A’s fans know better than anyone else what “Moneyball” means, and it means saying goodbye, again and again and again.
It means heartbreak. And it means getting stuck with yet another A’s T-shirt with the name of the dearly departed on it.
This week, the people to whom A’s fans were saying goodbye to were the beloved Sean Doolittle and fellow reliever Ryan Madson. Gone, farewell, poof. They were shown the door so fast that fan Phil Johnson, who bought himself a lower-deck seat to Monday night’s game, hadn’t gotten the word.