Welcome to Raisin' Daryl's Friday, September 27th.

Director and Riper Enoceris and Melissa Lockard here with you today.

On this episode, we've discussed the A's final chapter in Oakland.

The last game at the Oak Calsium was played on Thursday.

Both Melissa and Eno were on hand for that.

So we'll talk about some of the happenings then.

And look at some of the bigger picture questions around the franchise as a result of their departure from Oakland.

So a lot to cover today. And we'll get to some fantasy stuff a little bit later on in the show. But Melissa, thanks for joining us. I'm sure

today is an extremely sad day for you as someone who has been an A's fan for a long time. And

we've talked throughout the last year plus now about just the overwhelming

sense of community that gets taken away when a franchise leaves town, right? And I just

wanted to start by sort of backing up and just asking you, how does one become an A's fan,

right? A lot of markets don't have two teams.

If you become a fan of baseball or you don't have a choice of two local teams usually.

So what drew you to the A's when you became a baseball fan?

It's funny. I think partially its location.

I grew up about 20 minutes from the Coliseum and getting to Candlestick Park, though we did do that

for 49er games as a family. It was a lot harder to do on like a weekday school night or

or something like that. So, you know, proximity helped a little bit, but I always liked the

atmosphere there. There was just a lot of energy and kind of uniqueness to it. The colors were cool. They had white cleats

when nobody else wore white cleats. There were signs and music. And there was just a lot for

a little kid to love really quickly. And then it didn't help. I mean, it definitely helped that

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