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A’s ‘Reverse Boycott’ Might Do Down in Bay Area History. Don’t Miss It
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 11, 2023 | Bruce Jenkins

Posted on 06/12/2023 2:56:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 06/12/2023 2:56:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Let’s have 40,000-plus people delivering the same forceful message to an owner who lost his way

40,000 eh? That would take at least five games to get there. Good luck.

2 posted on 06/12/2023 3:01:07 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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Last I heard, over 17,000 tickets sold.


3 posted on 06/12/2023 3:03:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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just bought two - Fisher needs to sell.


4 posted on 06/12/2023 3:19:21 PM PDT by Tadhg
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See you there.


5 posted on 06/12/2023 3:20:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Woukd be nice to sell the team to owners who will keep the team in Oakland.

But new owners might still want a new stadium.


6 posted on 06/12/2023 3:24:54 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Come back to Kansas City so we can send the Royals front office, scouting, and player development down the river on a barge.


7 posted on 06/12/2023 3:26:21 PM PDT by Salvavida
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What “rooted in Oakland” really means...


8 posted on 06/12/2023 3:32:35 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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As it happens, they’re doing this when the team is hot. They’ve been winning lately. Keep coming. It will drive the owner crazy.


9 posted on 06/12/2023 3:34:42 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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...what “rooted in Oakland” really means.

There will be gunplay.

10 posted on 06/12/2023 3:34:54 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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I’m pro- 2nd Amendment.


11 posted on 06/12/2023 3:35:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Remember Rachel Phelps, the owner in Major League who wanted to lose so she could move the team? Well, she's had a sex change. Her name is John Fisher.

Remember how that turned out for her? A's fans ought to take that to heart.

12 posted on 06/12/2023 3:38:31 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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“It’s about people...”

Oh God in that case there is no option....MOVE away from all those filthy democrats! Baseball is an American game!


13 posted on 06/12/2023 3:39:07 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Bingo. I said that to my friend.


14 posted on 06/12/2023 3:46:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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John Fisher is a SF Giants fans, and used to be a part owner. Doesn’t the fact he was a Giants owner make it collusion.


15 posted on 06/12/2023 3:47:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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We haven’t watched or been to a MLB game in decades. One of the last players strikes did it for me. That said, dad was born and raised in San Francisco. Candlestick Park was also named Where Home Runs Go To Die. The wind at Candlestick was not as bad as the Hawk in Chicago, but Willie Mays would have another 100 home runs, at least.

At one point, way after Mays had retired, there was talk of the SF Giants leaving. During that time, there were not many people in the stands. The great Herb Caen commented on the lack of fans in the stands, that if the fans were to move to another city, it would be less people than the actual total team players.


16 posted on 06/12/2023 3:56:38 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The new stadium should be somewhere safe, like in Sunnyvale.


17 posted on 06/12/2023 3:57:26 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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The A’s are leaving Oakland because the City has dropped the ball for over twenty years. Oakland has lost two teams in the last five years and that is NOT coincidence, it is incompetence on the Government’s fault there. Who wants to spend their hard earned money in a crime riddled hell hole like Oakland.


18 posted on 06/12/2023 3:58:17 PM PDT by DMD13
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I used to be very active in sports. After my military service the only “sport” I can do is sailing, barely.
I am not much of a sports fan and the amount of money involved in the industry is astoundingly stupid.
I’d rather watch a high school football team or a little
league baseball team than any professional multi-millionaires.


19 posted on 06/12/2023 3:58:50 PM PDT by rellic
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Awesome! And, so true!


20 posted on 06/12/2023 3:58:52 PM PDT by DMD13
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