All posts tagged "Oakland Athletics"
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3.9K21Brandon McCarthy
Rivals Week: Bay Bridge Series Preview (plus the final Die Hard contest)
The Bay Bridge series is back for round two on the season. The Giants took round one in San Francisco, but now...
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4.0K48BASG giveaway
Rivals Week: Rip the Giants, rip the A’s – it’s Friendly Insult Day!
First off, congratulations to the winners of yesterday’s contest, Jared and Aaron Smith! Their names were drawn out of a Montreal Expos...
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2.8K40Larry Baer
Rivals Week: It’s Territorial Rights Day!
As Joey McMurry pointed out yesterday, A’s vs. Giants isn’t exceedingly bitter and venomous, at least as far as classic rivalries go....
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2.3K17Oakland Athletics
Is the Battle of the Bay really a battle?
The Bay Bridge series is upon us once again, so that means it’s time for friend against friend, brother against brother, and...
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Brandon McCarthy
Series Preview: A’s vs Dodgers
It has been a while but I am back with the newest edition of the A’s series preview. This time the A’s...
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4.3K44Barry Zito
Rivals Week: Barry Zito pitches, you win (Zito’s results may vary)
Barry Zito is living proof that if you plan on leaving your first big league team to ink a huge contract, avoid...
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4.9K31BASG giveaway
Rivals Week: the 1989 World Series – where were you?
As the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A’s get ready to face each other’s Southern California rivals, we’re going to jump ahead...
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3.5K56CSN Bay Area
Moneyball coming to Oakland A’s telecasts – Hatteberg replacing Fosse (for 20 games)
Susan Slusser is reporting that Glen Kuiper will have a new partner in the broadcast booth very soon: Scott Hatteberg, the former A’s first baseman featured prominently...
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5.7K1395.7 FM The Game
Dave Henderson knew Jose Canseco was on steroids, says PED users ‘don’t deserve to be in the Hall of Fame’
Dave Henderson seemed huge during his playing days. Maybe it was the fu-manchu or the way he stood at the plate, but...
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2.6K6MLB
Oakland Athletics go the High School route with first round picks
The A’s departed from their normal operating procedure in the first round of the draft, ignoring college players for the enticing high ceiling, high...
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2.5K18Bartolo Colon
Series Preview: A’s vs Yankees
The A’s have lost two series in a row and dropped below .500, so who do they draw to try to get...
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Golden State Warriors
Warriors moving to San Francisco – how will the team change?
Adam Lauridsen doesn’t just run an extremely popular and well-respected blog about the Golden State Warriors, he’s also a lawyer. From what...
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2.9K32Aubrey Huff
What’s wrong with Tim Lincecum?
Tim Lincecum struck out the side in the first inning with a walk mixed in. In the second inning, after Daric Barton...
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2.6K9Angel Pagan
Ryan Vogelsong: probably not a fluke
25 straight batters retired. Even when Matt Cain has a performance like that, like he did in the home opener against Pittsburgh,...
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2.0K7Barry Zito
Giants beat A’s 8-6 in an absurd Bay Bridge Series opener (and Affeldt gained an ab on the DL)
First, the San Francisco Giants are accumulating walks at an unbelievable clip this week. They’d never admit publicly that they’re encouraging patience...
