Word: oaklanders
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...Pennant races! Like, is this the year Montreal and Toronto finally subject us to an all-Canadian World Series? And, will the Cincinnati Reds snap out of their current swoon in time to give the Atlanta Braves a run for Ted Turner's money? Oh, and how come the Oakland A's, riven with disabled players, traded stud slugger Jose Canseco to the Texas Rangers for a guy with chicken...
When he trotted out to right field at the top of the opening inning last Monday, talented but contentious Jose Canseco was playing for baseball's Oakland Athletics. But by the bottom of the first, the A's had traded the stunned slugger to the Texas Rangers for three players and a wad of cash. Said he: "I said to myself, 'This isn't April Fool's Day.' " It wasn...
...pocket money, as Domino's pizza king Tom Monaghan did last week when he sold his Detroit Tigers for about $80 million to a rival pizza pasha, Mike Ilitch of Little Caesars. And some owners just feel like raising hell. Al Davis, keeper of those movable beasts the Oakland -- no, the L.A. -- Raiders, flirted shamelessly with upstate bigwigs who thought he might return to the Bay Area. By doing so, Davis won a sweeter deal in L.A. He was like a man who tells his wife he's been cheating on her and expects her to treat him more lovingly...
...have declined steadily since 1989, when CBS and ESPN paid $1.5 billion for national broadcasting rights. The two broadcasters have lost $500 million on that deal so far, and will likely pay substantially less when they renew the contract this year. About half of the 26 teams, including the Oakland Athletics and Cleveland Indians, lost money in 1991, and more clubs are expected to do so this year. There are even rumors of one or two franchises going bankrupt within the next few years...
...because, as Perot has demonstrated, presidential candidates no longer have to put their bodies on the line like this to get TV attention. First stop was the tiny San Joaquin Valley farm town of Kerman, a 40-minute motorcade ride from the Fresno airport. At a lunchtime rally in Oakland, Clinton lapsed into an inadvertent parody of his all-things-to-all-voters style when he declared, "I want you to know that I am a pro-growth, pro-business and pro-labor, pro-education, pro- health care, pro-environment, pro-family, pro-choice Democrat." Finally, the Arkansas Governor ended...