Favorite Oakland A
With so many different people on this web site. There are so many different stories and experiences that make you love the A's. As such i am also sure that all of us have an all time Favorite player for the A's. Mine is Jose Canseco. Forget the juice just remember the hits. Thank god for baseball. Please share your favorite player or moments. Think Spring. Oakland A's 2007 world champions!
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With regards to my favorite player it is Eck then Rickey. Both had great style and of course it doesn't hurt that they are are/will be HOFers. Plus any of the dozen of Rickey stories can put anyone in on the floor laughing.
(on the San Diego bus for Spring Training)
"Hey Rick you can't sit there." -Teammate
"Why not?" -Rickey
"'Cause that is Tony Gwynn's seat. And he has Tenure." -Teammate
"Tenure(or 'ten year' as rickey thought it was), Rickey got Twenty year." -Rickey
And I am sure a few of you remember this story from Harold Reynolds that he told on Baseball Tonight.
Harold had just lead the American League in steals with 60. Rickey had been injured that year, but had led the past years. So Rickey calls up Harold.
"Harold this is Rickey." -Rickey
"Hey Rick, What's up?" -Harold
"Sixty? Rickey got sixty by All-Star break." -Rickey
-Click- (Hangs up the Phone)
Harold is just left there holding the phone probably with his jaw dropped down to his knees.
Oh too many of those too tell, but all great. Probably if I had not been a pitcher growing up and Eck look an uncanny amount like my uncle I probably would have liked Rickey better, but for me growing up Eckersley was my favorite player period, with Rickey my favorite personality/position player. Oddly enough never really like McGwire all that much. Definately though he was great but way down on my list. Would have to go Eck, Rickey, Stewart, Hudson, Miguel, Giambi, Steinbach, Landsford, Weiss, Hendu, Canseco, Darling, Velarde, Menechino/Gallego (underdog support), Zito, Mulder (Threw a complete game shut out on my graduation day from High School against the Brewers, which I saw in person!), Ramon, Chavy, Byrnes, Duke, Harden, Haren, Street, and I will end with Ernie Young just because for some reason I thought he was cool and he had that awesome triple play while they were in Vegas.
I remember that triple play
by Athletics fan and runner on Dec 11, 2006 11:14 AM PST up reply actions
C*O*nseco?
by haren4prez on Dec 11, 2006 8:54 AM PST reply actions
i know i know
Laugh if you will but my favorite Oakland A
That's easy!
I wasn't that much better doing his crouch,
As for Babe ruth, curiious as to who you played for and if you played at Greenman Field
by Erik being Erik on Dec 12, 2006 1:24 PM PST up reply actions
True leader
All time favorite?
Rickey
One of the all time greats who will go into the hall of fame in an A's hat. Who can want more?
by Athletics fan and runner on Dec 11, 2006 11:17 AM PST reply actions
I remember crying when Rickey got traded..
I was so pissed, I was ready to ghostride my big wheel!
by Erik being Erik on Dec 12, 2006 5:42 PM PST up reply actions
Hands down, Chavez.
by osuSwisher on Dec 11, 2006 12:37 PM PST reply actions
Have to say Rickey .....
by TheBigO on Dec 11, 2006 1:15 PM PST reply actions
truly was a pleasure to watch
Don't apologize crackbaby
We were a laughing-stock before "Hose" got here ... I kept hearing about some guy down in Huntsville, Alabama -- "just wait till he gets there." Canseco helped us get a ring --THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS -- WINNING THE TITLE.
Rickey being Rickey..
I love the Reynolds story (saw him tell that on BBTN)..
Rickey is my all time favorite... I would love to see the A's retire #35 and #24. Can someone get on the phone to A's management!!!
I used to imitate Rickey in Babe Ruth from his crouch, to his head first slide, to walking to first after getting a BB...seriously, walking...of course my coach yelled like hell from the 3B coach box.
Then there's Stew... go 9 innings, maybe 10 to get a win, and like Rickey, he's from Oakland..
I liked Canseco from his ROY to the MVP, Mr. 40/40... he was a bad bad man.
However I got to give a special shout out to Dwayne Murphy, with apologies to Hendu, the coolest CF to ever patrol the Oakland Coli... kiss the gold gloves, bitch!!
So it goes Rickey, Dwayne, Stewart, Canseco, Tejada!
As for those who I give more love to than probably most other A's fans: Mike Heath
Honorable mention to players who I liked then came to the A's at the end of their careers: Willie Randolph, Willie McGee, Davey Lopes
But no one is better than Rickey...can we honor the man already!
by Erik being Erik on Dec 12, 2006 1:22 PM PST reply actions
Dwayne Murphy
by Athletics fan and runner on Dec 12, 2006 1:29 PM PST up reply actions
Just a guess..
could be wrong, but just a guess..
by Erik being Erik on Dec 12, 2006 2:37 PM PST up reply actions
You might be right, E.B.E....
by TheBigO on Dec 12, 2006 3:53 PM PST up reply actions
and that batting eye...
One of the best outfields ever:
Rickey, Dwayne, and Tony Armas (who was one of my favorite A's and I was really upset when he went to Boston and hit hella homers with Jim Rice)
by Erik being Erik on Dec 12, 2006 5:41 PM PST up reply actions

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