brainwagon

Back on May 29th, I bitched about it being tough to be an A’s fan. On that day, they were 17-32, and looking at a pace of winning 54 games for the season. They had lost their last 8 in a row. 20 of 24. I saw no reason to be optimistic. Since then, they’ve […]

It’s kind of a sad day for this Athletics fan. The A’s have been busy on the trading block, and have dealt two of my all time favorite Athletics in separate deals. Submarining right hander Chad Bradford was traded to the Red Sox for outfielder Jay Payton. Bradford has been on the DL for quite […]

One of my favorite Athletics, and now my favorite Oriole, Miguel Tejada just won himself a Corvette for his performance as All Star MVP. Congrats Miggy. We miss you in Oakland. Thanks for all the good times.

The A’s completed the sweep of their cross Bay rivals today with a 16-0 victory which has to be one of the most one sided matchups of all time. The A’s line was 16 runs, 24 hits, and 1 error. The Giants managed one hit. The A’s had six players in the starting lineup with […]

While scanning for reference photos of brains, I found this baseball card for David Leonard Brain. He played for the Reds, the Giants, the White Sox, the Cardinals and the Boston Beaneaters. 🙂 You can get all his career details from baseball-reference.com, including the fact that he lead the league in 1907 with 10 homers. […]

When it comes to most things, I’m about as geeky and gonzo for gizmos as you could possibly imagine, but in some things, I’m a bit of a purist. It’s hard to argue with a charcoal fire for cooking salmon and steaks. It’s hard argue with roses and diamonds for an annivery gift. And baseball […]

I have a romantic view of baseball, and it is always startling when confronted with the reality that baseball is a business first, and the national pastime second. It is, after all, a game. Games have rules, and rules are to be followed. I’ll boo Sosa because he corked his bat. I’m not fond of […]

Check out the beautiful sunset forming the backdrop for the minor league team the North Shore Spirit. Damn! Makes me wish I could have a brat, a big soda and some red licorice, and go see a game. Baseball can be magical.

Well, I bitched about Oakland a couple of days ago, and today I’m watching the possibility that they might string two wins in a row. I was watching last night in the top of the 9th when I received a phone call from my son whose car crapped out an hour away (I spent most […]

I suspected that the A’s may have a difficult time getting to the playoffs this year. All three of the other AL West teams had reasons for optimism: the A’s traded two of their big three talent away. The over-under line for A’s was 78 or so. Realistically they would turn out to be a […]

It’s been a couple of days since opening night for the Athletics, and it’s taken me a couple of days to stitch together the bits of audio I recorded into an Opening Day Podcast. While the A’s were smacked around, I did have a great time and you might find some of the sounds of […]

Well, the game was not the epic stuff that dreams are made of. The Blue Jays roughed up the A’s pretty good, they lead 10-0 at one point, and the A’s did little to quell the fears that they could be a below .500 team this season. The Blue Jay hitters peppered the field with […]

With any luck, I’ll be podcasting, blogging, and posting photos from the A’s home opener later tonight. Update: It’s looking good. I have three separate devices charging their lithium ion batteries as I write this.

I wanted to get a file with the schedule for all the major league baseball games this season, but remarkably, it seemed difficult. Sure, you can surf over to each team in the league, and by clicking through their websites, eventually get to a file with comma separated values in it, but it’s fairly tedious, […]

Ah, baseball season begins today. Okay, I guess it really started yesterday with the Yankees/Sox game, but today is the first Oakland game. Unfortunately, Barry Zito didn’t do so well, and the A’s lost their opening day game. Zito gave up four runs and six hits in six innings, breaking Oakland’s 7-0 record against Baltimore […]