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Oakland A’s fans got the All-Star Game crowd to chant ‘SELL THE TEAM!’

A’s fans got the crowd at the MLB All-Star Game to join in their protest.

The Oakland A’s fans’ “reverse boycott” from June protesting the way the franchise was potentially moving to Las Vegas didn’t stop there.

In fact, they brought the protest to Seattle at the 2023 MLB All-Star Game.

It might have been hard to hear on the FOX broadcast, but in the fifth inning, “SELL THE TEAM!” chants began, thanks likely in part to A’s fans handing out cards (see the video below) informing fans on what they could do to help their cause.

That’s pretty cool stuff. Check out some videos from that moment, from all around the ballpark and on the broadcast:

A Tarik Skubal fastball completely fooled an A’s infielder and sent him awkwardly sprawling

This was quite a fall.

Poor Nick Allen.

The Oakland A’s infielder was up at the plate, trying to hit a Tarik Skubal fastball from the Detroit Tigers hurler, when the pitcher threw a pitch 98 MPH high and tight. Allen couldn’t decide whether to take it or to swing, so he went in between and couldn’t hold up.

But he was so off balance that he just froze in place before his back leg gave out and he awkwardly fell to the ground. Ouch. Not the first time we’ve seen that happen.

I wonder if his teammates will do one of those mock chalk outlines we’ve seen from time to time.

Awkward!

Rebecca Black roasted the Oakland A’s after they tweeted a joke about her song ‘Friday’

The Oakland A’s are not looking forward to the weekend anymore.

Things are not going well for the Oakland A’s outside of the dugout.

While the A’s recently posted a seven-game win streak, the team’s possible move to Las Vegas has the baseball world hoping A’s management will sell the team and keep it in Oakland.

A’s fans recently held a reverse boycott to protest the possible move, and it worked out as droves of Oakland fans showed up to voice their displeasure.

While nobody has any ill feelings going to the players, the franchise itself is going to continue to catch flak for a possible move to Vegas until it doesn’t happen.

Even 2011’s viral sensation Rebecca Black (of “Friday” fame) isn’t letting the team off easy without some serious trolling.

Yes, the pop singer’s viral song got mentioned by Oakland’s Twitter account ahead of a Friday stand against the Philadelphia Phillies.

“Gotta get down on Phriday – Rebecca Black’s cousin who is from Philly,” the tweet read, but there was one problem.

Black responded that she doesn’t have a cousin in Philly, and that she thinks management should sell the team. Yikes. 

If you had to put your computer down from the heat of that response to such a silly tweet, then you are picking up on how upset people are with A’s management right now.

Black (and her imaginary Philly cousin) have joined many folks in wanting the A’s to stay right where they are with a franchise sell. The team is going to have to be careful which pop culture jokes they make on future tweets.

You never know who will reply.

10 awesome moments (planned silence!) from the Oakland A’s ‘reverse boycott’

From planned silence to “STAY IN OAKLAND!”

For so long, Oakland A’s fans have mostly steered clear of attending games, a protest of sorts meant to show the displeasure they have with the team tanking and then potentially being moved to Las Vegas.

But on Tuesday, fans tried something different. They packed Oakland Coliseum for a planned “reverse boycott.”

It was pretty awesome. Nearly 28,000 Athletics die-hards were there, with planned chants, incredible signs and messages for ownership. Funny enough, they were there to see the a team that’s struggled mightily win its seventh (!) straight game.

Here are some of those awesome moments, in no particular order, including photos and videos:

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Steph Curry recently spoke about the importance of the A’s staying in the Oakland community

As their relocation saga points towards Las Vegas, Steph Curry recently spoke about the importance of the A’s staying in Oakland.

After the Raiders moved to Las Vegas and the Golden State Warriors moved across the Bay Area to San Francisco, the Oakland Athltics appear poised to be the next team to leave the East Bay for a new stadium deal.

Following a back-and-forth relocation saga that’s spanned over multiple years, the A’s recently reached a binding agreement with a ballpark site on the Las Vegas strip.

While their exit from the East Bay is yet to be set in stone, a member of the Golden State Warriors recently showed support for the A’s staying in Oakland. While at an Eat. Learn. Play event for his foundation in Oakland, Steph Curry spoke about the importance of the A’s staying in town.

Just keeping as many professional teams in this area as possible because it matters. I think it does so much for the community. It does so much for the community, it does so much for the community to look forward to and be proud of, and bring out that Oakland pride.

Even when we left Oakland for San Francisco, I know it was a tough move. But we’re still in the area and able to reach the fanbase that supported us so much. You hope they stay. That’s the answer because you know how much it means to the community to have something to look forward to.

Via @CaseyPrattABC7 on Twitter:

Curry played his first 10 seasons in the NBA in Oakland at Oracle Arena, winning three championships there before the Warriors moved to Chase Center in San Francisco.

While a shovel still feels far from breaking ground on a new stadium, Nevada Lawmakers and the A’s leadership are set to discuss the new Las Vegas ballpark deal.

On the field, the Athletics are struggling mightily. Despite coming off back-to-back wins over the Pittsburgh Pirates, the A’s are at the bottom of the league with a 14-50 record on the season.

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MLB fans lashed out at John Fisher after the A’s had their worst attendance since 1979

MLB should never have let this happen.

Just when you think the Oakland Athletics have found rock bottom, they manage reach new lows.

Shortly after news broke about a new “binding” agreement for a move to Las Vegas — this time, with Bally’s and Gaming & Leisure Properties Inc. — A’s fans took their boycott of games in Oakland to another level. The attendance for Monday’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks was listed at 2,064. Outside of the shortened 2020 season behind closed doors, it was Oakland’s worst-attended game since 1979.

Now, attendance has long been an issue for the A’s, but the blame shouldn’t be placed on the fans. It falls on owner John Fisher who has alienated the fanbase and forced the team to play in MLB’s worst stadium while shopping around for public money elsewhere.

In this latest Vegas agreement, the A’s wouldn’t even own the land or build an entertainment district. Basically, Fisher would be taking a worse deal just to leave Oakland. It’s easy to understand why A’s fans would straight-up stop going to games under those circumstances.

MLB fans weren’t kind to the A’s owner either. The scenes at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum were embarrassing on Monday, and MLB allowed it to get to that point.

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Oakland A’s new Las Vegas stadium: Everything we know about MLB team’s possible desert move

It looks like the move to Las Vegas could be starting for the Oakland Athletics.

We knew this was coming, perhaps for years: The Oakland A’s appear to be starting a relocation to Las Vegas.

The franchise that’s struggled after years of thriving in the “Moneyball” era with a low payroll has another, bigger problem: The Athletics desperately need a new stadium beyond the dump that is the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum — ranked last in our 2023 stadium rankings and rightfully so — but proposals and negotiations with Oakland fizzled.

Now? There’s a move that could signal the beginning of the end of professional baseball in Oakland and a new ballpark in Las Vegas. Let’s break down what we know as of Thursday morning:

The possum living inside the A’s stadium walls is still a huge problem for visiting announcers

The possum is still a problem in Oakland.

How bad have things gotten at the A’s stadium at RingCentral Coliseum, ranked as the worst MLB stadium in 2023?

The answer begins in 2022. It was back in May that we wrote about the possum that had invaded the press box. You’d figure that someone from the franchise would have gone in and taken the creature out of there, right?

Well, NOPE.

Because over the weekend, the visiting New York Mets’ broadcast team at SNY detailed the fact that they weren’t calling the game against the A’s from the visiting box.

They had to move because the possum is still there, living in the wall and appeared during the opening game of the season in Oakland and had avoided traps. And when Gary Cohen and Co. got to the stadium, they were sent away because the “stench” of possum … droppings … was very present.

Uh, yeah. This isn’t great.

If it was helping the A’s win games, I’d feel differently. But nope.

The Giants’ ball dude accidentally robbed the A’s of a sweet play thanks to an unusual MLB rule

Someone tell him he’s not on the team.

Major League Baseball recently put bat/ball boys and girls on notice for job performance, so we really can’t blame the San Francisco Giants’ ball dude for giving max effort on the play.

Oakland A’s outfielder Conner Capel might have a different opinion on the matter, though. His nifty sliding catch was taken away by a rarely seen MLB rule.

During the sixth inning of the Giants’ spring training game against the Oakland A’s at Oracle Park, Bryce Johnson hit a foul ball down the left-field line and towards the tarp. The Giants’ ball dude was stationed right at the tarp, and rather than getting out of the way, he tried to make a play on the ball.

The problem: Capel was right there to make a play too.

Initially, it looked like Capel came up with the ball and made a nice catch. But the umpires correctly ruled that the ball had hit the ball dude’s glove first, making it a foul ball. According to MLB rules, the ball boy/girl is considered part of the tarp on a foul ball. Interference can be called for live balls if there’s intent from the ball boy/girl. But in this case, it was just a foul ball despite Capel coming up with the baseball (and it not hitting the ground).

Luckily for the A’s the play wasn’t costly. It was an exhibition game that they were already leading by nine runs, and Johnson would end up striking out to end the inning.

Still, MLB fans had thoughts on the bizarre sequence and rule.