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Welcome to the Roadwire Prospect podcast.

I'm your host, James Anderson, and joined this week by Melissa Lockard, who covers the Oakland A's for the athletic.

And Melissa is as plugged in and as knowledgeable as any beat writer, beat reporter that I know.

And I just thought it would be really fun to kind of talk about the A's, even though, you know, they don't have a ton of big names on the big league roster, but we have so many players on this roster who are kind of getting a chance to

show what they have at the big league level and they've got a replenished farm system.

So I thought it would be a great time to have Melissa on.

Melissa, thanks for joining me.

How are you doing?

I'm doing great.

Thanks for having me on. So before we get into any

players, I just really wanted to quickly let you sort of give kind of a report on where things

kind of stand with fans and ownership there, because I know that's been kind of a messy

situation for a while now, and it's kind of coming to a head it seems this year.

What's your sort of read on this whole situation from someone who is pretty plugged in there?

Yeah, I mean, it's definitely a strange time.

You know, the stadium saga has been one that has gone on, you know, really for almost 25 years. You know, it's been a long time.

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