Oakland A’s reverse boycott: Tuesday’s atmosphere at the Coliseum a mix of defiance and despair
OAKLAND – Alternating chants of “sell the team” and “ John Fisher” — in reference to the Oakland A’s owner — filled the air Tuesday afternoon as over a thousand amped-up fans in green and gold gathered for a pregame tailgate in the Coliseum’s south parking lot hours before their favorite team’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays.
“We do it to keep the A’s in Oakland,” said Oakland 68s member Jorge Leon, one of the organizers of the event. “That’s the whole end goal, to try to put pressure and maintain that pressure on John Fisher and MLB to sell the A’s to a local ownership group that can be part of the community.” Tuesday, the state senate voted 13-8 to approve the proposal by the A’s to build a $1.5 billion ballpark on the Las Vegas Strip on the site of the Tropicana Hotel & Casino at a cost of approximately $1.5 billion, with $380 million of that price tag funded by the public.
“I definitely want to make sure that we exhaust all of our options and make sure that the team can stay,” said Hercules resident Robert Boeri, 60, who has been coming to A’s games since he was 13. “But it’s not looking very good.”
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