A’s change name: What team do Oakland fans support NOW?

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2. You forgot to mention not watching an mlb team and I’ve elected to do that.Ive completely fallen out of love for the sport. It would suck to live a lie and root for another team because of an owners greed.

3. I left MLB for fifteen years after the 2004 Expos relocation to DC. So, I understand quite a bit, I think. I had to wait until the Loria/Samson group left Miami for a while before I chose the Marlins. I do like the underdog feel, always have, and there was an inordinate number of Expos-Marlins shared players over the years, including Raines and Dawson. In any case, I bet many A's fans will wait to pick another team as I did. On the other hand, if the Expos had moved within the same state (province), such as the temporary Sacramento situation, I would most definitely have stayed a fan without interruption.

4. Fortunately I am also a Brewers fan. My family is from Wisconsin, it’s the first baseball team I saw, and I’ve been a fan since the 90s. I was always an A’s first fan, but moved my full attention to the crew over the past couple years. But if I didn’t have the history with the brewers, I’d probably give up on baseball.

5. When the Cleveland Browns left, I chose the Packers – they had what I liked (cold weather games rich title history, great fan base). Had Cleveland lost a baseball team, I'd have done the same – made a list and talked to friends (who swayed me for the Packers over the Bears) Baseball's my favorite sport – My thinking might have been a little different and the majesty of the ballpark would have come into play. I like what one comment said Dodgerwise,. The list was very good reasoning. The list was a bit different, but maybe I'd have thought the same thing had I been an Oakland fan. Sometimes it seems like it would have been better. Had there been no expansion in 1995, Jerry Colangelo buys the Athletics like in Hidden Treasure, my ebook,. They are the Arizona Athletics after that.

6. The fans following them to Sacramento aka the first group you mentioned should be booed 🍅🍅🥫🍅🍅🥫🥫🍅🍅🍅🍅. I wasn’t even an As fan. I was a white Sox fan I’ve never even BEEN to Oakland and I quit watching over what they did to Oakland. And the fact that it was UNANIMOUSLY approved by all the owners!!!!! Oakland fans should be doing the same as me! Boycotting!!!! Really ALL fans should be boycotting after this. If they did it to Oakland.. one of the countries biggest media markets they will do it to your city too. Don’t get too comfy with MLB

7. Fortunately I am also a Brewers fan. My family is from Wisconsin, it’s the first baseball team I saw, and I’ve been a fan since the 90s. I was always an A’s first fan, but moved my full attention to the crew over the past couple years. But if I didn’t have the history with the brewers, I’d probably give up on baseball.

8. I would love for the Giants to steal Larry Butler away from the A's. He is a lead off hitter with power and speed, and would solidify the RF position! Put him out there and let him play.

9. Yo come to Ballers games! They are SOOOOOO fun and good vibes.

10. From Hayward. Live in New York City now. I'm following this relocation until shovels are in the ground. Then I'm off Twitter and moving on. But John Fisher only knows failure and the details around Vegas (Fisher's financing, Bally's financial outlook, public sentiment in Vegas) do not make sense. It is my sincere hope that they go up for sale and Joe Lacob can bring them back to Oakland.

    If the A's end up in Las Vegas, my baseball fandom is pretty well dead. My fiance is a Padres fan and I have no problem rooting for them (PetCo Park is amazing), but it will never be the same atmosphere as Oakland and I cannot get myself to care about them like I did for the A's.

    Thanks for continuing to make A's content, Brodie. Can't wait to see what you do next 🙌

11. Imagine moving to a city for 3 years and not using their name.

12. A very interesting video Brodie. Born in the Bay Area, we moved from the Bay Area in 1970. Became a Die-hard fan of both the Swingin' A's and Raiders. The nomadic Raiders make it difficult to remain loyal. Moving to Vegas was and is a horrible move. The fan base has been shredded and somewhat displaced. There is no longer Home field advantage as visiting teams' fans often equal or outnumber Raider fans. The A's will suffer the same fate if they move to Vegas. This situation is … well, I'm so pissed it's impossible to describe! The A's are a part of the fabric that gives Oakland an identity, and the A's from Oakland. It might be possible to remain loyal to the A's in Sac. But if they do move to Vegas… Not likely.

13. Wasn't the late Padres owner the only one that was going to vote against relocation? Might be a factor of why A's fans are switching there

14. More garbage that Oakland fans have to deal with and my sympathies, guys.

    If I'm you…I'm maybe picking Cleveland. You won't get (as many) blackouts and you'll be able to see games on the MLB TV app. If you are hanging on to the A's, MLB is still going to kick you where it counts with blackouts and I'm not sure how that looks for the Padres feed up in your area. There are idiotic blackout rules out there that I'm sure you're all aware of so pick accordingly.

    I can't even imagine having to pick a new team to be a fan of, trying to find that connection to a team that you really have no connection with at all. Vogt is the manager now in Cleveland, but those jobs come and go. When he's let go, then what? Sucks all around.

    If I'm you, I'm going Giants.

15. You commented on Raiders fans who stayed fans no matter in Oakland, LA, or still after the move to LV. I suspect this group was pretty large: Bay Area football fans never had a championship until the Raiders won, from the East and North and South.

    They kept following the Raiders because by the 70s Raiders were already kind of like the Cowboys—pulling in a lot of fans from a wider area than normal; they were the first California team to win a Super Bowl, and even though the Chargers won the AFL in 63 (which kind of still had a lower-level taste to some fans at that point) and the Rams won the NFL in 51, the Raiders were 2-1 in the Super Bowl (and the Rams were 0-1), so only the Raiders had any sort of winning consistency before the 49ers won their first Lombardi trophy.

    It was still early enough in the we want a better stadium movement that Oakland fans were still willing to support the Raiders—and they won a 3rd Super Bowl, partly with the same cast from two Oakland wins—-again before the 49ers won a second Super Bowl. Three Super Bowl wins in 8 seasons was quasi-close to a dynasty in then-modern football; by the Niners’ first win, Dallas was 2-3 over 9 seasons and Pittsburgh was 4-0 in 6 seasons, so they were the winningest (and only) West Coast team in the SB.

    Since the Raiders had already been looking for stadiums continuously for decades (even before the Oakland Coliseum opened up), many fans got used to their movement so returning to Oakland and going to LV didn’t 💯 destroy their fan base like happened to the A’s every time they moved, Philly to KC or KC to Oakland or Oakland to Sacramento (where they had to start fanbases anew every single time.

    The Raiders base isn’t the same as the Cowboys base but they are Raiders fan still no matter where in the Pacific Southwest they are. There will still be Raiders fans when they move from Vegas after the Colorado River dries up in a few days ((you’ll see this someday and report on it)!

16. Some A’s fans (like me) will just cease following MLB altogether. Others will likely go the route that ex-Raiders fans did in the 80s: follow the nearest team, which was the Niners. At one point, the Raiders had as strong as a following as the Niners here in the Bay. Then they completely messed that all up by moving to LA, which coincided with the Niners dynasty years that attracted former Raiders fans over to them. The Raiders never recaptured their popularity in LA; nor did they when they returned to Oakland. And now we see they’ve completely lost their home field advantage as a substantial amount of the people who now attend their games are rooting for the other team. In 20 years, we will unfortunately see a dramatic increase in orange & black caps in the East Bay.

17. Born in Oakland, I spent a lifetime in the toxic "I'm moving out" relationship with this damn team. Living in the foothills now, the team will be 1 hour away instead of 2 and I'll go to exactly zero games. I get the whole "it's the team, not the owner" but I've just had it with the whole abusive cycle. Because of extended family members with Philly roots I've switched to the Phillies and quite enjoyed the consistency of watching them choke in the post season. Ultimately, letting sports get into the soft nougaty center of my psyche is something I'm working on re-arranging. I'm gonna root for trees & squirrels instead.

18. As an Expos fan, perhaps I can offer some insight. You will never EVAH stop being an A's fan. You're "supposed" to now turn your fandom to another California team, whoever is closest to where you live but in reality, this is the first time in your life that you're a "free agent". That is until the A's return and they will. One day.

19. John Fisher, KARMA lurks around the corner. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

20. No more NFL or MLB for me! Go Stanford!