Football's Minnesota Vikings and baseball's Oakland A's also hope to have new homes soon.
What we're watching: The American League Championship Series starts tonight, featuring the Detroit Tigers vs. the Oakland A's.
High G-score clubs like the 2001 Seattle Mariners (2.45) and the 1990 Oakland A's (2.22) dropped out after losing in October.
Those veteran closers making millions can thank Tony LaRussa, who ushered in the era of hyper-specialization as manager of the Oakland A's in 1988.
This spring training will bring the queasy spectacle of a 39-year-old Manny Ramirez, un-retired and facing a 50-game suspension, swinging a bat for the Oakland A's.
"We will only do it if there's a proven cost-benefit advantage, we won't do it just for show, " says Lew Wolfe, owner of baseball's Oakland A's.
Have richer teams like the New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians give a lot more of their revenues to poorer teams like the Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins and Oakland A's.
The audience was diminished by competition from the Fox network, which showed a science fiction drama, and NBC, which allowed affiliates to show a baseball playoff between the New York Yankees and Oakland A's.
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This is all going to start with the April 2nd game against the Oakland A's and can be found on channel 664 - that is if you live in the Northwest and subscribe to Comcast.
In the U.S., the Oakland A's and Florida Marlins have employed giant tarps to cover sections of unsold seats in the upper decks of their stadiums (the only difference is that they don't have pictures).
In the case of Major League Baseball, as Michael Lewis showed in "Moneyball, " the Oakland A's won for a time with their number-crunching strategy, but the team faced a host of imitators after a few seasons.
In recent years, as lower-budget teams like the Cincinnati Reds and the Oakland A's have leapt into the international market, the Yankees have bid what they think the player is worth, and if that's enough, great.
While the league did not list which of the previously disciplined players it was referencing, the newspaper report did name Oakland A's pitcher Bartolo Colon, San Francisco Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera and San Diego Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal.
Nevertheless, Michael Lewis, the author of the 2003 book Moneyball, the story of how the penny-pinching Oakland A's used quantitative analysis to win at baseball, said he couldn't see the harm in additional analytics in youth and scholastic sports.
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Moss hit his second home run of the night with two outs in the bottom of the 19th inning to give Oakland a 10-8 victory over the Los Angeles Angels early Tuesday in the longest major league game of the season.
Kettman, a California native who grew up as a fan of the San Francisco Giants, was a sports reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and cultivated a fondness for Fenway Park and the Red Sox while covering the Oakland A's for four years in the 1990s.
It seems like a short time ago that Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, subject of the best-selling book Moneyball, first employed a new school of analysis that placed added value on statistics like on-base percentage while devaluing more traditional numbers like batting average and stolen bases.
In baseball circles, that's an accomplishment most notably associated with Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane, the subject of the book Moneyball, for the string of winning clubs he put together earlier in the decade on budgets that resembled the petty cash drawers of the Yankees or Red Sox.
Trencheny, who hails from the San Francisco Bay Area, participated in Code for Oakland, a civic hackathon for Oakland, California, now entering its second year.
Fulks is on the road in September, playing Madison, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Oakland and a few other cities.
One week later, in Oakland, a forty-three-year-old man named One Goh walked into Oikos University, a small Christian college.
For example, Access Oakland is a robust suite of eCommerce services that is used by many County departments, courts, and municipalities.
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Oakland is a troubled, poor city, where almost half the population is black, a quarter is Latino and a hefty proportion are unemployed.
The 6-foot-7 right-hander sustained an epidural hemorrhage, brain contusion and skull fracture in the freak accident, then left Oakland for a free-agent deal with Arizona.
And when stratospheric real estate prices forced out all but the wealthiest residents of San Francisco, Oakland captured a large share of its neighbor's population losses.
Oakland got a run on a throwing error by second baseman Robinson Cano in the third, and Cano tied the score with an RBI single in the bottom half.
Not of Moss' two-run homer in the 19th inning that gave the Oakland Athletics a 10-8 victory over the Los Angeles Angels in a game that took 6 hours, 32 minutes and concluded at 1:41 a.m.
Cromartie, though, has muffed two kicks this season: a kickoff at Oakland that led to a Raiders touchdown and a punt against Buffalo that led to a Bills touchdown.
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