Stephen Oldfather

…and when your head hits the pillow tonight, Let Us Remember, that GOD IS A GAEL

@wccsupremacy Mantas about to go nuclear!!!!!☢️

Fuck

@Denny_Bulcao @saintmaryshoops @GaelAlumni @smcgaels @MarchMadnessMBB @WCChoops @MJ_GoGaels @GaelsGoneWild4 @RedLineMeme1 @RonGoleman @SteveKronerSF @KristiesTeam @sfchronicle @andybirding9 @ESPNLunardi @JonRothstein @espn @DellyMouthguard @wallyball @SInow @CBSSportsCBB GO GAELS BABY! (also hilarious horns up just to spite A&M) 😂😂😂😂

GO @saintmaryshoops @GaelAlumni @smcgaels @MarchMadnessMBB @WCChoops @MJ_GoGaels @GaelsGoneWild4 @BayAreaPAguy @RedLineMeme1 @RonGoleman @SteveKronerSF @KristiesTeam @sfchronicle @andybirding9 @ESPNLunardi @JonRothstein @espn @DellyMouthguard @wallyball @SInow @CBSSportsCBB 🏀🏆

Sicko PA Announcer of the year for sure 😂😂😂

@TheTimDurham He paid for a checkmark, he's way cooler than us

lol, found the toughest guy on the internet

March Madness bracket if you picked each matchup by which School's Starting 5 was raised FURTHEST from campus

@DamonBruce We welcome you onto the Gaels bandwagon as well, Damon! A three-bid WCC is great for the soul!

On the Santa Clara bandwagon. BEAT KENTUCKY!

@DellyMouthguard @postsbyzack @wccsupremacy @MJ_GoGaels @RonGoleman @GirimonteNicky @gaelsgonewild22 @lhanley_34 @RedLineMeme1 @thE_House7 We come in peace, and expect a great game! But don’t get it twisted, it’s still 👎🏼 until Friday!

Hi Texas A&M fans. If you're looking for Saint Mary's conversation this week, I'd refer you to myself and @postsbyzack @wccsupremacy @MJ_GoGaels is the OG @BayAreaPAguy @RonGoleman @GirimonteNicky @gaelsgonewild22 @lhanley_34 @gaelsgonewild22 @RedLineMeme1 @thE_House7 and others are great BarstoolSaintMary's pops up this time of the year but is not a thing. Ducan means well but will shit post. We don't claim or defend Duncan lol. There are many others in a nice community like @andybirding9 @JakeChow94 But, you'll typically get more content or engagement from the paragraph above. 10 years ago, the fan blog was a good source. Lately, it's often NOT. This week will probably be better than most, but absent Naph and Sideshow (and the folks above) your experience and content is typically better here Sorry to those I omitted in this hasty list!

Saint Mary's is DANCING! #MarchMadness @saintmaryshoops

@100percent3G You’re correct, and all the other replies to this tweet arguing about success after RB retires and the facilities are straight up incorrect. The facilities are great, just small. Our average attendance even in our tiny gym would still be in the upper half of the league as of now.

St. Mary's would be ideal in hoop! I would think the Gaels--and the Bay Area Market would have some value!?!

World, this is Walter Haas Jr. Haas bought the A's in 1980 for around $12 million. The A's were, at the time, the worst team in baseball. (In 1979, they went 54–108.) They had baseball's lowest attendance. The Coliseum, now 14 years old, was drab and showing wear. Oakland, meanwhile, was corkscrewing. The city was bleeding employers. Crime was surging. And its most important institutions all seemed to be abandoning it. Charlie Finley—the man Haas bought the A's from—had been trying for several years to move the team to Denver. Al Davis was in the middle of suing the NFL for the right to move the Raiders to Los Angeles. Things seemed bleak. Just a few years prior, Oakland had been the most successful sports town in America. Now it seemed to be dying. Many outside observers wrote both team and town thoroughly off. No doubt casual fans around the country would have bought the idea that the Oakland Coliseum was no longer a place worth investing in. Haas—former president and CEO of Levi Strauss and Co.—said fuck that. He spent his own money to upgrade the Coliseum. He built up the organization, hiring the likes of Sandy Alderson, Andy Dolich, and, later, Billy Beane. He invested in the community. ("We built 10 little league fields in and around Oakland,” Dolich, an Executive VP, told me, for my book. “Reading programs. Affordability programs to bring little league groups and schools to games. We were partners with the Oakland Zoo. We tried to immerse ourselves in the community. That stuff makes people proud.”) And he compiled a roster full of stars (Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, hometown heroes Dave Stewart and Rickey Henderson). By the end of the 1980s, the A's were the very best team in baseball. They had baseball's second highest attendance. They had baseball's highest payroll and among its highest revenues. They went to three World Series in a row, beating the Giants in one. In 1987, Oakland hosted the All Star game. Health failing, Haas sold the A's in 1995 for $85 million. The price was laughably low—Haas offered buyers a discount, in return for their promise that they keep the A's in Oakland—but it still constituted a massive return on that initial $12 million investment. The idea that the A's, just ten years later, were not an organization worth investing in—that both baseball and business success could never be had in East Oakland—betrays an ignorance of history and a lack of imagination. Fisher could have spent money on players in Oakland. He's a billionaire (richer than Haas was) who collected revenue-sharing checks nearly every year of his tenure. In 2017, he could have built a new stadium right at the Coliseum site. The Raiders were gone (again). He had the historic East Bay market to himself. He could have had what Haas had. He could have given Oakland what he's now giving Las Vegas. Oakland would have rewarded him for it. Let us be frank about what happened: he chose not to. That choice should not be accepted at face value. As Walter Haas's son, Wally, once told the @sfchronicle, it was, rather, "unforgivable." I appreciate Evan's reporting here. It's an incredible about-face we're witnessing. But the history that was thrown away in Oakland is an important part of this story. Without it, the story's incomplete.

@PFTCommenter @ConorDaly22 PFT: Can I volunteer to be the special PMT Indycar/Indy 500 correspondent? The people need to know what’s going on with the best racing series in the world rn! #FastestRacingOnEarth

Lets go.

SMC doing the conference a great service making sure the WCC gets a third team in! It’s selfless really ❤️

@IndyCarOnFOX @joeylogano Haven’t seen car control like this since Joe Tanto back in the day

What a save by Dennis Hauger. @JoeyLogano is impressed.

@MikeHotDogMayor Oh man this is doin numbers

The Taco Bell in Pacifica, CA

there is a direct correlation between pro sports leaving Oakland and life in America getting demonstrably worse

A little biased for sure, but this was the best college basketball atmosphere I’ve ever experienced.

@AndyPattonCBB @MrFuzzihead Agree on all of this. Also still think it's wild that there's 10 first-team players...

@MrFuzzihead Right? So the coaches believe the Zags have 1/23 best players, won the league, and they still didn't award Few Coach of the Year? 🤔

Obscene levels of disrespect

Matthew Dellavedova That guy rocked.

Literally me the past 24 hours:

The Best Student Sections from last week of College Basketball! With many schools already in spring break, there were quite a few disappointments, but some schools really showed out. Saint Mary’s - in a small high school sized gym that turned into prime Cameron Indoor for the night. The last time Gonzaga and SMC will ever play in the WCC regular season, and the rivalry ends with a Gael Victory behind a raucous student section. Mootah State - that Cow-print was so damn adorable, but y’all pulled it off and were electric as per usual. New Mexico - I was at the Pit, and while the student section was solid, the atmosphere was ELITE. Who did I Miss? 👇💬