The Oakland A’s clinched the AL West pennant on Sunday when the Texas Rangers lost to the Kansas City Royals. Oakland’s team pulled away from Texas in their division with yet another strong late-season run. Entering play Sunday, they had won 21 of their last 28 games.

Here are 17 awesome things about the Oakland A’s:

1. They wear green and gold

Seems like nearly every team in baseball wears some combination of blue and red. It’s borderline infuriating. No major sport features such a limited palette of colors. But the A’s do their own thing. They’re the only team in the Majors with green as their primary color.

2. The best player you’ve never heard of

Josh Donaldson didn’t even make the All-Star Team in 2013, but he’s been the best player on one of the sport’s best teams all season. He hits for power, he gets on base, and he plays excellent defense at third base. It probably won’t be enough to win him the AL MVP Award, but he should certainly be in the conversation.

3. And he kind of looks like Conan O’Brien

For multiple reasons, the A’s are decidedly on #TeamCoco.

4. They dominate Twitter

The A’s feature great Twitter users up and down their roster. While plenty of ballplayers take to the social-media site to show the world how boring they can be, Oakland can boast several legitimately funny Tweeters in their bullpen alone. Looking for some ballplayers to follow? Start here.

5. Moneyball still works

The popularity of Michael Lewis’ Moneyball and the film adaptation have led plenty of fans and media to misconstrue the term “Moneyball” in countless ways. But the idea behind it is pretty simple: The A’s use all the information at their disposal to find players that are, for whatever reason, undervalued in baseball. They won their division with a payroll half those of the Rangers and Angels.

6. Incredible home-field advantage

Nearly every team plays better at home, but the A’s have an advantage no other team in baseball can boast: Raw sewage. Certainly the A’s themselves don’t enjoy the fact that sewage sometimes leaks into the clubhouses at O.Co Coliseum, but you have to figure they’re more comfortable with it than their opponents by now.

7. Eric Sogard’s glasses

Second baseman Eric Sogard is a defensive wizard and he looks like Harry Potter. Lots of guys wear prescription lenses on the field, but none looks as stylish as Sogard while doing so.

8. They have a guy named Coco Crisp

The A’s have a guy named Coco Crisp. Technically his first name’s Covelli, but everyone calls him Coco. You’ve probably heard his name enough that it no longer seems special, but let it marinate for a second: The A’s have a guy named Coco Crisp.

9. They have the best pig roasts

After Yoenis Cespedes defected from Cuba, he wooed Major League teams with a highlight video that was remarkable for a variety of reasons, none more so than the fact that it inexplicably included a shot of him spit-roasting a pig.

10. Racing Rickey Henderson

No disrespect to sausages or Presidents, but no sausage or President ever looked as good as Rickey running around a baseball field. Henderson works for the A’s. And not surprisingly, he’s a fan of racing Rickey. Rollie Fingers and Dennis Eckersley are also pretty sweet.

11. Baseball’s angriest Aussie

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Closer Grant Balfour is the best of the four Australian-born players that saw time in the big leagues in 2013. He has become popular in Oakland for what’s now called “Balfour RAGE” after the way he fires himself up on the mound. Whenever he comes into a game, the crowd starts carrying on like a mosh pit at a hardcore show.

12. Their defense

The A’s are tops in the Majors in defensive efficiency — the percentage of batted balls turned into outs. They do it with a combination of defensive shifting and old-fashioned glovework.

13. Bartolo Colon is still going

Look at this guy. Colon won the AL Cy Young Award with the Angels in 2005, then spent most of the next five seasons injured and ineffective. Now, at 40 years old and after a variety of controversial treatments (legal and otherwise), he’s having one of the best seasons of his career. And he’s doing it with the highest percentage of fastballs in the Majors despite not throwing particularly hard. But he makes it move, and he’s got great control.

14. Tom Hanks is a fan

Most Hollywood stars drift toward the Dodgers, but the best Hollywood star roots for his hometown Oakland A’s. They’ve got Forrest Gump in their corner. It’s a big plus.

15. Their incredible mustache history

This is almost impossible to believe and even more difficult to reconcile, but Major League Baseball went over 50 years without a single player fashioning any sort of facial hair. That embarrassing stretch ended when the 1972 A’s broke the mold and went on to win the World Series and usher in a league-wide facial-hair Renaissance.

16. Stomper the Elephant

Way, way back in baseball history, when the A’s played in Philadelphia, they actually had a reputation for spending big on players. New York Giants manager John McGraw called them a “White Elephant,” a popular term at the time to mean something that looked pretty but required impossible upkeep. A’s manager and owner Connie Mack embraced the term and put white elephants on his team’s uniform. That set off a chain of events that ended with Stomper the Elephant showing up at some fans’ wedding this season.

Also worth noting: Connie Mack’s real name was “Cornelius McGillicuddy, Sr.”

17. A.J. Griffin’s hair

The A’s have an actual viking in their starting rotation. No team has a better collection of oddball looks, really. Sogard’s glasses, Griffin’s hair, Josh Reddick’s beard, Yoenis Cespedes’ roasting pig. Oakland is where you go if you’re a baseball player and you want to express yourself. It’s wonderful.

(GIFs via Fangraphs, MLB GIFS