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The budget passed by the City Council early this month included $63 million in expected one-time revenue from the Coliseum sale to help close the shortfall without laying off workers or making massive cuts, including to public safety departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s plan to use the funds, which were pending at the time, to subsidize this year’s budget proved controversial during negotiations. 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A second $10 million payment will be available Sept. 1, and the remaining $90 million will be paid in three more installments before June 2026.[aside postID=news_11987568 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/GettyImages-1491550733-1020x670.jpg']The Oakland Police Officers Association said it was “doubtful the sale of the Oakland Coliseum will solve the mayor’s and city council’s epic mismanagement,” according to a statement from Sgt. Tim Dolan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply concerned for the safety of residents, businesses, and our police officers,” Dolan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Thao said the deal was not a short-term solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a deal that will lead to a multi-billion-dollar investment in East Oakland,” she wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MayorShengThao/status/1818079165150798269\">post on X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao said in May that the city would be working with AASEG to create housing, along with an entertainment, retail and sports destination at the site of the Coliseum. 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I mean, we were even down by eight, and they were still cheering ‘Let’s go Oakland,’ so you can tell they love Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, on the other side of town, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988916/oakland-as-pitcher-michael-kelly-suspended-in-biggest-betting-scandal-in-decades\">the Oakland Athletics\u003c/a> hosted a crowd not much larger on Tuesday night, playing in front of 5,624 people at a Coliseum with a capacity of almost 50,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ballers, an independent Pioneer League baseball team, were formed in part as an attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968536/new-oakland-ballers-baseball-team-aims-to-keep-the-sport-in-the-city\">fill the void left by the A’s\u003c/a>, who are set to leave for Sacramento after this season before relocating to a new stadium in Las Vegas as early as 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Ballers have been like a ray of light, a real energizer for the city,” fan Jerome Sicat said after Tuesday’s game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989044\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989044\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Ballers fans take photos in front of the team logo outside of Raimondi Park in Oakland on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He called the loss of the A’s “heartbreaking” and said, “It’s amazing to have the B’s to come and check out and root for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11988883,news_11988762,news_11988916 label='related coverage']In preparation for their inaugural season, the Ballers invested $1.6 million to bring Raimondi Park up to league standards. Before that, the park wasn’t fit for Little League games, Oakland native and Ballers fan Anthony McNeal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the Ballers came and waved their magic wand over this area, it just revitalized hope, excitement,” McNeal said. “And it couldn’t be at a better time, Oakland getting such a bad rap, and a lot of crime and things like that, and this is just a bright spot and one of many we hope to build in Oakland and in this neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Oakland is losing its major league team and the Ballers lost their home opener, it’s clear Oakland hasn’t lost its love for baseball.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ballers, an independent Pioneer League baseball team, were formed in part as an attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968536/new-oakland-ballers-baseball-team-aims-to-keep-the-sport-in-the-city\">fill the void left by the A’s\u003c/a>, who are set to leave for Sacramento after this season before relocating to a new stadium in Las Vegas as early as 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Ballers have been like a ray of light, a real energizer for the city,” fan Jerome Sicat said after Tuesday’s game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989044\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989044\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240604-OAKLAND-BALLERS-AC-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Ballers fans take photos in front of the team logo outside of Raimondi Park in Oakland on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He called the loss of the A’s “heartbreaking” and said, “It’s amazing to have the B’s to come and check out and root for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In preparation for their inaugural season, the Ballers invested $1.6 million to bring Raimondi Park up to league standards. Before that, the park wasn’t fit for Little League games, Oakland native and Ballers fan Anthony McNeal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the Ballers came and waved their magic wand over this area, it just revitalized hope, excitement,” McNeal said. “And it couldn’t be at a better time, Oakland getting such a bad rap, and a lot of crime and things like that, and this is just a bright spot and one of many we hope to build in Oakland and in this neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Oakland is losing its major league team and the Ballers lost their home opener, it’s clear Oakland hasn’t lost its love for baseball.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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While we cannot comment on the details, this violation occurred prior to Michael joining the A’s organization and we fully support MLB’s sports betting policy and the need to adhere to all provisions of Rule 21,” the Oakland Athletics said in a statement to KQED. “We will continue to educate all members of our organization regarding their obligations under the policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MLB said Marcano placed 387 baseball bets totaling more than $150,000 in October 2022 and from last July through November with a legal sportsbook. He became the first active player in a century to be banned for life because of gambling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland A’s pitcher Michael Kelly was suspended for one year for betting on baseball while in the minor leagues and three minor leaguers also were banned for one year for betting on big league games: pitchers Jay Groome of San Diego and Andrew Saalfrank of Arizona, and infielder José Rodríguez of Philadelphia. Each of those four players wagered under $1,000. Saalfrank and Rodríguez played previously in the majors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The strict enforcement of Major League Baseball’s rules and policies governing gambling conduct is a critical component of upholding our most important priority: protecting the integrity of our games for the fans,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “The longstanding prohibition against betting on Major League Baseball games by those in the sport has been a bedrock principle for over a century. We have been clear that the privilege of playing in baseball comes with a responsibility to refrain from engaging in certain types of behavior that are legal for other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano is the first active major leaguer banned for life under the sport’s gambling provision since New York Giants outfielder Jimmy O’Connell in 1924. Pete Rose, baseball’s career hits leader, agreed to a lifetime ban in 1989 after an investigation concluded he bet on\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cincinnati Reds games while managing the team.[aside postID=news_11988883 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/Kelsie-Whitmore-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Major League Rule 21, posted in every clubhouse, states betting on any baseball game in which a player, umpire, league official or team employee has no duty to perform results in a one-year suspension. Betting on a game in which the person has a duty to perform results in a lifetime ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano became the second North American athlete banned for gambling in recent months. \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/nba-jontay-porter-banned-265ad5cb703d9483347037762ee90a8f\">The NBA gave Toronto’s Jontay Porter a lifetime ban in April\u003c/a> after concluding he disclosed confidential information to bettors and wagered on games, including on the Raptors losing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MLB said it was tipped off in March about the betting activity by a legal sports betting operator. None of the players punished played in any games on which they wagered, and all players denied to MLB they had inside information relevant to their bets or the games they gambled on — testimonies that MLB says align with the data received from the sportsbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its announcement, MLB detailed the bets alleged for each player,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano’s 387 baseball bets included international games and 231 MLB-related wagers for $87,319 between Oct. 16, 2022, and last Nov. 1. Twenty-five of those bets included wagers on Pirates games while he was on the team’s major league roster. Now 24, Marcano has not played since tearing his right ACL last July 24 and was receiving medical treatment at PNC Park last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano bet almost exclusively on the outcomes of games and lost all of his parlay bets involving the Pirates, winning just 4.3% of his MLB-related bets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcano made his major league debut on April 1, 2021, and has a .217 average with five homers, 34 RBIs and seven stolen bases in\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>149 games. He has played in both the infield and outfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the thorough investigation revealed no evidence of any games being compromised, influenced or manipulated in any way in this case, protecting the integrity of our game is paramount,” the Pirates said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other four players did not bet on games involving their assigned teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly placed 10 bets on nine major league games from Oct. 5–17, 2021, while a minor league player was assigned to Houston’s Triple-A Sugar Land farm team. The bets included wagers on outcomes, over/under on runs and an individual pitcher’s strikeout total. Three of the nine games involved the major league Astros. His wagers totaled $99.22 and resulted in $28.30 of winnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly, 31, was 3–2 with a 2.59 ERA in 28 games this season, last pitching on Saturday at Atlanta. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland has a tentative deal to sell its share of the Coliseum site to a private developer that aims to create economic equity for the Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.aasegoakland.com/\">African American Sports & Entertainment Group\u003c/a> will tentatively purchase Oakland’s 50% ownership share of the Coliseum for $105 million, Mayor Sheng Thao’s office announced Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This agreement puts us on a path towards a more equitable and resilient Oakland,” Thao said, in a statement. “We are determined to ensure that this project serves as a catalyst for positive change in historically underinvested areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland City Council still needs to grant approval for the City Administrator to sign a purchase and sale agreement with the entertainment group. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s plans include the development of thousands of units of affordable housing and the preservation of Oakland Arena as an entertainment venue, according to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This project is not just about building structures; it’s about building communities and opportunities for future generations,” said Ray Bobbitt, founder and managing member of the entertainment group, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a time of transition for Oakland and the beloved Coliseum, with the Athletics’ impending departure to Sacramento for the next three baseball seasons ahead of a planned move to Las Vegas and the loss of the Oakland Raiders and Warriors. The deal for the site, which includes the Oakland Arena, also comes as Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986246/oakland-city-workers-criticize-administration-over-uncollected-business-taxes\">faces a roughly $177 million budget shortfall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That budget crisis reportedly led to the early sale of the city’s share of the Coliseum, the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> reported. Oakland leaders had hoped to sell the Coliseum site in partnership with the A’s, but the team is tied up in a court case over its purchase of the 50% stake held by Alameda County. The African American Sports & Entertainment Group is still negotiating a deal with the A’s, the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the city’s budget crisis in mind, Carolyn Johnson, CEO of the Black Cultural Zone, a collaborative of residents in East Oakland, said the site’s development may lead to more jobs and spur economic growth. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are eager to see the positive impact it will have on our neighborhoods,” Johnson said, in a statement. “This isn’t just a win; it’s a building block for a brighter future filled with opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a breaking story, and it will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s official: The A’s have a plan to leave Oakland. The Athletics announced last week that they’ll play their home games at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento starting next year, as part of bigger plans to relocate to Las Vegas for the 2028 season. 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Last week, the team announced it’ll play the rest of its home games in Sacramento starting next year as it prepares for a bigger move to Las Vegas. And fans who’ve been protesting A’s management since last year are, as you guessed it, not happy about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jorge Leon: \u003c/strong>I’ve never been able to relax before 1998, knowing that they could just leave any given day. And so here we are now, and still the same old shit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, I talk with A’s superfan and KQED producer Nina Thorsen about the latest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So, Nina, the A’s are leaving Oakland, but not to Las Vegas yet. Can you remind us where are the A’s at right now in their planned move to Las Vegas? It’s still a few years out, it sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>Right, right. The A’s have approval from Major League Baseball to relocate. They have a site. They’ve unveiled a design for a domed stadium with a big window. The architect called it a spherical armadillo. The A’s don’t have the funding for this ballpark completely worked out. In fact, we really don’t know very much about where the funding is, except that we know they don’t have either a loan or a outside funder that we know of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>A’s owner, John Fisher, says he and his family are going to put up as much of the funding as they have to. If everything goes the way they’ve planned. The new ballpark will open in 2028. But you know, in projects of this magnitude, things often don’t go as they plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Right right. So still a few years out and we’re kind of in this interim period with the A’s, right, where we know that they have this plan. But there’s still a lot that needs to be done. But they recently announced a plan to temporarily move to a minor league park in Sacramento until their new stadium in Vegas is built. Why did they have to leave the Coliseum in the first place?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>They’re actually in the last year of a ten year lease agreement that they signed, and it was very much a, you know, most favored tenant kind of lease. So it was a very low rate. They had the option of renewing it, and they were discussing with the city of Oakland and with Alameda County and the Joint Powers Authority, which manages the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>They were discussing renewals, but the city of Oakland, understandably, nobody wanted to give them the same great deal that they had before because they were no longer committed to the city. And in fact, the city and county had a bit of a disincentive in that on a per event basis, they could make more money with other tenants. They couldn’t come to a number. That was enough of a step up to satisfy the city and county, and enough of a discount to satisfy the A’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What were their options exactly? And why did the team’s owner ultimately pick Sacramento?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>So the options that we knew about that they were talking about publicly were staying at the Coliseum for the interim period or moving to minor league ballparks in Las Vegas, in Sacramento, or in Salt Lake City. Staying at the Colosseum would be their easiest option, and the team could keep all of its lucrative cable TV contract, which is based on their being in the Bay area, which is a very large market compared to any of these other places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>But the Coliseum holds about five times as many people as the minor league parks, so there’d be a lot of empty seats. And also, the fans who have been protesting would continue to be very visible if they play at the Coliseum. It still seemed like Oakland had the edge. And then the owner of the Sacramento minor league team, the River cats, offered the A’s free rent, and that seems to have been too good a deal for them to pass up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Kaval: \u003c/strong>And we felt that this was just a great interim home for the A’s. We have a lot of fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>So Dave Kaval is the president of the A’s, and he has said that this is a very attractive deal for them. They’re very excited about moving to Sacramento. And they think that the intimacy of the park, because it’s only 10,000 plus seats. It’ll be an interesting change from being at the Coliseum, which is 56,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Kaval: \u003c/strong>Seats in a minute. It’s like the spring training experience, but the games matter. And so I think people are going to have a fun time. People are going to travel in to see these games. It’s going to be a great location for baseball. And as someone who’s traveled to all 30 ballparks, seeing a baseball game, a major League Baseball game, in this type of setting, it’s going to be world class and it’s going to be a lot of fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Nina, you are a huge A’s fan as we’ve talked with you on this show plenty of times before. For those who don’t know, Nina is one of the iconic drummers in remind me which section?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>Right field section 149.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, how are fans like you, I guess, responding to this news?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I was going to say something about it’s, you know, is it adding insult to injury? There have been so many insults and so many injuries to this fan base in the last few years. For me personally, this is the first year since 2009, except for the pandemic year, that I haven’t had at least a partial season ticket plan or a full season ticket plan this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jorge Leon: \u003c/strong>So, I mean, to me, it’s a disappointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>Jorge Leon is the president of the Oakland 68, which is a fan group that got its start in the right field bleachers. And full disclosure, I’m a member of the Oakland 68.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jorge Leon: \u003c/strong>You know, I wrote an essay in 1998 to try and keep Dave in Oakland. That was in 1998. So them staying in Oakland had always been in the back of my head, though in a way I’ve never been able to relax since 1998, knowing that they could just leave any given day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>The idea that the A’s would be leaving the Coliseum is something that fans have been hearing for so many years, that it almost seemed like it was never going to happen. And Jorje Leon talked to one of our KQED reporters about what it feels like to be told, you know, not just that they are leaving eventually, but that there there is a day when there is the last game coming up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jorge Leon: \u003c/strong>We’re not supporting the team at all. Not in Sacramento, not in Vegas, not in a thousand. Not in Fremont. Not anywhere. We support the team in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Is fans have been very active and very loud about their feelings about the team and plans to leave Oakland, organizing and staging protests, really rallying around this call to force the owner, John Fisher, to sell the team. Can you talk a little bit more about how fans have been organizing and protesting in the months leading up to this announcement?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>So last year was the summer of sell. This year it’s going to be more of a boycott situation for the home opener this year, which was, you know, just a couple of weeks ago at the end of March. These two HS fan groups that have been leading the protests organized a boycott where people did not buy tickets to the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>But we all went into the Coliseum parking lots and set up a big party and partied throughout the game. Okay, this is the parking lot about 6 p.m. you know, Oakland has always been known for its tailgating experience. The Coliseum parking lots of a magical place of celebration, both for the A’s and for the Raiders. But this was really next level opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>And there were live bands and there were free tacos. And the first 5000 people got free flags that set sail on them. And it was just a surreal experience to be standing in the parking lot, looking through the little gap in the Colosseum upper deck so that we could see the scoreboard. There were more fans outside the stadium than there were fans inside, that’s for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The actions you are describing, it’s like fans saying, we’re here, we exist in the thousands, but we’re not going to give you our money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>Yes, it’s definitely that. It’s definitely the idea that nobody wants to give John Fisher any more money than is absolutely necessary if you want to go to a couple of games. A lot of people are trying to only buy tickets on the secondary market, so they’ve already been sold. I think the other thing about the protests is that they are not negative. Yes, the message is sell the team and get John Fisher out, change the ownership. But there’s also a tremendous amount of positivity, a tremendous amount of festivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>As fans have also been pretty active around what’s happening in Nevada, right where they’ve been preparing for in a move. How have fans been getting involved in that front?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>Another way that A’s fans have been active in the last year is by supporting efforts in Nevada, specifically by the Nevada Teachers Union, to organize opposition to the public funding that the state voted for. The A’s ballpark and the Nevada Teachers Union has two different legal strategies going on. One of them involves a referendum that they want to put on the ballot in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>That would essentially allow the voters of Nevada to weigh in on whether they want to give the A’s money for their stadium. And A’s fans have been very instrumental in donating a lot of money to that effort. And there’s a lot of A’s fans who are planning to go to Nevada to go to Reno in Vegas and other parts of Nevada and, you know, be the ones who will go around collecting signatures to put this thing on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Oakland is, of course, preparing to contend with an empty stadium. And this is a real solid plan for the A’s to officially leave Oakland. What is this going to mean for the Coliseum?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>Well, in the short term, say, next season, 2025, the plan is that the Coliseum is going to be the home field for the Oakland Roots and the Oakland Soul soccer clubs. There may be a few games for the Oakland Ballers. They wanted to do an exhibition game this year, but the A’s said no. There could be outdoor concerts, which used to happen a lot at the Coliseum in the old days on the green. In the longer term, I mean, the Coliseum is a it’s an old stadium. It’s been there since 1968. It will probably be demolished. And what happens next in that site is something that has been the subject of discussions for years and years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And in, in the short term as well. Nina, what’ll happen to the workers at the Coliseum?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>I think it’s going to be really tough for a lot of the Coliseum workers who are game day workers. A lot of those folks live in East Oakland. They live or they live, you know, within easy commuting distance of the Coliseum. And it it may be really tough for them. It’ll be a big change for them. Now, a lot of those folks will probably end up working at whatever else goes on at the Coliseum, the roots and whatever else happens there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>It just may not be as many games, so it won’t be as much money for people who are paid on a game by game basis. 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How could the move to Sacramento change fans ability to protest or gather in the ways that they have been?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>It’s going to change. It’s not going to be the same. It is as it is at the Coliseum. But I don’t think that his fans are going to be quiet. I think there is a change in feeling at some levels of Major League Baseball, whether it’s really an official policy or not. I think there is a change in feeling about the fan relationship and what it means to be a fan of Major League Baseball. The ideal were fans who were loyal to one team and were maybe loyal to one team over generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>You know, your parents took you to games and then you took your children’s games. And the feeling that the sports team represented the city and represented the region and had some meaningful connections to that community. And in the past few years in the A’s are the most extreme example. But they’re not. They’re far from the only one. There seems to be a new philosophy that you buy a ticket to a ballgame, and that’s all you’re buying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>You’re not making a commitment to the team, and the team’s not making a commitment to you. Major League Baseball seems to perhaps want to move away from the idea that you’re a fan of a team so much is that you’re a fan of MLB The Brand. This is not an Oakland phenomenon. This is not something to do with the particular situation at the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>This is something that other teams are going to do. It has much more to do with. Baseball teams and sports teams in general, wanting public funding for their facilities, and. Being willing to use the threat of relocation as leverage to get more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Nina, our unofficial ace correspondent. 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It’s definitely the idea that nobody wants to give John Fisher any more money than is absolutely necessary if you want to go to a couple of games. A lot of people are trying to only buy tickets on the secondary market, so they’ve already been sold. I think the other thing about the protests is that they are not negative. Yes, the message is sell the team and get John Fisher out, change the ownership. But there’s also a tremendous amount of positivity, a tremendous amount of festivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>As fans have also been pretty active around what’s happening in Nevada, right where they’ve been preparing for in a move. How have fans been getting involved in that front?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>Another way that A’s fans have been active in the last year is by supporting efforts in Nevada, specifically by the Nevada Teachers Union, to organize opposition to the public funding that the state voted for. 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Nina, what’ll happen to the workers at the Coliseum?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>I think it’s going to be really tough for a lot of the Coliseum workers who are game day workers. A lot of those folks live in East Oakland. They live or they live, you know, within easy commuting distance of the Coliseum. And it it may be really tough for them. It’ll be a big change for them. Now, a lot of those folks will probably end up working at whatever else goes on at the Coliseum, the roots and whatever else happens there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen: \u003c/strong>It just may not be as many games, so it won’t be as much money for people who are paid on a game by game basis. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Athletics’ move to Las Vegas was unanimously approved Thursday by Major League Baseball team owners, cementing the sport’s first relocation since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News circulating around the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949532/oakland-as-signal-move-to-las-vegas-strip-after-reaching-an-agreement-for-potential-stadium-site\">potential move to Las Vegas\u003c/a> has been a point of contention for A’s fans for months. The A’s will be the second team Oakland has lost to Las Vegas in recent years, following the Raiders football team’s move in 2020. Several fans expressed their disappointment with the A’s leadership over the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congresswoman Barbara Lee responded to the news of the A’s relocation by vowing to continue working to hold the MLB and its owners accountable for “prioritizing their pockets over the communities that have supported them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredibly disappointing, but not surprising that a group of billionaire owners supported another billionaire owner’s efforts to line his own pockets at the expense of a passionate community and fan base,” said Lee in a statement. “The East Bay does not deserve to lose its last professional sports team. It’s shameful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Ruman has been an A’s fan since she moved to Oakland over a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland’s the heart of the Oakland A’s, and I don’t think anybody will forget that. It’s like that sad feeling you get like from a divorce, like they’re really gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another fan, Shannon Baker, says she’s been a fan for years and enjoys taking her kids, adding, “I want to say good riddance, but at the same time, I’m still a fan, I still like going, we go to a lot of games … but at the same time I do kinda still hope they stay as long as they’re able to,” said Baker. “It just feels like it’s all business, all money and not necessarily always looking out for the fans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re die-hard A’s fans out in Oakland, don’t leave us, baby,” said Jesse Wolfson-Pou, who’s been a fan his whole life. “We used to have three teams in Oakland: we had the Warriors, the A’s and the Raiders, and now we’ll have none. I love going to the A’s games, they’re not too expensive, they’re fun. I’m not a fan of the move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 75% vote of the 30 teams was necessary for approval of A’s owner John Fisher’s plan, which was endorsed by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rep. Barbara Lee (D-12th District)\"]‘The East Bay does not deserve to lose its last professional sports team. It’s shameful.’[/pullquote]“There was an effort over more than a decade to find a stadium solution in Oakland,” Manfred said Thursday. “It was John Fisher’s preference. It was my preference. … It didn’t happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of complaints about the Oakland Coliseum and an inability to negotiate government assistance for a new ballpark in the Bay area, the A’s plan to move to a stadium to be built on the Las Vegas Strip with \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/las-vegas-oakland-athletics-governor-signing-f190c44133bbcee47a15278135b6088f\">$380 million in public financing\u003c/a> approved by the Nevada government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Incredibly difficult day,” Fisher said. “We gave every effort, did everything we could to find a solution there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Jorge Leon, president of the Oakland 68s, an independent supporters group, the A’s move isn’t final yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A’s owner, John Fisher, still needs to come up with the money/financing plan, the Federal Aviation Administration could veto the selected stadium location because it’s next to the airport, and at least part of the state of Nevada’s contribution would be jeopardized if a ballot measure being pushed by the Nevada teachers’ union passes in November 2024,” said Leon. “That effort received a minor setback in court this week, but it’s far from over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Athletics’ lease at the Coliseum runs through 2024, and they will remain next season at the outdated and run-down stadium where they have played since moving to California in 1968. It remains unclear where the team will play after that until a new ballpark opens, which Fisher said will be in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las Vegas will become the franchise’s fourth city, the most for an MLB team. The A’s played in Philadelphia from 1901–54, then moved to Kansas City for 13 seasons before going to California. The new stadium will be the team’s fifth after Columbia Park (1901–08), Shibe Park (1909–54), Memorial Stadium (1955–67) and the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11952845,news_11947286,news_11949532\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Since the Washington Senators became the Texas Rangers in 1972, the only other team to relocate was the Montreal Expos, who became the Washington Nationals in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s in 2006 proposed a ballpark in Fremont, about 25 miles south in the East Bay, but abandoned the plan three years later. San José, 40 miles south of Oakland, was proposed in 2012, but the San Francisco Giants blocked the site because it was part of that team’s territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the A’s chose a site in the Oakland area near Laney College, it was rejected by the college and its neighbors. The franchise then focused on the Howard Terminal area of Oakland, though a financing plan was never reached after some approvals were gained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/oakland-athletics-las-vegas-relocation-fans-fbc6836f0db2dadb0db0be78f5783f0b\">The team announced on April 19 that it had purchased land in Las Vegas\u003c/a>, then a month later replaced that location with a deal with Bally’s and Gaming & Leisure Properties to build a stadium on the Tropicana hotel site along the Las Vegas Strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevada’s Legislature and governor approved public financing for a $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat ballpark with a retractable roof near Allegiant Stadium, which the NFL’s Oakland Raiders moved to in 2020, and T-Mobile Arena, which the current Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights started playing in 2017 as an expansion team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland finished an MLB-worst 50–112 this season and was again last in the majors in average attendance at 10,276 per game. That was well below the league-wide average of 29,283 but up from the previous two years, when the A’s were below 10,000 fans per game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While San Francisco/Oakland/San José is the 10th-largest television market in the U.S., Las Vegas is the 40th. Baseball Players Association head Tony Clark last month questioned whether the shift to a smaller city would put the team on a path of needed perpetual assistance under MLB’s revenue-sharing plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MLB is able to control city changes because of the sport’s antitrust exemption, granted by a 1922 U.S. Supreme Court decision. In the last half-century, the NFL has seen moves by the Raiders (Oakland to Los Angeles, back to Oakland and then Las Vegas), the Colts (Baltimore to Indianapolis), the Cardinals (St. Louis to Phoenix), the Rams (Los Angeles to St. Louis and back to Los Angeles), the Oilers (Houston to Nashville) and the Chargers (San Diego to Los Angeles).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owners held their three-day meetings this week at a hotel adjacent to Globe Life Field, a retractable-roof stadium that opened in 2020. That is the site of next season’s MLB All-Star Game and the home of the Rangers, who, in their 52nd season in Texas this month, won their first World Series title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manfred also announced Thursday that Atlanta will host the 2025 All-Star Game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, a\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/oakland-athletics-stadium-financing-las-vegas-4835af30f22d9d1cd7b8582ade074ef6\"> Nevada judge threw out a proposed ballot referendum backed by a statewide teachers union\u003c/a> that would have given voters the final say on whether to provide public funding for the proposed Vegas stadium for the A’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools Over Stadiums spokesperson Alexander Marks said the organization’s leadership will likely both appeal the decision to the Nevada Supreme Court and refile the referendum petition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Juan Carlos Lara and Rachael Myrow contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland A’s fans swarmed into the Coliseum Tuesday night, many wearing green T-shirts emblazoned with the word “Sell” as part of a last-ditch effort to keep the team in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sell the team!” fans chanted thousands of times during the A’s 2–1 victory against the Tampa Bay Rays that gave Oakland a season-best seven-game winning streak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of the so-called reverse boycott, which drew the biggest crowd of the season at 27,759, are calling for A’s owner John Fisher to sell the 55-year-old baseball franchise to a buyer committed to keeping the team in Oakland, rather than moving forward with plans to build a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949532/oakland-as-signal-move-to-las-vegas-strip-after-reaching-an-agreement-for-potential-stadium-site\">$1.5 billion stadium on the Las Vegas Strip\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed move to the desert came one step closer to reality Tuesday afternoon when the Nevada state Senate \u003ca href=\"https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/2023-legislature/as-ballpark-funding-bill-approved-by-nevada-senate-2793296/\">voted in favor of an amended version\u003c/a> of a proposed $380 million public financing package for the new stadium. The measure must now be approved by the state Assembly and the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952972 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man in a lime green shirt that reads \"sell\" points and smiles at the camera while standing in a parking lot.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Wohl at the reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like my heart is being ripped out. It’s the worst feeling in the world, really,” Matthew Wohl, a lifelong A’s fan, said during a tailgate party before the game Tuesday night. “I’ve barely been watching baseball this year, but I know more than likely they’re leaving. Watching them leave is just killing me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball needs to be in Oakland,” he insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the A’s defy the odds and manage to stay “rooted in Oakland,” as its supporters are demanding, the team would face an already bruised and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947286/devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move\">devastated fan base\u003c/a> that has united in condemning Fisher and team president Dave Kaval. Both executives, they say, have poorly managed the team and are betraying a city the A’s have called home since moving from Kansas City in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, the owner owns the team, but it’s not theirs, it’s the community’s,” said Jorge Leon, president of A’s fan group the Oakland ’68s, at the Coliseum last week. “The A’s [management] have been alienating the fan base for a while. It’s nothing new. And so, now it’s the last straw — and people are tired of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland ’68s are known for sitting in the right-field bleachers, spiritedly rooting for their team. Since news of the potential A’s Vegas move, the group has taken to chanting brazen sentiments such as, “Sell the team,” as they beat on drums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952927\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd of people wearing Oakland A's clothing fill an outdoor parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans of the Oakland A’s gather at the Oakland Coliseum as part of a reverse boycott to protest the ownership of the team. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last few months, the group raised more than $27,000 from fans in Oakland and farther afield, and teamed up with local clothing company Oaklandish to produce the “Sell” T-shirts that go for $5 a pop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Batres, who drove down from Sacramento for Tuesday’s event, was among the thousands donning the green T-shirts. “I’ve had a big love affair with the A’s over the Giants for quite some time. And I felt that it was kind of a personal thing, especially when I consider them my team,” said Batres, who’s been a die-hard fan for four decades. “So even suggesting the fact they’re going to move to Las Vegas is kind of a big deal to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt='Three men stand beside a car with t-shirts that read \"sell\" drinking beer, eating snacks and talking to each other.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Batres (right) joins other Oakland A’s fans during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Katie Callahan-Cisco said she and her older sister had come both to support the team and as tribute to their father, Dick Callahan, the longtime A’s public address announcer, who died in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so gratifying to see all of these people supporting the team and this reverse boycott,” she said. “The fans really initiated this and then it just really spread like wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before first pitch, the A’s announced they would donate all ticket revenue from the game to the Alameda County Community Food Bank and Oakland Public Education Fund — a total of $811,107.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952928\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952928 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of seven people stand together to take a photo in an outdoor parking lot, all but one wear t-shirts reading "sell" and several wear Oakland A's hats.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Callahan (second from the right), Cary Kennerley (left of center) and Katie Callahan-Cisco (center) tailgate in the parking lot of the Oakland Coliseum with their families. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fight to keep the A’s in Oakland comes just three years after the city lost the Raiders — also to Las Vegas. The year before, the Golden State Warriors jumped ship to a new stadium in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s, who play in the American League West, currently sit at the bottom of their division and, at 19–50, have lost more games this season than any other team in the league. Still, they managed to beat the Rays — who have the best record in baseball — on Monday and Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952916 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two young men wearing Oakland A's jerseys look at the camera while standing beside a car a large open parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob and Joseph Palpallatoc join other fans of the Oakland A’s during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum to protest the ownership of the baseball team. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is ridiculous that they’re trying to move to Las Vegas. 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It’s the worst feeling in the world, really,” Matthew Wohl, a lifelong A’s fan, said during a tailgate party before the game Tuesday night. “I’ve barely been watching baseball this year, but I know more than likely they’re leaving. Watching them leave is just killing me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball needs to be in Oakland,” he insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the A’s defy the odds and manage to stay “rooted in Oakland,” as its supporters are demanding, the team would face an already bruised and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947286/devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move\">devastated fan base\u003c/a> that has united in condemning Fisher and team president Dave Kaval. Both executives, they say, have poorly managed the team and are betraying a city the A’s have called home since moving from Kansas City in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, the owner owns the team, but it’s not theirs, it’s the community’s,” said Jorge Leon, president of A’s fan group the Oakland ’68s, at the Coliseum last week. “The A’s [management] have been alienating the fan base for a while. It’s nothing new. And so, now it’s the last straw — and people are tired of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland ’68s are known for sitting in the right-field bleachers, spiritedly rooting for their team. 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