[IBL] Musing About (Oakland) Athletics and Something Else...

[Sean Sweda]

> On Apr 5, 2024, at 10:37 PM, Nelson Lu via Members <members at lists.ibl.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi, folks -
> 
> Just musing/mourning the end of the Oakland Athletics - and pondering, given that they’ll allegedly be just “the Athletics” (not Oakland, Sacramento, or Las Vegas Athletics), would they be “ATH” in IBL ’26?

I’m inclined to go with LV (or LAS) since that is where they will end up, then there’s only one name change to manage.  If Retrosheet decides to stick with OAK then it is less effort to go with that in the interim.  Either way, F-U John Fisher.

> And talking about that - once my boy is in elementary school fall of this year, I am going to see if I would have time/energy to return to the league.  Would potentially like to return as “the Devils” (no geographic names) at that point…

It would be great to have you back!

Sean