Normally, the Oakland A’s are used to playing in front of more than ordinary home crowds. And that’s normal: the club is being fooled by the owner.
Fans are seeing, as everyone else, the news that the club has taken another step to secure $380 million in public funding for a stadium in Vegas.
But even though everyone knows the A’s are currently buzzing with Vegas celebrating the Stanley Cup, California fans aren’t giving up.
This is why yesterday a reverse boycott was planned. Basically what this means is that fans have decided to show up in droves at the stadium.
The goal? Prove they’re not the problem and yell at the club owner to sell his team to someone who wants to keep the club in town.
We will agree that the chances are slim. There is even a plan to have the club play in Reno (Nevada) before the stadium in Vegas is ready…
All that to say that yesterday 27,759 fans showed up at the Colosseum – on a weeknight. The team, which donated the proceeds from the tickets to community organizations, therefore had support.
Because yes, even if the fans sent their messages, the fact remains that for once, the players on the ground had support.
Being clapped with dignity after a hit must be so satisfying. And as the club won its seventh straight game by a score of 2-1 against the mighty Rays…
Such images send shivers down your spine.
It makes you think. Are the fans of Oakland demonstrating that under the right conditions a club can really survive there?
Bob Nightengale raised the possibility of seeing an expansion process in Oakland should the A’s ever move to Vegas.
Note that all the American cities that have already lost their MLB team have, one day, found a Major League Baseball formation.
The same cannot be said for Montreal, unfortunately. And here, we clearly understand what Athletics fans are going through.
- MLB will land in Alabama for one game.
- The Blue Jays were crushed by the Orioles yesterday.
