The “Sacramento” A’s thread 2025
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First AB he gets a hit and an RBI! Auspicious beginnings for the last Oakland first round pick.
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Decided on a whim to get some cheap tickets on StubHub and go see Kurtz debut (say what you will about Fisher and the A’s situation, but being able to do this in Sacramento is pretty cool). Fun to see him get that first hit—Rocker was serving up fastballs to the previous batters but mixed things up to Kurtz. He finally got one to hit and took it, his helmet went flying, and he was clearly very excited as he bounded into first.
A lot of fans left by the end, and I get it, it was getting cold. But we weren’t going anywhere with Mason Miller coming out for the save. He hit 102 a couple times, so those heaters kept us warm!
A lot of fans left by the end, and I get it, it was getting cold. But we weren’t going anywhere with Mason Miller coming out for the save. He hit 102 a couple times, so those heaters kept us warm!
I'm going to strongly disagree with this, but I understand that we all come from different places and that you're only expressing your joy at getting to go to the ballpark on a Wednesday afternoon and see some of the best players in the world do their thing. As a baseball fan it's always cool to see a top prospect making their big league debut wherever it happens so I'm with you there. And Mason Miller is an absolute stud who, if he played for any other MLB team, would be a safe bet to wear the same uniform and close out games for one franchise for the bulk of his career. Hopefully Fisher is true to his word about changing his financial priorities now that he supposedly has the market support he claims to need in order to invest back in his team's payroll.
But as for the relocation situation, it continues to be a black eye for baseball in my opinion. I only keep bringing this up to remind people that you're getting to watch Major League baseball in Sacramento because a lot of lifelong A's fans aren't getting to watch it in Oakland anymore. I could stop there and maybe my fellow mods will deem the rest of this post inappropriate for this board but I'd like to try to go a step beyond snarky quips for a change and explain my point of view on this and why I think baseball fans in Sacramento shouldn't be eager to erase Oakland from the A's present context the way that the team's official press releases already have.
This isn't directed at you personally, just at the general tenor of conversation about the A's since the relocation saga began. I don't like seeing the people of Oakland get repeatedly dragged through the mud in all formats of media (only reporting on stories about crime and urban decay, for instance) when the problems plaguing their city are present in every other metropolitan area in this country, including Sacramento, and have a lot to do with financial decisions being made elsewhere and without their direct representation. We could instead talk about how the number one movie in the country right now was directed by an Oakland native, for instance. Or we could talk about the huge influx of Black workers from the Southern states to work at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond during WWII and the unprecedented level of productivity there which helped to fuel an Allied victory, directly shaping the last 70 years of human history for the better.
I keep hearing about Oakland being a "bad" neighborhood (mostly from people who have never lived there) and how investors and small business owners increasingly feel compelled to take their money elsewhere. Any time people talk about the A's relocation that's what is lingering in the background and to the extent that this is true, it should be embarrassing for all of us as Americans that we've allowed this to happen to our neighbors and fellow citizens. I've lived parts of my life in the East Bay, in Marin County, in Sacramento County, and in Los Angeles County but I don't think you need to be a semi-nomad like me to come to the same conclusion that there doesn't need to be an Us and Them when talking about people in different cities... it's all just Us. And I would encourage anyone to really think hard about what they actually mean when they refer to neighborhoods as "good" or "bad" and look up the history of redlining to understand some of the context for how we got from the Great Migration to where we are today. This is history which is important to understand both for our present moment and for appreciating the role that professional sports (and the professional athletes that make up sports leagues) continue to play in our lives.
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