Oakland Athletics’ JJ Bleday (33) looks up as he crosses home plate after hitting a home run during the second inning against the Seattle Mariners at the Oakland Coliseum on Thu May 4, 2023 (AP News photo)

On the A’s podcast with Daniel:

#1 The Seattle Mariners (15-16) Taylor Trammell slugged his second home run in five games after coming off the IL and drove in three runs in Seattle’s 5-3 win on Thursday as the Oakland A’s (6-26) got swept in three games.

#2 Trammell said that his hitting is consistent when pitches are over the plate and not being able to pull the pitch and to hit the ball to all different fields.

#3 A’s starter Drew Rucinski got touched up for two runs in the top of the fourth and three in the top of the fifth was this just a matter of control or the M’s were just seeing the ball pretty good off Rucinski’s pitches?

#4 The A’s attendance did improve over the previous two games getting 13,025 where they got 5,268 on Wednesday night in the their 7-2 ten inning loss that had a 66 minute rain delay.

#5 The A’s have not presented a solid plan according to Nevada Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D-Las Vegas) who said the A’s have no renderings or no proposed public money for the structure on a new A’s ballpark the A’s need $500 million in funding. There are some 32 days left on the legislative calendar and time is running out. Yeager said that if something was going to happen it should have happened last week. If time runs out on the Las Vegas ballpark proposal do you see the A’s having to go back to Oakland Sheng Thao and revisit the possibility of restarting Howard Terminal in Oakland?

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