Oakland A’s Fans “Reverse Protest” Grabs Nation’s Attention

While we fans here in New Jersey have been spoiled of late with all of our local winter teams (Rutgers, NJ Devils, Rangers, Islanders, Knicks, and Nets) made the playoffs this spring, and, we are in the midst of another Subway Series this week between the Mets and Yankees, some 3,000 miles west in Oakland, California, something very unique happened Tuesday night.

Close to 28,000 Oakland A's fans packed the Oakland/Alameda Coliseum Tuesday night to "reverse protest" owner John Fisher, who is busy making plans with the state of Nevada and the city of Las Vegas to move the team there.

And it appears very likely that come the later part of the decade the A's will call Las Vegas home. The Nevada State Senate passed a bill to approve a stadium built off the Las Vegas strip by 2027. The A's will join their former co-tenants, the Raiders who left for Vegas in 2020 in Sin City. Suddenly Vegas is the sports capital of the world with the Golden Knights having won the Stanley Cup the same night A's fans were protesting in Oakland.

And the protest was wild. The verbose crowd was loud and in unison chanting, "Sell the Team."

The fans got so loud in their chanting that starting pitcher Hogan Harris couldn't hear his pitch com. The A's have basically played in an empty stadium eerily similar to the COVID season of 2020 since fans have not been attending games because of their anger and disgust until last night.

Of course the fans had to really ruin their moment by throwing trash onto the field.

The A's did win the game however, 2-1 over the Tampa Bay Rays. Hey, the A's are hot, they've won seven in a row.

Obviously seeing teams move is nothing new. It happens in every sport. It's been a long time since a Major League Baseball team has moved. You'd have to go back to 2005 when the Montreal Expos left for Washington D.C. after MLB took control of the franchise for a brief amount of time during its final days in Montreal.

More recent team moves in sports have happened in the NFL with the Raiders, Rams and Chargers left their cities for Vegas and Los Angeles, respectively.  Fans in Oakland were not happy the Raiders left for Sin City. They were even more upset in San Diego when the Chargers bolted for LA.

Probably the most infamous move of a team in any sport of all time had to be when Art Modell moved the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore following the 1995 season. Yeah that became a thing of legend. The old Browns, now the Ravens have two Super Bowl titles to their name. The current Browns ... yeah ... you know how that worked out so far.  With  the A's on the precipice of leaving for Vegas, it feels like Oakland fans are as bitter and angry as Browns fans were nearly 30 years ago.

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