Why, look! It's Brad Pitt. As we mentioned earlier today, Pitt and his special lady friend, Angelina Jolie, are in Oakland today to attend the premiere of the former's latest cinematic effort, Moneyball. Ben Platt was there to snap this shot of the actor posing with Billy Beane (left, the A's general manager Pitt portrays) and Eric Karros. Exciting, yes? Yes. more ›

Benjamin Button and Salt will jack up your Monday commute in Oakland tonight. And we couldn't be happier. (Glitz! Glamour! Celebrities! A-list celebrities! Chiseled bone structure!) See, Brad Pitt's latest cinematic effort, Moneyball (based on the Oakland A's 2002 season and how General Manager Billy Beane took a team with no winners and... zzzzzzz) premieres this evening in Oakland. Expect heavy traffic congestion and possible street closures around the Paramount Theatre (2025 Broadway) this evening beginning around 4 p.m.-ish. more ›

If your ride on the Orange & Black rollercoaster is making you ill, consider the bounty our friends to the east have on offer: the Oakland-centric film Moneyball premieres at The Paramount Theatre on September 19th; the Oakland A's are doing pretty well, with a scant four players on the DL (they must play with Nerf balls & bats); and then there's this shirt. more ›

A Texas Rangers fan, leaning over a railing to catch a ball tossed to him from the outfield by a player, fell to from the stands in Arlington, Texas last night in front of his young son and a group of stunned witnesses in the bleachers, and later died. The man whom Texas newspapers have identified as 39-year-old firefighter Shannon Stone, was still conscious after the 20-foot fall, talking to paramedics as he was lifted onto a stretcher and asking them to check on his son, but he died a short while later at the hospital. more ›

Though the game was sparsely attended (only 12,22811!), it was one of the stadium's most memorable. On Sunday, A's mound man Dallas Braden - who was last seen trading barbs with Alex Rodriguez - pitched the 19th perfect game in major league history. more ›

City Attorney Dennis Herrera is hinting that he might file suit against the Oakland A's to keep them from moving to San Jose, which is technically part of SF Giants' territory, reports the East Bay Express. If the A's went through with their proposed move, Herrera argues, it would financially hurt the Giants, and therefore hurt the City of San Francisco as well. more ›

The Oakland A's just released 2000 AL MVP and five-time All-Star Jason Giambi today. A noted hitter (he slammed his 400th career home run in May against the Arizona Diamondbacks), Giambi was also named in the BALCO scandal, alleged to have received anabolic steroids from trainer Greg Anderson. more ›

At last night's A's game against Texas, a belligerent fan gets zapped by Oakland police officers (1:05), another fan gets pushed down the stairs (1:25), a woman makes things worse by screaming, and then a foul ball lands (1:42).
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During this weekend's interleague A's vs. Giants series, San Francisco won all three games, making it the first time in eight years the Giants cleaned Oakland's clock. On Sunday, the Giants took the Bay Bridge series with a 7-1 win. And now, what with the Giants being "the fourth-best team in the National League," they could land the wild-card slot again. That is, if they keep it up the good effort. But, according to Ray Ratto, "they might not be able to hold their spot, or someone might win 20 in a row, but they're still playing with the casino's money in the middle of June, which is about two months later in the season than anyone thought them capable." Sports types, feel free to chime in... to explain what Ray means. Anyway, go Giants.
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Ladies, please sit down for this one. Hell, you guys should sit too. See, San Diego resident Alfred G. Rava sued the Oakland A's. Why? Well, on Mother's Day of 2004, the Oakland A's had a Mother's Day event. Said day celebrating certain vagina owners went like this: Before the game there was "a fight-breast-cancer 5K run before the game, free mammograms, and the first 7,500 women through the gate got floppy plaid sun hats from Macy's." Pretty cool, huh? Well, Rava, a San Diego attorney who happened to be in Oakland and at the ballpark that day, was so incensed at not receiving his own free floppy hat that he sued. What's more, a judge just gave "preliminary approval to a $510,000 settlement -- roughly half to lawyers and the rest to the victims." more ›

A ballot proposition on relocating the Oakland A's to San Jose could be up for a vote as early as November, reports KCBS, following a meeting between A's owner Lew Wolff and San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed. The question remains whether the San Francisco Giants will hold on to their territorial rights on the South Bay, which would need to be decided by the Major Leagues' governing body. Also, have Oakland's residents just given up on fighting to keep the A's at this point? more ›

In Sunday's LA vs SF series, the Giants won 2 out 3 games against number-one ranked Dodgers, winning Sunday night's game, 7-5. The Giants, unbeaten in the last of their eight series, as most of you know, are in at second-place in the NL West. Things can only get better (fingers crossed) after Manny Ramirez was put on temporary suspension for 50 games after testing positive for an illegal substance. After winning two out of three games in Los Angeles, the Giants remain unbeaten in their last eight series, with six series victories and two splits.They now trail the first-place Dodgers by 4.5 games in the NL West. Will the Giants continue their winning streak? Find out tonight when SF plays Washington at 7:15 p.m. IOn related news, the A's aren't doing so well. more ›

When he came up with the A's, he grew into a genial homespun hero.

Then he left, and became a steroided diminishing-returns disgrace.

Now he's back in Oakland?

What-th'-hell for?

Couldn't he have signed with LAD or LAA?

Get you gone, prodigal douche. more ›

The ever cost/value-parsing Oakland A's have traded for All-Star outfielder Matt Holliday, one of the finest young offensive players in baseball.

Wait, what?!

Uh... uhm... should lay down down... feelin' confused and distressed... more ›

We just found out the answer to the question of whether the A's were going to go for it and make a run at the playoffs or fold their tents for awhile-- they're folding. Just this afternoon it was announced that the A's traded Rich Harden and Chad Gaudin to the Cubbies for right-handed pitcher Sean Gallagher, catcher Josh Donaldson, infielder Eric Patterson, outfielder Matt Murton, and a bag of beans. Citing injuries, Beane said it was a move he had to do-- the recent eight game losing streak probably forced his hand. more ›

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-So with the passage of Prop. G., a Proposition designed to try and keep the Niners in San Francisco, the question now is what the hell does it mean? Maybe something, maybe nothing. The whole thing has to be built and the Niners haven't made a decision as to where they're going to move. Even worse for the Niners is that with the economy as it is, it's even harder to convince some place to build them a stadium as there's not a lot of money to throw the team's way. Why should a city give a team money to build a stadium when they have no money to throw around? And it's not just a problem the Niners' face, but the A's too. more ›

Let's check in with our local teams while the rest of the world is searching for Ronaldo... more ›

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It appears that the Billy Beane Player Emporium is still open for business as Beane just traded traded Nick Swisher to the White Sox for a bunch of prospects. The house-cleaning continues. more ›

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After all the hype and after all the expectations, we have to admit the steroid report was pretty much a yawner. We wanted names, damnit, lots and lots of names. Juicy names. Big names. Super Colossus Names. Instead we got Gregg Zaun. Bo-ring. The list was mainly a bunch of journeymen and never-were's from the 90's and who cares about them? Wasn't this whole thing about nailing the big boys? more ›

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You want wild cards? We’ve got wild cards. Just about every player in this category is a wild card; by that we mean you would have to be an awfully good seer to predict, with any certainty, their upcoming numbers for the season. more ›

In a surprising move today, Oakland A’s brass fired manager Ken Macha with two years remaining on his contract. Many A's fans are scratching their heads this afternoon, wondering when the A's headquarters had become drama central. Despite leading the team to its first ALCS since 1992, Macha’s inability to communicate effectively with players was foremost on the list of complaints levied by key personnel. His time with the A's was always tenuous at best; his on-again, off-again merry go-round with Billy Beane subject to intense annual review, with Macha barely surviving the cut each year. His job would typically come down to key veteran players vouching for him, despite his obvious lack of social skills. This year, no such veteran dared throw him a life jacket. Not Kotsay, not Chavez and definitely not Milton Bradley. more ›

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... A's 4 White Sox 2- Esteban Loaiza held the White Sox to just enough runs to allow a pretty week A's O to win the game. The A's were 0 for 16 with runners in scoring position but still scraped together four runs. How'd they do it-- aggressive base running, defense, situational hitting-- small ball. Now how about that? The game so pissed off Sox manager Ozzie Guillen that after the game he launched into a profanity filled tirade about the lack of booze in the visiting locker room. Anyways, the Angels won so the A's remain five up but the magic number is now 11. more ›

Barry Zito outpitched Curt Schilling this afternoon to lead the Athletics to a 7-2 beat down of the Dead Sox. That's what they in the business call a "sweep." The A's have won 15 of 19 games and were 21-6 in August and the Chron notes that the A's are an amazing 124-45 in August since 2001. Crikey. more ›

Remember during that hot streak the Giants were on when their pitching was pretty much airtight? Remember how they didn't give up many runs and pitched until late in the game? Those were good times. And not these times as the Giants started off a nine game road trip to Atlanta getting shellacked 13-8. The pitcher getting the shellacking? Staff ace Jason Schmidt. Of note, however, is the Barry sticking it to Hammerin' Hank's Hometown fans and hitting two home runs and robbing Jeff Francouer of a three run home run. Barry is getting hot of late and a hot Barry means good things for the Giants and we're just going to stop right there before we hurt ourselves. more ›

We read an interesting story today on ESPN.com about how the A's are somehow winning despite being everything Moneyball is supposed to be against. You know, things like pitching and defense and situational hitting. Which basically means that somewhere out there, some Stat Head in Stat Head Land is desperately crunching numbers and running spread sheets to try and proof that God is Not Dead. more ›