Howdy All

Well i am not sure about anyone else but somehow the postseason does not seem alluring without the A's involved, so i thought i would embark on my own little rosterbation attempt. ( My first! Dad would be so proud!)

However before i can complete it i would like to know how i would find out which of our prospects need Rule 5 protection this year as i am not familiar with the rules exactly. Could someone please direct me to the right place that i can access this info?

Appreciate it

sunofawhatthestuarrghhhh.... i hate this stuff.... all my typing got lost when i tried to preview so lets try a shorter version

OK, so basically a local radio station (KJOY 99.3) has this deal today at 10am and its limited to 100. For a total of $28.75 ($25 plus $3.75 S&H) you get a certificate good for 4 MVP seats and a mini bat souvie. The tickets are usually 10-11 each so its a pretty decent deal and a great way to take your family out to the ball park. When your certificate arrives in the mail all you have to do is exchange it at the box office for the game you want to see. If you have never been to Banner Island before then this is a great chance to catch a real Minor League Gem of a ball park at a real nice discount.

I have used some of these deals in the past through this radio station and i have never had a problem with any of them.

Anyway i will let you all decide but i hope this is useful to someone

Ports Ticket Offer

Have a great weekend one and all and GO A'S!!!!!!!!!

Ok so i will let you know that this is part rant before it gets started then if you dont want to carry on reading stop right here...

I ask this because i have only be able to attend one game so far this year and that was on wednesday, but has anyone noticed if there has been a lack of guest services staff ? Now i understand that if you are figuring on less fans in seats then you will not need as mnay people to 'help' them but you should still have enough to keep an eye on things happening in the stands. Either way, on a night that you have $ dogs you should expect to have a few people show up.

My wife broke her foot over last weekend, but she still insisted that we go to the game. (she really wanted that blanket) Now we like to sit in the LF bleachers, i mean hey who doesnt, and with the fact my wife is in a wheelchair we use one of the platforms they have about halfway up. They have railings on one side to stop people coming back and forth in front of the wheelchairs etc. Usually (at least every game we attended last year) they have always had at least one staff member out in the bleachers just keeping on eye on things.  They had none on Wednesday and so people didnt care about going the long way around, they would just climb over the railings. After a couple of near misses the inevitable happened, as some idiot climbed over and stepped down straight on my wifes bad leg and actually catapulted her forward out of her chair. i exchanged some words with him but was more concerned about getting her out and to the first aid station, get some ice that sort of thing.  Trying to find a rep was rediculous and when we finally encountered a service rep, she directed us to a first aid station that was closed. We then saw a supervisor who instead of offering to help us in any kind of way, told us we had to go to the other one on the other side of the stadium. As we all know, its hard to walk around the concourse at times, you try doing it with a wheelchair!!! After finally making it around and with my wife in tears, we walked in to two people bickering back and forth about whose job it was to be where and to answer what call. We sat there for 5 minutes before my wife got upset and told me to take her home. Then they decided to acknowledge us and oh did we need help? Yeah but too late now we are going home. We could have used an escort to the first aid station or better we could have used someone getting us some basic items like an icepack and bringing them to us rather than being forced to navigate our way around the stadium.

Going back around we saw one security and one guest services member in the 20 or so sections we covered. I dont know if i am worried by that or appalled. i dread to think what would happen if anything serious happened on the concourse or in the seats

It was not until we were leaving up on the bart plaza, that two ladies at the door noticed something was wrong and asked what happened. i was so pissed off by then i couldnt speak very well and said we were just going home. They stopped us and insisted that our problem whatever it was get sorted out before we left or at least make a complaint. Has anyone ever made a complaint at the coliseum that has actually elicted a response? i am curious because i am not really expecting to hear back from anyone. Anyhow they did call their boss, who i guess called the Stadium Operations Director whose name was David Avila. He talked to my wife a bit and the supervisor pulled me aside and asked me what happened and to write a statement. Do you know what his response was to me? He asked me why didnt i hit the guy that fell on my wife? I mean seriously, what kind of response is that? Sure it might have given me some satisfaction but it wouldnt have helped as i would have been the one getting thrown out!!! i could not believe he said that to me, as he confided that this is what he would have done! Is this for real? is this the attitude that the people working their have? Oh they will sort out their own problems we dont need to interfere? Crazy...

Whats even more crazy is we are actually going back tomorrow!!! I will be taking a lot more precautions tomorrow and i hope we make the whole game this time. If anyone who was sitting in the rows in front of us reads here, i want to say thanks for the offers of help and suggest that maybe the A's should be giving you guys and gals jobs and firing who they got now. To everyone else here, if you want to stop by and say hi please do so, you cant miss us. I'm the big loudmouth lunk sitting beside the lady in the wheechair and we will hopefully be on the second or third platform in from the flag poles.

There will never be anything happens that will make me hate the team on the field, but damn i cant wait for fremont and a modern stadium...

Night all

The League i created that i tried to base on the A's style of play, drafts tomorrow (saturday) at 10am. I am still short a number of players, as of now we have 5. If anyone else is interested in trying this format here are your details. Also set to be a full 25 man roster exactly per a real team. I think it could be fun and i hope you guys and gals will too

Yahoo League Id: 103600

Password: athletics

Hope to see some of you there

MAF

I am sure everyones sick of the fantasy baseball posts by now.... however.... (you saw it coming huh?) I have or am trying to create a league based on the A's style of play. So the stats for example include on base, walks, but not SB or average. If anyone is interested in playing or giving me some help in maybe tweaking the stat categories here are the details

 Yahoo League ID 103600

Password athletics

 Draft is set for next Saturday at 10am.

Hear from you all soon

Well this was definetly a much more exciting game than the A's game!!! Bees took the early 3-0 lead in the top of the 3rd, helped by a wild pitch from Tadano. However his teammates picked him back up in the bottom half courtesy of a 2R HR from Putnam and then Blasi following up with a dinger to the same part of the yard to tie the game.
After a lead off double in the fourth, Tadano did not allow another baserunner until the 8th, retiring 13 straight.
In the 5th Blasi connected with his second Hr of the day to give the Cats their first lead of the game. They should have added another in the 6th but Putnam was cut down at home by a throw from the left fielder, although the call was hotly contested by Putnam and The Cats manager.

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So I thought it woud be a nice way to spend a Friday evening with my wife by watching the Ports take on the Bakersfield Blaze last night. It was a lefty-lefty matchup with Brad Davis going for the Ports and Glenn Swanson taking the mound for the Blaze. It was warm, dry, with a decent breeze blowing out to center field and this bode well to seeing a few balls leave the park tonight.

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Yes you read that right, our AAA affiliate lost to our High A outfit. It was actually a really good game between the two teams although it was a little confusing with Sac having 2 DH's at the same time (Suzuki and Barton)
The game started off lightning fast with Vince Mazzaro pitching for the Ports having a little control problem. He walked Mellilo and then a passed ball had mellilo at second. A single to center followed but no run as Mellio was nailed at the plate by a great throw for Herrera.. That guy has a cannon of an arm!!! However Barton made up for it with a 2 run shot to left field in the top of the first. The Ports replied in the bottom of the first with Lloyd Turner hit a towering solo shot to center field out over the 389 mark and then Herrera followed up a couple of batters later with a RBI single to tie the game.

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Hi All

Just wanted to let you know that the Cats will be taking on the Ports tomorrow (Wednesday) evening at Banner Island Ball Park in Stockton. Tickets are only $5 each general admission. I was there buying tickets today for me and my wife and i found out that they have hundreds of tickets left. The guy i talked to said that he thinks no one knows about it as they have not advertised it very well. So come on all you guys and gals who want to see some future A's stars and get on down to the park tomorrow. First pitch is 7.05 with gates open at 6. Also if any of you want to stop and say hi i will be in section 117 front row next to the Ports dugout. Cant miss me, i am huge (6'6) and will be wearing an A's Jacket
Hope to see some of you there and its a great excuse to check out the ports new stadium if you have not seen it yet

As the Fantasy leagues posted so far are all full I thought that I would create another one. So for anyone interested (and I hope that SOMEONE is) here are the details

League ID 71215
League Name The Drum Beats Slow
Password lfbleachersrock
Draft Time: Fri March 9th 7:15pm

My tribute to our drummers who make our games a great experience. I dont know all their names but I thank them heartily

Good Luck one and all and I can not wait for April, I NEED TO SEE SOME BASEBALL!!!