Coco Crisp's Afro
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A baseball publication that embraces the absurdity of life, the 8-1 putout, and the history of the OAKLAND Athletics (cococrispafro@gmail.com)
Coco Crisp's Afro
1M ago
I’m lazing in the broiling sun, drinking a beer and watching players warm-up when the jerry rigged speakers crackle to life. “Will the person who owns the rust-colored 1982 Oldsmobile Cutlass who parked in the handicapped section please come to customer services?” A man wearing a Led Zeppelin t- shirt and bell bottoms rises from ..read more
Coco Crisp's Afro
4M ago
Like every MLB team, the A’s will hold a Fan Fest this winter. Except the A’s Fan Fest will be provided by the fans, (ahem…for the second year in a row) because team ownership is too busy figuring out how to expel their noses from the butts of Nevada politicians while jacking up ticket and ..read more
Coco Crisp's Afro
6M ago
Did you ever have a girlfriend break up with you but then have the audacity to ask to continue living in your mutual home for a little while while her new boyfriend builds their future love shack? Well, that is what’s essentially happening with the Oakland/Las Vegas Pathetics and I have one thing to say ..read more
Coco Crisp's Afro
6M ago
“They used to call it a Texas-Leaguer…then it was called a blooper…now it is called a flare.” –Vin Scully I had COVID a few weeks back and the effects were minimal as I only felt sluggish and had a sore throat for about a week. Admittedly, it was a bummer of a time but I ..read more
Coco Crisp's Afro
7M ago
“I opened my eyes and saw the real world, and I began to laugh and I haven’t stopped since.” — Kierkegaard Statistical guru Bill James recently laid bare that Tony Phillips has a higher career WAR than Braves poster boy Dale Murphy in a shocking (to me at least) expose. To be fair, James has ..read more
Coco Crisp's Afro
7M ago
“Let them eat cake”–Marie Antoinette How it looks: the Oakland A’s are a pathetic franchise that plays in an archaic, crumbling, feces-strewn, possum-infested stadium, only draw about 3,000 fans per home game, and have a squad of no-talents and nobodies that expect to lose 100 games. The reality: According to Forbes, the A’s were the ..read more
Coco Crisp's Afro
7M ago
“Baseball must be a great game because the owners haven’t been able to kill it.” –Bill Veeck My hangover was so bad that it seemed to have its own scent and even its own material existence. It was putting me in a mood of general malaise, and I decided it was time for an evening ..read more
Coco Crisp's Afro
7M ago
“And it is only after seeing man as his unconscious, revealed by his dreams, presents him to us that we shall understand him fully.“–Sigmund Freud She said, “I’m pregnant, and it’s yours,” but before I could hash out the details (I didn’t even know her) I was jolted awake feeling like I was holding a ..read more
Coco Crisp's Afro
7M ago
A few months back I mentioned that I was going to be published in a book called Backyards to Ballparks. I decided to re-print the essay. If you’re interested in the book, the link can be found here. ************************* At 12 years old, along with everything Star Wars related, there was, of course, baseball with ..read more
Coco Crisp's Afro
7M ago
Thank goodness the All-Star break is finally here…meaning the John Fisher Deep Dive Into Hell is halfway over. The abomination known as the Oakland A’s were swept by the Red Sox over the weekend and I watched with a sense of schadenfreude, taking a sort of sick pleasure in watching bonehead plays (of which there ..read more