Oakland A's Fans' Reverse Boycott Brings Wild Scenes As They Shout 'Sell The Team'

Over 27,000 Oakland Athletics fans showed up in unison on Tuesday night to have their message heard loud and clear - keep the team in Oakland and get owner John Fisher out.

The Oakland A's faithful planned a 'reverse boycott' for last night's Athletics - Rays game to prove to Major League Baseball that it's not them that's the problem, but rather Fisher. The last-ditch effort was in response to the team (most likely) heading to Las Vegas and leaving the place they have called home since 1968.

They made shirts, they bought tickets and they made sure everyone watching at home and across the league knew what they wanted Fisher to do when they repeatedly chanted "sell the team!"

If they were going out, they were going out with one last valiant effort to show that the people of Oakland still care about their team.

ABSOLUTE SCENES IN OAKLAND

The A's went into Tuesday's game two of their Tampa Bay Rays series with a six-game winning streak. And despite defeating MLB's best on Monday, surely they couldn't win two in a row. Right?

That is, until they showed up in droves at Oakland Coliseum to make it look and sound like it was a damn playoff game.

I mean, just watch these clips:

I'm sorry but if you're a sports fan, that is awesome to see. It's the middle of June, the Oakland A's fans know that this is a last-ditch effort to try and do anything and everything to keep their team in Oakland, so they went all out supporting the players while sticking it to Fisher.

And if that wasn't enough, they were able to defeat the Rays yet again, making it seven in a row!

Anybody who has been a fan of a losing franchise knows the pain that the A's fans have been going through. The fans know that other teams immediately write them off as an automatic loss on the schedule. "Oh, that's just the A's we can sweep them."

It quickly goes from frustrating to downright embarrassing when the Athletics fans know that they are the joke of the league. Hell, they have rodents running around freely in the Coliseum for crying out loud!

And even though the A's are on a hot streak right now, this isn't Moneyball part 2 that we're seeing. But for one night, the A's fans reversed it on owner John Fisher, and other fans from across the league can only hope that karma does what it sometimes does, and tanks Fisher's Las Vegas deal, and who knows, maybe somehow keep the team in Oakland.