Today we took the BART train under San Francisco Bay to the Oakland Coliseum. Oakland is only about 30 minutes from downtown San Francisco, and a round trip train ticket is $7. Leah wore her Yankees gear and talked trash to all the Red Sox fans. Here's Leah and daddy waiting for the bus to downtown SF....
The Oakland Coliseum is U-G-L-Y, especially the outside. There's actually razor wire on the arch of this fence, see for yourself...
Holy crap, we've never seen a professional baseball stadium that looked like such a dump! The A's share the Coliseum with the Oakland Raiders, so it's larger than a typical baseball park, but it's not just that, the place is a concrete graveyard. Not only is it ugly, but there's also nothing else to do around the area, no bars, restaurants, or other attractions. The stadium is similar to U.S. Cellular Field (Chicago White Sox), in that, it's just a ballpark plopped down in the middle of an industrial grid:
Every Wednesday during the summer, the A's have $2 tickets and $1 hot dogs. So, despite the fact that the stadium was horrible, the game was dirt cheap! The box office was all sold out of $2 tickets, but we bought some from a ticket scalper for $5 each. Here's some other pictures from around the outside of the ballpark:
The inside of the ballpark is actually a little better:
We sat in the upper deck and enjoyed plenty of $1 hot dogs (Marshall ate five):
The A's won 6-4. We had a great time rooting against the Red Sox, and we especially enjoyed booing Big Papi and Kevin Youkilis each time they came to the plate. The A's took the lead in the 3rd inning off Jack Cust's two-run HR and never looked back. Gio Gonzalez got the win, Michael Wuertz got the save and Oakland's defense made some spectacular plays, especially in the outfield.
Here's some pictures of us having fun in the ballpark:
Leah was tired, so she slept through the 4th-7th innings:
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