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Funny Articles
Today I happened to stumble upon several funny Athletics articles. One was posted in the local paper and the other a friend sent to me. The first is titled: Revisiting Billy Beane’s Perfect Draft and it is all about Moneyball being flawed system. The person writing the article went through very thoroughly using stats to prove his points. Since I am not the biggest Beane fan in the world it was nice to read someone who doesn’t worship him. The link to said article is: http://www.baseballevolution.com/richard/2008beane
The second article I read today was written by my favorite sports writer Ray Ratto and was titled: Now here’s how the Next 40 will Look. This had to be the funniest thing I have read in ages and was literally rolling with laughter. It is a ficticous look at what the next 40 years for the A’S and Giants will be. It ranged from well this could happen to the insane. The link is: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/23/SPQLVLN3C.DTL&hw=Ray+Ratto&sn=002&sc=809
Some highlights from this gem are as follows:
2010: Billy Beane trades Daric Barton, Travis Buck and Mark Ellis for 37 prospects, 11 of them neonatal.
2016: Lew Wolff decides to sell his 10 percent stake back to John Fisher, who immediately announces plans to move the team back to Oakland as soon as he can break his lease in Fremont. Bud Selig is blow-darted out of a nap to say that the Bay Area isn’t big enough to support two teams.
2020: Oakland’s stadium plan, which is to pave over Lake Merritt, fails in a county-wide vote 28-23. In other news, Michael Lewis writes “Moneyball II: The Reckoning,” in which he chronicles Beane’s new method of building a team, by signing players and then refusing to pay them.
2024: The A’s make the playoffs after completing their third restructuring and announce their intention of building a new “ballpark bodega” in Gilroy. Capacity will be 19,792, for “intimacy.” Also, for charging $340 for a bleacher seat.
These are hilarious but some cut a little to close to home. Oh how I love the baseball humor!
For Love Of The Game
My worship of baseball began early in life around the age of 4 or 5. That is the age when my father took me to my first game. Then to be quite honest it was all abut the chocolate malts, the pretzels and the fun. Back in the day the Oakland Athletics had a play place called Lego Land that my best friend and I would beg our fathers to take us to. They would begrudgingly finish their beers and leave the game so we could color and ride plastic elephants. Then I didn’t even fit in the seats of the stadium and a hot dog was longer than my hand. The seats of the coliseum were blue not green, and tickets and beer were actually affordable. I loved going to games even if for all the wrong reasons. My father continued to take me to games and as I got older I began to appreciate the game for what it truly was.
I will never forget when my father gave me my first score book for one of my birthdays. I was immediately in love with my score book and every year since have received one on my birthday. Even more clearly I remember the first game I ever scored on my own and the fact that the A’S lost to Roy Halladay. In the past 6 years I have not missed a single Fanfest, been to most Oakland playoff games feigning illness or funerals(a lot of people I know die during the playoffs ok),met many of my favorite players and been to spring training once.
Throughout the years the game has become a part of me. Baseball is in my blood for better or for worse. (I say for the better) Not a day goes by without checking up on my team even if it’s the dead of winter. (Beane is a busy guy and I am a worried girl when it relates to him.) When my team looses I say “We lost the game today” because I do consider myself a part of the team. My father’s father took him to games in Seal stadium and my father has taken me to games at the coliseum since I was a child. This blog will chronicle my love for my father, the game, and most importantly The Oakland Athletics!!!!!! I hope you enjoy this MLBlog written by an Oakland baseball gal! I know it’s a long season and I hope you stay with me.
“It’s a long season and you gotta trust. I’ve tried ‘em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.”- Annie Savoy, Bull Durham
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