We may wear different colors, but we all share a love for the game. For years as Pittsburgh Pirates fans, we’ve watched our team get gutted, season after season. Ownership refuses to spend, refuses to compete, and seems content with mediocrity (at best) while raking in revenue. The city, the fans, and the game deserve better.

We're not asking for sympathy—we're asking for solidarity. Help us send a message that ownership apathy has no place in Major League Baseball. Sign our petition to pressure Bob Nutting to sell the team and give Pittsburgh a fighting chance. Baseball is better when all teams play to win.

Thank you for standing with us.

https://chng.it/CSM7tVmnjP

To Our Fellow Baseball Fans
byu/Altruistic-Cod1 inOaklandAthletics

7 comments

  1. Yeah great idea to put this in this sub. “Baseball is better when all teams play to win”. Our team didn’t play to win and then left us

  2. Dunno if you know this pal, but there’s no MLB team in Oakland anymore. That team is now playing in a minor league ballpark some miles away.

    Maybe you heard about it? It was literally like the movie Major League come to life. Except what was weird is no other fan base in the league seemed to give a shit about the little guy. The owner won, and 29 other fan bases were silent.

    I see you’re posting this across a bunch of subreddits. Hope the rest of the teams see you, and respond to you, and go to bat for you better than you did for us the last few years.

  3. Oakland fans sounded the alarm years ago on these very issues and tried to draw attention to what bad ownership can do to a team. Our message was that if this could happen to us then it can happen to any fanbase in MLB. Did you care at all about our plight then? Or only now when it’s affecting your team?

  4. Yeah, we needed your help a couple of years ago and got none.

    None from your fanbase or any other.

  5. I get the sentiment, and I respect the effort — but just being real with you, we tried everything in Oakland. Sell shirts, reverse boycott, get national media attention, rally politicians… and it didn’t move the needle.

    A Change.org petition isn’t going to scare an owner who’s already committed to squeezing every dollar out of the team. I wish it worked — truly — but from here, it feels like yelling into the void.

  6. I’ll sign and share because I’d like to help in some fashion. And maybe. Just maybe what happened to us won’t happen to you.

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