Only 200-some people were inside the Oakland Coliseum to watch the A’s take on the San Francisco Giants in an exhibition game Monday night.
Well, there were 5,100 people if you count the sea of cardboard cutouts occupying the green seats A’s fans once filled.
Yes, after a four-month hiatus, countless rounds of league vs. player negotiations, nerve-wracking testing delays and three short weeks of spring training 2.0, a major league-level baseball game was played in the . . .
Manaea offered up a solution.