I’m feeling hopeful today on Opening Day, but it’s a different kind of hopeful than I feel most Opening Days. My hopefulness has nothing to do with how the A’s might do on the field. I don’t expect them to contend this year and I figure they’ll probably finish in the cellar in the division with a record much like last year’s. What has me hopeful this year is that it seems the end is in sight in the
long awaited quest for a new ballpark, and the ownership finally seems to be caring about the fan experience and is embracing Oakland as it the current and future home of the A’s.