Will 2023 Oakland A's set modern team record for season losses?

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by jayshum

7 in a row and an attendance listed at 27,759. I don't know if that many people really showed up, but it's hard to believe they sold that many tickets since I think their average attendance has been under 10K.

A's are now 1 game ahead of KC so they aren't even the worst team in baseball any more. Maybe the Mets record is safe for another year, although I guess either Oakland or KC could still make it interesting with a few bad weeks.

First off 7 in a Row wow. Scary that 7 in a row and their record does not look better.

They sold alot of tickets because the fans have been promoting doing a Reverse Protest

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

First off 7 in a Row wow. Scary that 7 in a row and their record does not look better.

They sold alot of tickets because the fans have been promoting doing a Reverse Protest

I heard that they had 6 wins total in March/April and 6 wins total in May so now 7 in a row in June is pretty amazing.

What is the purpose of the Reverse Protest? Has it now become the plot of Major League?

[Deertick]

Originally Posted by jayshum

I heard that they had 6 wins total in March/April and 6 wins total in May so now 7 in a row in June is pretty amazing.

What is the purpose of the Reverse Protest? Has it now become the plot of Major League?

The fans organized the "Reverse Boycott" to show MLB that the sparse attendance is not the fault of the fans not wanting to go, but that poor ownership and a lack of investment is the culprit.

It seemed like it was a wild night. Very good game (Harris pitched his ass off), very loud all night, choreographed chants, thousands wearing green "SELL" shirts. Oh, and it was also "Bark in the Park" night.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by Deertick

The fans organized the "Reverse Boycott" to show MLB that the sparse attendance is not the fault of the fans not wanting to go, but that poor ownership and a lack of investment is the culprit.

It seemed like it was a wild night. Very good game (Harris pitched his ass off), very loud all night, choreographed chants, thousands wearing green "SELL" shirts. Oh, and it was also "Bark in the Park" night.

I watched some of it - the atmosphere was like a real MLB game! The drummers were back, the crowd was huge. Unfortunately it coincided with the approval of the Vegas deal

[G1911]

A bunch of people, who didn't attend games for years, paid money to the guy they finally showed up to whine about for moving the team they didn't ever go see or support until they gave up and left. I'm not sure why people here thought that not having an embarrassing attendance for 1 game was going to do anything, but I don't understand lots of things. I've heard more about the A's from people who didn't seem to care for the last 15 years this week than I have in the last 15 years combined.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by G1911

A bunch of people, who didn't attend games for years, paid money to the guy they finally showed up to whine about for moving the team they didn't ever go see or support until they gave up and left. I'm not sure why people here thought that not having an embarrassing attendance for 1 game was going to do anything, but I don't understand lots of things. I've heard more about the A's from people who didn't seem to care for the last 15 years this week than I have in the last 15 years combined.

The demise of this franchise started way back when Bud Selig okayed the sale to John Fisher, I have a low opinion of both those people, Fisher who never intended to invest in a winning ball club and is a silver spoon entitled unsuccessful business man whose Schtick is buying sports teams with his Mommys money, and is the furthest thing from a baseball man. Joe Lakob has had a standing offer to buy the team for over a decade.

That Joe Lakob who bought the Warriors, kept them in Oakland, and invested in the team resulting in 4 NBA championships in 8 years. The sport doesn't need Primadonnas like Fisher.

MLB is also to blame. After the announcement fans hung banners asking to sell the Team, when Ryan Noda hit a homer to right MLB cropped out the banners from its video highlights. And later apologized when they were called on their bullshit.

The City of Oakland also bears responsibility for screwing the Pooch, thinking they had more power than everyone else and the arrogance that comes with that.

Bad folks all the way around, and the guy who suffers is the working class fan who cares more about his team than any of the people mentioned. You want an example of what's wrong with society? This clusterfuck is a perfect example.

Bill Veeck, where are we when we need you...

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

The demise of this franchise started way back when Bud Selig okayed the sale to John Fisher, I have a low opinion of both those people, Fisher who never intended to invest in a winning ball club and is a silver spoon entitled unsuccessful business man whose Schtick is buying sports teams with his Mommys money, and is the furthest thing from a baseball man. Joe Lakob has had a standing offer to buy the team for over a decade.

That Joe Lakob who bought the Warriors, kept them in Oakland, and invested in the team resulting in 4 NBA championships in 8 years. The sport doesn't need Primadonnas like Fisher.

MLB is also to blame. After the announcement fans hung banners asking to sell the Team, when Ryan Noda hit a homer to right MLB cropped out the banners from its video highlights. And later apologized when they were called on their bullshit.

The City of Oakland also bears responsibility for screwing the Pooch, thinking they had more power than everyone else and the arrogance that comes with that.

Bad folks all the way around, and the guy who suffers is the working class fan who cares more about his team than any of the people mentioned. You want an example of what's wrong with society? This clusterfuck is a perfect example.

Bill Veeck, where are we when we need you...

Certainly the A's have not been a high investment team (it's hard to act like the Dodgers and Yankees when nobody goes to your games). The city has done nothing to keep them. Nobody is trying to nominate Fisher for owner of the year. MLB shouldn't censor fan signs or do many things it does. To observe one problem does not mean one is alleging no other problem exists.

The narrative flying around here in the Bay does not stand to even a cursory fact check. From 2005, when Fisher bought the team, to the present day they have won 1,447 games and lost 1,435. Call it .500. Average overall performance. In none of these years, many of them successful winning seasons (4 times they have finished 1st), have they had even average attendance. People have not cared for a long time, even when they are good. They measurably didn't go, win or lose. Tons of people out here whining never went to a game before and didn't care until it was the trendy-subject-of-the-week-to-complain-and-protest-about.

If people don't go, teams leave. That sucks for their ~10,000 actual 'working class' fans (it sucks for me a bit, I like going for $5 in the evening sometimes though I too have fallen off the last few years with the high crime, drug infested BART, and more drug dealers on the walkway), but it's always worked this way. It's harder to spend more when your fans don't bring in nearly what other clubs fans do. It has always worked that way. The fanbase measurably hasn't cared much for a very long time. If people don't go, even when they finish 1st, of course they will leave when they can. If this is the "clusterfuck" that demonstrates "what is wrong with society", then boy are things almost perfect.

I fail to see what bearing the fact that his very successful parents left him money when his father died has to actually do with this. Shame on them for giving their stuff to their child . I'd love to see who the people whining about this leave their money too in their wills. I bet it's a rando.