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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostAs a frequent visitor to Oakland, I wouldn't quite call Laney "downtown", but the site is certainly a heck of a lot closer and more urban than that of the Coliseum.
Here's a map (Howard Terminal and the current site were the other serious options)
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostHow reliable are these? Would there be much change between now and, say, May?
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- Mar 2008
- 3387
- at the edge of the sea
- Plymouth Argyle, Plymouth Gladiators, Seattle Mariners
- cream crackers spread with nutella
For example the Giants-Dodgers game just a couple of days ago was still going well past midnight (It was in the sixth innings when I logged on for the scores at around 0830 here - California's eight/ nine hours behind the UK isn't it). I think the total delay was almost three and a half hours which is about as long as a complete game.
The attendance was quoted as just a smidge over 40000. How many of those would actually stay for the denouement though?
I suppose it's a bit like cricket except here they'll reach a calculated cut off point and call it a day
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It happens more often at this point of the season because there aren't open days to reschedule the game.
Earlier in the season, it would have been called and rescheduled for the visiting team's trip.
I've been at some games with long rain delays where the "crowd" at the end numbered in the hundreds, not thousands,
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The Giants-Dodgers game the other night was sort of a funny one. Since it restarted at almost 7am, I got to catch the entire game, and the President of the Giants was on radio talking about how the Dodgers basically didn't want to play a doubleheader (which was his suggestion) or waste an offday, so they had no choice but to play once the forecast came in saying there would be 12 hours of clear skies.
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Laney College is probably the best site available for the A's. Howard Terminal was going to get held up by a ton of environmental stuff and Jack London Square is not particularly close to BART. Not horribly far, it's a little bit closer to BART than AT&T Park is to Montgomery Street BART, but Oakland wasn't going to build a light rail line to ferry fans to the park like San Francisco did.
No one was especially excited by the Coliseum site. The BART access can't be beat, but....AT&T kinda showed everyone in the Bay Area how great a ballpark can be, and building something in a parking lot with nothing really around it was going to feel second-rate.
Laney won't be a slam dunk, but they're paying for it themselves, the college seems to be OK with it (the site is where their admin building is, and the A's have promised to build them a new one), and the Oakland city government is desperate to keep one team with the Raiders and Warriors out the door. So they should get it done.
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Specifically a David Wells thing. Not the team, exactly, but definitely the fans.
Just a stupid chip on the shoulder amongst many I've collected on my travels.Last edited by Gerontophile; 15-09-2017, 05:13. Reason: I edited this previously, and nothing showed up.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostFlynnie's view on the A's ballpark is remarkably similar to that of my direhard Oakland booster nephew, with whom we dined last night.
I really do hope that they get it done.
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Dodgers look like a different team since playing the Giants.
I missed this last night:
https://twitter.com/KirkNawrotzky/status/908840255133974528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fftw.usatoday.com%2F2017%2F09%2Fjayson-werth-oops
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostHahaha the look on his face!
About 6 minutes into this highlights package.
http://www.milb.com/r/video?content_id=1814521683
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