They are a team that loses or gets rid of star players, only to get better, and is rare for this to happen. They have been doing this over the last 10 years
A nice piece on the game 1 grand slam.
103 days and counting:
Go Cubs!
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This leaves me surprisingly sad:
RIP, Mr. Baseball.
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Cubs’ pitchers and catchers report tomorrow.
Hope springs eternal!
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Wednesday for the Phillies BUT…one more game to watch tomorrow until the Boys of Summer take center stage.
Fly Eagles Fly!
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I think at least one of you can answer this question:
The A’s are spending the next two seasons playing at Sutter Health Park (Sacramento, CA), home of the River Cats (Triple A) while the Las Vegas ballpark is constructed.
Have other teams, including the A’s, played in temporary ballparks / cities while new parks are being constructed or is this the first time a team left a city before a new permanent park was available?
If it will be two full seasons that very well could be the record. Both the Yankees and Mets played 159 & 162 games in temp parks back in the 60’s and 70’s.
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Good question. I asked ChatGPT for help…
Dodgers played 4 years at the LA Memorial Sports Arena waiting for Dodger stadium to be built.
In football, the Titans, Chargers and Rams did it too.
The SF Giants affiliate. Just sayin’…
The Devil Rays are also calling George Steinbrenner Field, the Yankees spring training facility, home this year while Tropicana is repaired.
With the baseball season about to start, I thought I’d share an interesting historical tidbit that has been part of baseball lore for decades and which has always held my interest. I will assume that we’re familiar to some degree with 1919 Chicago “Black Sox” scandal…
From Wikipedia:
“The Black Sox Scandal was a game-fixing scandal in Major League Baseball (MLB) in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of intentionally losing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for payment from a gambling syndicate, possibly led by organized crime figure Arnold Rothstein.”
Well, Rothstein was shot and severely wounded in an uptown NYC hotel, but was treated and subsequently passed away in a clinic two blocks from my apartment. I’ve attached a blog piece for your perusal. It’s written in a sort of sensational gangster serial of the times, but is interesting just the same.
Here is a recent photo of the building:
The HBO series from a few years ago, “Boardwalk Empire”, weaves into its storyline the Rothstein character as did the Hyman Roth character mentioning the 1919 incident in “Godfather Part 2”. Let’s not forget about “Field of Dreams” when Ray Liotta played Shoeless Joe Jackson. With the legalization of sports betting becoming more and more accepted, I sometimes wonder if we are going to see this type of fixing more and more.
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I am drinking King George V. this afternoon to celebrate Curry’s achievement. That is a lot of three pointers. I don’t think I will see his record broken in my lifetime. 
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While Mr. Curry’s 3 pt. record is so impressive, nearly impossible for me to comprehend. However, there is so much of his game that is just as impressive to me: his passing, his ballhandling, defense, team play and his leadership. He is a complete player. For now I will celebrate his 4,000.
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