The walk to/from BART, the hot dog and T-shirt vendors. It had a gritty vibe but I loved it so.
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I did it once and it was awsome.
I see this and I hear “ Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey from Moneyball.
went to the coliseum once, as part of my journey to all 30 stadiums. stopped here on my way out of the stadium to buy a can of beer from some guy out of a cooler. absolutely wonderful experience. 10/10.
The anticipation, the atmosphere, hurts now.
The moneyball scene with the raiders banner up on the building
The BART bridge is such a uniquely Oakland feature, I miss it too. I did one last game with my old man last year, we bought a couple beers from one of the bridge vendors and crushed them on the way in, needless to say those were the first of many that night. Oakland fans are the best in the world
Depending on the era & what team was in town, a below face to face value was almost a sure thing. Sometimes there were tickets fanned out in pick your location style. You’d have enough cash remaining to pay the guy playing that stick thing with strings to STOP playing it 🥸
I can smell that picture. At least after the game. Sizzling sausage and peppers with the constant clanging of spatula against metal. Mmmmmm.
Nice uni!
I loved walking the bridge after a win, people chanting “Let’s Go Oakland”
So cool, so Oakland. You’ll never get this vibe in Sin City.
Oakland Aesthetics tm
People just don’t get it. To outside eyes, it may have been a “dump.” But it was our dump. If I had the money, I’d knock down Mount Davis and restore the Coliseum to it’s original glory.
Fuck I miss this too 🙁
Legit teared up seeing this. Forgot how much I miss it
Nothing like buying a tunnel Modelo and crushing it before the gate
Never made it out there. Now I gotta hold until their new dump is built. FJF. New and fancy isn’t always the answer and people need to start having appreciation for nostalgic less than perfect venues.
It’s amazing how pro sports owners can sleep at night when they’re complicit in ripping teams away from generations of fans and cities that loved those teams dearly. People like John Fisher, Mark Davis, Dean Spanos, Stan Kroenke, Clay Bennett, etc. deprive people of these vibes, and feel little/no shame over it. It’s cruel.
Remember walking on the overpass listening to Soundgarden. Day on the Green.
I flew from Ireland for this..
It was great!!
I miss it soo much. Knowing I’ll never be able to take my.youngest son there hurts.
“Wed Wopes” !
(God Bless) !
After they get an agreement with the union oak will get an expansion franchise. Confirm with mlb.
Maybe the single greatest pedestrian bridge ever built. So many great memories from that walk.
Passed by there on BART on my way into SF couple weeks ago. Was my first time going by since the last game I went to last season. Got way more sad about it than I thought I would. Hurts to see it the way it is now.
That photo right there IS A’s culture.
The feeling of getting off a packed bart train and walking up to the stadium in anticipation of the game, all the unlicensed t-shirt and alcohol vendors, and walking back across the bridge with smell of bacon wrapped hotdogs being grilled after a game. Damn…great times 🥲
The guys with coolers full of beers for sale. All the bottle caps on the ground. And the random guy playing his drum kit.
One of my best memories was May 2018 when Manaea pitched a no-hitter vs the Red Sox and all the Bahston fans walking back to the Bart in stunned silence. 😆
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I did it once and it was awsome.
I see this and I hear “ Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey from Moneyball.
went to the coliseum once, as part of my journey to all 30 stadiums. stopped here on my way out of the stadium to buy a can of beer from some guy out of a cooler. absolutely wonderful experience. 10/10.
The anticipation, the atmosphere, hurts now.
The moneyball scene with the raiders banner up on the building
The BART bridge is such a uniquely Oakland feature, I miss it too. I did one last game with my old man last year, we bought a couple beers from one of the bridge vendors and crushed them on the way in, needless to say those were the first of many that night. Oakland fans are the best in the world
Depending on the era & what team was in town, a below face to face value was almost a sure thing. Sometimes there were tickets fanned out in pick your location style. You’d have enough cash remaining to pay the guy playing that stick thing with strings to STOP playing it 🥸
I can smell that picture. At least after the game. Sizzling sausage and peppers with the constant clanging of spatula against metal. Mmmmmm.
Nice uni!
I loved walking the bridge after a win, people chanting “Let’s Go Oakland”
So cool, so Oakland. You’ll never get this vibe in Sin City.
Oakland Aesthetics tm
People just don’t get it. To outside eyes, it may have been a “dump.” But it was our dump. If I had the money, I’d knock down Mount Davis and restore the Coliseum to it’s original glory.
Fuck I miss this too 🙁
Legit teared up seeing this. Forgot how much I miss it
Nothing like buying a tunnel Modelo and crushing it before the gate
Never made it out there. Now I gotta hold until their new dump is built. FJF. New and fancy isn’t always the answer and people need to start having appreciation for nostalgic less than perfect venues.
It’s amazing how pro sports owners can sleep at night when they’re complicit in ripping teams away from generations of fans and cities that loved those teams dearly. People like John Fisher, Mark Davis, Dean Spanos, Stan Kroenke, Clay Bennett, etc. deprive people of these vibes, and feel little/no shame over it. It’s cruel.
Remember walking on the overpass listening to Soundgarden. Day on the Green.
I flew from Ireland for this..
It was great!!
I miss it soo much. Knowing I’ll never be able to take my.youngest son there hurts.
“Wed Wopes” !
(God Bless) !
After they get an agreement with the union oak will get an expansion franchise. Confirm with mlb.
Maybe the single greatest pedestrian bridge ever built. So many great memories from that walk.
Passed by there on BART on my way into SF couple weeks ago. Was my first time going by since the last game I went to last season. Got way more sad about it than I thought I would. Hurts to see it the way it is now.
That photo right there IS A’s culture.
The feeling of getting off a packed bart train and walking up to the stadium in anticipation of the game, all the unlicensed t-shirt and alcohol vendors, and walking back across the bridge with smell of bacon wrapped hotdogs being grilled after a game. Damn…great times 🥲
The guys with coolers full of beers for sale. All the bottle caps on the ground. And the random guy playing his drum kit.
One of my best memories was May 2018 when Manaea pitched a no-hitter vs the Red Sox and all the Bahston fans walking back to the Bart in stunned silence. 😆