Took advantage of being in Denver to go and see Moneyball. I doubt it will ever be featured at the Roxy Theater in Newport.

The memories of being in the Coliseum for several of the games during "The Streak" just came flooding back. Zak and I would have been in the Oakland Coliseum for game 20, except Zak was a member of the Pacific Boy Choir, and ( Read more... )

Went to the A's - Rangers game tonight ... hadn't been to a game since mid-August. Russell is out of town so we had Nicky, Lee, Evan, Bill and me from the usual Kotsay's Korner crowd, plus Gus who is usually part of the flag brigade in the Left Field Bleacher crowd ( Read more... )

A busy week, we go to the A's games on Monday and Tuesday night, last time to use the "Kotsay's Korner Featuring" banner. Milton starts both games and he waves to us both games when we say hello! Wednesday night  I have a Rotary function, but get out earlier enough to get to the fabric store and pick up material in anticipation of Kotsay's return ( Read more... )

Memorial Day evening at the Coliseum, the banner on the wall, we say hello to the outfielders as we always do ... Nick, Shannon and Travis all wave back ... as always it feels like all is right with the world for a little while as we settle in to watch the game ( Read more... )

Friday night -  I was ready to sell my tickets to the sold out A's-Giants game to make some time for a weekend date, but plans got cancelled (I hate dating!!) and off I went to the Coliseum ( Read more... )

Well, good thing we made all the center field banners... so far we've used the "Milton Bradley", "Nick Swisher", "Danny Putnam" and "Shannon Stewart". Now we just have to wait for Marco Scutaro to have another chance to play "deep second base" like he did in Baltimore. The A's shortest game in thirty years last night...1:47, 0-2 shut-out to the ( Read more... )

Up late tonight making new name banners for center field... added Marco Scutaro and Danny Putnam to the set.

We're now playing with the fourth string in center field. Kotsay's out 'til June, Milton Bradley is on the 15 day DL, we'll find out if Nick Swisher is going on the DL tomorrow.

According to the A's notes; Shannon Stewart, Marco or Danny ( Read more... )

Friday night - bottom of the 11th inning, we've been sitting in the cold for four hours watching the A's and Yankees battle it out.  1 out, rookie Travis Buck hits his second triple of the year, next up Jason Kendall strikes out, Mark Ellis is hit by a ptich, 2 balls to Nick Swisher and an intentional walk, now the bases are loaded with 2 outs, ( Read more... )

Bottom of the ninth inning ( Read more... )

The new banner is done! Yellow letters on dark green background:

KOTSAY'S KORNER
FEATURING:

And three interchangeable banners:

MILTON BRADLEY
NICK SWISHER
SHANNON STEWART

Still need to make one for TRAVIS BUCK just in case

The A's on the scrabble team this year are: Nick Swisher, Rich Harden, Jay Marshall, Mike Piazza, and currently on the DL - Dan ( Read more... )