{"id":4145,"date":"2013-08-25T07:32:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2013-08-25T08:25:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T14:25:10","slug":"ballpark-tour-mcafeenetwork-associates-coliseum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/ballpark-tour-mcafeenetwork-associates-coliseum\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour: McAfee\/Network Associates Coliseum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stadium Name:<\/strong> McAfee\/Network Associates\u00a0Coliseum<\/p>\n

Location:<\/strong> Oakland<\/p>\n

Home Team:<\/strong> A’s<\/p>\n

Years in Service:<\/strong> 1968 – Present<\/p>\n

Visits:<\/strong> 2<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Oakland\u2013Alameda County Coliseum opened in 1966 as the home of the Oakland Raiders. \u00a0Two years later, Charlie Finley moved his A’s from Kansas City to Oakland and became the baseball tenant of the stadium. \u00a0In 1998,\u00a0the stadium became known as Network Associates Coliseum. \u00a0In mid-2004, Network Associates was renamed McAfee and the stadium was renamed McAfee Coliseum accordingly. \u00a0Following the 2008 season, the name reverted back to Oakland\u2013Alameda County Coliseum until April 27, 2011, when it was renamed Overstock.com Coliseum. Just over a month later, the Coliseum was renamed O.co Coliseum, after Overstock.com’s marketing name. \u00a0The A’s have officially been looking for a new home since 2005, with Major League Baseball sitting on a feasibility study for over 4 years on the team’s potential future in the East Bay.<\/p>\n

Both times I’ve traveled to the Bay area, I’ve taken in both Giants and A’s games.\u00a0 My first trip to what at the time was called Network Associates Coliseum was on September 6, 1999 while I was out west visiting my friend Scott.\u00a0 The Tigers triumphed over the A’s that day, and my one memory of the stadium is that the seats were not necessarily positioned in such a way as to face the field for baseball purposes.<\/p>\n

My second trip to the Bay area, for the JavaOne conference in 2008, actually started out with a BART trip out to Oakland for a 2-1 A’s victory over the Orioles on May 5th.\u00a0 The A’s had opnened up three sections of the third deck as designated All-You-Can-Eat seats, where, for the price of the ticket, free ballpark fare was included.\u00a0 While I enjoyed the novelty of the free foodstuffs, the seats, while directly behind home plate, were horrible.\u00a0 Leaving early in order to catch the train back to San Francisco led to the problem of trying to get out of the stadium, since none of the gates were open.<\/p>\n

The A’s have spent nearly a decade trying to find a new home, and with good reason.\u00a0 The Coliseum is mainly configured for the Raiders and the A’s have been second class citizens in their own home for decades.\u00a0 Earlier this year, a game had to be postponed due to a sewage backup.\u00a0 While the A’s, MLB, and San Jose try to figure things out in the courtroom, the A’s will continue to be behind the 8-ball due to their stadium situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stadium Name: McAfee\/Network Associates\u00a0Coliseum Location: Oakland Home Team: A’s Years in Service: 1968 – Present Visits: 2 The\u00a0Oakland\u2013Alameda County Coliseum opened in 1966 as the home of the Oakland Raiders. \u00a0Two years later, Charlie Finley moved his A’s from Kansas City to Oakland and became the baseball tenant of the stadium. \u00a0In 1998,\u00a0the stadium became […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[123,3655,3650,3632,608,3651,3654,3649,50,3653,3652,3598,661,230],"class_list":["post-4145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-as","tag-bart","tag-charlie-finley","tag-java-one","tag-mcafee-coliseum","tag-network-associates-coliseum","tag-o-co-coliseum","tag-oakland-alameda-county-coliseum","tag-orioles","tag-overstock-com","tag-overstock-com-coliseum","tag-raiders","tag-scott","tag-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4479,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions\/4479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}