The Oakland A's

by Jeff Sullivan on Aug 1, 2005 8:04 PM PDT in Seattle Mariners Regular News

They're one game back of Anaheim for the division lead, with 57 to play.

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Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

by chaney on Aug 1, 2005 8:38 PM PDT reply actions

Boo??

Go A's is what I'm saying!

I dislike the Angels much more than I do the A's and the fact that they are doing it with alot of rookies makes it kinda cool, and the fact that they are staging a 95esque comeback.

GO OAKLAND!!

Who else but Quaqmire? giggity, giggity, giggity, giggity Let's Have SEX!!

by Goose on Aug 1, 2005 8:42 PM PDT up reply actions

I can't bring myself to root for a divisional rival, no matter how far out of first place we are. I respect the A's as human beings and ball players, and I respect the way they go about building their teams, but I'll never respect their uniform.

0-57 for the hated villains, I say. All three of them. (Well, 0-58 for Texas, but who's counting?)

Go M's!

by chaney on Aug 1, 2005 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm not rooting for Oakland...

so much as I'm rooting against Anaheim.

Down with the Angels.

by Jeff Sullivan on Aug 1, 2005 9:48 PM PDT up reply actions

Can't I?

Can't I just root for the AL Central instead? How sweet would it be for the AL East to not take the Wild Card anyway? It'll be a Cardinals' year anyway...

by jtopps on Aug 1, 2005 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm with you...

Except, no matter how highly-esteemed the A's management is held (especially in the sabermetrically-bent blogs), and however much it's David's budget versus Goliath's budget (Oakland is certainly no David), I cannot root for the A's.

I'd rather root for Texas to ignite and rally back. I can root for them now A-Rod is gone. I actually like several of their players. Considering how much Oakland has whooped our collective asses on 1/2 the budget for the last few years especially, this perpetuates resoundingly how much I loathe Howard Lincoln...

Go M's! http://marinersmorsels.blogspot.com

by PositivePaul on Aug 1, 2005 11:10 PM PDT up reply actions

It's hard not

to root for the A's.

So...Go A's! I'm rooting for them all the way.

by Corco on Aug 1, 2005 8:50 PM PDT reply actions

Especially

When they're chasing the pissant Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in Orange County California, and the A's roster cost half as much as Anaheim's.

GO ZITO, GO SWISHER, GO HARDEN, GO DUCHSCHERER! ON COMET, ON CUPID, ON DONNER AND- okay, I'll stop.

by Gomez on Aug 1, 2005 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions

Now I know

Why the Mariners are losing. Closet A's fans are secretly rooting for Oakland.

by JLC on Aug 1, 2005 9:46 PM PDT reply actions

lol, no but I do respect the A's for what the do

But like many others here, I hate the Angels.I think Jeff said it best, its not so much rooting for the A's as it is rooting against the Angels.

Who else but Quaqmire? giggity, giggity, giggity, giggity Let's Have SEX!!

by Goose on Aug 2, 2005 12:02 AM PDT up reply actions

Go A's

I hate the fucking Angels. I just want to spit in thier collective faces.

by PLU Tim on Aug 1, 2005 10:25 PM PDT reply actions

Completely Agreed - Fuck Anaheim

Especially after that whole stupid Debacle with that asshole on the Angel's blog calling our team the "Greenriver killers" & "Team starbucks" Nothing would make me happier than seeing that team lose.

Call it being vindictive, but I want nothing more than to see the tattered corpse of the rally monkey on the back bumper of Billy Beane's car.

by CecilEltz @ Lookout Landing on Aug 2, 2005 6:51 AM PDT reply actions

I can't believe this

I hate the A's and always have. I hate the Angels too, but there is no way I will root for the A's. I may have to post my top 10 reasons for hating the A's in a diary.

Mariner Magic http://www.marinermagic.blogspot.com/

by BaltimoreMarinersFan on Aug 2, 2005 2:34 PM PDT reply actions