<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">49er's 2-14 Lowlight: A 32-16 loss to the equally pathetic Giants, who came in 1-5. Raiders 9-7 Lowlight: Getting swept for the first time by the rival Chiefs. Giants 71-91 Lowlight: Johnnie LeMaster gets booed -- just as he asked for. Oakland A's 54-108 Lowlight: A 5-24 record in June is still worst month in Oakland history. Warriors 24-58 Lowlight: Robert Parish plus Kevin McHale does not equal J.B. Carroll -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In recent years, the Bay Area professional sports scene has been almost as good as it gets. Twenty-five years ago, it couldn't have been much worse. </div> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...DTL&type=sports
Read the artcile in the chronicle this morning. the A's looked horrible,The Raiders were decent,The 49ers were crappy,and the Warriors were just the Warriors To think you guys traded away Mchale and Parrish..That was a big time mistake Thankfully were not in 1979 anymore,and hopefully we can look back on this as just a blunder in the eye of Bay Area sports
We have truely been blessed and spoiled here in the bay area the past couple of years. Before last season, the Raiders and Niners were always locked in as a playoff team. The A's and Giants have both been in the playoffs for a few years now, the Giants making all the way to the Series. The Sharks almost made it to the Stanely Cup. The Sabercats won the Arena Bowl. Now its the Warriors turn.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">"Everybody has hindsight,'' Attles said recently. "But there were a lot of other issues involved including Robert's (pending) free agency. And you look at Joe Barry's numbers, they were not that bad. He just never seemed to connect with the community here.'' </div> Ok, now I feel better about it.
In A year in which Joe Montana and Dwight Clark were drafted, Bill Walsh was hired, and the team competed admirablely (6 of their loses were by a touchdown or less), could hardly be called a disaster retrospectively. Especially compared to the three previous seasons ( Plunkett, Monte Clark, The OJ trade) which were totally devoid of hope. In August 1979, the A's saw Rickey Henderson make his debut. The Giants stunk in '78 and '80 and wouldn't get better for a while. As for the Warriors, that trade is probably the worst trade in Basketball history (at least in the bottom five), and was a harbinger for things to come. It was not as mindless as it's made out to be. Selfish? Definitely. Ultimately it was Franklin Meullis' last gasp effort at trying to hang on to the team that he loved so much. He simply couldn't pay Parrish and a top three pick (he couldn't pay Rick Barry the year before), and eventually sold the team
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting meshgearfox:</div><div class="quote_post"> In August 1979, the A's saw Rickey Henderson make his debut. The Giants stunk in '78 and '80 and wouldn't get better for a while. </div> Ah yes August of 1979 was history in the making as the debut of Rickey Henderson,as he became one of the best base stealing S.O.B's of all time :thumbsup: ..Once Henderson became a regular player,baseball was never the same And the Giants not being a great team...Mccovey wasn't the same player he use to be,so the giants were not all that Now all of the Bay Area sports teams are sucessful(except for a certain NBA team that plays at the coliseum arena ) Too bad i can't remember any of it..i was a baby in diapers
Say what you want about Rickey, but he's the best leadoff hitter of all time, and arguably top ten, all-time.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting meshgearfox:</div><div class="quote_post">Say what you want about Rickey, but he's the best leadoff hitter of all time, and arguably top ten, all-time.</div>No doubt about that. useless sidenote- I was named after Rickey Henderson(My middle name is Rickey).
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Rudeezy:</div><div class="quote_post">No doubt about that. useless sidenote- I was named after Rickey Henderson(My middle name is Rickey).</div> Rudeezy..Cool..I Attended the same high school that Rickey went too!
