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Charles Curtis

The possum living inside the A’s stadium walls is still a huge problem for visiting announcers

How bad have things gotten at the A’s stadium at RingCentral Coliseum, ranked as the worst MLB stadium in 2023?

The answer begins in 2022. It was back in May that we wrote about the possum that had invaded the press box. You’d figure that someone from the franchise would have gone in and taken the creature out of there, right?

Well, NOPE.

Because over the weekend, the visiting New York Mets’ broadcast team at SNY detailed the fact that they weren’t calling the game against the A’s from the visiting box.

They had to move because the possum is still there, living in the wall and appeared during the opening game of the season in Oakland and had avoided traps. And when Gary Cohen and Co. got to the stadium, they were sent away because the “stench” of possum … droppings … was very present.

Uh, yeah. This isn’t great.

If it was helping the A’s win games, I’d feel differently. But nope.

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