Somebody jammed something down a toilet?

Remember when the Coliseum’s pipes backed up, and raw sewage was all over the place? Remember when Rob Neyer said we shouldn’t blame this on the Coliseum’s age? Well, it seems the plumbing is fine:

Sunday’s big stink at the Oakland Coliseum was not the result of poor plumbing in an aging stadium, ballpark management says, but rather someone stuffing something down a pipe.

What’s more, the Coliseum’s general manager, Chris Wright, takes issue with statements by the Oakland A’s front office that the raw-sewage backup that forced ballplayers from their locker rooms Sunday was only the latest instance of a common problem.

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Wright ... said there was nothing structurally wrong with the Coliseum’s plumbing — though the pipes involved in Sunday’s incident were not replaced as part of the expansion that accompanied the Oakland Raiders’ return in the 1990s.

The problem Sunday, he said, was that someone jammed something down a toilet that didn’t belong, clogging a line. The line has been cleared and it’s undamaged, he said.

* would have been 10 but A’s can’t afford the whole list