Things the Oakland Athletics are not: -a small market team -a team of overachievers -a team with very few fans -an anonymous second fiddle franchise with little-to-no status in their own area Things the Oakland Athletics are: -one of the central franchises in the history of their sport -one of the most successful franchises in the history of their sport -the engine of innovation, decades running, in their sport -the only team in any sport to have a major motion picture made about their GM, and the only film in sports history where the team loses at the end -a team with possibly the most talented and unique GM in the history of all sports, to the point where theyd make a movie about him where guys in track suits talk about on base percentage for 2 1/2 hours -a potentially powerful global sports brand on par with the New York Yankees, Dallas Cowboys, Manchester United and The LA Lakers -the vanguard representative franchise for all teams in all sports with limited resources -one October trophy-n-parade from a downtown ballpark, $40 million more in payroll a year for the genius GM to play with, and total, permanent dominion over Bay Area sports Its never not time for people to stop listening to the facetious, delusional billionaire-carpetbagger sociopath that owns this thing and to start drawing their own conclusions, free of the propaganda in place that perpetually casts Oakland as evil and dangerous and the As as poor and irrelevant. Neither is even remotely true.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 01:01:37 +0000
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