GoThunder Dan Johnson

by SwisherSweet33 on Jul 10, 2005 1:02 PM PDT Comment 9 comments

Thata' boy kid. You gotta love these young guys we have coming up - the future is bright.

On an unrelated matter. I had posted this previosly, but it didn't seem to get many answers. I've seen surveys about "where in the world" are AN'ers from and many other interesting unscientific surveys conducted on this site.

I was wondering how many A's games you make it to a year and how many different stadiums/cities you are able to make it to a year to watch the A's. Unfortunately, I'm stuck out here on the [L]East Coast, more specifically Washington DC. This year I have been fortunate enough to see the A's play in four different cities and have had the pleasure of meeting AN'ers at some of those games.

To date I have seen:

3 games in Baltimore (A's went 2-1)
1 in Boston (A's lost on Veritek's walk off homer off "hotel" dotel)
3) 3 in Cleveland (A's went 0-3)
4) 3 in DC (A's went 0-3)

Just interested in two things:

1) How many games are you able to make it to a
year? and
2) How many cities have you seen the A's play in
in one given season?

Let's go Oakland

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I hit 8 from Chico. It's easier to hit a Friday and Saturday game in one swoop. It's about a 3 hour drive. Only been to 2 this year, I'm off my pace.

Network Associates Stadium: Former home of the 'Fear Mecir' sign.

by dboysick on Jul 10, 2005 2:37 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

So far...

9 games this year...

8 at McAfee...
1 at PacBell...

Record 7-2

"Peter you're drunk again!"... "No, I'm just exhausted because I've been up all night drinking."

by ChavyFan03 on Jul 10, 2005 2:55 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

16 games this year...

so far, all at home. i rarely make it to see the A's in other stadiums, although I'm tempted to fly up to Seattle for that last series in October...

I'd estimate I make it to about 30-40 games per year, including a few RiverCats and now Ports games.

by high street on Jul 10, 2005 4:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Down in Angel Country

I've been to one and only one game this year, and it was a good one: Hatteberg's clutch 9th inning 2-RBI single off K-Rod back in April. So I'm 1-0. Last year, I was 2-1 down in Anaheim and the A's won the only game I was able to see in Oaktown. So 2004-2005: 4-1. Not bad.

by Crosbino on Jul 10, 2005 5:08 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

no way!

Wow, I'm in Southern California also. I was also at the Hatteberg-two-out-RBI single game in Anaheim in April!

I was at three games in Anaheim last year, one in each series, and one in Oakland in the second weekend of May. The A's went 0-4. :(

I'm going to the July 18 game in Anaheim and I'm sure I'll hit one in September too. I'm also planning on the August 20 game in Oakland and the last game of the season on October 2 in Seattle.

Otherwise, I saw a 6-1 victory by Barry Zito in Kansas City in 2002 (game 15 of The Streak, I think). I used to live in Connecticut, so there were three or four games in Yankee Stadium from 2000-2003 and one in Boston in August of 2003. It was the game in which Mulder left with his mysterious, season-ending hip injury. Derek Lowe left after seven dominant innings with a blister, and the set-up men walked a couple and gave up a three run homer to Ramon Hernandez over the Green Monster, A's won 3-2.

There were also a handful of games in Oakland over the past few years. I haven't lived in the Bay Area since 1997.

I think Bill King and Ken Korach are fantastic broadcasters.

by rich on Jul 10, 2005 6:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

well...

I can usually only make it to about 10-12 games a year. This year I have been to 4, and the A's are 3-1 in game I been to. 3-0 when i sit in the bleachers and 0-1 in the upper reserved. (over the last 4 years, the A's are 27-0 when i sit int he bleachers, 1-2 when i sit upper reserved, and 4-0 elsewhere (mt. davis, mvp infield). But yeah, me in the bleachers is money!

I've seen the A's play in Anaheim before they redid the stadium and in Seattle in the old Kingdome. That's all, but I plan on fixing that soon enough.

"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it." ~Rogers Hornsby

by ZeroIndulgence on Jul 10, 2005 6:28 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs