Wednesday, June 29, 2005
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Today over at Baseball Prospectus Joe Sheehan has a post on the A's and rightly puts to rest any substantial talk about the A's making a run at the AL West or Wild Card."What's certain is that the A's aren't going to just be a footnote to this season. I expect them to continue playing well, and while my preseason prediction of 90-odd wins and a division title is unlikely to come true, the underlying idea--that the A's could contend through a transition--seems to be proving sound. The Braves are the model for successful roster turnover; if the A's can pull it off, they would be the first small-market team to achieve this feat, and set off another round of agitated debate over the right way to run a baseball team."
posted by ZACHARY D MANPRIN at 10:56 AM
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Zach, I sent you an email. Bringing up the ATTENDANCE thing again, I took a moment to peruse the box scores last night when I got home from the game, just to see if there was any truth to the notion I had that there may not be many ML teams that actually have a decent draw on Tues night. Much to my chagrin, every other stadium had at least 23 or 24k in the seats (or at least most of them did - i'm not gonna go back and check them all again) while the A's had a paltry (and pathetic) 14k. Great. And right when the team is playing it's best baseball of the year. "Come on, Wolff, please keep the team here! Oakland really is a great baseball town!"
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: 29 June, 2005 16:00
on the other hand, there were over 25,000 at tuesday's game against Seattle. that's quite a respectable number.
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You mean Wednesday, right? Yes that is a somewhat respectable number, although i don't know how many other teams offer a $2 night just to get to that figure.
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Phill -
Kielty was signed via the arbitration process through this season at $875,000 base salary and a bonus of $25,000 for plate appearances over 350, 400 and 450.
Cheaper than Byrnes...a switch-hitter...better defender (fewer lapses, better arm, better jump on balls)...better hair...
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ZACHARY D MANPRIN : 30 June, 2005 10:41
A's attendance for the thursday game, beginning at 12:30 and no $2 specials: just under 20,000 – not bad.
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