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Scott Ostler

Scott Ostler

Sports Columnist at San Francisco Chronicle

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Oakland in talks with MLB to get expansion team, if city extends A’s lease - San Francisco Chronicle

There is a glimmer of hope for Oakland’s future as a home for a major-league baseball team, and for the development of the Coliseum site. Although the Athletics intend to leave town forever, the Oakland Mayor’s Office and the baseball Commissioner’s Office have had preliminary talks about the possibility of Oakland being guaranteed an expansion team, in return for the city giving the A’s a lease extension at the Coliseum. Also, Oakland is very interested in persuading A’s owner John Fisher to se…
9 months ago
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As the Coliseum turns, A’s vs. fans drama creates questions. We hav...

The Oakland Athletics’ management and organized groups of A’s fans are like bickering next-door neighbors, glaring at one another over the back fence. The Chronicle has learned that any détente between the two will occur approximately never. The A’s are trying to leave town, the fans are mad about it, and that’s not going to change. Tensions might ease after the A’s leave Oakland, but that day is at least one season in the future, and possibly four or five. Meanwhile, rumors, reports, rumblings…
9 months ago
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Shohei Ohtani is a wake-up call that sports’ gambling problem is ge...

Say it ain’t so, Shohei. When Shoeless Joe Jackson of the Chicago White Sox allegedly confessed and was later indicted for conspiring with several teammates to throw the 1919 World Series in cahoots with gamblers, there’s an apocryphal story of a small boy outside the courthouse who pleaded to his hero: “Say it ain’t so, Joe.” Shoeless Joe denied it ever happened while protesting his innocence, as might Shohei Ohtani after the news hit that baseball’s greatest player, possibly the most revered a…
8 months ago
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Facing fans’ Opening Night boycott, A’s to open parking lot just 2 ...

The latest salvo in the ongoing feud between the Oakland Athletics and their fans was fired Friday. It came in the form of the A’s announcement via email that the team would open the Coliseum parking lot just two hours before Thursday night’s opener against Cleveland, rather than four hours early, as was the case last year. The leaders of two fan groups, the Oakland 68’s and Last Dive Bar, see this as the A’s attempt to shorten and limit the parking-lot festivities planned by the two groups as p…
8 months ago
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Leave it to the A’s to find a way to screw up even the joy of Openi...

Move over, Merkle’s Boner. The costly 1908 baserunning mistake committed by Fred Merkle of the New York Giants has long been considered baseball’s gold standard for blunders. Well, Thursday night in Oakland, Merkle’s ghost passed the torch to MLB and Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher. How do you screw up Opening Night? Somehow, Fisher’s A’s managed it. If you’re supposed to see something for the first time in any given ballgame, this was a first. But Fisher and Commissioner Rob Manfred, backed…
8 months ago
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Curse of the yes vote? Giants, MLB plagued by problems after backin...

Fortunately for the San Francisco Giants, Bob Melvin agreed to sign on as their manager in late October, about three weeks before the Curse kicked in. Once the Giants activated the Curse, they would have struggled to land a quality skipper. Since then, a lot of bad stuff has happened. Hmm. We’re referring to the Curse of the Yes Vote. On Nov. 16, all 30 MLB team owners, including whoever it is who votes on behalf of the Giants’ ownership, voted to allow the Oakland Athletics to de-Oakland themse…
8 months ago
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Want to see contact, speed and joy? Giants' Jung Hoo Lee is your cu...

If Swing-and-Miss Disease is an epidemic plaguing Major League Baseball, Jung Hoo Lee of the San Francisco Giants just might be the antidote. Here is the rookie center fielder’s prescription for the widespread boredom and inaction caused by all the strikeouts in today’s game: Apply bat to ball. Repeat as needed. It’s like Lee is playing Tee-ball. Going into Wednesday’s game, he had a streak, over five games, of 37 swings (including one bunt attempt) without a whiff. His strikeout rate of 8.7% wa…
7 months ago
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A’s have plenty of problems, but announcer Jenny Cavnar isn’t one o...

The ownership group of the Oakland-for-Now Athletics is stoking a roaring dumpster fire, for which there is only solution: Fire the team’s TV play-by-play announcer, Jenny Cavnar. An A’s fan launched an online petition Sunday urging that Cavnar be fired by NBC Sports California. Her crimes? According to the petitioner, Cavnar is doing an “extremely poor job of announcing.” Worse, three years ago, while working at a different job in a different city, Cavnar opined that Oakland’s then-Mayor Libby…
7 months ago
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Can WNBA, Bay FC turn Bay Area sports’ future around if 49ers, Warr...

“Last Dance” is the theme taking shape in Bay Area sports. The big question, though, is: Is this the Last Dance, the end of a damn good era, or is it merely the early part of the dance, where things aren’t going well, so you saunter over to the punch bowl, refresh yourself, rethink your strategy, regain your swagger, then head back onto the dance floor to dazzle the house as you solo to the Contours’ “Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance)?” Simultaneously, all of the Bay Area’s teams seem to hav…
7 months ago
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How Giants’ Willie Mays changed the game for generations of Black b...

Willie Mays made No. 24 famous forever. His old team plays at 24 Willie Mays Plaza, the ballpark that features a courtyard lined with 24 palm trees. But here’s another number that will forever be associated with Mays: 17. Mays, promoted to the New York Giants from the minors early in the 1951 season, was the 17th Black player in the major leagues. Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the then-white major leagues in 1947, but by the end of the 1950 season, only five of the 16 major-league t…
5 months ago
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Why A’s could reconsider leaving Oakland if Mayor Thao is forced ou...

This is a column for dreamers. Information and insight will be served as a side dish. So if you’re wondering how the Athletics’ plans to build a ballpark in Oakland fell apart, and how team owner John Fisher and A’s fans might still wind up happy, you’ve come to the right place. First, the dream. There is a scenario in which the A’s, who swear their plans to move to Las Vegas are on schedule, could flip a U-turn and come back to the Town where they belong. Oakland is in political turmoil, Las Ve…
5 months ago