{"id":5742,"date":"2012-10-03T19:07:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T03:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2016-01-27T19:03:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T03:03:54","slug":"oakland-as-american-league-western-division-champions-team-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/2012\/10\/03\/oakland-as-american-league-western-division-champions-team-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland A&#8217;s American League Western Division Champions Team Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Major League Baseball teams that are 13 games back on June 30th don&#8217;t usually win their division, but that&#8217;s what the red hot Oakland Athletics did by winning their final six games including a three game sweep over the Western division leading Texas Rangers. On August 21st when this photo was taken, the A&#8217;s were 5 games behind the Western Division leading Texas Rangers. The Athletics over came that very same 5 game deficit in the final nine days of the season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By chance the day the photo was taken, \u00a0Al Saracevic, Sports Editor for the San Francisco Chronicle was there and wrote about the experience of doing the team photo for a Major League ball club. You can find the story on the <a title=\"Oakland A's team picture day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/default\/article\/Team-picture-day-in-the-big-leagues-3815650.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFgate website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5745\" title=\"Oakland Athelitcs 2012 Team Picture\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/As-Team.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland A's team photo in center field of O. co Stadium\" width=\"838\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/As-Team.jpg 838w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/As-Team-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This team photo some what reminds of the another Bay Area MLB team photo day two years ago when not much thought was given to the playoffs. Here&#8217;s how that team photo day turned out for the <a title=\"The Giants win the pennant\" href=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/2010\/10\/25\/san-francisco-giants-team-photo-day-august-24th-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">2010 National League Western Division champion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Coaches pictured in Photo: #6 Manager Bob Melvin, #44 Bullpen coach Rick Rodriguez, #46 First Base coach Tye Waller, #3 Third Base coach Mike Gallego.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball teams that are 13 games back on June 30th don&#8217;t usually win their division, but that&#8217;s what the red hot Oakland Athletics did by winning their final six games including a three game sweep over the Western division leading Texas Rangers. On August 21st when this photo was taken, the A&#8217;s were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[]},"categories":[3],"tags":[2035,2051,2031,2026,2037,2052,2025,2036,551,552,224,460,14,2032,2033,2024,2053,2027,223],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7489,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions\/7489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}