![]() ![]() ![]() Gibbons was appropriately feted by the crowd of 22,828 – pushing the season attendance total to 2,325,281, nearly 900,000 tickets down from last year’s total of 3,203,886 – getting a standing ovation as he walked the lineup card out to the umpires before the game, and during every pitching change. How was your season? The flowers of the past may have died long ago, but official word that manager John Gibbons, his place secure in the pantheon of pivotal franchise figures, “will not be returning” in 2019 in the words of GM Ross Atkins, turned Wednesday’s home finale – a 3-1 victory over the just-clinched-the-AL-West – into yet another eulogy. This year it didn’t work because of the same reasons, the front office took a wrecking ball to the place and the rebuild is on and it’s due. ![]() In 2017 it didn’t because some players declined, injuries hit and the easy-to-undo off-season additions didn’t sufficiently paper over the gaps. ![]()
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