2009 Oakland A's thread

A's call up Casilla and Cunningham and send down Gray/Blevins.

Casilla was dominant before he went down with a injury, 1.59 ERA/0.79 WHIP/.079 BAA in 11.1 IP, same thing happened last year when he started the year off with like a 20 IP scoreless streak but was mediocre the rest of the season due to the elbow injury he suffered around May of last season.

Hopefully the same doesn't happen now.

Cunningham was tearing up AAA after missing the first few weeks of the season hitting .375 with a 1.233 OPS with 5 2Bs/2 HRs/8 RBIs in 6 games/24 ABs.

Guess this means both Buck and Sweeney better watch out for playing time, as well as Davis who has been a disappointment not only with the bat but glove too.

THANK YOU!

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A's station going all-sports


The Oakland A's, for the first time, will find their game broadcasts wrapped around daylong sports programming.


All-day sports talk is the new format for KTRB 860 AM, the A's 50,000-watt flagship station.

The new format debuts Monday with an initial emphasis on nationally syndicated sports-talk programming. Program director Kevin Barrett said more localized programming, featuring both the A's and the Oakland Raiders, is part of the future plan.

"One of our strategies is to give a little more love to the East Bay teams," Barrett said. "Our intention is to serve the entire Bay Area, but also to take a look at some of the other teams that don't get quite the spotlight."

General manager and station vice president Jim Pappas said he was getting strong feedback that the Bay Area needed another sports station to compete with KNBR's stations at 680 and 1050 AM.

"Nothing is wrong with KNBR and their success is well-deserved," Pappas said. "But it is the home of the Giants and the 49ers. The A's have not been on stations that have had sports around their programming. They've had oldies and political talk and other things. They've been on an island on the stations they've been on in the past."

Ken Pries, the A's director of broadcasting, said the team is pleased.

"This was one of the things we talked about when we initially did this deal," Pries said. "Similar to our deal with Comcast Sports Net California, we have our own station and our own deal. Our game-related programming is already running now around six hours a day. People are already talking about the A's during those hours and our exposure can only improve from here."

The weekday lineup, which will be built around existing A's game-day programming, begins at 6 a.m. with Todd & Tyler's Radio Empire, which currently airs in Omaha, Neb., Wichita, Kan., and Boise, Idaho. The Bay Area will be the show's biggest market.

At 10 a.m., the station will feature 2 Live Stews (featuring brothers Doug and Ryan Stewart), a show that airs in Boston, Miami, St. Louis, Atlanta, Cleveland and Las Vegas.

Chris Myers' national show, a production of Fox Sports Radio, will air from noon-4 p.m.. Petros & Money, another Fox Sports Radio production, will run from 4-7 p.m.

Ron Barr's Sports Byline USA, a show that originated in San Francisco and is in its 20th year, will run from 7-10 p.m., followed by Sports Overnight America with Chris Townsend from 10 p.m.-1 a.m.

All programming, except for a one-hour block between 9-10 a.m., will be live. Local listeners will have call-in opportunities on national shows.

KTRB, which also broadcasts Stanford football and men's basketball, took over as the A's flagship radio station in January. Its offices are in San Francisco and it is owned and operated by Pappas Radio of California. The station started in Modesto and moved to the Bay Area in 2007.

Wow...

When you combine bad D with a young pitcher who probably is still not right with the blister on his throwing thumb, you get the result right now FRI night in DET.

Don't know if there is any more rain but best case there's a t-storm heading their way and this game get postponed.

4 errors in the first 4 innings, blooper reel music please.

Least there's more rain, please continue to rain so we can wipe this game out.

U - G - L - Y we 'aint got no alibi we're s**tty....uh uh, yeah s**tty.

I can't even remember the last time I watched an A's game...no lie. Does this make me a bad fan...or just smart and really into self-preservation, (I'd probably stab myself if I had to sit through this sh*t every day)

Had bad feelings about this season even before the season started when Devine most thought was gonna be out with that elbow injury and then to see Duke possibly missing the first half or at least most of the first half of the season...IMO the season was doomed right there and when the offense has been either hit or miss for the most part the first 5 or so weeks, I knew reality stank in for me as an A's fan and knew this season was going nowhere.

Then we saw the injuries to Chavez, Nomar, Ellis, Casilla, and Ziegler and Murphy's Law, what could go wrong to start this season, mainly health, has gone wrong with so many potentially key players missing huge chunks of the season so far.

Just too bad the A's maybe gave up a good part of the future by dealing Gonzalez who after a slow start in AAA for COL is absolutely tearing it up right now. Add to that giving up the 2nd rounder for Cabrera who really hasn't did much on the field for most of the first month and a half.

Now at this point of the season, wouldn't be shocked to see the A's be sellers soon.

Holliday, Cabrera, Springer, Wuertz all could help contending teams as veterans guns.

Course Holliday is probably gonna get you the most and even though he's not hitting as well as you hoped, he's really getting hot the past few weeks though. At this point, don't know what you could get in return for him. Teams that you think may need a bat down the road are...

BOS-with Papi maybe done, they could use a big bat like Holliday and they have the pieces in their farm system to get it done although at this point, I doubt very much they'd give up their top two prospects in Anderson and Bucholtz. Really don't know who else in their minors the A's would want from BOS to trade Holliday especially since he's a FA.

ATL-signing of former LAA Anderson hasn't worked out. Holliday would be going back to the NL where I think he better fits than in the AL. What could ATL offer, just like BOS they have two studs both a pitcher and hitter in Hanson and Heywood and I don't think ATL would trade either of them for Holliday.


Dont' know any other teams, course it could be more obvious in the next month or two when you got teams that maybe desperate to add a bat like Holliday.

Do think the A's need to add potentially a young hitting prospect, that they gave up for Holliday, in a deal back.

With a lot of A's fans already thinking the A's may draft a SP at the 13th spot since there aren't many hitters that probably will be available at the 13th spot and this draft considered a good draft for SP depth in the first half of the first round...A's I'd hope would try to add another young stick to go along with thsoe in the minors right now in Doolittle, Carter, Brown, Cardenas, Weeks, Donaldson and guess you could include the likes of Suzuki, Sweeney, Cunningham, Buck, and maybe Barton as the "core" of the A's next era of offense that will either be here or will arrive in the next few seasons.

Originally posted by AllTimeGreat:
I can't even remember the last time I watched an A's game...no lie. Does this make me a bad fan...or just smart and really into self-preservation, (I'd probably stab myself if I had to sit through this sh*t every day)

nah, I haven't actually watched a game since the opener....and I only watched like 6 innings of that.

It's called being pragmatic. Baseball is truly a marathon when it comes to the season, and let's be honest...while these first 50 games or so have some bearing on the overall performance of the team, they don't mean all that much.

I'm one of those fans that gets super involved when the team is doing well, and keeps an arm's length when the team is playing like it is now. No point in getting attached to this group of guys just yet...let's wait and see how they're playing come June and July.

Honestly thought I'm looking more towards the future both on and off the field for this team.

Really I'm looking at the minor league performances as much, maybe more in the past few weeks, than I am for the major league team.

Off the field, happy the A's are hopefully getting their act together with the media side. Getting the A's to CSNCA was huge, although still stinks for many A's fans that probably needed to buy a box to get channel 89 and the whole satellite TV issue I believe is still ongoing.

860? Again good thing it's going to an all sports programming. Although I do hope they get live call in shows during the day for the east bay sports teams as the article I posted earlier today mentioned they may do in the near future possibly.

The 860 signal isn't as strong as I thought it'd be when it was talked about being a 50K watt station, I know a lot of A's fans who still can't get the station without it going s**tty for a good chunk of the broadcasts.

Hopefully they can get that figured out somehow to improve the signal in the bay area and again, somehow try to find some time slots to add local post game shows where A's, Raiders and other teams' fans here locally get shunned from KNBR.

As for the stadium, who the hell knows. Seems as the SJ side are getting things done. Oakland, even though there seems to be a few groups willing to work on a park in Oakland somewhere, don't think it'll happen honestly.

http://www.letsgooakland.com/

For what it's worth, US Senator Boxer's son has created a site for those who still believe Oakland has a shot of keeping the A's.

Originally posted by ninerpride:
http://www.letsgooakland.com/

For what it's worth, US Senator Boxer's son has created a site for those who still believe Oakland has a shot of keeping the A's.

that's money. Everyone needs to sign this s**t.

I don't think it matters really.

If the owner of this org doesn't want to build a park in Oakland and it's been pretty clear that was the case even with the charade which was the coliseum north site idea, IMO Wolff is gonna do all he can to move this team down to SJ even with all the issues.

He wants part of that SJ/Silicon Valley money, something he wouldn't get even if a new park was built in Oakland somewhere.

Originally posted by ninerpride:
I don't think it matters really.

If the owner of this org doesn't want to build a park in Oakland and it's been pretty clear that was the case even with the charade which was the coliseum north site idea, IMO Wolff is gonna do all he can to move this team down to SJ even with all the issues.

He wants part of that SJ/Silicon Valley money, something he wouldn't get even if a new park was built in Oakland somewhere.

still better to have my name on a list somewhere saying I wanted to keep the A's in Oakland.

'Tis better to have done something than nothing at all. Who knows? Maybe 15, 20 years down the road the A's will re-open talks with Oakland. God knows we won't have a new stadium built before then.

I think something will get done honestly in the next 2-3 years, when I mean done I expect a ground breaking ceremony to take place.

What's more important is that A, the thought of contraction is all but dead IMO. Every team in MLB other than two, A's and Rays, have or are building a new stadium currently right now. Florida, well Miami is building one soon as they get everything in place down there to build a new park on the old Orange Bowl site.

I doubt very much the Rays are gonna be contracted and would be shocked to see them not a new park dealt. So even if the A's have trouble getting a new park built, no way they can "contract" the franchise leaving them with 29 teams which wouldn't make sense since you're gonna need a even # of teams and no team with a new park is gonna get contracted with all of these new parks having 20-30 year leases with the current city and I don't see any of these newer parks getting outdated like many of the newer fashioned stadiums did back in the 60s-70s. These parks are basically forever venues IMO in that they're timeless and unless nothing terrible happens, these parks will be around for decades upon decades.

B, there is no other site IMO in the country that better feels the need for a MLB market than the bay area right now/norther Cali. Even though SFG hold a huge media and fanbase advantage over the A's, there is plenty of enough room for two teams here in the bay area, compared to SoCal which has three by themselves with the LAD, LAA, and SD. Find it hard that SoCal can carry three teams and the bay area/northern Cali can't hold two teams as they've done for the 40+ years.

Add to that the A's already putting some kind of footprint with the media moves they made going to CSNCA and 860, seems like they're thinking long term here locally.

Just too bad MLB wouldn't let an ownership committed to Oakland buy the franchise of the A's, as we all saw back around a decade ago when an apperant one was screwed as I've mentioned numerous times here.

Wonder if the A's will be sending Anderson down soon.

I thought it'd be the other way around with Anderson doing well and Cahill struggling but been the complete opposite.

If I were the A's, and Anderson's thumb isn't right, why keep him up here where he's gonna get battered and probably hurt the thumb even more. Blisters are some crazy things to get completely healed, ask Beckett who during his days with Florida was dogged for it seems for a good chunk of the season when he had his blister issues.

Don't know if Anderson's issues with his is something that's happened before.

Still, at this point, I don't think keeping him up here in the bigs will help him much. I'd just let him go back to AAA, get fully healthy of course and get his confidence back after he's been shelled his first trip to the bigs.

Braden
Cahill
Outman
Gallagher

don't know who to put in that last spot. Gio has gotten rocked in AAA, as has E.Gonzalez, don't know how Williams is doing. Simmons had a nice outing FRI going 7 and giving up only 3 hits, ER, BB, and K'ing 3 but he's been average at best during AAA so far thru the first month plus. Mazzaro probably has the best resume so far in the early season but don't think the A's wanna rush him to the bigs.

Although I know some A's fans would like to see Bailey, who was a SP before halfway thru last season before making the switch to the pen in AA, move to the rotation. But I think he should stay where he is.

Maybe he could make the move back to the rotation sometime in his MLB career but would rather him him keep doing what he's doing which is being a dominant reliever right now.