletics made another trade today, and it was just like all the other ones they’ve made lately. They traded proven...

• Billy Beane

  Oakland Athletics’ attendance woes: what’s the cause, baseball or ballpark?

  In the comments responding to yesterday’s post titled, “Why Giants fans should root for a new Oakland A’s ballpark,” there’s an interesting...

• Aaron Rowand

  Why Giants fans should root for a new A’s ballpark

  Instead of railing on about the San Francisco Giants’ refusal to go over $130 million in player payroll — even though they...

• Billy Beane

  What Moneyball Should Have Taught Us

  With the release of the Moneyball movie there has been quite a bit of revisiting the A’s of the early 2000s and,...

• Damon Bruce

  Source: Mychael Urban returning to KNBR 680

  According to an industry source, Mychael Urban will soon return to KNBR 680. Urban should resume the same role he held through...

• Billy Beane

  Billy Beane copies Sabean, then surpasses him

  Kind of a strange thing has happened in Oakland, where Billy Beane hasn’t just spent time overseeing Brad Pitt’s visor-wearing ability, he’s...

• Alex Hinshaw

  So, did Nellie get the record?

  It was like the entire sport of basketball was exhausted today. Can’t blame it really, after last night’s crazy, wonderful, awful, disappointing...

• Amare Stoudemire

  Ben Sheets goes to … the Oakland A’s?!?!?!

  I’ll say this for Billy Beane: nobody in the last decade has cornered the market on ridiculously talented pitchers that may or...

• Billy Beane

  MLB Monday: Trading Holliday

  One doesn’t have to be Billy Beane to figure out why everyone’s speculating on where Matt Holliday is going to be traded....

• Emmanuel Burriss

  Yeah, but will he let Brian Urlacher spit on him?

  In the 1995 NFL Draft, the defending Super Bowl Champion San Francisco 49ers traded a boatload of draft picks to the Cleveland...

• BART

  4 hits for the A’s, 4 hot dogs for me

  I’d never even come close to seeing a no-hitter in person, but if I were to see anyone pull it off it...

• Buster Posey

  Giants marking their San Jose territory

  Larry Baer and Bill Neukom have a lot on their plate. But while the fans see winning a World Series as the...

• Edgar Renteria

  With guys wide open…

  So it’s official, Kurt Warner isn’t just your run of the mill free agent quarterback, he’s Scott Stapp. For those who don’t...

• Kurt Warner

  The free agent athlete’s anti-Bay Area checklist

  Residents of the Bay Area like to say how we live in the best part of the country, partly because it’s true...