The A’s opened their three-year (or perhaps longer) stay in Sacramento on Monday night, and it was an unmitigated disaster — to the point that getting absolutely decimated 18-3 by the Cubs barely registered on the Disaster Scale.
The most embarrassing thing out of Monday night was the A’s English and Spanish radio feeds completely crashing out by the later innings of the blowout loss, forcing the team to switch their television audio into their radio feed to listeners. Bay Area News Group columnist Dieter Kurtenbach first noticed the technical issues in the fourth inning, and both he and Awful Announcing documented the many attempts to get A’s radio broadcasters Ken Korach and Johnny Doskow back on the air.