It\u2019s tough,\u201d A\u2019s left-fielder Tony Kemp, currently in his fourth season in Oakland, told the New York Times.<\/em> \u201cYou are in the dugout, and you just feel for them. You think about generationally, people raising their family here and wanting to take their kids to A\u2019s games because they were brought to A\u2019s games as kids. It\u2019s very hard.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnother superfan, Matt Ortega, told KVVU-TV\/Las Vegas<\/em> that Las Vegas is better off building a pro team from scratch, as it did with the NHL\u2019s Golden Knights than repeating what it did with the NFL\u2019s Raiders.<\/p>\n“I think if you look at those two teams, which one has been more successful in terms of fan loyalty, in terms of ticket sales, in terms of play on the field, I think on every level you would have to say the Golden Knights,\u201d<\/strong> said Ortega, who created a website, nonevadamoney.com, to make it easy for Nevada residents to write their legislators protesting the use of public funds for a stadium.<\/p>\nSmall Crowds<\/h2>\n
The A’s won the World Series in 1910, 1911, 1913, 1929, 1930, 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1989. Most recently, they made the playoffs for three straight seasons, from 2018 to 2020. This season, however, while basking in the national spotlight of their Vegas plans, the team is playing horrible baseball in front of horrible crowds.<\/p>\n
The A\u2019s are dead last in the American League West with eight wins and 29 losses. And they\u2019re drawing the smallest crowds of any MLB team this season, averaging slightly more than 10K people in a stadium built to hold more than five times that amount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oakland A\u2019s fans plan a \u201creverse boycott\u201d during their home game Tuesday, June 13th against the Tampa Bay Rays. Instead of staying away from the game, they say they plan to pack as many A\u2019s fans into Oakland Coliseum as possible to show the fan base is still there. The A\u2019s threw a curveball this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":272882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81886,82963],"tags":[82928,82929,81828,23,86244,82930,82931],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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