- NBC just dropped
#MLB
- ESPN dropping MLB coverage after ‘24
- 3 teams’ regional cable providers have gone bankrupt & broadcasts moved to free streaming
- Bally’s/Diamond (12 more teams) on the verge of bankruptcy
Rob Manfred is killing baseball.
Watch some
#MLB
broadcasts. Every ad is for an injury lawyer, sportsbook, or whatever the fuck “Build Submarines Dot Com” is.
I bet every regional/ESPN/TBS is losing money on broadcasts. There’s no way the ad revenue is high enough to justify what they’re spending for TV rights.
If Ken Rosenthal is writing it, that means it’s something the owners are really starting to turn on. The
#Athletics
Fisher/Kaval era is about to end.
Joe Lacob - the time is now. You already rescued one Bay Area franchise, time to revitalize another. 🙏🏻
I’ll lay this out so everyone understands.
Dave Kaval came out of yesterday’s meeting with Oakland/AlCo humiliated and devoid of leverage.
He went to the press and told them to run this Sac story, thinking it’d give him some leverage.
It will not. What a clown. 🤡
#Athletics
Excellent thread. MLB is at an all-time crisis point, all signs point to a massive shift in public support of the sport and of billionaires extorting cities for funding. The league needs to change and begin culling the problem owners, starting with John Fisher.
#SELL
I can no longer contain my thoughts on the A's temporary move to Sacramento, and want to get a couple of things out there. So with my apologies, a thread... 1/
My first (and maybe last)
#SpringTraining
game ended with a solid
#Athletics
victory.
Hey
@DaveKaval
, that guy that called you a bum and a shmuck to your face as you left the stadium was me. I only used those non-profane words because there were kids around. Have a nice night!
@JLGood4ThaPeepl
@WillHoo99
I would return the role of Commissioner to a stewardship role and not one that is subservient to owners. As a lot of people on this thread have said, ending blackouts and moving all games to a single streaming platform would grow the game again.
And keep the A’s in Oakland.
#Athletics
fans everywhere applaud Trevor May for being the first A’s player to say what all the fans have been saying all year.
Sell the team, Fisher. You absolute fuckin clown.
Also congrats on your retirement,
@IamTrevorMay
!
@Steel6Rings
I just think like if MLB eventually broadcasts all its own games without RSN’s, is there any way they get enough ad revenue to make that work? If all the RSN’s are getting crushed by the current deals I’d think MLB would get crushed too.
John Fisher is at the 1-yard line in Vegas with his latest
#StadiumScam
, praying for a last minute resolution to the situation.
#Athletics
fans deserve a competent owner and a new stadium in Oakland. MLB needs to step in, and they know it. Manfred just doesn’t have the balls.
Rob Manfred should force the A’s to be sold to a local group, tap Bob Myers as the team president, then grant Vegas an expansion franchise. Far better chance at success than John Fisher picking the pockets of taxpayers for free cash to fuel his dysfunction.
Through 307 career games,
#Athletics
3B Matt Chapman has 85 doubles and 56 HR.
Complete list of players who have accomplished this feat:
Pujols
A-Rod
DiMaggio
Williams
He's the best defender in MLB, too. It's time to start recognizing he's the second best player in the league.
The
#Athletics
let their entire sales and marketing teams go during COVID and have now committed to going full Major League.
John Fisher = Rachel Phelps
He is purposely trying to sell as few tickets as possible. I can’t believe this is actually happening but it is.
@mike_atlantic
Maybe. I think soccer, specifically the Champions League and Premier League, are more likely to surpass MLB in ratings/ad revenue. NHL is like a hybrid of MLB & NBA in that it is mostly regional, but it does do a good job of promoting its stars imo.
Shameless plug: I have a podcast!
@YLTFGBpod
is mostly football based but we love to bash MLB owners and Rob Manfred on there too! Would appreciate a follow on here or on Spotify!
#SELL
#Athletics
The worst ownership group in the history of professional sports, sure.
But also just plain awful, heartless people. They teach you this at Stanford GSB,
@DaveKaval
? Make a Wish Foundation? A new low, and I didn’t think you could go any lower.
#Athletics
The truck was not for sale because the property owner said “the truck was being *donated to the Make A Wish Foundation.”
“A spokesperson for the A’s confirmed the property owner’s claims.”
The A’s said we were coming to steal the truck. We were made out to be some kind of
I just donated to
@EduOverStadiums
and any
#Athletics
fan who wants to force John Fisher to
#SellTheTeam
should too!
Oakland can dump Fisher/Kaval AND keep the A’s. It’s just going to take some creativity.
If it helps Nevada public schools too, what a wonderful bonus!!
#SELL
#Athletics
: We’d like to give Oakland and Alameda County $170 million in tax free money for the right to build housing and parks at the coliseum and a new stadium on the water and all you have to do is just sign here.
#Oakland
City Council: We’re suing you. Have fun in Vegas.
Ray Fosse. The Marion Mule. The face and voice of the Oakland Athletics.
We love this man. He loved the team and the game of baseball, and taught us all so much.
#Athletics
games will never be the same.
@PPLSRD
OMG this too. Constant ED and hair regrowth ads. NFL’s getting beer and cars and finance. Baseball’s getting slimeball lawyers and dick pills 🤣🤣
This is both about right and completely shocking.
About right because Matt Chapman hasn’t been able to hit since his hip surgery in 2020 (other than a one month tear in April ‘23).
Completely shocking because a Boras client got such a tiny deal. Baseball’s stock is way down📉📉
Third baseman Matt Chapman and the San Francisco Giants are in agreement on a three-year, $54 million contract, sources tell ESPN. Chapman will receive opt-outs after each of the first two seasons.
Sean Murphy is already the best
#Athletics
catcher in a decade if not more.
Jesus Luzardo is warming up to come in.
The future is now. The A’s are ready.
It’s been really nice to see guys like Manny Machado and Aaron Rodgers who I hated purely for sports reasons reveal themselves to be legitimately hate-worthy.
I will never forget when he botched Adam Rosales’ game tying homer in Cleveland. One of the worst calls in sports history, and he doubled down on it with the replay review.
Good to have one clown out of the sport, John Fisher and Dave Kaval…you’re next.
#Athletics
Umpire Angel Hernandez is retiring, a source confirms to ESPN. One of the most controversial figures in the game, the source of much ire and frustration by fans and players alike, Hernandez has umpired his last game in Major League Baseball. First on news:
@BNightengale
.
Fuck you
@DaveKaval
you sack of shit. Whenever you’re done celebrating the Vegas move by kicking puppies or whatever you Stanford MBA fucks do for fun I hope you remember the tens of thousands of people you devastated with this bullshit.
#Athletics
fans will hate you forever.
The time has come for
#MLB
to force John Fisher out. His destruction of the
#Athletics
has been a massive stain on the game.
For the good of the league, and for the good of the sport, it’s time.
#SELL
Unbelievable horseshit journalism from KTVU. Add another to the list of media entities owned by Giants owner Charles Johnson.
For the one trillionth time: THERE IS NO PUBLIC MONEY BEING SPENT ON THE A’S NEW BALLPARK!!
#Athletics
Last 6 games for the
#49ers
:
QB1 - 7 TD’s/5 INT’s 96.2 QBR
QB2 - 9 TD’s/2 INT’s 96.2 QBR
QB1 is Jimmy Garropolo. QB2 is Colin Kaepernick. Slow your fucking roll.
#NFL
Together with
@BIG_Architects
and
@HNTBCorp
, we have unveiled the design for our new ballpark project in Las Vegas on the Tropicana site. BIG will serve as the design lead and HNTB as the sports/hospitality designer and architect of record.
Images by Negativ
I will not support the
#Athletics
when they leave Oakland and will not watch MLB again once the green and gold uniform no longer says Oakland on it.
John Fisher has permanently ended my love for baseball. Great job, asshole.
The
#Athletics
trade that everyone hated last year, that I called into 95.7 to defend, (Doolittle/Madson for Treinen, Luzardo, Neuse and $12M in salary relief that went to Lucroy/Petit/Cahill) looks like maybe Billy's best move since signing Cespedes.
#moneyball
This is canon:
#Raiders
coach Bisaccia was going to end the game a tie.
#Chargers
coach Staley called TO with 38 seconds left.
Bisaccia didn’t take kindly to that, and said “fuck it, let Carlson kick it.”
The Chargers season ended.
#NFL
It’s not that the
#Athletics
aren’t good, they’re actually one of the 7 best teams in the league.
It’s that the
#Astros
are simply the best team in the American League and have been for about 27 months.
Gotta just tip my cap to them and admit defeat.
This is one of the crazier stats I've ever seen. Matt Chapman's 2018 fielding rating is roughly *double* that of the next closest MLB player. He's played a full season of games in his career now and has 8.2 WAR.
#Athletics
Playing with teammates who don’t care about winning and for an owner who doesn’t care about baseball can cause some emotions to boil over.
#Athletics
fans deserve more Ramon’s.
The
#USMNT
has a chance to come out of the worst time in its history with the best young core it has ever had.
Christian Pulisic
Tim Weah
Josh Sargent
Tyler Adams
Weston McKennie
I expect the quarterfinals in 2022.
#WorldCup
I will double down on this no matter what anyone says. I'd take Chapman over Bellinger, Yelich, Betts, Judge, Lindor, Bregman, Scherzer, Kershaw, etc.
#Athletics
Absolutely astounding that all it took for the
#Athletics
to get the votes for their $380M fleecing of the Nevada state government was a few $1K/$2K checks to state officials. That is insane.
Thought the price of buying votes would be higher, but I shouldn’t be surprised.
#SELL
We've got filings from two more lawmakers!
Sen. Skip Daly (D), a yes vote on SB1, reports $2k from the Oakland A's on Oct. 25 (remember: this was months after the vote occurred in June).
Sen. Robin Titus (R), a no on SB1, did not report anything from the A's.
Patrick Reed is from Augusta, and is in position to win
#TheMasters
and it seems like the entire crowd is rooting for literally anyone else (but Spieth especially) to win the tournament. Reed must really be an asshole.
@BaseballValues
Look I love you guys, been following your project since it was just John on Athletics Nation, but how in the world is Jace Peterson worth $2.3M? He’s 33, hitting .221, worth 0 WAR, and owed $5M next year.
Every
#Athletics
fan in the world is rejoicing that he’s off the team.
@susanslusser
Does this mean that they will place Treinen and/or Trivino on the IL before the postseason so there is a slot for Luzardo? Thank you for all you do!
I have never seen better stuff. 102-104 with late life on the fastball is impossible to hit. His slider can’t be hit with an oar. Mason Miller has the potential to be one of the great closers of all time. God I hope his arm stays healthy.
#Athletics
The
#Athletics
have 35 games left on their schedule:
- 28 against non-contenders
- 7 against contenders
I don't want to get greedy and say 26-9 to get 100 wins is possible, but I think matching last year's 97 win total would be an amazing accomplishment.
It’s not even a debate. The
#Athletics
are going to non-tender Blake Treinen in the offseason. He’s looking at $8-$10M in salary and I’m not sure he’s worth $3M the way he’s playing. A stunning fall for a guy most of us thought was an elite player.
That “citizens for sanity” commercial was literally the worst commercial ever put on television. QAnon shouldn’t be allowed to put an ad on TV, get that Nazi shit off my sports channels. Shame on you,
@MLBONFOX
for airing that racist ass crock of horseshit.
Let’s not sugarcoat this. Despite having the most talented
#USMNT
player pool in history at his disposal, Gregg Berhalter finished level on points with Costa Rica and three points behind Mexico and fuckin Canada. He’s an awful coach who did the absolute bare minimum.
This fucking guy. The cutesy, fan-first, “we’re gonna do it, guys!” charm was pretty hard to believe from the get go. The man lied to my face and all of yours, too.
Stanford MBA turns out to be a soulless, corporate shill. Color me shocked.
#RootedInFraud
#Athletics
Las Vegas embraced the Knights - their first sports team and a home-grown franchise with an incredible owner.
They have not and will never embrace the Raiders, and will never embrace the A’s.
It’s not a sports town. The majority of residents are new to the city.
Out of respect to Bills safety Damar Hamlin and his family, we will not be recording an episode of the pod this week. He is in our thoughts and prayers.
We encourage all of our listeners (yes, all 8 of them) to donate to Damar’s charity, Chasing M’s:
Everyone knows me as the biggest Oakland A’s fan in the world. As you can imagine, last week’s news was devastating to me. But I was finally able to find the words, and made this video explaining why I’m still optimistic.
#stAy
#Oakland
#Athletics
Giving your day-to-day personnel decisions to your star player leads to finishing 11th out of 15 in a soft West. Shocking.
The Lakers weren’t the Lakers the last two years, they were a wholly owned subsidiary of Klutch.
Calling all
#49ers
fans! The
@YLTFGBpod
Championship preview pod is out now!
#Niners
superfans Joey Moore and Johann Pacla gave me their thoughts as SF heads to Philly with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line!
Available wherever you get your pods!
This might be the most telling stat about
#Athletics
true talent level. To be 58-44 with 19 blown saves means they’re probably a 95-100 win team with a little better luck in the late innings. We’re not catching Houston but we’re probably the third best team in the AL.
If there’s one team in sports that can’t shit talk another it’s the Mariners.
20 years since they played a game that counted. Well on their way to another 90 loss season.
Shitting on the
#Athletics
is rich coming from the worst franchise in the history of American sports.
Can someone explain to me how Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi are roughly the same age during the time The Phantom Menace takes place (Solo is set when Darth Maul is still alive), yet Obi-Wan is like 30 years older than Han during A New Hope?
#SoloAStarWarsStory
Klay 30/8
Steph 29/7/5
Draymond 14/16/8
Looney had 22 boards
All four guys drafted by, and have spent their whole career with, the
#Warriors
.
Enjoy these moments because the numbers say an era like this is never gonna happen again in the Bay.
For the first time since 1973, the
#Athletics
have won a winner-take-all playoff game.
For the first time since 2006 (my freshman year in high school) the A’s have won a playoff series.
Curse lifted. A moment I’ve waited over a decade for.
YES! YES! YES!!
Nobody is happier about the
#Athletics
leaving Oakland than Scott Ostler.
This has been his life’s work.
Carrying tens of thousands of gallons of water for Giants owner Charles Johnson for well over a decade.
Congratulations, Scott!
It's fine and proper to blame the Giants for blocking Santa Clara, but the A's could have built at the Coliseum 5 years ago, super easy, and instead opted to try to jack Oakland for a massive Fisher development deal. Greed, not the Giants, uprooted the A's.
The
#Athletics
have won 8 of 9, 6 in a row, and won today 20-4. 5 straight games with easy multi-run wins.
I have seen enough through 34 games to say that this team is actually good. I can’t believe this is happening.
Oakland Forever.
THE OAKLAND A'S ARE COMING FOR THE AL WEST CROWN. 👑
SIX STRAIGHT WINS 🔥
THREE STRAIGHT SERIES WINS 🔥🔥
16-10 RECORD OVER THEIR LAST 26 GAMES 🔥🔥🔥
THE OFFENSE IS ALIVE 🔥🔥🔥🔥
THE BULLPEN IS DEADLY 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
THIS. TEAM.
#Athletics