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Joe D would have loved the 2013 Oakland A's. You may or may not remember the native Martinez boy who came back to Oakland where he began his famous career with the Oakland Oaks   and worked for Charlie Finley and the Oakland A's in the 1970s/80s.  So, Joe  is still around out there somewhere cheering on these boys of summer who remind him NOT of the common modern day 'money' player and even PED users like those who got into the World Series across the Bay two of the last four years more for extraneous reasons than real talent and hard work,  but a lot of the  Field of Dreams  boys  of  yesteryear who played hard and won for the love of the game...

Amazing Oakland A's with walk off win in Second Game of American League Playoffs Oct 5   NEW MONEYBALL MOVIE  IN THE WORKS  courtesy ESPN Baseball Tonight breaks down Sonny Gray's stellar performance in Game 2 of the American League Division Series.Tags: Stephen Vogt, Justin Verlander, Sonny Gray OAKLAND -- This is the big question as the Athletics and Tigers fly to Detroit with their division series tied 1-1: Who will play Stephen Vogt in the "Moneyball" sequel? I mean, Vogt is the natural candidate for a major role in the movie. Few players epitomize the entire Athletics economic approach to building a team better than the soon-to-be 29-year-old catcher. Vogt played six seasons in the minors before reaching the big leagues with the Tampa Bay Rays last summer -- and then went hitless in 25 at-bats spread out over four months. [+] Enlarge AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez To the victor -- Stephen Vogt, in this case -- goes the shaving cream pie. With a lifetime average of .000 (his WAR was not very good, either), he was designated for assignment by the Rays at the start of the year. While other players were beginning the season, Vogt was walking through a shopping mall in -- where else? -- Durham, N.C., wondering if, like Crash Davis, his baseball career was over. Then his cell phone rang and he learned that the Oakland Athletics had just purchased his contract for $150,000. Jump ahead six months - MORE  AMAZING A'S STORE Go Oakland A's ! All the Way to the World Series Coupon Country CoupLetter SPECIAL Edition  - Celebrate Your OAKLAND A's In the Playoffs!  OCTOBER 2013 Get Your A's Caps, Tshirts and Playoff Souvenirs, here!

OCTOBER 2013 Celebrate the OAKLAND A'S WEST DIVISION CHAMPIONS While Cheering the Boys on toward the World Series FORGET MONEYBALL - THESE 2013 A'S ARE REAL WINNERS - A's PLAYOFF HATS, TSHIRTS, SOUVENIRS   BUY NOW - Support the Team - Authentic Oakland A's Onfield Caps and Tshirts OAKLAND A'S 2013 MORE THAN MONEYBALL... GET READY FOR THE POSTSEASON HEROICS - TSHIRTS , HATS, SOURVENIRS by Mark PURDY, San Jose Mercury News OAKLAND -- The Hollywood producers blew it. Completely. Perhaps you saw "Moneyball" a few years ago, the movie about the 2002 Oakland Athletics team supposedly composed of inferior players that shocked the baseball world with the killer combination of creative strategic thinking and Brad Pitt's extremely evocative close-ups. Mundane stuff, compared with 2013. The current A's team is the one that really deserves to have a film made about it. Maybe that will happen if the month of October becomes a rousing final reel. We'll see if that happens, beginning here Friday when the A's face the Detroit Tigers in Game 1 of the American League Division Series. MORE  OAKLAND A'S PLAYOFF CENTRAL STORE FORGET MONEYBALL - THESE 2013 A'S ARE REAL WINNERS - A's PLAYOFF HATS, TSHIRTS, SOUVENIRS - See more at: http://bayareacouponseastbaycoupons.blogspot.com/#sthash.cuMIEakJ.dpuf FORGET MONEYBALL - THESE 2013 A'S ARE REAL WINNERS - A's PLAYOFF HATS, TSHIRTS, SOUVENIRS   BUY NOW - Support the Team - Authentic Oakland A's Onfield Caps and Tshirts OAKLAND A'S 2013 MORE THAN MONEYBALL... GET READY FOR THE POSTSEASON HEROICS - TSHIRTS , HATS, SOURVENIRS by Mark PURDY, San Jose Mercury News OAKLAND -- The Hollywood producers blew it. Completely. Perhaps you saw "Moneyball" a few years ago, the movie about the 2002 Oakland Athletics team supposedly composed of inferior players that shocked the baseball world with the killer combination of creative strategic thinking and Brad Pitt's extremely evocative close-ups. Mundane stuff, compared with 2013. The current A's team is the one that really deserves to have a film made about it. Maybe that will happen if the month of October becomes a rousing final reel. We'll see if that happens, beginning here Friday when the A's face the Detroit Tigers in Game 1 of the American League Division Series. MORE  OAKLAND A'S PLAYOFF CENTRAL STORE FORGET MONEYBALL - THESE 2013 A'S ARE REAL WINNERS - A's PLAYOFF HATS, TSHIRTS, SOUVENIRS - See more at: http://bayareacouponseastbaycoupons.blogspot.com/#sthash.cuMIEakJ.dpuf FORGET MONEYBALL - THESE 2013 A'S ARE REAL WINNERS - A's PLAYOFF HATS, TSHIRTS, SOUVENIRS   BUY NOW - Support the Team - Authentic Oakland A's Onfield Caps and Tshirts OAKLAND A'S 2013 MORE THAN MONEYBALL... GET READY FOR THE POSTSEASON HEROICS - TSHIRTS , HATS, SOURVENIRS by Mark PURDY, San Jose Mercury News OAKLAND -- The Hollywood producers blew it. Completely. Perhaps you saw "Moneyball" a few years ago, the movie about the 2002 Oakland Athletics team supposedly composed of inferior players that shocked the baseball world with the killer combination of creative strategic thinking and Brad Pitt's extremely evocative close-ups. Mundane stuff, compared with 2013. The current A's team is the one that really deserves to have a film made about it. Maybe that will happen if the month of October becomes a rousing final reel. We'll see if that happens, beginning here Friday when the A's face the Detroit Tigers in Game 1 of the American League Division Series. MORE  OAKLAND A'S PLAYOFF CENTRAL STORE FORGET MONEYBALL - THESE 2013 A'S ARE REAL WINNERS - A's PLAYOFF HATS, TSHIRTS, SOUVENIRS - See more at: http://bayareacouponseastbaycoupons.blogspot.com/#sthash.cuMIEakJ.dpuf THE Oakland A's again this year surprised the baseball world finishing off the Western Division  in first place, again supplanting the vaunted Texas Rangers  with 90 wins, no big name stars and one of the lowest payrolls in baseball.  Meanwhile,   cross Bay rival San Francisco Giants  just escaped being the first team to go from the World Series to last place in years,  despite having the fourth highest payroll , several stars , a lot of high priced players and a history of PED players and suspected performance enhancing drug users, in our opinion. Do the A's have enough to go all the Way to the World Series?  Purchase Tshirt - Classic 'A's' over Oak Tree in Circle Forget Moneyball - 2013 Oakland A's The REAL Story                OAKLAND A'S Official On-field Caps and Tshirts and Playoff Souvenirs  ON SALE NOW Joe DiMaggio once worked with the Oakland A's and Charlie Finley in the 1970s/80s and would be proud of the current team,  which plays much in the style of the old Yankee Clipper....good old, hard-nosed, no nonsense , smart baseball. There are no big name stars, just a lot of eager, aggressive, intelligent fun-loving 'lower paid' players who are playing for the love of the game as much as anything. There is also a manager, Bob Melvin, who has upset GM Billy Beane's old theory that the manager doesn't make a difference, who took over a team that revolted against it's previous manager - and the coaching staff is second to none. They've gotten the most out of their young team.  No help from modern technology, ie PEDs, like the cross Bay team.  This is good old, real  Golden Era Baseball like when DiMaggio played. FORGET MONEYBALL - WHAT MONEY? 'Low  Paid'  2013 A's The Real Hollywood Story by Mark Purdy, San Jose Mercury News OAKLAND -- The Hollywood producers blew it. Completely. Perhaps you saw "Moneyball" a few years ago, the movie about the 2002 Oakland Athletics team supposedly composed of inferior players that shocked the baseball world with the killer combination of creative strategic thinking and Brad Pitt's extremely evocative close-ups. Mundane stuff, compared with 2013. The current A's team is the one that really deserves to have a film made about it. Maybe that will happen if the month of October becomes a rousing final reel. We'll see if that happens, beginning here Friday when the A's face the Detroit Tigers in Game 1 of the American League Division Series. To be sure, the A's of 2002 were intriguing. Oakland Athletics players and fans exult as the last out of the game is made against the Minnesota Twins, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013, at O.co Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (D. ROSS CAMERON) They had a 20-game win streak and did break ground when general manager Billy Beane (portrayed by Pitt in the film) started using statistical data to make personnel and lineup decisions.But come on. Those A's did not feature a stadium that leaked raw sewage; or an uncertain future in their home city; or a relief pitcher from Australia who screams a lot and grew up playing rugby; or a right fielder nicknamed "Hillbilly Jesus"; or a powerfully exotic slugger from Cuba who obliterated the Home Run Derby at the All-Star Game. The A's of 2013 have given us all of the above. And then some. "We do have some interesting guys," A's manager Bob Melvin conceded this week. Not that many casual sports fans in the Bay Area would know.  MORE                          OAKLAND A'S PLAYOFFS CENTRAL How The (2013 American League) West Was Won   There were a lot of great months in the A's 2013 playoff run, but none better than the month of September, that saw the A's overcome a 2-game deficit to eventually win the Division and finish the season five games ahead of the Rangers, who were knocked out in the play-in Wild Card game. The A's played strong when it counted, and as Texas faded, they took complete advantage; even Texas' end-of-the-season winning streak was too little too late to dethrone the 2-time defending American League West Champions, and that's why the Oakland Athletics will be playing tomorrow. The A's started September by finishing a sweep of the Rays, obviously catching them, too, at their weakest point of the season. A lot of the A's success--winning the Division with a full week to spare--came by playing Texas and Tampa Bay at exactly the right time. Had the AL West and Wild Card gone down to the wire with the A's still in the mix, they would have had to win out to keep pace with the other teams, who won the remainder of their last games to get into the playoffs, even briefly. Before the penultimate showdown between the A's and the Rangers, the A's first took out the Rays, in game #136. Nico has the call: Joe Maddon thought he would try as many different pitchers as possible, so the A's decided to score in as many creative ways as they could and the end result was a 5-1 victory, a sweep of Tampa Bay, and just 1 game between Oakland and Texas in the standings as the Rangers come to town. This left the A's just one game back, as they geared up to face the Rangers. Unlike previous experiences with the Rangers, the A's did not waste this opportunity, fighting hard to take two out of three, and climbing back on top of the AL West. Game one was recapped by Lev Facher, who coaxed the A's to a tie: A solid five innings from Dan Straily, home runs from Coco Crisp and Yoenis Cespedes, and scoreless relief work from Dan Otero, Brett Anderson, Ryan Cook, and Grant Balfour have the A's back in a tie for first place. In front of 23,495 frenzied fans on a sun-splashed day at the Oakland Coliseum, a few costly mistakes on Texas' part and a nerve-wracking yet effective four innings from the bullpen gave the A's a 4-2 win, and seemingly all of the momentum in the AL West race. There really wasn't anything "seemingly" about it. Aside from losing the following night, the game also handled by Lev Facher: Well, the A's are back in second place. An all-around uninspiring evening from the green and gold has the A's a game behind the Rangers, making the rubber match tomorrow afternoon almost a must-win with three games in Arlington looming on the horizon. Bartolo Colon was both mediocre and unlucky tonight, while the A's offense stalled repeatedly with runners in scoring position. The bullpen wasn't great, either. Heard this one before?, the A's would strap on their playoff underoos and decimate the rest of the month, winning series after series. They finished the Rangers' series with a win, as baseballgirl tells us, the game also marking the return of Daric. Barton. The plucky A's, winners of eight of their last ten games, shook off yesterday's loss like it didn't even matter, and continued their trend of stomping all over ace pitchers as they dismantled Rangers' starter Yu Darvish and gutted the rest of the Texas bullpen to the tune of 11-4. The big blows of the game were home runs off the bats of Moss, Donaldson, and Coco. Oh, and also: Daric. Barton. This tied the A's and Rangers for first place, with barely 20 games to go in the season.. MORE

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