Party liason, Certified Personal Trainer, Fitness junky, Former Oakland A's enthusiast, Rain Man of all things sports.
Livermore, CA
Joined August 2009
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$115 for a hoodie is diabolical. @fanatics have lost their minds. A sports team hoodie should $40-$50 max, but even that would be a stretch. Pure greed.
@valkyries I live in the Bay Area and can’t even watch tonight’s season opening game on tv. ION channel is locally blocked on directv. Great job marketing your product.
I hope every single fan and subscriber cancels their #NFLRedZone subscription. @espn and @nflnetwork need to be taught a lesson.
@malika_andrews just said she’s been in a lot of basketball environments and the OKC parade was the most raucous she’s ever seen 🤣. Glad Bob Myers immediately called her out and said “you mean Oakland.”
The OKC parade was objectively the least raucous or attended pro championship parade ever that has ever been captured on film. Same with their post game locker room celly.
@Budget on vacation in Hawaii, rental car completely dead in a parking lot. Told I have to wait 2-3 hours for a tow truck then take an uber to rental counter for new car. Way to make my Hawaiian vacation special!
Received car Tuesday night, immediately see message on dash that key battery is low. It’s now early Friday evening, picking up to-go food about 30 min from my hotel. Get back in car and get error message no key in car. Walk to store to buy key battery, back in car and now…
Jose Solis retweeted
The Oakland A’s were killed by greed. Do not allow the people responsible for this to spin it any other way. John Fisher did not have to move this team. Major League Baseball and its owners did not need to be complicit in it. This was a choice. A wrong one. History will sneer.
Jose Solis retweeted
I can no longer contain my thoughts on the A's temporary move to Sacramento, and want to get a couple of things out there. So with my apologies, a thread... 1/
22 year old me went to this game with my dad, best Raider memory by far.
Jose Solis retweeted
If he got cold feet over the financials (just a guess), sell the team to one of the many in line who’d want to keep the team in the Bay Area— someone who can handle owning a functional baseball team in a major market.
That’s on MLB for enabling incompetence
Jose Solis retweeted
John Fisher has owned the A’s for nearly 20 yrs. He:
▪️Hasn’t signed FAs
▪️Hasn’t re-signed A’s players
▪️Has watched the Coliseum rot
▪️Has refused to close a mere $80M diff. for a new park
▪️Has refused to go on camera to explain his decision
Stop saying it’s Oakland’s fault
Jose Solis retweeted
A's fans: We need you to show up in big numbers on Tues Nov 7!
Mayor Thao will hold a press conference at City Hall at 2:30pm making clear to MLB the A's belong in Oakland.
City Council will then meet at 4pm to vote on a resolution affirming the mayor’s message.
Be there!
1/2
Just hit the City Of Oakland calendar. A resolution showing a unified front between the Mayor, City Council, and Port of Oakland towards keeping the A’s.
This passing with unanimous consent would at the very least send a message prior to a relocation vote. #Athletics fans should keep an eye on 11/7.
ALT Subject: A Resolution Affirming That The Oakland A’s Belong In Oakland From: Councilmember Kaplan Recommendation: Adopt A Resolution Affirming That The Oakland A’s Belong In Oakland, And Recognizing The Substantial And Tangible Progress The City Has Achieved In Working Toward A Proposed Oakland Waterfront Ballpark District To Be Developed On The Property Known As The Howard Terminal (Adjacent To The Ferry Dock And The Area Known As Jack London Square) At The Port Of Oakland
Jose Solis retweeted
BIG A's NEWS: The @PortofOakland and City officials will join forces on Tuesday. @Kaplan4Oakland has moved forward a resolution regarding the joint effort to provide a reduced scale home for the team at Howard Terminal. There will be a press conference and we're urging fans to show up in STAY t-shirts. Details forthcoming.
Jose Solis retweeted
I'm not sure that "trading accusations" is the right way to frame Thao describing what happened, while supplying receipts, and Manfred obviously lying about it in response.
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and Oakland mayor Sheng Thao are trading accusations and recriminations over the A’s move to Las Vegas and the city’s Howard Terminal ballpark proposal.
But to what end? trib.al/OO4llm4
So spot on 💯
Dads and 90s kids, here's a fact:
We had it so good with SportsCenter and we didn't know it.... How could we?
We didn't know what was on the horizon that would try to take it down: first, league passes and TiVo and DirecTV... then the Internet and social media and YouTube...
During that brief, bright spot in sports media in the 1990s, SportsCenter was the only way to get the day's highlights...
We had black and white photos and box scores and features in the newspaper...
We had brilliant writing and reporting and pictures in Sports Illustrated and Sporting News and ESPN: The Magazine...
But for the day's highlights...
To watch Ken Griffey Jr. make a diving catch or Jordan hit a game winner or Barry Sanders twirl through a defensive line...
If you didn't catch it live, the only way to see it was on SportsCenter (maybe your local news sports show - maybe)...
And into this void stepped Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann and Stuart Scott and Rich Eisen and Craig Kilborn and Linda Cohn and Robin Roberts and crew...
And all the catch phrases every kid in high school and college would repeat: "cool as the other side of the pillow"... Jumanji... En Fuego....
We'd watch SportsCenter at night then again in the morning.
It was a monolith. You'd show up at school and you'd have the same frame of reference for the highlights you saw. It was a shared experience.
It was awesome. And even though the show still exists and works, it's not a cultural touchstone anymore... it can't be... not with every highlight available from 1,000 sources across social media instantly...
And there are bright spots to be sure... My man and Top 10 Randy (@RandyScottESPN) is terrific. So are plenty of others.
But classic SC, man. It was a shared experience. By everyone.
These kids don't know... Sitting there, retweeting highlights, sharing reels, scrolling their feeds... Doing the work to find what they like with no commentary or context.
Times change. I get it. And we always glorify what we grew up on. Maybe that's all this is.
Still, I miss Stu Scott. He ruled.
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Boo-Yah!
