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"don't cry for me oooakland..."

sorry about that.  i'm feeling a bit sentimental, with the a's leaving and all.

Mark Kreidler of the ultimate online sports network broke it down for me today, with a little cold, hard truth about life in the capitalist machine.  

In fact, though, this is a bizarre little growth phase, with dollars as the seeds and corporate sponsorship as the water of life. It's not personal; it's business. Repeat ad nauseam: It's not personal; it's business. Both York and A's owner Lewis Wolff get that. They get that they're playing in places that aren't nearly as new as "brand new," not as sweet as "unlimited suites." Wolff's team shares space with the Raiders in a Coliseum whose baseball charm was walled off years ago in a desperate effort to buy Al Davis's elusive love via increased NFL capacity. Not only didn't that work, but the result, a true defacing of a heretofore pleasant multi-purpose facility, has driven Wolff to seek a cool, baseball-only place across the bay from San Jose for his merry little band of overachievers.

for some reason, it makes me feel better to say: it's al davis' fault!  and ignacio de la fuente!  the political bums!  fuck the machine!

:)  thanks for listening

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Blame Al Davis....
Actually when you get to the heart of it, he's the real problem. No one considered the Coliseum a bad park until that jackoff brought his lousy football team back.

by athletics68 on Nov 9, 2006 2:03 PM PST   0 recs

we all know
the raiders trashed our beloved coliseum. As can obviousily be seen by looking at our field by the end of the season...the raiders should have stayed in LA...
theres only one marky mark...and hes number 14

by wearit1175 on Nov 9, 2006 2:03 PM PST   0 recs

Don't Blame Al Davis
All he did was bring his football team back home.  If the politicians in Oakland didn't want the changes made to the Coliseum then they could have said no.  They didn't.
~This is a simple game...You throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball. YOU GOT IT!?!

by BornInOakland on Nov 9, 2006 2:44 PM PST   0 recs

Non Raider fans can blame him
because they didn't want the Raiders back in the first place.
"Next thing you know, they'll have me taking an overdose of pills."--Milton Bradley

by jeepers on Nov 9, 2006 3:10 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Wrong
Go ahead and blame Al Davis. The man was born to extract money from taxpayers. What kind of asshole moves a team away and then moves it back? (And what kind of asshole politicians let him do this to them?) Fuck Al Davis.

by Philip Christy on Nov 9, 2006 7:08 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

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