Moneybailed
🦞🥞 Vol. 2, No. 7
Here lies the Oakland Athletics. Murdered by the failson Gap heir John Fisher.
I can’t do justice to the injustice of how John Fisher did all of the A’s fans, who stuck by the team through so many seasons of pathetically underfunded baseball. There’s literally a famous book and movie about how hard it was to succeed with these cheap-ass owners.
Here are just a few of the many fans and experts who’ve said it better than I could, as we all witnessed the A’s play their final home game at the Oakland Coliseum this week:
MLB World Rips John Fisher After Athletics' Final Game at Oakland Coliseum (Sports Illustrated)
From Tom Hanks to Dame Lillard, mourning the Oakland A’s: ‘It’s pretty heartbreaking’ (The Athletic)
No one captured the collective vibe better than former SportsCenter anchor turned ABC Bay Area sports man, Larry Beil.
Next stop, a multi-year stopover in Sacramento, before (hopefully) moving into their permanent home as the 7th most popular thing to do in Vegas every night.
How did Cal Twitter enter the zeitgeist of college football culture?
It started with a simple meme about Cal’s win over Auburn:
That tweet generated over 5 million views and 4K+ retweets. All of a sudden, Cal fans–who used to have a passable sense of humor–started finding their rhythm in the emerald mines of modern Twitter.
From there, Berkeley’s digital antifa took over with all the memes:
Though the Golden Bears and my Trojans are now separated by conference distance, it is good to see our comrades in Berkeley have found their sense of humor.
Taylor Swift Spurred 30% Boost in Chiefs’ Fan Base, CEO Says
Years from now, there will be a group of Chiefs fans who have followed the team for decades because their favorite pop star as a kid dated a dude on the team. How can you not be romantic about the monoculture?
How The OC saved indie rock
“Saved” feels strong but hard to deny that for one brief window in the mid-’00s, The OC had an outsized impact on music.
The real saviours of indie rock are clearly these guys:
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What’s Happening to Entertainment?
Ted Gioia with a few signs of what he calls “expanding crisis in legacy arts and entertainment institutions.”
Historic Newspaper Uses Janky AI Newscasters Instead of Human Journalists
Borrowed this one from Ted’s piece above, and sadly I’d expect this will be common amongst all of the papers that have been rolled up and gutted by P/E investors. The future is full of fakes.
Succession's Brian Cox & ASICS Promote World Mental Health Day
Well damn, I rather liked this one.
GOOD READING
For this week’s pairing, I am going to really put myself out there and share a site who I’ve been borrowing heavily from for the content you’ve loved on Sunday Bunch.
[SIC] by Ben Dietz offers a free weekly but an additional Sunday edition and a daily digest of links for paying subscribers. If you can’t get enough of the links here, Ben’s serving up 5-10x what I do here every Thursday. Get some.
October is here, so you know what that means:
🙏 Many Thanks for the shout, Kyle! 🙏