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Offday Medicine: Don't Be Depressed! Baseball Still Is Fun!! 3 Crazy Owners...
Okay, so it appears that our favorite franchise tossed away all the momentum they had going into the All-Star break, unlike our fierce rivals from Arlington, that deep summer armpit of Satan that MLB schedulers work overtime to avoid come August/September. But keep the faith, folks, it's still a...
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians: Draft Pick Value
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians (LOES) is a weekly forum bringing together top analytical minds in the hockey world to answer a variety of questions that straddle the line between stats analysis and something you might hear floating around section 304. They have agreed to answer these...
Today in Sports History: March 16th
3/16/1974 - A's sign Herb Washington The Oakland Athletics sign Herb Washington, then the world record-holder in the 50- and 60-yard dash, to a major league contract. Washington, who had no baseball experience outside of high school, was tapped for the sole purpose of running the bases. In 1974,...
10 reasons to hate the..Oakland Athletics
1. "The Bash Brothers"Turns out this was a comedy.2. The white shoes"Look at us. We're so different. We're crazy out here on the left coast."3. McAfee ColiseumI've never been there, but McAfee Coliseum has to be the worst ballpark in baseball. It has tons of wasted space in the lower seating area,...
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