Tag: Oakland A’s

Cleveland’s Got Nothin’ On Me

Post author By JDWC
Post date September 16, 2010
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Hi, my name is JDWC and I’m addicted to sports. I was hooked from birth, because my father is an addict too. Like him, my drugs of choice are the Dodgers, the 49ers and the Oakland A’s. But, like most addicts and sons, I pledged to be better, to be more. So I surpassed my father…I became a basketball fan and chose the most depressing depressant known to man: the Golden State Warriors. The high school years were a brief, four-step recovery program. I graduated from the program in 2007, proclaimed clean and cured!

Alas, tragedy struck again. I was thrust into the real world and sent up to Pullman, WA to educate myself in the arts of Journalism and Creative Writing. From the first time I tasted Washington State University football, I was hooked again. Years passed and I drifted back into my addictive haze. Over the last week, I have hit rock bottom. If only I had chosen St. Louis. New York. Boston. Even Seattle. Instead, I got what I deserved. My teams have taken years from my life I will never get back. This is the uncut, untold story of my struggles:

Tags Golden State Warriors, Oakland A's, San Francisco 49ers

No Home For Holliday

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 than thrilled to be spending his contract year in Oakland. In his brief time here, he’s followed the basic formula of an old Clint Eastwood western:

Tags billy beane, Jason Giambi, matt holliday, nomar garciaparra, Oakland A's, oakland athletics

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A Sports Medley

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 deal. Then it hit me. It was time to take these random thoughts and once again come with “A Sports Medley”.

Tags Blackburn Rovers, Denver Nuggets, Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Lakers, Manchester United, Oakland A's, Rachel Alexandra, San Francisco 49ers

Oakland A's

Bring Him Back

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 New York Yankees. I can honestly say that it tore the hymen of my sports virginity. It has been quite awhile since I penned an article that did not involve the sport of water polo, but I feel compelled to jump back into the fray with the news that Jason Giambi is on the radar of my beloved Oakland A’s.

Tags baseball, Jason Giambi, MLB, Oakland A's

Oakland A's

Welcome Back Old Friend

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 an elevator so that somebody who was beaded with sweat could run in. Not only that, but I chipped in three dollars to my co-worker’s March of Dimes fundraiser. You do little things like that not thinking there is going to be a payoff and then it happens. As I was eating lunch at my desk with the radio quietly blaring “Tonight” by the Smashing Pumpkins, I logged onto yahoo.com. And there it was. Staring me right in the eye.

“Thomas agrees to contract with the Oakland A’s”

Giddy, I turned up the radio just in time for Billy Corgan to sing the verse “Do you believe there’s not a chance tonight?” Fellow A’s fans, there is a chance and that is because Frank Thomas returned home for the major league minimum. “The Big Hurt” is back in Oakland and the A’s blossoming postseason hopes got a shot in the arm that only a legend could provide.

Tags frank thomas, Oakland A's

Oakland A's

Should We Even Consider It…

Post author By Trevor
Post date April 14, 2008
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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 sudden been jolted by a 5-1 road trip and an 8-5 start to the season. If somebody had told me before the season that we would be 8-5 after playing Boston, Toronto and Cleveland twice, I would have told that person they need to dial back the amount of herbs they have been purchasing in the Humboldt County area.

It was after Saturday’s game against Cleveland that I got an energetic phone call from a friend who asked a million dollar question that I never even thought of. The question was, “Do you think we would sign Barry Bonds if we are in the mix in June?”

Tags barry bonds, MLB, Oakland A's

MLB General

Legends of the Fall: Part II of V

Post author By mw2828
Post date June 7, 2007
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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 year prior.

Tags billy beane, Boston Red Sox, Oakland A's

MLB General

Legends of the Fall: Part I of V

Post author By mw2828
Post date June 6, 2007
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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.

Tags 2003 alcs, Boston Red Sox, Minnesota Twins, ny yankees, Oakland A's

MLB General

Bringing Home The Big One

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 problems has never tasted the beautiful amber ale that only Pottsville, Pennsylvania can produce.

Tags MLB, Oakland A's, sf giants, world series

Detroit Tigers

Believe it- Folks; The Tigers Are Living Their Destiny

Post author By BostonMac
Post date October 14, 2006
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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.

Tags alcs, Detroit Tigers, Oakland A's