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Adding a starter of Lester’s caliber to the A’s already tough rotation will help assure that Oakland overcomes a strong challenge from the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and help the team make it past the pitching-rich Detroit Tigers (or whomever) on their way to the World Series.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The disappointing performance of \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hammeja01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jason Hammel\u003c/a>, acquired from the Chicago Cubs earlier this month, forced Beane’s hand. Hammel somehow went 8-5 for the woeful Cubs and has racked up an 0-4 record for the A’s, the team with the best record in the major leagues.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cespedes will be eligible for salary arbitration after next season, and all the history suggests that when that happens and his market price skyrockets, he’ll be wearing the uniform of the Yankees or the Dodgers or of some other team with an unlimited line of credit. 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So A’s fans, enjoy your two months-plus watching this guy do his thing and pray Beane hasn’t found another star like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/24/oakland-athletics-designate-jim-johnson-for-assignment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Johnson\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cespedes is an electric talent. Yeah, I’ve seen him pop up a lot, and he’s had his wandering moments in the field. But the guy’s talent is amazing: his power, his speed on the bases and in the field, and his arm are breathtaking to see.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>While it’s true Cespedes would most likely be hitting the road after 2015, gee, that’s a whole season the team has given up on in return for the Jon Lester Southpaw Rental Service.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It’s a little absurd to think that any one factor guarantees success in the postseason. Sure, pitching helps. But my unanalyzed recollection is that the A’s got some terrific pitching against the Tigers in their American League Division Series matchups in 2012 and 2013. It was their inability to hit the Tigers that doomed them. They just traded away one of their most potent offensive threats.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The A’s winning percentage the past two years with Cespedes in the lineup: .635. Without him: .389.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The timing of the deal was driven by Thursday’s major league non-waiver trade deadline. Which is also why Beane kept dealing after making the Cespedes-Lester trade. He sent left-hander Tommy Milone to the Minnesota Twins for Sam Fuld.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a weird and disappointing end to Milone’s Oakland career. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_142844\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/452593632.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-142844\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/452593632-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland A's Jim Johnson, center, on the mound Wednesday night during the latest in a string of disastrous outings. (Jason O. Watson/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland A's Jim Johnson, center, on the mound Wednesday night during the latest in a string of disastrous outings. (Jason O. Watson/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here's how Wednesday night went for \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/johnsji04.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland A's reliever Jim Johnson\u003c/a>. Manager Bob Melvin brought him in to start the eighth inning against the Houston Astros in a game the A's were leading 9-2. It figured to be a situation that would not put Johnson, a former elite closer who lost that job in the opening week of the season, under undue stress. And then the Astros came to bat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston second baseman Jose Altuve led off with an infield single. Catcher Jason Castro singled to right, sending Altuve to second. Designated hitter Chris Carter doubled to the wall in left center, scoring Altuve and moving Castro to third. Left fielder Mark Krauss singled to center, scoring Castro and sending Carter to third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the end of Johnson's night: Eleven pitches, four batters faced, four hits and (eventually) four runs. As it turned out, it's also the apparent end of Johnson's short, ugly A's career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team announced Thursday that it had \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/oak/as-assign-jim-johnson-for-assignment?ymd=20140724&content_id=86088630&vkey=news_oak\" target=\"_blank\">designated Johnson for assignment\u003c/a>. That means Johnson's off the Athletics' 40-man roster while he and the team figure out what to do next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one major league team has reportedly expressed interest in acquiring Johnson, who saved 101 games the past two seasons before flopping this year. His greatest accomplishment may have been wringing a $10 million contract for this season from a team that's \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/index.php?team=OAK&cyear=2014\" target=\"_blank\">famously careful about committing to high player salaries\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson was a target for fan impatience from opening night, when he came into a scoreless game against the Cleveland Indians and promptly gave up two runs for a loss. The fans booed him then, and again when he blew a save and lost a second game in the series. And booing has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/athletics/ci_25881860/reliever-jim-johnson-battling-put-struggles-behind-him\" target=\"_blank\">his theme music\u003c/a> for most of his home appearances ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one level, the disgust is understandable. Johnson has been a disaster for the most part, and he replaced the popular \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/balfogr01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Grant Balfour\u003c/a> as closer (he signed as a free agent with the Tampa Bay Rays, where he's also suffering through a pretty crummy season).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Booing isn't new at the Coliseum or at any major league ballpark. But the disapproval of Johnson has been raucous and unforgiving enough to prompt teammates like All-Stars Josh Donaldson and Sean Doolittle \u003ca href=\"http://www.ibabuzz.com/athletics/2014/05/30/is-the-symbiosis-between-as-and-their-fans-at-an-end/\" target=\"_blank\">to comment on it\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I respect that if they buy a ticket, the fans can do what they want,\" Donaldson said. \"They can boo. I’m not telling anyone what they can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to say that if the ticketholders turned boo-birds want the best outcome, however, they need to think twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not good for him,\" Donaldson said. \"And it’s not good for us. It’s making things awkward for us with the fans. I’ve never been in another big league uniform, but here it’s always been the case that we have a special relationship with the fans. We feed off each other.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Johnson is gone, but already the fans seem to have found a new target. \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hammeja01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Hammel\u003c/a>, one of the highly regarded starters the A's traded for earlier this month, was knocked out of his last start, has lost both his starts since joining Oakland and got hit hard during his last appearance, on Saturday night against the Baltimore Orioles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fans aren't wasting any time to see if Hammel is any good or not. He got loud rounds of jeering throughout his abbreviated performance, and I'll bet he can't wait to start at the Coliseum again.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_142610\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/RS11262_photo.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-142610\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/RS11262_photo-640x478.jpg\" alt=\"Fans stand in line to buy A's tickets at the Oakland Coliseum. (Nina Thorsen/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans stand in line to buy A's tickets at the Oakland Coliseum. 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The Alameda County Board of Supervisors still needs to green-light the deal, but that's expected to happen at their July 29 meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement puts an end to weeks of dueling in the media, as negotiations were carried out in fits and starts between A's ownership, the two elected bodies, and the JPA with representatives from each. Amicable press releases were issued by the team -- “We appreciate the cooperation and efforts of Oakland city officials in this process and are optimistic that our negotiations have led to a fair and mutually-beneficial relationship\" -- and by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and City Council President Pat Kernighan -- \"We want to thank the team’s ownership, our colleagues at the County of Alameda, our negotiators and everyone at the City of Oakland who has worked tirelessly on our shared priority of keeping the A’s here at home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A's fans should be happy about the lease extension being signed,\" said Bryan Cauwels, president of the grassroots group \u003ca href=\"http://www.saveoaklandsports.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Save Oakland Sports\u003c/a>. \"The A's ownership is committed to putting in new scoreboards at the facility before the beginning of next season -- larger, easier to read, bigger video boards, along with ribbon boards. But the long-term importance of this agreement is that we feel it's the first step in the process of getting the A's a new baseball stadium in Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Good-faith efforts\" towards a new facility are part of the lease agreement, and A's co-owner Lew Wolff told Oakland city administrator Henry Gardner \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/News/ci_26174042/Citywise:-Wolff:-As-could-make-offer-on-Coliseum-property\" target=\"_blank\">in a letter last week\u003c/a> that as soon as the deal was signed, he would \"immediately re-evaluate the possibility of a new, modern ballpark to be located on JPA property here in Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Wolff went on to say, he was considering whether the A's could buy out one or both of the public entities, so that the team would \"control our own destiny.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A's action also affects the destiny of the Oakland Raiders, who share the Coliseum now. 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With the Angels' loss, their lead in the AL West grew to 4½ games. The A's have now won six in a row and lead the majors with 57 wins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Bridge Series shifts west tonight for Game 3 at AT&T Park at 7:15 p.m. Recently acquired Jason Hammel makes his first start for the A's, squaring off against Matt Cain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you've been a fan of the Oakland A's all along, bear with us for a minute — we've got a news flash for those living in San Francisco Giants Land. And here it is: The A's aren't just that \u003cem>other\u003c/em> Bay Area team. In fact, there's little doubt that right now they're the best team in all of major league baseball — and by a large margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They enter Tuesday night’s game against the Giants riding a five-game winning streak, after shutting out their San Francisco rival 5-0 Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"left long\">\n\u003ch3>Oakland A's All-Stars '14\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Josh Donaldson, 3B (1st)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Kazmir, SP (3rd)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derek Norris, C (1st)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoenis Cespedes, OF (1st)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Moss, OF (1st)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Doolittle, RP (1st)\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>They lead the majors with 56 wins and a .629 winning percentage. The only team close is their AL West rival, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, who are currently 3½ games behind Oakland, with 52 wins. Even more impressive is the A’s colossal run differential (runs scored minus allowed) of +140.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put that into perspective, the teams with the second- and third-highest run differentials in baseball, the Angels (+74) and Seattle Mariners (+66) respectively, have the same +140 differential, \u003cem>combined\u003c/em>. (Perhaps not surprisingly, the AL West cellar-dwelling Texas Rangers and Houston Astros have the two lowest differentials in baseball.) The A’s run-differential through all 162 games last season: You guessed it, +140.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first half of the season has been nothing short of historic. Through the team's first 65 games, \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/oakland-as-are-outscoring-their-opponents-at-otherworldly-rate?ymd=20140611&content_id=79301054&vkey=news_mlb\" target=\"_blank\">MLB.com reported\u003c/a> the 2014 A’s were one of only 10 teams since 1940 with a run differential of at least +124. And MLB noted that those other nine teams \"read like a who's-who of some of the greatest teams in modern times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The elite group consists of the 2001 Mariners, the 1998 Yankees, the 1998 Braves, the 1976 Reds, the 1976 Phillies, the 1974 Dodgers, the 1969 Orioles, the 1955 Dodgers and the 1944 Cardinals. Every one of those teams won at least 98 games, and all but the '55 Dodgers (who played only 153 games) won more than 100. Every one, of course, made the postseason.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The A's amazing numbers are hard to ignore, and the team is starting to get the attention it deserves. Oakland will send six players to the All-Star game, the most of any team (no other team has more than four representatives).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josh Donaldson won the fans' vote for his position, earning the starting third base job for the American League team, becoming the first Athletic to win a fan-elected starting job since Jason Giambi did so in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Donaldson, left-handed pitchers Scott Kazmir and Sean Doolittle, catcher Derek Norris, and outfielders Yoenis Cespedes and Brandon Moss will make the trip to Minneapolis to play in the All-Star Game next Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/news/article/oak/oakland-athletics-all-star-selections-are-josh-donaldson-yoenis-cespedes-brandon-moss-derek-norris-sean-doolittle-and-scott-kazmir?ymd=20140706&content_id=83361820&vkey=news_oak\" target=\"_blank\">According to MLB.com\u003c/a>, “The A's had not sent at least six players [to the All-Star Game] since 1975, when they had seven on the roster. They hadn't even had as many as four since 2003, which also marked the last time they sent a position player.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s also made a big splash last weekend, adding starting pitchers Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel in a trade with the Chicago Cubs. Samardzija was selected to the National League All-Star team, but will be replaced after his trade to the American League. The trade not only bolsters the A’s rotation, but signals to their fans and all of baseball that they are all in to make a strong push this season. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'Technology-based roster-building and algorithm-driven decision-making will be the strongest propagators of the traditional virtues of teamwork and chemistry.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Billy Beane, A's General Manager\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Looking at Oakland’s current roster, it’s tough to figure out how this team of no-names continues to dominate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-giants-clustered-their-luck/\" target=\"_blank\">FiveThirtyEight recently wrote about one theory\u003c/a>, pointing to the team’s high “cluster luck.” (“When a team’s batters cluster hits together to score more runs and a team’s pitchers spread hits apart to allow fewer runs, that’s cluster luck.”) Oakland currently has the second-highest cluster luck in baseball, meaning the team strings together hits in bunches leading to more runs, while not allowing other teams to do the same. (That same article points to bad cluster luck, the inability to string hits together, as one main reason for the Giants’ recent swoon.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A’s General Manager Billy Beane wrote\u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/articles/billy-beane-on-the-future-of-sports-a-tech-driven-revolution-1404762964\" target=\"_blank\"> an article for the Wall Street Journal\u003c/a> this week that sheds some light on his current philosophy for building a winner. Beane describes using technology, such as MLB’s “3-D tracking system,” Statcast, which is currently in use in only a handful of major league ballparks, to take \u003ca href=\"http://www.billjamesonline.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill James\u003c/a>-inspired \u003ca href=\"http://sabr.org/sabermetrics\" target=\"_blank\">sabermetrics\u003c/a> to a whole new level of performance evaluation and roster building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The technology \"provides detailed metrics on the locations and movements of the ball, the players, and even the umpires.\" MLB periodically releases videos of the new technology in action, showing detailed data such as how fast a defender takes his first step, route efficiency and ball release. Here's an example: an amazing catch by the Dodgers' Yasiel Puig (Statcast info begins at :15):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://m.mlb.com/shared/video/embed/embed.html?content_id=33676413&topic_id=73955164&width=640&height=360&property=mlb\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is all of this advanced data just a new way to quantify how great that catch is? Beane hints at a more subtle way to use the information to inform his personnel decisions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Data compiled using new technologies will enable management to assemble players in new ways, emphasizing their ability to complement one another. Whereas current metrics describe players' performance in isolation, front offices will increasingly rely on statistics that measure a player's value in the context of the rest of the team, picking up externalities such as how a player's defensive abilities may compensate for the deficiencies of those playing around him.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Beane adds: “Technology-based roster-building and algorithm-driven decision-making thus will be the strongest propagators of the traditional virtues of teamwork and chemistry.” In other words, the A’s front office is using technology to manufacture their “cluster luck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s be clear, this is not old-style\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball\" target=\"_blank\"> Moneyball\u003c/a>. Oakland management is spending money on players. Maybe not at Dodgers or Yankees levels, but the team is no longer refusing to invest in talent, as it did in the early 2000s. Its \u003ca href=\"http://deadspin.com/2014-payrolls-and-salaries-for-every-mlb-team-1551868969\" target=\"_blank\">opening day payroll\u003c/a> was more than $83 million, compared with $41 million in 2002. Billy Beane has made a few big money signings -- this offseason, he signed Kazmir to a two-year deal worth $22 million (a deal that's looking good now), gave closer Jim Johnson $10 million for one year (Johnson's been a flop, especially in appearances at the Coliseum), and is paying Cespedes more than $10 million both this year and next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe this is Beane tipping his hand, giving us a glimpse at the evolution of Moneyball, driven not by severe financial restrictions, but by an ever-growing parity in access to advanced performance data. As more information is available to all teams, Beane is keeping his team ahead of the curve by finding new ways to use that data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least through the first half of this season, anyway. The biggest question surrounding the A's as they approach the All-Star break (especially with their \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/07/oakland-city-council-debates-athletics-lease-behind-closed-doors/\" target=\"_blank\">Coliseum lease nearing an apparent resolution\u003c/a>), is whether or not they can keep up their torrid pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_141371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 511px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/as-second-half.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-141371\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/as-second-half.jpg\" alt=\"Can the Oakland A's keep winning in the second half. (Photo via Bleacher Report).\" width=\"511\" height=\"402\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can the Oakland A's keep winning in the second half? (Chart via Bleacher Report).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last 10 years, the A’s have earned the reputation as a \u003ca href=\"http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2117191-will-the-oakland-as-continue-their-historical-second-half-dominance-in-2014\" target=\"_blank\">strong second-half team\u003c/a>. (This doesn’t even include 2002’s legendary 20-game winning streak), which bodes well for the rest of the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his WSJ column, Beane explains how technology is changing the game of baseball, for fans and front offices alike. “As we have seen in other societal realms, technology is driving sports down the road toward increased access, diversity and meritocracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far this season, Beane’s Athletics seem to be in control of baseball’s meritocracy.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_141373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/athletics-celebrate.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-141373\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/athletics-celebrate.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Punto and A's teammates celebrate beating the Toronto Blue Jays 1-0 in 12 innings on the Fourth of July. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Punto and A's teammates celebrate beating the Toronto Blue Jays 1-0 in 12 innings on the Fourth of July. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Wednesday 11:59 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Of course, that other team here in the Bay Area is not too shabby either, as the A's learned tonight. Despite some recent struggles, the San Francisco Giants, proud World Series champions in 2010 and 2012, regained first place in the National League West with a spirited 5-2 defeat of the A's in the third of the current four-game series between the two Bay Bridge Series rivals. \u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They play again mid-day Thursday in San Francisco in the finale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a raucous scene at AT&T Park Wednesday night, with rival fans alternatively shouting \"Let's go Oakland\" or \"Let's go Giants\" all game long. In the early innings, the A's fans had the edge but as the game progressed, the hometown fans took over the noise meter until it became almost deafening by the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Wednesday 9:30 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Apparently these A's are jinx-proof. Last night they continued their winning ways, taking Game 2 of the Bay Bridge Series against the S.F. Giants, 6-1. With the Angels' loss, their lead in the AL West grew to 4½ games. The A's have now won six in a row and lead the majors with 57 wins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Bridge Series shifts west tonight for Game 3 at AT&T Park at 7:15 p.m. Recently acquired Jason Hammel makes his first start for the A's, squaring off against Matt Cain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you've been a fan of the Oakland A's all along, bear with us for a minute — we've got a news flash for those living in San Francisco Giants Land. And here it is: The A's aren't just that \u003cem>other\u003c/em> Bay Area team. In fact, there's little doubt that right now they're the best team in all of major league baseball — and by a large margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They enter Tuesday night’s game against the Giants riding a five-game winning streak, after shutting out their San Francisco rival 5-0 Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"left long\">\n\u003ch3>Oakland A's All-Stars '14\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Josh Donaldson, 3B (1st)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Kazmir, SP (3rd)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derek Norris, C (1st)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoenis Cespedes, OF (1st)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Moss, OF (1st)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Doolittle, RP (1st)\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>They lead the majors with 56 wins and a .629 winning percentage. The only team close is their AL West rival, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, who are currently 3½ games behind Oakland, with 52 wins. Even more impressive is the A’s colossal run differential (runs scored minus allowed) of +140.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put that into perspective, the teams with the second- and third-highest run differentials in baseball, the Angels (+74) and Seattle Mariners (+66) respectively, have the same +140 differential, \u003cem>combined\u003c/em>. (Perhaps not surprisingly, the AL West cellar-dwelling Texas Rangers and Houston Astros have the two lowest differentials in baseball.) The A’s run-differential through all 162 games last season: You guessed it, +140.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first half of the season has been nothing short of historic. Through the team's first 65 games, \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/oakland-as-are-outscoring-their-opponents-at-otherworldly-rate?ymd=20140611&content_id=79301054&vkey=news_mlb\" target=\"_blank\">MLB.com reported\u003c/a> the 2014 A’s were one of only 10 teams since 1940 with a run differential of at least +124. And MLB noted that those other nine teams \"read like a who's-who of some of the greatest teams in modern times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The elite group consists of the 2001 Mariners, the 1998 Yankees, the 1998 Braves, the 1976 Reds, the 1976 Phillies, the 1974 Dodgers, the 1969 Orioles, the 1955 Dodgers and the 1944 Cardinals. Every one of those teams won at least 98 games, and all but the '55 Dodgers (who played only 153 games) won more than 100. Every one, of course, made the postseason.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The A's amazing numbers are hard to ignore, and the team is starting to get the attention it deserves. Oakland will send six players to the All-Star game, the most of any team (no other team has more than four representatives).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josh Donaldson won the fans' vote for his position, earning the starting third base job for the American League team, becoming the first Athletic to win a fan-elected starting job since Jason Giambi did so in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Donaldson, left-handed pitchers Scott Kazmir and Sean Doolittle, catcher Derek Norris, and outfielders Yoenis Cespedes and Brandon Moss will make the trip to Minneapolis to play in the All-Star Game next Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/news/article/oak/oakland-athletics-all-star-selections-are-josh-donaldson-yoenis-cespedes-brandon-moss-derek-norris-sean-doolittle-and-scott-kazmir?ymd=20140706&content_id=83361820&vkey=news_oak\" target=\"_blank\">According to MLB.com\u003c/a>, “The A's had not sent at least six players [to the All-Star Game] since 1975, when they had seven on the roster. They hadn't even had as many as four since 2003, which also marked the last time they sent a position player.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s also made a big splash last weekend, adding starting pitchers Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel in a trade with the Chicago Cubs. Samardzija was selected to the National League All-Star team, but will be replaced after his trade to the American League. The trade not only bolsters the A’s rotation, but signals to their fans and all of baseball that they are all in to make a strong push this season. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'Technology-based roster-building and algorithm-driven decision-making will be the strongest propagators of the traditional virtues of teamwork and chemistry.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Billy Beane, A's General Manager\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Looking at Oakland’s current roster, it’s tough to figure out how this team of no-names continues to dominate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-giants-clustered-their-luck/\" target=\"_blank\">FiveThirtyEight recently wrote about one theory\u003c/a>, pointing to the team’s high “cluster luck.” (“When a team’s batters cluster hits together to score more runs and a team’s pitchers spread hits apart to allow fewer runs, that’s cluster luck.”) Oakland currently has the second-highest cluster luck in baseball, meaning the team strings together hits in bunches leading to more runs, while not allowing other teams to do the same. (That same article points to bad cluster luck, the inability to string hits together, as one main reason for the Giants’ recent swoon.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A’s General Manager Billy Beane wrote\u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/articles/billy-beane-on-the-future-of-sports-a-tech-driven-revolution-1404762964\" target=\"_blank\"> an article for the Wall Street Journal\u003c/a> this week that sheds some light on his current philosophy for building a winner. Beane describes using technology, such as MLB’s “3-D tracking system,” Statcast, which is currently in use in only a handful of major league ballparks, to take \u003ca href=\"http://www.billjamesonline.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill James\u003c/a>-inspired \u003ca href=\"http://sabr.org/sabermetrics\" target=\"_blank\">sabermetrics\u003c/a> to a whole new level of performance evaluation and roster building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The technology \"provides detailed metrics on the locations and movements of the ball, the players, and even the umpires.\" MLB periodically releases videos of the new technology in action, showing detailed data such as how fast a defender takes his first step, route efficiency and ball release. Here's an example: an amazing catch by the Dodgers' Yasiel Puig (Statcast info begins at :15):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://m.mlb.com/shared/video/embed/embed.html?content_id=33676413&topic_id=73955164&width=640&height=360&property=mlb\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is all of this advanced data just a new way to quantify how great that catch is? Beane hints at a more subtle way to use the information to inform his personnel decisions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Data compiled using new technologies will enable management to assemble players in new ways, emphasizing their ability to complement one another. Whereas current metrics describe players' performance in isolation, front offices will increasingly rely on statistics that measure a player's value in the context of the rest of the team, picking up externalities such as how a player's defensive abilities may compensate for the deficiencies of those playing around him.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Beane adds: “Technology-based roster-building and algorithm-driven decision-making thus will be the strongest propagators of the traditional virtues of teamwork and chemistry.” In other words, the A’s front office is using technology to manufacture their “cluster luck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s be clear, this is not old-style\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball\" target=\"_blank\"> Moneyball\u003c/a>. Oakland management is spending money on players. Maybe not at Dodgers or Yankees levels, but the team is no longer refusing to invest in talent, as it did in the early 2000s. Its \u003ca href=\"http://deadspin.com/2014-payrolls-and-salaries-for-every-mlb-team-1551868969\" target=\"_blank\">opening day payroll\u003c/a> was more than $83 million, compared with $41 million in 2002. Billy Beane has made a few big money signings -- this offseason, he signed Kazmir to a two-year deal worth $22 million (a deal that's looking good now), gave closer Jim Johnson $10 million for one year (Johnson's been a flop, especially in appearances at the Coliseum), and is paying Cespedes more than $10 million both this year and next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe this is Beane tipping his hand, giving us a glimpse at the evolution of Moneyball, driven not by severe financial restrictions, but by an ever-growing parity in access to advanced performance data. As more information is available to all teams, Beane is keeping his team ahead of the curve by finding new ways to use that data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least through the first half of this season, anyway. The biggest question surrounding the A's as they approach the All-Star break (especially with their \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/07/oakland-city-council-debates-athletics-lease-behind-closed-doors/\" target=\"_blank\">Coliseum lease nearing an apparent resolution\u003c/a>), is whether or not they can keep up their torrid pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_141371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 511px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/as-second-half.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-141371\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/as-second-half.jpg\" alt=\"Can the Oakland A's keep winning in the second half. (Photo via Bleacher Report).\" width=\"511\" height=\"402\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can the Oakland A's keep winning in the second half? (Chart via Bleacher Report).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last 10 years, the A’s have earned the reputation as a \u003ca href=\"http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2117191-will-the-oakland-as-continue-their-historical-second-half-dominance-in-2014\" target=\"_blank\">strong second-half team\u003c/a>. (This doesn’t even include 2002’s legendary 20-game winning streak), which bodes well for the rest of the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his WSJ column, Beane explains how technology is changing the game of baseball, for fans and front offices alike. “As we have seen in other societal realms, technology is driving sports down the road toward increased access, diversity and meritocracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/RS2890_Oakland-Coliseum_-Getty-Images.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-140205\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/RS2890_Oakland-Coliseum_-Getty-Images-640x432.jpg\" alt=\"The Coliseum has had multiple sewage problems in the past year. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Coliseum has had multiple sewage problems in the past year. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(W. 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The hardball tactic prompted Oakland councilmembers to back down, paving the way for the deal to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Selig-permits-A-s-to-leave-Oakland-prompts-last-5598201.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/07/04/400386-andrew-zimbalist-baseball-alameda-county-mlb/\">KPIX \u003c/a>are reporting today on a joint statement put out last night by Mayor Jean Quan and City Council President Pat Kernighan that seems to indicate they believe the negotiations will continue:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are pleased that we have made progress over the last few weeks, and we are looking forward to working cooperatively and expeditiously with the Oakland A's to close out remaining issues which center around economic and legal concerns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any deal still has to be passed by the Oakland City Council and the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pair of local editorials today are expressing displeasure at all the back and forth, but for different reasons. From the Bay Area News Group's \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/marcus-thompson/ci_26087648/thompson-bullied-oakland-empty-threat\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Thompson II\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp class=\"bodytextragright\">The only thing worse than being bullied is being bullied by an empty threat. That's what the A's and Major League Baseball just did to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With approval of his new Coliseum lease in limbo, A's co-owner Lew Wolff ran to commissioner Bud Selig for permission to talk tough. Wolff came back and threatened to leave -- immediately -- if the lease agreement wasn't approved by the Oakland-Alameda County Joint Powers Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the JPA approved it by a 6-2 vote. Got stuck up with a water gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All eight members of the JPA should have called Wolff's bluff and voted down the lease agreement. They should've told Lew Wolff goodbye in a hundred ways....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 10-year lease still isn't official. The Oakland City Council still needs to vote on it. And those folks should vote it down on principle.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from the Chronicle's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/johnson/article/Oakland-leaders-bungling-with-A-s-a-predictable-5599511.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chip Johnson\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The kings of chaos have struck again, and this time their antics almost cost Oakland its beloved baseball team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's city leaders apparently aren't well versed in the art of the business deal. Once an agreement is reached between two sides, it can't be grabbed by a third party for a do-over....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an e-mail sent late Wednesday, team owner \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=bayarea%2Fjohnson&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Lew+Wolff%22\">Lew Wolff\u003c/a> laid it out to Oakland leaders in plain and simple language that any idiot could understand. It said, in essence, if Oakland City Hall balks on the lease deal that the A's had worked out with the board that runs O.co Coliseum, the A's had the MLB's authorization to catch the next plane out of town. Now that's hardball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You'd think Oakland got the message. No such luck. By Thursday evening, only hours after the deal was approved by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=bayarea%2Fjohnson&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Coliseum+board%22\">Coliseum board\u003c/a>, city officials were at it again: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=bayarea%2Fjohnson&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Oakland+Mayor+Jean+Quan+and+Council%22\">Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and Council\u003c/a> President \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=bayarea%2Fjohnson&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Pat+Kernighan%22\">Pat Kernighan\u003c/a> issued a joint statement urging the team and the MLB to come back to the negotiating table to address the city's \"economic and legal concerns.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Stay tuned. But first have some barbecue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority voted 6-2 on Thursday to approve a 10-year lease extension for the Oakland A's despite a sharp dispute over the deal between city leaders and the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials have said the deal gives too much to the A's and that they want to continue talks. But A's ownership, led by partner Lew Wolff, said before the vote that the time for negotiations is over and warned Wednesday night that the team had won approval from Major League Baseball to immediately begin the process of moving out of the Coliseum if the board failed to approved the new lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://newballpark.org/2014/07/02/summary-of-2014-coliseum-lease-agreement/#more-11448\" target=\"_blank\">The agreement — published on Newballpark.org\u003c/a> — involves a quid pro quo that calls on the city to forgive $5 million in parking taxes owed by the A's and a reduction in the team's annual lease payments. The deal also allows the A's to leave the Coliseum after the 2018 season. In return, the A's would agree to buy a $10 million scoreboard for the stadium and would pay into a fund to fix long-standing maintenance problems like sewer overflows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/157214086?secret_token=s-56fVZ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board consists of four members appointed by Alameda County and four appointed by Oakland. Earlier this week, members of the city contingent had said that, at the direction of the City Council, they would vote against the lease extension. But that was before Wolff sent an email to board members late Wednesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to several published reports — in the Oakland Tribune and\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Selig-permits-A-s-to-leave-Oakland-prompts-last-5598201.php\" target=\"_blank\"> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, for instance — the email said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I was informed tonight that Commissioner (Bud) Selig, due to the possibility of not having the hearing and vote that we were reported to receive from the (Coliseum Board), that we will immediately be allowed to seek a temporary or permanent location outside the city of Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilman Larry Reid said Thursday the email changed his mind about rejecting the lease extension, and he, along with city-appointed board member Yui Hay Lee, both voted yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, I came here this morning to, based on the actions that our council directed us to, defend the position of my council when they directed us to vote no,” Reid said. “I came to defend it, whether I believed it was right or whether the position was wrong. And so, after getting the email that some of my colleague got last night relative to Major League Baseball inserting the fact that they would look at allowing the A’s to relocate to a temporary facility and would allow them to seek a permanent home outside of Oakland, that allowed me to rethink my being here defending the position of my council.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other Oakland-appointed members — City Councilwoman (and mayoral candidate) Rebecca Kaplan and sports agent Aaron Goodwin — voted no. All four county-appointed members voted to approved the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The lease is a willingness to work for a long-term solution,\" said county-appointed board member Chris Dobbins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's vote was not final. The agreement still needs to be approved by the Oakland City Council and Alameda County Board of Supervisors, and it remains to be seen what impact Wolff's threat has as those bodies consider the lease.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Got stuck up with a water gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All eight members of the JPA should have called Wolff's bluff and voted down the lease agreement. They should've told Lew Wolff goodbye in a hundred ways....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 10-year lease still isn't official. The Oakland City Council still needs to vote on it. And those folks should vote it down on principle.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from the Chronicle's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/johnson/article/Oakland-leaders-bungling-with-A-s-a-predictable-5599511.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chip Johnson\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The kings of chaos have struck again, and this time their antics almost cost Oakland its beloved baseball team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's city leaders apparently aren't well versed in the art of the business deal. Once an agreement is reached between two sides, it can't be grabbed by a third party for a do-over....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an e-mail sent late Wednesday, team owner \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=bayarea%2Fjohnson&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Lew+Wolff%22\">Lew Wolff\u003c/a> laid it out to Oakland leaders in plain and simple language that any idiot could understand. It said, in essence, if Oakland City Hall balks on the lease deal that the A's had worked out with the board that runs O.co Coliseum, the A's had the MLB's authorization to catch the next plane out of town. Now that's hardball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You'd think Oakland got the message. No such luck. By Thursday evening, only hours after the deal was approved by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=bayarea%2Fjohnson&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Coliseum+board%22\">Coliseum board\u003c/a>, city officials were at it again: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=bayarea%2Fjohnson&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Oakland+Mayor+Jean+Quan+and+Council%22\">Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and Council\u003c/a> President \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=bayarea%2Fjohnson&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Pat+Kernighan%22\">Pat Kernighan\u003c/a> issued a joint statement urging the team and the MLB to come back to the negotiating table to address the city's \"economic and legal concerns.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Stay tuned. But first have some barbecue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority voted 6-2 on Thursday to approve a 10-year lease extension for the Oakland A's despite a sharp dispute over the deal between city leaders and the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials have said the deal gives too much to the A's and that they want to continue talks. But A's ownership, led by partner Lew Wolff, said before the vote that the time for negotiations is over and warned Wednesday night that the team had won approval from Major League Baseball to immediately begin the process of moving out of the Coliseum if the board failed to approved the new lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://newballpark.org/2014/07/02/summary-of-2014-coliseum-lease-agreement/#more-11448\" target=\"_blank\">The agreement — published on Newballpark.org\u003c/a> — involves a quid pro quo that calls on the city to forgive $5 million in parking taxes owed by the A's and a reduction in the team's annual lease payments. The deal also allows the A's to leave the Coliseum after the 2018 season. In return, the A's would agree to buy a $10 million scoreboard for the stadium and would pay into a fund to fix long-standing maintenance problems like sewer overflows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/157214086?secret_token=s-56fVZ&visual=true&undefined'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/157214086?secret_token=s-56fVZ'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board consists of four members appointed by Alameda County and four appointed by Oakland. Earlier this week, members of the city contingent had said that, at the direction of the City Council, they would vote against the lease extension. But that was before Wolff sent an email to board members late Wednesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to several published reports — in the Oakland Tribune and\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Selig-permits-A-s-to-leave-Oakland-prompts-last-5598201.php\" target=\"_blank\"> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, for instance — the email said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I was informed tonight that Commissioner (Bud) Selig, due to the possibility of not having the hearing and vote that we were reported to receive from the (Coliseum Board), that we will immediately be allowed to seek a temporary or permanent location outside the city of Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilman Larry Reid said Thursday the email changed his mind about rejecting the lease extension, and he, along with city-appointed board member Yui Hay Lee, both voted yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, I came here this morning to, based on the actions that our council directed us to, defend the position of my council when they directed us to vote no,” Reid said. “I came to defend it, whether I believed it was right or whether the position was wrong. And so, after getting the email that some of my colleague got last night relative to Major League Baseball inserting the fact that they would look at allowing the A’s to relocate to a temporary facility and would allow them to seek a permanent home outside of Oakland, that allowed me to rethink my being here defending the position of my council.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other Oakland-appointed members — City Councilwoman (and mayoral candidate) Rebecca Kaplan and sports agent Aaron Goodwin — voted no. All four county-appointed members voted to approved the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The lease is a willingness to work for a long-term solution,\" said county-appointed board member Chris Dobbins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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