Watching the Twins play the A's in Sacramento. Homerun to right field and people are bailing off their lawn chairs to try to catch the ball..... Cool. That place looks like so much unsterilized fun. I've been to the old Oakland stadium several times and I loved the field. The stadium otherwise was a dump. People who think NU's football stadium is bad, should tour that dump.
Old School Baseball
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It's too bad the city of Oakland is such a poor, corrupt city run by ********. Maybe they could have kept the Raiders and A's.
They lost the Warriors as well.
. Ironically one of the wealthiest communities in the country is Piedmont. It’s a municipality completely surrounded by Oakland. Julia Roberts owns a large acreage and home in Piedmont.I don't know about the corrupt part- I'll take your word for it- but I've always thought of Oakland as being smaller and poorer than most pro sports cities. Personally, I've looked at owners as being corrupt as well. Threatening to move a franchise unless they don't get even better tax treatment or heaven forbid if the taxpayers don't pass a massive tax increase on themselves so that a new stadium can be built every 20 years.
The thing I remember about that was tuning in to a sunsplashed field with green grass while it was 5F with blowing snow here. That's also how I came to love watching golf on a Sunday afternoon.
It’s an extremely poorly run blue collar city. Decades of liberal policies have destroyed it. My daughter’s best friend’s mom was a prosecutor there and she finally resigned. She’s a very liberal black woman and even she couldn’t take it anymore. Her resignation made the national Fox News broadcast. She went to work for the DA who replaced the recalled one in San Francisco.