Here is the opening to my Friday column about the A's 18-inning victory over the former New York Yankees: OAKLAND -- Nate Freiman had mixed emotions after he got the game-winning hit, a bloop single to left with the bases loaded off all-time great pitcher, all-time great guy, for-sure-first-ballot Hall [...]
Here is the opening to my Tuesday column: Let’s play a game for the heck of it. Let’s create an all-star team of the A’s and Giants rosters and see who’s in and who’s out. We played this game the other day on CSNBayArea and the results were unexpected. Here’s [...]
Here is the opening to my column about Jarrod Parker and the Oakland A's: OAKLAND -- This is about A's pitcher Jarrod Parker. The Tigers stole his lunch money on Sunday and then threw him into the bushes. And Detroit beat Oakland 10-1. Parker gave up eight earned runs in [...]
Here is the beginning of my Tuesday column about the A's loss in their home opener: OAKLAND So, this is how it began for the Oakland A’s, a 2-0 loss to the Seattle Mariners. Starting pitcher Brett Anderson struck out the first four batters but lost his location in the [...]
Here is my Oakland A's season preview: For a long time, people associated the Oakland A’s with Moneyball, a concept now outdated — it may, in fact, be discredited. So what name do we use for A’s baseball at the start of this season? That’s easy. Call it “Multi-Ball.” Say [...]
Here is the opening to my Thursday column about Bob Melvin and the Oakland A's: PHOENIX Cut to this scene. A’s manager Bob Melvin sits in the dugout at Phoenix Municipal Stadium on a bright morning. He has met with the media in general, a columnist from another paper and [...]
Here is the opening to my Monday column on an unusual topic in a sports section: PHOENIX -- Down here the talk is all baseball. The other day, I was chatting with A’s batting coach Chili Davis and we discussed hitting to the opposite field and the position of the [...]
Here is the opening to my Friday column about Jemile Weeks: PHOENIX This is about Oakland A's once-and-perhaps-future second baseman Jemile Weeks, but first it's about the refrigerator magnet. At the start of last season, the A's produced a magnetized season schedule you could stick on your refrigerator. It was [...]
Here is the opening to my Friday column about the dispute between the Giants and A's for the rights to Santa Clara County: The Los Angeles Times is reporting a possible breakthrough in the bitter stalemate between the A's and Giants about which team owns the rights to Santa Clara [...]
Here is the opening to my Sunday column about Billy Beane, wheeler-dealer: We were talking about Oakland A's closer Grant Balfour the other night on CSN Bay Area and how Balfour needed surgery and won't be ready for another month or so. Host Jim Kozimor asked the relevant question: If [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.