Good morning follow A's Fans…
I'm a fan from Ireland. I travelled in the USA some years ago, fell in love with baseball and went to the Coliseum for an A's game 2 years ago when I did a 2 week tour of california. I finally found my team…
I'd been to see the Phillys and Yankees already. I'd started to really love baseball. Especially watching in a stadium 🏟. Last year I spent 5 weeks working in new York and went to see the Brooklyn Cyclones at least once a week. It was fantastic!
I knew nothing about the A's or baseball really. But I had a great time at the game. Saw my first walk off win and I was pretty much sitting alone up in the boondocks and a security person (a really kind and salt of the earth person) brought me down to about 5 rows from the front for the final few innings.
I'm now an A's fan and having been to Las Vegas a couple of times, I was initially really excited about them moving there.. However, there seems to be many that are unhappy with it.. The new stadium proposal looks like it landed from outer space!!
But here is my question.. How will it all affect you supporting the A's? I know it will be hard to get to Vegas from Oakland/ San Francisco.
As I follow on my phone from afar and hope that I can get to a game if they move to Vegas (I saw u2 twice in the sphere. It was amazing) I am interested to know how it will affect you.. the fans..
Hope it's not a silly question!!
P.s. I didn't even know that the A's were the team in Moneyball till the guy I ended up sitting beside in the Coliseum told me!!
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I’m trying to figure out how you managed to watch all
Of moneyball and not realize that the Oakland Athletics were the team in the movie with the logo/name plastered everywhere.
If the A’s really move out of Oakland, I think I’m set with being done with MLB and the A’s. Not becoming a Giants fan. I think it’s pretty safe to say most of us Oakland A’s fans feel that way. It just shows that MLB acts like a “Cool Kids Club.” They were all on board with potentially (we’ll see because John Fisher is an idiot himself) ripping out our team from Oakland.
We have a solid fanbase and that I can say very confidently we just historically never had great ownership here in Oakland with the exception of Walter Haas. Charlie Finley made some iconic changes to the A’s that made the A’s what it is now, the Green and Gold, moving the A’s here to Oakland, the Charlie “O” on the jerseys that says “Oakland.” But he also was a Cheapskate, never wanted to spend money, intentionally traded away that Championship Roster from the 70’s. Walter Haas, invested into the team and payroll thats how we became a Juggernaut of a team in the 80’s with us winning the 1989 World Series. Lew Wolff and especially John Fisher were cheapskates when they bought the team in 2005. They never wanted to invest into their franchise. When John Fisher became full owner and bought the rest of Wolff’s ownership stakes, John Fisher went all in on stripping the team to it’s bare bones, raised ticket prices, raised concession stand prices, clearly does not want to fund a stadium out of his pocket.
Oakland just never really had a solid chance to have a great owner or ownership group to fully invest into it’s team throughout the A’s time here in Oakland. We could have had Joe Lacob, who clearly wants to win and had an even higher bid to buy the A’s in 2005 compared to Lew Wolff. But Bud Selig approved the sale to Wolff because they were Frat buddies in College. Reggie Jackson also had a higher bid I believe that even consisted of Bill Gates in his ownership group he aligned.
We understand that MLB is a business at the end of the day but even them ripping this team out of here is not only bad for us fans but it’s also bad for the Owners pockets itself. Sorry for my rant but yeah it’s safe to say most of us will be done with MLB if this happens