OAKLAND — An overcast day at Jack London Square lit bright with Kelly green and gold.
Across the grass at the main stage, a mightier Oakland A’s fan contingent roared for their team, a team that’s returning mostly intact and with highly anticipated (to put it mildly) reinforcements.
“It’s amazing how Oakland fans, I’ve always said, it sounds like double,” manager Bob Melvin said before he took the big stage.
Something special is in the air, a spritz of confidence that this team is in a rarified window of contention. A host of the players that took the stage in Oakland on Saturday afternoon participated in back-to-back 97-win seasons with early postseason exits, the new guys that joined them on that stage could very well take them over the hump.