It’s tough. I hate it every time it happens.
I still hate that the Houston Oilers aren’t here anymore. Or the Whalers. Or the Expos.
And yeah, we are all watching the bastardised corpse of Fitzroy walk around with the cup today.
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They aren’t the first team to be relocated and definitely won’t be the last. It happens and as sad as it is the economics simply didn’t stack up
What sucks most about the Athletics move, is that there are people in the bay area such as Joe Lacob, who have said they’d buy the team and keep it in Oakland if it were up for sale.
For who knows what reason, John Fisher refuses to entertain the idea of (fully) selling off the team and is hell bent on moving to Vegas.
Yeah, it is always much less palatable when clearly the market is there, and loyal, but an owner doubles down. The A’s are a gold standard franchise with a history of excellence even without much recent success… but I guess they managed to survive two previous relocations from Philadelphia and Kansas City. I guess they were destined to be a nomadic institution…
Massive shakeup at my Giants’ front office. Farhan Zaidi (from the moneyball A’s and the architect of the Dodgers) fired after 6 seasons as President of Baseball Operations. His replacement? Buster Posey (you may have heard of him). Wow.
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Was punching out serious z’s. Woke up after Game 1 finished, went back to sleep before Game 2 started, woke up after Game 2 finished.
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Ah Pete.
My last name is Rose and we all used to get asked growing up if we were related - I don’t think we were, but we always called him Cousin Pete anyway.
I’m at the age where I remember him being a Phillie before being anything else. I always forget that weird six month period where he was a Montreal Expo. That is always one of those first things I think of whenever you see a “legends in the wrong uniform” type discussion.
I wonder if Billy Joel will need to re-write the second verse of “Zanzibar” again.
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Astros are out. Good. Man Detroit just came out of nowhere didn’t they?
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They got a good GM (former Giant)
Padres sweep the Braves.
Padres obliterated an early Braves run with 5 in the second on doubles and triples. Harris hit a 2-run homer in the 8th but they failed in the 9th.
Down 5-4.
Fried took the loss in possibly his last Braves outing as he’s reached free agency. But he had his worst season in years so won’t be pulling a huge contract.
They should have Acuna, Riley and Strider back, and possibly Ian Anderson and hopefully Chris Sale who hasn’t lost his brilliance, but picked the worst time to go down with back spasms…on the verge of the playoffs.
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Sorry about your mob but I wouldn’t mind the Padres going all the way. For one, that would mean the Dodgers continue their long stretch of not winning an actual WS title 
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Royals sweep the Orioles. Only needed to score 3 runs across the 2 games.
10 post season loses in a row for Baltimore.
The Padres have a great pitching staff but their offence is not reliable under pressure.
Also Bogaerts is an absolute liability at short stop. He is a specialist at hitting into double plays. Worse, he makes crucial defensive errors every game. Dylan Close would have had two shuts-out this year but in the second one, Boggy threw the ball into the stands instead of to first base. (He also bobbled a crucial catch in Close’s game that did go to a shut-out but luckily Merrell,who was backing up, caught the spill).
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At this point anything that isn’t Dodgers or Yankees would be fine with me.
Brewers take a 1-0 lead in the 7th.
Correction: 2-0, on the next pitch.
Mets, held to only two hits all night are down to last at-bat get a walk, a single, and an Alonso home run, and go ahead 3-2.
Ouch.