A's Trade All-Star Pitching Staff, Commit to Throwing Seasons Until Selig Allows Move

[Miburo]

So Oakland A's owner Lew Wolff, frat-buddy of MLB commissioner and all-around clown Bud Selig, had the A's trade Gio Gonzalez, Andrew Bailey, and Trevor Cahill all in a span of 30 days, basically mimicking the plot to the movie Major League. The idea is that if the team is enough of an embarrassment, the MLB will commit to letting the franchise ditch Oakland and move to San Jose (which was Wolff's plan ever since buying the team) in order to stop them from making a mockery of the sport. This a sick joke on professional sports coming about due to disgusting patronage - allowing your buddy to buy a franchise he has zero interest in. To think we could've been owned by Reggie Jackson and Oakland native Joe Morgan instead of this fraud

[Miburo]

Baseball fans get in here and comment on this travesty, most of your sh1tty teams are the ones benefiting after all.

[Danny Gunz]

Shouldve stayed in Philly smh

[Miburo]

Originally Posted by Danny Gunz

Shouldve stayed in Philly smh

Philly actually screwed them, made no effort to keep the team in the city after Connie Mack died (as opposed to franchises who moved just because the owners wanted money). But the Philly A's were indeed the sh1t.

[Mannie Phresh]

sorry for your teams eventual move

[Tim Horton]

Dave Steward needs to un-retire.

[heat27]

[MARKBNLV]

Originally Posted by Shiranui

So Oakland A's owner Lew Wolff, frat-buddy of MLB commissioner and all-around clown Bud Selig, had the A's trade Gio Gonzalez, Andrew Bailey, and Trevor Cahill all in a span of 30 days, basically mimicking the plot to the movie Major League. The idea is that if the team is enough of an embarrassment, the MLB will commit to letting the franchise ditch Oakland and move to San Jose (which was Wolff's plan ever since buying the team) in order to stop them from making a mockery of the sport. This a sick joke on professional sports coming about due to disgusting patronage - allowing your buddy to buy a franchise he has zero interest in. To think we could've been owned by Reggie Jackson and Oakland native Joe Morgan instead of this fraud

To be fair even the Raiders want out of Oakland,evidently the money to be made in that market is minimal.

[Miburo]

Originally Posted by MARKBNLV

To be fair even the Raiders want out of Oakland,evidently the money to be made in that market is minimal.

Actually the A's led the league in attendance when they had ownership that cared and a good ballpark in the late-80s/early-90s. The current ownership stated before they even bought the team that they had no intention of trying to make it work in Oakland. In fact, the Raiders are somewhat directly responsible for the current situation, ****ing over the Coliseum with Mt. Davis so they now play in an ugly football stadium.