Truth: fans of baseball should respect the hell out of the
#Athletics
fans for their fierce loyalty in the face of severe adverse fan conditions created by ownership. Those are some damn fine fans who deserve admiration and respect. Seriously. Go A’s! 💚⚾️👍
#RootedInOakland
Beloved former
#Athletic
Sean Doolittle deactivated his Twitter account last night which, IMHO, is a huge loss for those of us who benefitted from his openness, generosity & willingness to share his life & great advocacy work with us - fans of baseball - fans of Sean Doolittle.🥰
The “Reverse Boycott” was a display of how it would look if the A’s committed to staying and committed to winning.
Despite what you may have heard, this fanbase is worth the investment.
I won’t give
#Athletics
owner
#JohnFisher
a dime of my money, but I will give my money in
@EduOverStadiums
to help the legal effort to repeal parts or ALL of
#SB1
& let Nevada voters decide if we want our money to go to things like EDUCATION or
#MLB
#Antitrust
cartel billionaires
“Ownership has done all it could do to make this positively awful. … Why would a single person, even if they love this team and have their whole life, why would anyone give a single dollar to this ownership after this? I wouldn’t.”
Well said,
@notthefakeSVP
Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board returns to action Wednesday at 3 PM, w/ agenda including board vote on spending $1 million in public money for legal costs related to planned
@Athletics
stadium on Strip. Take a read:
@LVCVA
@BrodieNBCS
@MLB
#Vegas
A lot of blocking 👋 going on this evening
#Athletics
fans. Who knew people could be so deliberately cruel towards heartbroken fans who are losing their beloved
#MLB
#Athletics
franchise that has called Oakland home for 55 years. No true sports fan could ever believe this is okay
Joe Kelly ALMOST hit Altuve & got an EIGHT game suspension! Laurenao gets drilled by Astros pitchers TWICE in one game & NO warning was issued after the 1st plunk, & shockingly he's pissed after the 2nd plunk. 2 A's players ejected & Astros have a full bench.
#Fairplay
@MLB
Heaven gained a lifelong
#Athletics
fan yesterday. I will miss my father terribly, but I know he is now at peace. Please give your loved ones an extra tight hug whenever you get a chance.
#LoveYouDad
#ForeverInMyHeart
💔😢
“Grass outfield seats” at the new home of the
#Athletics
In Sacramento, where 4,000 fans can sweat together on the grass.
#JohnFisher
you will go down in history as not just an
#MLB
failure but a horrible person. you forever 🖕
The A's plan to move to Sacramento for the 2025-27 seasons, with an option to play there in 2028 as well, the team announced. They will play in Sutter Health Park -- just over 10,000 seats, with grass outfield seats to increase capacity to 14,000 -- for at least three seasons.
California is about to lose an
#MLB
charter franchise, the Oakland
#Athletics
&
@GavinNewsom
has not spoken about how losing the A’s in a diverse city like Oakland would be a huge loss, not only the city, but the region & the state as a whole?
Where is
#GavinNewsom
🤔🤷♀️
Former & still beloved Oakland
#Athletics
pitcher
@C_Bass419
speaking straight from his heart…as always.
Thank you for everything, always…Oakland A’s fans we love & miss you Chris. 💚⚾️
#JohnFisher
#MLB
you have failed on every level possible🖕
I identify w/the Oakland
#Athletics
b/c I was born & raised in Oakland. & they are my hometown team. My family had season tix since they began selling them in 1969 up until Covid. My family held season tix to ALL Oakland sports teams: Raiders, Warriors, Seals.
Oakland 💚 100%
I’ve always been struck by how many Oakland A’s fans identified with the team and the city because of its underdog status. This move hurts on so many levels but perhaps the biggest is just yet another defeat for the little guy in a world that is seemingly stacked up against them.
It’s astonishing to me that Dave Kaval is teaching courses at Stanford in Sports Business Management. Is NO ONE aware of what’s been going on with the
#Athletics
for years now?How is any of this good sports business management?
Oh, hey, Stanford might want to update his bio
#Athletics
⏬️
“I’m tired of hearing A’s executives try to portray themselves as community partners at a time the teams fan base is chanting epithets from the grandstands at owner
#JohnFisher
”
Taxpayers pay the ticket for the great American pastime
Check
#JohnFisher
🖕financials, he can’t afford to build the
#Athletics
ballpark at Howard Terminal, so he threw the city & the fans under the bus & went to NV & begged for 9 acres of free land. I doubt he can fund the $1.5 billion he’s gonna need to build there. 🤷♀️
#SellTheTeam
Remember THIS guy
#Athletics
fans? 💚
#JohnFisher
🖕could have paid him, Marcus Semien & Chris Bassitt & this could be a 100 win season & AL West title for the A’s…but Poverty
#JohnFisher
thought running the franchise into the ground & trashing the fans was a better plan🖕
Oakland
#Athletics
fans are fully mobile AND fully mobilized. We’ve got the time, the people & more than enough energy to keep this up for YEARS. Happily. 💚
#SellTheTeam
#JohnFisher
🖕
#MLB
We’ve been screaming about what a POS
#Athletics
owner
#JohnFisher
is FOR YEARS…people either didn’t listen or made excuses like blaming the fans.🖕
This is wholly on the
#Antitrust
cartel of
#MLB
owners who supported & enabled Fisher.
It is both inspiring and heartbreaking to see the amount of honor of respect the
@BlueJays
have publicly shown towards the Coliseum & the legacy of the
#Athletics
franchise in Oakland...
More than either
#JohnFisher
or
#MLB
has shown throughout this process & to this day.
#Shame
Oakland is losing the
#Athletics
their home for 56 years b/c the city said NO to the ongoing bullying & bad faith tactics by billionaire owner
#JohnFisher
It’s time for cities to stop subsidizing billionaires who grift of the taxpayers & privatize the profits. 🛑
#MLB
#Antitrust
Thank you for speaking truth
@C_Bass419
you are missed & forever in
#Athletics
fans hearts! 💚⚾️ The more
#MLB
voices who speak up about the travesty
#JohnFisher
is allowed to continue to operate in Oakland, the better. 🙌💚⚾️
Can someone tell me why
#Athletics
owner
#JohnFisher
🖕purchased 50% interest in the Coliseum…was it solely to enable him fuk Mark Davis & the Raiders, and ultimately force them to relocate? Cause it kinda seems that way now.🤷♀️
#MLB
shame
#SellTheTeam
Good morning
#Athletics
fans, no matter what happens today - I woke up still cackling about a former A’s senior executive speaking last night & referring to Dave Kaval as a “walking, talking, bobblehead” - I mean, it’s so perfect! 😂
#SB1
#NVleg
#StadiumScam
#VoteNo
#Athletics
fans what do you think about trying to rally fans of other
#MLB
teams to have a “The A’s belong in Oakland” (or someone come up w/a clever slogan) & we ask fans at other stadiums on the same day/night & inning to hold up their signs or tweet out photos w/the sign? 💚⚾️
That Oakland
#Athletics
Wild Card game in October of 2019 was really something special! It was a glorious fall afternoon & we tailgated for hours before we came into the Coliseum. The atmosphere was electric! ⚡️💚⚾️ despite
#JohnFisher
NOT BECAUSE of him.🖕
#MLB
No other stadium in baseball can hold that many fans and we had it packed and jumping it’s so sad we only got this once since the turn of the century it feels like
@BNightengale
He can think about how remorseful he is while he spends the rest of the season sitting at home on suspended...hopefully, unpaid.
#Astros
#Fairplay
Umm….
I’ll risk answering and go with a vast majority of Oakland
#Athletics
fans ONLY will be a “Nope”.
As a matter of fact, I believe
#MLB
may lose MANY lifelong
@MLB
fans forever…they will leave the sport entirely. 🤷♀️
Tut tut, it looks like
#Athletics
owner
#JohnFisher
🖕 is going to have a lot of explaining to do…in court when the city rightfully sues both Fisher &
#MLB
Think they’ll let Dave Kaval give a deposition? I’d live for that moment, and the damages would grow exponentially. 👍
You sold out your constituents & all Nevada residents (myself included) when you flip-flopped, voting to give failed
#Athletics
owner & California billionaire
#JohnFisher
$380+m in taxpayer subsidies & then went on to kill desperately needed legislation for residents.
#NVleg
My statement on the Nevada HOPE Act and what the future holds for the people of this great state that call this place their home.
For future updates on NLLC projects and initiatives, please visit .
Oakland
#Athletics
fans are getting some pretty tired comments in our mentions lately from the Las Vegas folks & I don’t typically respond to most, but this reply made me 😂
Come into our mentions with your tiresome comments & your mother will be fair game. 😂
#JohnFisher
#MLB
This is an EXCELLENT read! Pretty bang on nails it with
#Athletics
own
#JohnFisher
and the what a train wreck he’s has made of the franchise & the relocation. Good for the city of Oakland standing up against the bullying tactics of
#MLB
#Antitrust
Sampson nails it. There is NO defense for what
#JohnFisher
#RobManfred
& all of
#MLB
to deliberately & I posit, illegally, be doing to the city of Oakland, the fans & the
#Athletics
franchise.
@MLB
has always wielded their
#Antitrust
exemption as a weapon…time for it to fall.
Are you listening
#MLB
stop protecting
#JohnFisher
🖕Start telling the TRUTH about why he suddenly pulled out of his $12b real estate dev. anchored by a $1b 55 acre
#Athletics
ballpark in Oakland & instead begged for free land on 9 acres in Vegas? Fans & lenders want to know 🤔
My absolute disgust for the
@JosephMLombardo
& the
#NVleg
process during the 2023 session. What I’ve witnessed is mob style bad legislative process & it has been both disgusting & heartbreaking.
#Athletics
#StadiumScam
#MLB
#SB509
I’m not going away - I’m just getting started.
I am super happy that I purchased my team issued Khris Davis jersey a couple nights ago, and I hope anyone who has a Khris Davis Jersey - no matter what color - will wear it to the
@Athletics
game tonight to remind him just how much we 💚 him! 👍💚⚾️
#KhrushinOnKD
#Athletics
Another PAC, We Want A Voice, has filed paperwork w/the state on Friday. This PAC is local to Clark County being required to get voter approval PRIOR to issuing ANY bonds for not only
#Athletics
#StadiumScam
but all future sports endeavors in Clark County
We've been doing everything we can to bring awareness to the Oakland
#Athletics
situation & spread the truth far & wide. We are using every tool available to us. We are fighting against
#MLB
billionaires like
#JohnFisher
🖕w/massive power & political influence. WE NEED HELP! 💚
The
#Athletics
fans are rising to the occasion. Carrying the weight of this burden. Where are the shot callers? Where are the stars? Show me the money like Jerry Maguire.
This is a dark day for the great fans of Oakland, who did nothing to deserve the loss of the A's. Oakland now has lost teams in each of the 4 major sports leagues: A's and Raiders to Las Vegas, Warriors to S.F. and, in 1976, NHL Golden Seals to Cleveland.
This is so freakin’ awesome! A huge🖕to
#RobManfred
#JohnFisher
& the rest of the owners who stand silent. It’s never been the city of Oakland or the
#Athletics
fans…
always been John Fisher.
#Sell
Here we go fellow Nevada residents, everything we need to know about the how we, Nevada Residents, can actually have some power, or at least a VOTE in the
#Athletics
financing bill….which I aptly refer to as
#JohnFisher
#StadiumScam
👎
From the minute
#Athletics
owner
#JohnFisher
🖕realized he no longer had the financial wherewithal to complete the Howard Terminal project, everything has been about keeping the team on REVENUE SHARING for-fu.king- ever. And now the residents of NV are being scammed out of $380m
How are
#MLB
owners expected to make to vote on the Oakland
#Athletics
relocation if they don’t have actual renderings which are required to give them firm stadium financing details/clarity, as well as lacking needed likely approval from
@MLBPA
on where the A’s will play 25-27?
#NVleg
today is the day for voting on
#Athletics
stadium bill
#SB509
I have read the bill, done a lot of research, written to you & called my representatives. I hope you will read this note & consider my thoughts before you vote. Please. Thank you.
#MLB
#JohnFisher
#StadiumScam
Don’t EVER ask why
#MLB
is a “dying sport” look at the lies
#RobManfred
promulgates about the
#Athletics
fans & the city of Oakland on behalf of billionaire coward
#JohnFisher
Don’t believe the lies told in furtherance of the agenda of an antitrust holding cabal of billionaires
A's demands of Oakland officials last 10yrs:
"Give us a 10yr lease at Coliseum before any Raiders deal."
Oakland: "Ok."
"Don't let voters vote on HT deal."
Oakland: "Ok."
"Find us $400M for HT infrastructure."
Oakland: "Ok."
Manfred now: "So much inaction in Oakland."
This is disgusting. Every single team owner that threatens to relocate as part of their extortion tactic w/cities should be shown the door. If the larger cities began uniting AGAINST the extortion, then all
#MLB
would have left would be the smaller markets. Break
#Antitrust
Ken Kendrick on the possibility of the Diamondbacks leaving Arizona:
"There are opportunities available ... It's not where we are spending time or energy. We may run out of time in Phoenix. We hope that won't happen."
Former and/or retired
#Athletics
players showing Oakland A’s fans support & love by appearing at Oakland
#FansFest
As always, thank you for the 💚
@IamTrevorMay
#MLB
sanctioned the entire
#JohnFisher
scheme of publicly dragging the city of Oakland & the
#Athletics
fans as part of
@MLB
scorched earth policy, as it vacates the 10th largest sports market in the nation & plods into revenue sharing in the 40th & smallest sports market.
#Scam
Let’s say it loud & clear for the people who are hard of hearing:
#JohnFisher
w/the blessing of the rest of the
#MLB
owners is about yank the
#Athletics
from OAKLAND, it’s only West Coast city w/a significant black population, while pursuing initiatives in the Black community. 🖕
"The A's saved my life."
MLB is poised to abandon its only West Coast city with a significant Black population, at the same time MLB pursues initiatives in the Black community.
How does Rob Manfred reconcile that?
Good morning to everyone spending their weekend on voucher and stadium scam watch ☀️
We appreciate this question from
@senator_neal
to
@ClarkCountyNV
: how do they justify giving money for a stadium while “operating in a structural deficit”
#nvleg
#stadiumscam
#SB509
This is supposed to be Vegas humor…dancing on the graves of Oakland
#Athletics
fans & Oakland sports fans in general?
I hope no one ever rips the hearts out of your children, while calling their city a s.hithole & mocking them publicly while they do it.
🖕all the way off.
I know it sucks for
#Athletics
fans to lose a team that has called Oakland home for 56 years & too bad about those hundreds+ of job losses, but as a smug Yankees fan I will never understand
“but spring training vibes for big league games is gonna be kind cool”
Fu.k off🖕
A’s owner John Fisher spoke with three protestors at the owners meetings in Texas and told them his patience had run out after 18 years of trying to find a solution to keep the team in Oakland
#JohnFisher
walked away from Oakland after reportedly spending $100M+ towards entitlements, EIR approvals., legislation, lawsuits etc. for his real estate development anchored by a new
#Athletics
ballpark -this PROVES
#JohnFisher
is in financial straits &
#MLB
is covering for him
FFS, let's be clear about this....
The Oakland
#Athletics
are a LARGE MARKET team that
#Failson
owner
#JohnFisher
🖕CHOOSES to maintain as a SMALL PAYROLL TEAM.
The former is a function of MARKET size & the latter is a function of PAYROLL size. Fisher is a CHEAP LIAR.🖕
You gotta be kidding me! John Fisher you dummy! The Astros were still in the NL in 2012! You don't even know your own damn franchise! Astros came to AL West in 2013
Happy 1st Heavenly Father’s Day Dad…
I miss you today & every day 💔
I am SO relieved you are not here to witness what is happening to your beloved Oakland
#Athletics
You were right about
#JohnFisher
all along.
Everyone knows what
#JohnFisher
has been doing to the
#Athletics
in Oakland isn’t right. We’ve been SCREAMING about it FOR YEARS! Fisher is only getting away w/this b/c he has at least the tacit approval of the majority of the other
#MLB
owners b/c they ALL will 💰 w/expansion.
"Yeah, they draw 5,000. And you know why, because the owner John Fisher has wrecked the club."
@Ken_Rosenthal
feels for Oakland's fans and players.
#FTLive
Spreading the good word Oakland
#Athletics
fans!
#MLB
stop pretending what
#JohnFisher
🖕 is doing to this charter franchise is “good for baseball”. He is single handedly doing more damage to the game than anything you SO fear; cheating scandals, work stoppage, etc.
#Sell
Baseball fans everywhere should understand this truth. What’s going on in Oakland and with the
#Athletics
franchise is a crime against baseball & baseball fandom.
#AthleticsFansDeserveBetter
💚⚾️😢
I’m sorry for having had the notion of professional sports wrong for so long. I always thought the fans were integral to the whole. I was very wrong. Fans are units seen as disposable, lose one here gain two there, or raise tix prices…it was never about fans as humans.
#Athletics
#RedSox
broadcasters get straight to the heart of the absolute bulls.hit that
#Athletics
owner
#JohnFisher
has been dragging the fans, the employees & city through for YEARS w/the relocation & the wholly unprofessional manner he has treated ALL during this process.
#MLB
grow some
Hey
#Athletics
fans do you recall stories about an accusation of outright collusion between Bud Selig & the
#Giants
to force the A’s out of the market entirely…dating back to the early 2000?!?
#MLB
#Antitrust
#Collusion
Here’s the link:
#California
is about to lose an
#MLB
charter franchise, the Oakland
#Athletics
, &
@GavinNewsom
has not spoken about how losing the A’s in a diverse city like Oakland would be a huge loss, not only to the city, but the region & the state as a whole?
Where is
#GavinNewsom
🤔🤷♀️
The
#Athletics
players deserved better from ownership this season. I’m sorry they had to play while dealing w/such unprofessional distractions basically being thrown in their faces daily, by grossly incompetent ownership. Despite such adverse conditions they gave it their all!💚
Remember this bit of bullying done by
#MLB
on behalf of
#Athletics
owner
#JohnFisher
trying to force the city to drop its lawsuit over the sale of Alameda County’s half of the Coliseum b/c it was integral to the A’s development/financing plans for Howard Terminal?
#Liars
🖕
If the
@MLBPA
doesn’t stand up and support their players in this, and I don’t mean with a wink, saying we’ll agree as long as you agree to X concession for the next CBA…b/c
@MLB
can’t be trusted EVER.
FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS!
#Athletics
players & every
#MLB
player! 💪⚾️
"If I'm the MLPBA, I'm screaming my head off about this."
@Ken_Rosenthal
weighs in on the uncertainty surrounding the quality of player amenities in Sacramento for not just the A's, but visiting teams as well.
▶️
Unpacking (more) & came across another box FULL of my Oakland
#Athletics
Season Ticket holder memories that made me cry. 💔😢
Notice the 2020 STM printed tix cover. 😢💔 it's all so dam.n infuriating & heartbreaking.
🖕you forever
#JohnFisher
&
#MLB
Congratulations Matt Olson! 🤩You will always be loved by Oakland
#Athletics
💚 fans, who are also heartbroken over the fact that
#JohnFisher
🖕was & always will be, too cheap to pay you.
#SellTheTeam
#MLB
shame.
@Elmanogonsalves
Yet it seemed everyone, including the A’s, helped out when the Giants almost left for Tampa Bay in the 90’s. The Bay unites for SF but not for Oakland unless it’s to hate.
Oh and...the "cash strapped" bit is comical. How about the more accurate description; the penny pinching
#Athletics
franchise which loathes its loyal fan base? 🤷♀️👍
GM David Forst of the cash-strapped A’s said they are willing to listen on everyone. “This is the cycle for the A’s. We have to listen and be open to whatever comes out of this. This is our lot in Oakland until it’s not.”
NEWS: A Nevada teachers union, through a political action committee, has sued the state and Gov. Joe Lombardo to block the bill that gives the A's $380 million in stadium funding.
Here’s the rub
#JohnFisher
🖕
#RobManfred
& the rest of
#MLB
owners who have been complicit in this s.hit.
It’s NEVER been the
#Athletics
fans fault, so stop blaming us!🖕
This is 100% on Fisher, who can no longer afford his $12billion+ Howard Terminal real estate project.
#Sell
A’s fans are continuing to protest the planned relocation to Las Vegas. What if John Fisher actually does what they are calling for? What if John Fisher sells the team? Here are some scenarios: via
@sfchronicle
So, is this why the interview isn't on video, so the ability exists for editing to try & change "history"... especially AFTER Fisher was FACT CHECKED online?
If so, that's some pretty shady s.hit.
If you’re paying attention, you can see the revisionist history A’s are pushing to justify leaving Oakland.
Yesterday’s quote from Fisher said “Oakland didn’t accomplish what they agreed to in 2021” which I called out as false.
Today
@rajmathai
revised these “quotes”:
Is this really what the Oakland
#Athletics
are bragging about …
an average of $198.14 donated across 1,144 organizations in 2023?
#JohnFisher
donated $1.113MM in late ‘22 to defeat Prop. 30 in CA which, among other things would have added an addl 1.75% tax on income over $2MM
Oakland
#Athletics
fan 💚 what a beautiful sight…coming to a ballpark near you all summer long…and Sacramento repeatedly, beginning in April of 2025. 🔥🔥🔥
#SellTheTeam
#JohnFishet
🖕
#MLB
#MLB
allowing
#Athletics
owner
#JohnFisher
to operate the franchise like this is bringing shame on every single
@MLB
owner in their cabal. This shame will be compounded by EVERY SINGLE OWNER WHO VOTES TO APPROVE RELOCATION, instead of forcing Fisher to
#Sell
A’s kept giving Trevor May a broken chair instead of just getting him one that he could actually sit in.
This is embarrassing & I’m glad that Trevor May is bringing light to these things that have probably gone under the radar for years.
A’s reek.
(Clip from
@FoulTerritoryTV
)
The fix is in
#Athletics
fans. We are being done dirty by billionaire
#JohnFisher
& at least tacit approval of the cabal of other
#MLB
owners, who are willing to rip a charter franchise from the city it has called home for 55 years, as a means for their expansion payout riches.💰