Hello and welcome back to FanPost Friday. Watching the Mariners play the A’s at the Oakland Coliseum has two murky modes in mind. It’s either way darker (and later) in the stadium than you’d expect a modern baseball game to be played in, or it’s a sun-drenched playing field with fuzzed-out football field hashmarks with odd shadows falling over parts of the field. As of yesterday, it’s highly unlikely we’ll see the Mariners play the A’s in that bizarrely massive, empty, and unstuck-in-time concrete monolith anymore. I highly recommend reading this whether or not you’ve been following the saga in Oakland closely or not:
Read every word.