SF News RIP: A's Pitcher Joe Kennedy Former A's pitcher Joe Kennedy, 28, died at his home in Florida this morning. At this time the cause of death is officially unknown, but it was "sudden" and a brain aneurysm is
SF News It's Thursday-- Do You Know Where Your Baseball Team Is? The thing most outsiders don’t understand about Oakland is that sentimentality is not one of its remarkable traits-- the Raiders beat that out of us in 1981. We are use to teams
SF News The A's, the End But this is the playoffs and that doesn't happen. There's only one team who ends the season without tasting disappointment and for A's fans, they watched what had been a great, fully enjoyable
SF News A’s v. Tigers, Game One: Shock & Awe And give the Tigers massive credit for exploiting the A's inadequacies. When a guy can't throw strikes, one needs to pounce with immediacy on 2 and 0 or 3 and 1 pitches. Brandon
SF News Voila! The A's Get The Monkey Off Their Backs This afternoon beneath overcast skies at McAfee Coliseum, the 2006 Oakland Athletics continued to defy expectations by smacking the Minnesota Twins 8-3 in a fashion befitting a potential World Series team. The entire
SF News The Athletics Pounce on Twins: One to Go! The Oakland Athletics this afternoon showed why this year’s team is infinitely grittier and more determined than playoff teams of years past. This collection of misfits and guys barely above the legal
SF News Does Ken Macha Matter? And yet, we utter his name among baseball denizens and they shrug their shoulders and continue imbibing a cold, frosty one. Macha does little to capture the imagination of A's fans in general.
SF News Still in the Driver's Seat This beating reminded everyone that there is-indeed--a real pennant race fomenting in the AL West. However, the Rangers should take a very hard look at the all-encompassing big picture scoreboard-the Athletics won that
SF News The A's Will Win the West Beane, like Brian Sabean of SF Giants hype, makes his bones when it counts most-- during the trade deadline. This year, the flutter of butterfly wings could be heard from the A's camp.
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Opening Day 2006 You still the man, Rick . . . You still the man. A bold prediction from A's Brand Baseball: By the time "One Shining Moment" ends on Monday night, Barry Zito will have thrown the first
SF News It's Opening Day! Even so, the other teams in Major League baseball will play 162 games this year. That includes your Oakland Athletics, now Lewis Wolff's and Billy Beane's Oakland Athletics as well. (Try to share.
SF News Do You Know The Way? Feel free to make your own "there isn't any there there" jokes; we here at SFist try to avoid cheap shots at our sprawling stepsister to the south. San Jose is the eleventh-largest
SF News Right On! Back on Tuesday, Athletics Nation carried the third and final part of their interview with Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane, who is generally considered something of a genius in his field. Kos
