Comments on: News for 10/19/12 (plus Young trade thoughts)

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:51:02 +0000

eb, I’ll echo that sentiment as well. The Giants win the series and no one will remember the A’s season. We’ll be right back to where we started, largely irrelevant to the casual fans.

By: A's Fan

A's Fan — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:39:09 +0000

Yep, you can sure forget any casual fans remembering the A’s season. Hopefully the Tigers didn’t get rusty waiting for National League to finish its business

By: Tony D

Tony D — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:09:49 +0000

@eb,
I’d say yes to your question. Our magical season of walk offs and division championship has just about been rendered moot by the @#$%% Giants and their plastic fanbase. Thanks a lot Cincy and St. Louis…go Detroit!

By: eb

eb — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:04:13 +0000

So, in everyone’s opinion, would a Giants WS win effectively kill off a large portion of the casual fans the A’s might have won with their season? I was at Target and Costco today and pretty much 1 out of 3 people were rocking Giants gear.

By: jeffrey

jeffrey — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:36:38 +0000

Berry, it exists everywhere. Oakland included. This isn’t about one city versus another. Anywhere you get large crowds of drunk people together stupidity can rule.

By: berry

berry — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:33:48 +0000

@jeffery
My experience with fan violence beileve it or not but has always been in SF, in Oakland i went to the Raider game yesterday in our exhausting, yet pleasant win over jacksonville, everybody was in good spirits and there was not even a peep.. OPD had a boring quiet afternoon. just shows that oaklan is not as violent as some think.

By: jgmj

jgmj — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:27:33 +0000

Here is a blurb that updates the LA football stadium issue – The clowns at the top of the NFL still think that Dodger Stadium is a preferred location.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/jason-la-canfora/20630637/

By: jeffrey

jeffrey — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:21:56 +0000

fan violence is deplorable. It doesn’t matter where. It’s unfortunate that I have seen this kind of shit happen (not with riot police) at every venue in the Bay Area. Usually it is outside of the stadium, btu I have seen a Giants fan jump an A’s fan from behind in the third deck of AT&T Park… An A’s fun punch a Dodgers fan in Right Field, two A’s fans try to throw each other off the Amtrak stair case… It’s ridiculous and it says more about our society than any of our sports/towns sports happen in.
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Personally, I’ll be happy when idiots who act like that stay home. Because even if they are rooting for the team I am rooting for, they aren’t part of my fanbase.

By: eb

eb — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:01:20 +0000

@Dan, stabbings and shootings outside of Candlestick, the Coliseum hasn’t had the pleasure. I see your point, but the “they do it too” argument is a slippery slope. I think we can all agree the NFL experience has reached a new low. But, hey, I have zero interest in soccer, I was just struck by the story as I thought Quake games were very much family orientated events.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:56:29 +0000

eb, what you’re seeing at that Quakes game is no different than what happens at every single NFL venue every weekend. A couple of women (probably tipsy or worse) were fighting, the police saw fit to eject and arrest them, and in response the LA supporters group decided to leave the game before more of them got in trouble. It would have been a non-story if it were at anything but a soccer game. But the SCPD, SJPD and Sunnyvale PD all overreacted from what I’m hearing leading to a scene like this outside Buck Shaw Stadium.

http://imageshack.us/a/img546/7913/copsf.jpg

The fear of “soccer violence” is laughable when there are stabbings and shootings outside the Coliseum or Candlestick every few weeks during football season.