Oakland A’s Fans Chant ‘Sell The Team’ During Home Game

It’s been a rough couple weeks for Oakland A’s fans.

The A’s started the 2023 season with low expectations for on-field success, and have somehow still managed to underperform.

As of Thursday afternoon, Oakland is just 6-25. But even that understates just how awful the A’s have been.

By every objective measurement, the 2023 Oakland A’s are an embarrassment.

And that’s just the start of their problems.

After years of negotiations and threats, the organization announced recently they’d purchased land in Las Vegas to build a new stadium.

READ: OAKLAND A’S REACH AGREEMENT TO BUY LAND IN LAS VEGAS

Understandably, that’s angered local fans. And that anger boiled over during a recent home game.

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 30: Oakland Athletics fans display signs during the game against the Cincinnati Reds at RingCentral Coliseum on April 30, 2023 in Oakland, California. The signs refer to the team's potential move to Las Vegas. (Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)

Do The Oakland A’s Have A Future?

It’s easy to empathize with Oakland fans.

Despite having a billionaire owner, the team has put little to no money into the product on the field. Or improving the off-field product.

While the A’s have been in contention in recent years, fans have been conditioned to expect star players to be traded or let go to save money.

And the clear lack of interest in financing a stadium privately combined with obvious ownership disinterest has led to disaster.

It’s obvious that the situation in Oakland can’t continue like this, but the billion dollar question is how to fix it.

Were new ownership to come in, commit to building a new stadium in the East Bay and invest in the team, there’s no reason the A’s couldn’t turn the ship around.

But that seems incredibly unlikely. Moving the team to Vegas should be incredibly profitable for owner John Fisher.

He’ll likely be getting huge sums of public money to finance his private business, making the team a bigger money maker than it already is.

Why sell when you can make more money by staying?

As bad as the team is, as bad as the stadium is, given there’ll be at least one more season in Oakland, fan support could just get even worse.