UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: California’s a Trailblazer Again, Fields Baseball’s First Homeless Team. “On Thursday, the Seattle Mariners will kick off their 2025 season with a game at home against ‘the Athletics.’ Not the Oakland Athletics, although the team’s ignominious abandonment of its home since 1968 is still so recent that its season schedule page at MLB.com still carries an ad that tries to entice you to visit lovely Oakland.”