Athletics' attendance, 2024 Season, Game 2: 3,837

[Auggie]

Game 2!

[True Dough]

1. Based on the trend

Game 1: 13,522 fans

Game 2: 3,837

Game 3: -9,315 fans

How does that work exactly?

[Auggie]

4. LOL

[True Dough]

7. The number of bums in seats

actually rose today compared to yesterday: 5,425 of 'em.

But they witnessed the home team take a pounding from the visitors from Cleveland for the third straight day.

[Auggie]

8. Oakland has been playing poorly

In three games: five fielding errors committed, 2-16 with RISP, and eight stolen bases allowed.

Their starters aren't going deep either.

Cleveland, on the other hand, is doing everything right. Pitching has been great. And most encouraging has been the play from the bottom half of the line-up: Fry, Freeman, Gimenez, Arias and Rocchio. Mostly young guys.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. The weather was lousy.

I kinda feel sorry for the guys on the A’s team.

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. I assume a fair number of their players are at league minimum but it's

still a whole bunch of money to play baseball. $740k??

[usonian]

5. Four ex-Giants on the A's?

Did I miss any?

J D Davis, Scott Alexander, Ross Stripling, and Alex Wood.


OTOH, former A's on the Giants: Bob Melvin, Matt Chapman, others?


Just for fun:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240314195101/https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/ostler/article/giants-as-athletics-2024-18971754.php

Could the A’s be more fun than the Giants in 2024, even with (many) fewer wins?
By Scott Ostler

Scott must know. He speaks to Bud regularly, it seems.



Green and gold.

Hey, good luck to the players. It's a job.

[Brother Buzz]

6. Ouch - 8,679 average compared to....

LA Dodgers' average attendance of 38,706, and San Diego's 35,444

https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance

[True Dough]

9. When you have a good thing going, why frig with it?

The city of Oakland will present Athletics ownership with an offer to extend the team's lease that includes a five-year contract with an opt-out after three years, as well as a requirement the team pays a $97 million "extension fee," according to document obtained by ESPN and KGO-TV in San Francisco on Saturday.

The team and the city will meet Tuesday, the third formal meeting between the two sides since the Athletics received unanimous approval from major league owners to move the franchise to Las Vegas.

The team is hoping its stadium in Las Vegas, on the site of the soon-to-be-demolished Tropicana Casino and Resort, will be completed in time to open the 2028 season. With the Coliseum lease expiring at the end of this season, that leaves at least a three-year gap the Athletics and Major League Baseball need to fill.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39843426/oakland-present-athletics-ownership-lease-extension

[True Dough]

10. Swell bunch of guys, those Cleveland Guardians!

They gave Oakland one game of the series to make them feel better. Charitable indeed!

[Auggie]

11. Yeah. A gift from Vogt to his former team.