Angry Oakland athletics Fans came in with a single message to owner John Fisher: “SELL.”
“Sell the team!” they chanted a thousand times in team A’s 2-1 win over team Rays of Tampa . Bay that gave Oakland its best seven-game winning streak of the season.
Friends Brian Guido and Scott Finney in Sacramento each left for work early on Tuesday because there was no way they would miss the festivities a few hours away in Oakland.
“I’ve only been to one game this year. I watched this one and I knew I had to come because I knew it was going to be epic and would send a message to the owners that this is what the fans do. want,” Finney said. “They want ownership to sell the team so they can stay in Oakland.”
Thousands of disappointed, heartbroken fans of Team A arrived early to gather and unite at the Oakland Coliseum ahead of the Rays-A game to both celebrate their team and protest against plans to move to Las Vegas. They call it a reverse boycott aimed at bringing as many people to the ballpark as possible, complete with bright green “SALE” t-shirts made by local Oaklandish company that will go towards 7,000 the first to receive gifts planned by fans.
The season’s best viewership count of 27,759 was the largest audience for a team A game on Tuesday since they drew 33,654 against the Dodgers on August 7, 2018. They jumped and danced. dance in my chair when Trevor May complete to save.
But after a while, garbage was thrown onto the pitch from all directions and it didn’t stop immediately as fans remained stationary and police and security took over the field. The team continued to water and work.
A “We’re Here!” Posters provide specific instructions for each round, such as chanting “Sell Team! Sell Team!” to the first Tampa Bay hitter at the beginning of the round and “Stay in Oakland!” followed by five claps for the first hitter in the bottom half.
The drummers at the right school also rarely return. The Wave runs for almost 10 minutes.
Siblings Leslie Pelon and Clark Keele play weights and drums in the right-court continuity.
As children, they used to earn $2 a Tuesday, the amount their family could afford when their father attended Cal Berkeley. Now in Porterville, they did a four-hour walk on Tuesday.
Keele said: “If the Colosseum shakes again, I must be here.
In April, Ben Verlander and Alex Curry discussed the news that A’s had purchased land in Las Vegas and planned to build a new stadium for the franchise. Ben and Alex talk about what this means for fans of MLB and A.
They were there for Eric Chavez’s cyclical hit almost 23 years ago on June 21, 2000.
Pelon said: “I always say that I was born to be an A-team fan; I was born during the ’89 World Series.
Team A announced a few hours before their first pitch that they would donate all ticket sales from the game to charity, the Alameda County Community Food Bank and the Oakland Public Education Foundation – total plus $811,107.
Mother and daughter Leslie and Justin Lopez walk together in a SELL t-shirt that reflects the meaning of the letter A in their lives — Justin, 27, has been into the game since he was 8 months old. He’s devastated every year watching the All-Stars depart to bigger markets in free agency or all the other stars being traded off.
“It’s sad to see. We feel like we’ve been disenfranchised in history,” Justin Lopez said, embracing his mother.
Pepito Mendez, 3, from Pittsburg, amused himself by throwing a beanbag (with a poop emoji) at placards with the faces of Fisher and Team President Dave Kaval.
Father Paco is considering canceling tickets for the 2024 season.
“We’re thinking of not re-signing next year because of this,” he said. “Hopefully he sells it locally. I wish I had enough money to buy it. It doesn’t look good to us.”
Rays manager Kevin Cash appreciates the passion of Oakland fans.
“A’s fans are good fans. We played here, I think it was in ’19, in the wild card game and it was one of the best atmospheres I’ve ever had. witnessed in an opponent’s stadium,” he said. “So if it is, it should be loud and fun.”
There’s even a sign-painting station in the southeast parking lot where 13-year-old Hunter Martini from Rohnert Park painted the words “Stay AND SELL”.
“I’ve been a fan of A since I was 3 years old,” the boy said.
For Mark Maier, more than five decades have passed.
The 70-year-old San Rafael resident has attended A-team games since the club moved West in 1968. Maier holds a sign painted green and yellow in Spanish that reads “VENDE” with the letter V and the logo of the letter A upside down.
“So sad,” his wife, Hallie, said.
“It’s sad,” Maier replied.
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