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[FakeNews]

Oakland A's demote two players who wore protest group's apparel

The Oakland Athletics designated Esteury Ruiz to Triple-A and benched Brent Rooker, two players who wore apparel from the organizers of fan protests.

www.sfgate.com

Is this legit? If so the MLBPA needs to step in. No one is going to want to play for that owner, but somehow it’s the fans fault

 

[SmoothOperator88]

Is this legit? If so the MLBPA needs to step in. No one is going to want to play for that owner, but somehow it’s the fans fault

More than that. Also bushed 2 other players wearing the wristbands.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Why is it so hard for people to understand if you keep selling off your best players people are going to stop being invested.

Imagine if the Warriors traded Steph curry for a rookie SGA. Then 5 years later traded SGA for a rookie Paolo Banchero. Then 5 years later traded Paolo once he got too expensive

Marlins attendance is bad for the same reason and nobody seems confused as to why even as they usually finish in the bottom 3-4 in the majors in attendance. I don’t get it.

 

[focusloco]

John Fisher scammed the Vegas politicians to get his new stadium
He promised them he would open up the payroll once the team got here and in turn he got their vote....we all know he will try to win on the cheap and trade away his good players once they come in to their contract year...he will just point towards other small market teams that do the same thing to justify his unwillingness to pay good players ... having said all that I really do want to have MLB in Vegas just wish it was an expansion team

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

John Fisher scammed the Vegas politicians to get his new stadium
He promised them he would open up the payroll once the team got here and in turn he got their vote....we all know he will try to win on the cheap and trade away his good players once they come in to their contract year...he will just point towards other small market teams that do the same thing to justify his unwillingness to pay good players ... having said all that I really do want to have MLB in Vegas just wish it was an expansion team

Same exact story Jeff Loria sold to Miami. Give me a new stadium and I’ll make enough so I can spend. Then 3 months into the first season in the ball park he’s fired the new manager and is conducting yet another fire sale and has given away every marlins player making money and especially the players he signed in the offseason. By the 2nd week of June the ballpark was maybe 25% full and all of us there in the building to see them get blown out 13-4 by Tampa that night were paying more attention to the Heat & Celtics in game 7 on the tv sets hanging around the stadium.


Miami finished 12th in the NL in attendance that year as they lost 93 games and by the following year they were 28th in the majors in attendance ahead of only Tampa and Cleveland while going 62-100. 27th in attendance the year after that. Then 28th in 2015. Never got above 27th before Covid and finished 2018 and 2019 dead last in attendance (they gave Stanton to the Yankees as soon as they got their new owner in the winter of 2017 in exchange for a second baseman whose deal was expiring and a pair of low prospects who were gone from the team a few years later) at 10,014 and 10,016 fans per game while no other team averaged less than 14,000 fans per game.


100% chance that if fisher gets to take the A’s to Vegas he’ll gut the payroll (if he ever raises it anyway) as soon as the weather starts to get warm, cry poverty for being in a small market after having just left a big market (like clay bennet and aubrey mclendon when they traded James Har_en to Houston), and then after a few years he’ll sell the team for way more than he bought it for (exactly like Loria did with the expos/nationals and marlins). Nothing more than a massive fukking scam these owners are running on taxpayers and it needs to cost the league its antitrust status. Same shyt is going on up here with the state of New York cutting $850 million off its budget to give to the billionaire family that owns the bills to build a new stadium that the team doesn’t need.

 

[focusloco]

Same exact story Jeff Loria sold to Miami. Give me a new stadium and I’ll make enough so I can spend. Then 3 months into the first season in the ball park he’s fired the new manager and is conducting yet another fire sale and has given away every marlins player making money and especially the players he signed in the offseason. By the 2nd week of June the ballpark was maybe 25% full and all of us there in the building to see them get blown out 13-4 by Tampa that night were paying more attention to the Heat & Celtics in game 7 on the tv sets hanging around the stadium.


Miami finished 12th in the NL in attendance that year as they lost 93 games and by the following year they were 28th in the majors in attendance ahead of only Tampa and Cleveland while going 62-100. 27th in attendance the year after that. Then 28th in 2015. Never got above 27th before Covid and finished 2018 and 2019 dead last in attendance (they gave Stanton to the Yankees as soon as they got their new owner in the winter of 2017 in exchange for a second baseman whose deal was expiring and a pair of low prospects who were gone from the team a few years later) at 10,014 and 10,016 fans per game while no other team averaged less than 14,000 fans per game.


100% chance that if fisher gets to take the A’s to Vegas he’ll gut the payroll (if he ever raises it anyway) as soon as the weather starts to get warm, cry poverty for being in a small market after having just left a big market (like clay bennet and aubrey mclendon when they traded James Har_en to Houston), and then after a few years he’ll sell the team for way more than he bought it for (exactly like Loria did with the expos/nationals and marlins). Nothing more than a massive fukking scam these owners are running on taxpayers and it needs to cost the league its antitrust status. Same shyt is going on up here with the state of New York cutting $850 million off its budget to give to the billionaire family that owns the bills to build a new stadium that the team doesn’t need.

That's a really good breakdown of the future of the A's franchise and how it will look in Las Vegas...the Loria comparison is spot on

If it looks like a duck sounds like a duck...it's a cheapskate owner looking to scam local politicians because he knows he will print money in Vegas because visiting fans will fill seats in the stadium even if they suck ...the capacity is only 30k on purpose....Fisher is counting on visiting fans filling half the stadium...wish we had a owner committed to winning at any cost like the Golden Knights owner

 

[Michael's Black Son]

More than that. Also bushed 2 other players wearing the wristbands.

This is insane and super petty and Tonk Clark better be all over this.

 

[Harry B]

Wrong thread

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

 

[concise]

That's smaller than the stadium the Expos used in Puerto Rico before they became the Nationals.

 

[pete clemenza]

Sac might as well build a new stadium and keep them there if they're going to be there for 3 years or more. Vegas is a pipe dream.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Sac might as well build a new stadium and keep them there if they're going to be there for 3 years or more. Vegas is a pipe dream.

Real talk.

This whole situation is embarrassing and it’s interesting that manfred is near near silent on the issue as an intentionally trash team will play 3 seasons in a ballpark that allows lawn seating.

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

That's smaller than the stadium the Expos used in Puerto Rico before they became the Nationals.

LSU's baseball field is damn near 2x the size of that

 

[Sleepy Floyd]

The column bill simmons released detailing their history from 1975-2012 after the fans booed the owner off the floor the night Chris Mullin got his number retired right after they traded Montana Ellis for an injured Andrew Bogut . Traded Penny and 3 straight first round picks for Webber. Traded Robert Parish and the pick used on Kevin Mchale for Joe Barry Carrol and sleepy Floyd

I was a bucket, breh


And don't you forget it.

To this day I still hold the NBA playoff record for points scored in a quarter (29) and in a half (39)

 

[LezJepzin]

John Fisher scammed the Vegas politicians to get his new stadium
He promised them he would open up the payroll once the team got here and in turn he got their vote....we all know he will try to win on the cheap and trade away his good players once they come in to their contract year...he will just point towards other small market teams that do the same thing to justify his unwillingness to pay good players ... having said all that I really do want to have MLB in Vegas just wish it was an expansion team

You've been warned.


I don't want them in Sacramento either but I know Fisher will still find a way to screw Sac Town as well.