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Old 02-01-2024, 04:48 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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To b fair, sports dynasties in the modern age are extremely rare.
Close but no cigar for the 2007-11 Phillies.
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Old 02-01-2024, 04:50 PM
 
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According to Wikipedia, the Chiefs won three championships from 62 to 69, which qualifies as a dynasty.
Eight years is too long.
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Old 02-01-2024, 09:14 PM
 
Location: Germantown, Philadelphia
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What does the Bay Area have that we don’t? They’ve had a dynasty in the NFL NBA and MLB (Athletics in the 70s won 3 straight and the Giants). And to rub salt in the wounds 2/4 dynasty teams originated in Philly.
Utter not the name of the A's to me.

The road from Philadelphia to Oakland for that team ran through Kansas City, which swiped the team from Philly in 1955. The team's owner when I was alive, Charles O. Finley, deliberately made the team awful with an eye on moving it out of the city. He succeeded.

But it's an ill wind that blows no good: The consolation prize the city got in 1969 was an expansion team named the Royals, which has been better than any team the A's ever fielded in the city. The Royals have made four appearances in the World Series and won two of them.
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Old 02-02-2024, 04:43 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Utter not the name of the A's to me.

The road from Philadelphia to Oakland for that team ran through Kansas City, which swiped the team from Philly in 1955. The team's owner when I was alive, Charles O. Finley, deliberately made the team awful with an eye on moving it out of the city. He succeeded.
The Yankees used to use them as a minor league team. And they banished Billy Martin there when he was a player for acting up.
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