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The A’s And Sacramento Will Pretend Not To Know Each Other
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Ray Ratto
April 5, 2024
MLB
The Wandering Athletics Right-Size Their Operation To A Rinky-Dink Minor-League Park In Sacramento
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Chris Thompson
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MLB
A New Season Finds The Oakland Athletics In The Same Dumb Limbo
181
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Chris Thompson
April 1, 2024
MLB
Look Who’s Come Crawling Back To Oakland
200
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Ray Ratto
February 14, 2024
MLB
Las Vegas Mayor To John Fisher: Maybe Try Staying In Oakland
222
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Ray Ratto
February 7, 2024
MLB
John Fisher’s Wandering Athletics Are Slipping Free Of Reality
439
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Chris Thompson
February 2, 2024
MLB
MLB Approves The Las Vegas A’s
241
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Ray Ratto
November 16, 2023
MLB
A’s Reliever Trevor May Retires, Tells Owner To “Take Mommy And Daddy’s Money Somewhere Else”
129
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Tom Ley
October 17, 2023
MLB
Oakland A’s Fans Held A Raucous Wake For Their Team
143
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Patrick Redford
June 14, 2023
MLB
John Fisher’s Lackeys Eat Shit In Contentious Stadium Financing Hearing, May Win Anyway
110
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Chris Thompson
June 8, 2023
MLB
The Athletics’ Las Vegas Dreams Are At Least Temporarily On Hold
160
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Chris Thompson
June 6, 2023
MLB
Oakland A’s: Thousands Of Fans Across The Country Will Flock To Las Vegas To Watch Us Play Awful Baseball
126
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Ray Ratto
June 1, 2023
MLB
Baseball Was Never The Problem
194
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Patrick Redford
May 9, 2023
NFL
Las Vegas Is Where Billionaires Go To Feud
158
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Ray Ratto
April 23, 2023
MLB
A’s Fans Have Had About Enough
228
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Ray Ratto
April 20, 2022
MLB
The A’s Get No Respect In Oakland, And Deserve None Either
154
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Ray Ratto
July 21, 2021
MLB
The A’s Are Playing The Same Tired Old Dirge
161
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Ray Ratto
May 11, 2021