By finleyunplugged (205.225.207.97) on Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 03:47 pm:

"Boston and Oakland will open the 2008 season with games on March 25-26; Oakland will be the home team."

The equiable way of doing this would be for both Boston and Oakland to lose one home game, just like the NBA does when they play a series overseas. Of course, MLB would never deprive its darling Schlep Rox of a home date, and it's not like Wolff is going to shed any tears having to play two less games in Oakland. He probably volunteered to go, just like when they sent the Expos to San Juan.

Another in a long line of disgraceful slaps in the face to Oakland fans dealt by Selig and his cabal.

Then there's this, "The A's are not scheduled to play on either Memorial Day (May 26) or Labor Day (Sept. 1) and will spend Independence Day in Chicago playing the White Sox."

Is there another owner, outside of Jeffrey Loria, who would sit still for losing all three home holiday dates in one season?

http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071114&content_id=2300134&vkey=news_oak&fext=.jsp&c_id=oak

By asch (63.146.24.10) on Friday, November 16, 2007 - 03:10 pm:

great point about the missed holiday games. Classic. I believe we are always one of the top 3 teams (consistently for a while) in most miles traveled with hellish flights that make no logistical sense. Nobodys seems to complain about it from the A's brass.

By eyleenn (38.99.44.122) on Friday, November 16, 2007 - 03:14 pm:

Having been to some of those holiday games at the Coli, I can tell you that they are generally not very well attended anyway.

By oaklandsi (24.171.221.30) on Friday, November 16, 2007 - 07:38 pm:

"Montrealization"

word

By jesse (63.81.46.49) on Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 02:05 pm:

Thanks for the honesty eyleen, I was at the Labor Day game in 05 where King Felix pitched against the A's for the first time. It felt like a mid week afternoon game against the Royals.

By wbell (70.247.40.194) on Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 04:37 pm:

I believe we are always one of the top 3 teams (consistently for a while) in most miles traveled...

Seattle usually wins that award each year and it is largely a function of geography.

By eyleenn (71.131.30.67) on Saturday, November 17, 2007 - 04:53 pm:

I went to the July 4th game this year and IIRC, there were maybe 25K in attendance.

By oaklandsi (67.101.149.79) on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 09:57 pm:

reading Dayne Perry's article on Jeffrey Loria's murder of Montreal MLB baseball, and what looks to be the same thing in South Florida, I couldn't help think of what may be happening to the Oakland A's.

Here's the link to the article:

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7527010

By raiderjohn (65.168.177.49) on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 09:59 am:

Interesting fact, the Marlins are the most profitable team in baseball. They're taking, actually Loria is taking home about 43 million per year, next team down is about 26 million. Politically they are saying the right things, they are generating 122, lowest in the majors. I'm still a bit jet lagged so I was up listening to Bob Dupay, COO of MLB, interviewer asked about the Marlins already taking home 70 million before selling any tickets, Dupay starts by saying they have 2 world championships, they've competed. Interviewer there's concern throughout MLB regarding the salary structure since FLA is due to payout less than 10 million total for the team. Dupay says we're 90 days from spring training, interviewer says true, they may get Santana. Dupay they were after ARod.

By eyleenn (38.99.44.122) on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 10:55 am:

At least Wolff is making a show of "trying" to keep the team in the East Bay. However, the ultimate result may be the same for both the Marlins and the A's.

By finleyunplugged (67.159.44.51) on Monday, March 16, 2009 - 08:58 am:

Seeing the "Mercy Rule" in the WBC strikes me as quite an irony.

Too bad there is not a mercy rule that would kick in when an owner does everything possible to alienate a team's fanbase that would strip him of the privilege of continuing to run the team.

By eyleenn (71.131.15.194) on Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 10:36 pm:

More on "Montrealization"

http://deadspin.com/5479389/oakland-athletics-meet-your-montreal-expos

By oaklandsi (69.107.96.238) on Friday, February 26, 2010 - 08:20 pm:

I posted the link to yesterday's Deadspin article in the other section because I didn't remember that this conversation was under "postseason, offseason."

As usual I bought my Oakland A's season tickets, but fully expect to see even more bleeding off of A's fans in attendance this season. People get turned off by the A's organization policies these past years, and stop coming....