You should know that the WFAN guys -- their lead team, Mike Francesca and Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, who are actually good -- had so much contempt for A's fans that they didn't even bother arguing for their Oaktown hatred.

CR: Mike, is there anything worse than turning on a playoff game from Oakland?  It's cloudy, the stands are half-empty...it's bad!

MF: You can see what Selig is talking about...

[or words to that effect.  The steam in my ears made it hard for me to hear clearly]

And, FYI, there were tons of empty seats at Yankee Stadium in the first few innings yesterday.

I generally don't bother worrying about what East Coast media thinks about Oakland -- they have so little clue, or basis for their opinions, that I just ignore them.  But this really pissed me off.  I haven't been to an A's game since 1998, but I spent thousands of hours of my life in the old LF bleachers (and a certain amount in RF in the really early 80s), and the A's have always had a dedicated, passionate fan-base, and to hear ignorant people on a soapbox regurgitate canards against Oakland and the A's' fanbase...well, it pissed me off, and I only hope that the Yankee fans out there (inlcuding Francesca, but not Russo, he's a Giants' fan for some bizarre reason) get to grind their teeth to little nubs pondering how their super-team got pasted by a team the Royals swept -- or by us.