Are the Oakland As Poised to Return to Greatness?
plus-year history. It was, of course, a salient validation of the once-troubled Dallas Braden himself, who most recently found himself embroiled in a public war of words with Yankee All Star Alex Rodriguez. More than just a testament to the pitcher, though, the first perfect game ever thrown on a Mother’s Day is a big step in the right direction for the Oakland Athletics, a once-great franchise that’s struggled to establish league legitimacy in recent years. My husband and I began following the A’s back in 2000, shortly after I relocated to the Bay Area from the East Coast. The process of transferring my loyalties from my hometown favorite Baltimore Orioles was a painful one; from the get-go, the A’s were a superior team and it was hard to see my boys drop game after game to the likes of Eric Chavez. But with the help of time, a few gameday giveaway Bobbleheads and lots of trips to the oft-name-changed Coliseum, it happened: I became a fan. We whooped and hollered our way through the g
