Summer is nearly upon us, which means three things are about to heat up: the weather, the A’s, and trade rumors surrounding Oakland’s best player. This year, that player is Matt Holliday, who’s been an Athletic for a grand total of 57 games.
Despite being free of Colorado’s purple jerseys and dinosaur mascot, Holliday appears less [...]
By Trevor Freeman
Have you ever had a bad case of writer’s block? So much so, that it was beginning to affect your overall personality? For the last week, I have been hashing article ideas out in my head. I wrote a bunch of first paragraphs on a variety of topics but could never close the [...]
by Trevor Freeman
I will be quite honest. I still cannot think rationally when his name pops up. It hurt when Mark McGwire left for St. Louis and it stung when the 49ers shipped Joe Montana to Kansas City. However, those departures will never compare to the way I felt when Jason Giambi signed with the [...]
by Trevor Freeman
I believe in signs. I do. I firmly believe in karma as well. I am one of those nutjobs who honestly thinks that if I screw somebody over it will come back to not only haunt me but quite possibly my beloved Oakland A’s. Well yesterday morning, I held the door open in [...]
By Trevor Freeman
I am pretty sure that I approached this baseball season the same way every Oakland A’s fan did. Hopeful that our youngsters would be better than expected and that we would avoid the AL West cellar. Maybe it was because I approached the season with low expectations that I have all of the [...]
Spring bowed to summer before summer submitted to autumn, and the most marvelous postseason in Baseball history postseason began.
In the American League, the 101 win Yankees, champions of the American League East, were matched with the determined Minnesota Twins, a team consumed with reaching the World Series after falling one step short against Anaheim a [...]
Sports couldn’t exist without opposing forces. Here is the story of two teams destined for no greater glory than to define each other. Here is one legend of the fall, among many others.
by Trevor Freeman
It is 10:05 P.M. and I’m drunk. I’m real drunk. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t banking on grammar and spell check to step it up a notch right now. I got home at 5:30 and all I’ve been doing is rifling Yuengling. The person who said drinking never cured your [...]
Maybe it’s because they took it hard to the franchise of evil incarnate, the New York Yankees, the vaunted “Murderer’s Row and Cano” that was supposedly going to mash its way through the 2006 playoffs en route to a coronation in the Bronx for a 27th World Series title.
Dear Sports Gods,
I did everything right. Everything. After my beloved A’s swept Minnesota, I held off on calling my friend Max and taunting him about it. Before the ALCS, I never once mentioned advancing to the World Series. Like Gene Hackman in “Hoosiers” my response was always that we will not be concerned about the [...]
