Letter from A’s owner John Fisher to fans…


Letter from A’s owner John Fisher to fans…

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  1. >Staying in Oakland was our goal, it was our mission, and we failed to achieve it. And for that I am genuinely sorry

    (X) Doubt

  2. John, disrespectfully, fuck you. All you had to do to keep piss off your grave for decades to come was to sell a baseball team for billions of dollars and then go away forever and you couldn’t even do that.

  3. Goddamn he can not be more of a fucking liar than he is in that.

    Fuck you Fisher for everything and I hope you go bankrupt.

  4. John, disrespectfully, fuck you. All you had to do to keep piss off your grave for decades to come was to sell a baseball team for billions of dollars and then go away forever and you couldn’t even do that.

  5. “The city gave us everything we wanted but fuck you guys lol” I hope this loser loses everything he never earned

  6. Having the audacity to reminisce in the team’s history while simultaneously placing the exclusive blame of the move on MLB is such a “fuck you” to these fans. I hope Fisher steps on Legos forever.

  7. Just say nothing and slink away in the darkness like the roach you are. No need to lie to people about trying to win and stay in Oakland, no one buys it.

  8. “We did our very best to make that happen”

    NO YOU DID NOT

    No, you can’t blame the city for not buying you a new stadium, you don’t need a new taxpayer funded stadium to sign a fucking player contract asshole. In your entire 20 year time as owner, you literally have not bested the previous most valuable contract signed by the A’s. How, in any stretch of the imagination, is that remotely “doing your best”. Cheap fuck that doesn’t remotely care for the sport.

    Through every step of the way you have been trying to get out of Oakland by making the games horrible to go to, not doing anything to make people excited about A’s baseball.

  9. You know how much of an asshole you have to be for people to actually believe city officials. Oakland tried to keep the A’s, Fisher wanted out. Plain and simple.

  10. >I can tell you this from the heart: we tried.

    Why not just be honest and say, “There were things we valued much more than staying in Oakland”? What does “we tried” even mean? You had some meetings? Give me a break.

  11. What a POS. I hope Fishers suffers from an incurable itchy rash for the rest of his miserly days

  12. Fuck you Fisher. I’ll never be able to share the team with my kids that my dad shared with me. That’s on you, you fuckin thief.

  13. Fuck Bud Selig for making the sale to John Fisher happen.

    Fuck Rob Manfred for allowing it to get this far.

    And fuck John Fisher for existing.

  14. I truly, genuinely hate this man – he might be the only person in the world I can say that about.

    Baseball was the most important thing in my life growing up. If I wasn’t at the Coliseum, I was begging my dad to take me and then once I was old enough, I was going on my own. My only dream as a kid was to roam CF for the A’s. I would insist on throwing my birthday party at the ballpark each year, even if the other kids didn’t care about baseball and, as such, didn’t even come. In the early 00s my dad would get off work and pick me up from school early so I wouldn’t miss first pitch for playoff games. In 2012 when we won the division on day 162, I climbed the fence and busted out of school to run a mile down the street and catch it on the radio in the cafe by our apartment. I could go on and on. I loved this team through thick and thin with all my heart.

    “Fandom” doesn’t go far enough – this man has basically single-handedly taken away a piece of my identity, of who I am. My last A’s game was a couple weeks ago – I’m not watching baseball anymore after this. It’s a hole there is no replacing. I don’t set many expectations in life – I’ve found all this does is give you grounds to disappoint yourself. One of the only things I fantasized about is sharing my love of *my* baseball team, the one right down the road from where I grew up, with my future son. Sharing with my friends and family how much this team and the community it’s in have meant to me, and shaped who I am. But thanks to John Fisher, apparently that’s too much to ask.

    Fuck this vile, vile man from the very bottom of my heart.

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