Oakland A’s: MLB’s Top 3 Rotation

December 24, 2010 by Joshua Russell  
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I read an article by ESPN senior baseball writer, Buster Olney, where he ranked baseball’s top 10 rotations for this upcoming season. Big surprise is that the Phillies are tops with a couple of guys you might have heard of: Cliff Lee, Roy Halladay, Roy Oswalt, and Cole Hamels. The Bay Area had a pretty [...]

A Letter To Santa From The Big Dead Sidebar

December 24, 2010 by Luis M  
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Dear Santa, I have a confession to make. I haven’t really been a good boy this year. Shocking, I know. Between the Tony La Russa DUI jokes, using Jim Hendry’s weight as a punchline and taking countless jabs at Creighton fans, I probably don’t deserve any Christmas presents. But let’s be clear here, I haven’t [...]

Oakland A’s NOT Bay Area’s Highest Paid Athletes

November 21, 2010 by Joshua Russell  
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I was looking through the San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal yesterday and saw their list of the top 25 highest paid Bay Area athletes. Not too much to my surprise there is not one Oakland A’s player on the current roster that made the list. In fact, Eric Chavez was # 4 on the list [...]