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Fox News
4 days ago
- Sport
- Fox News
Athletics fan confronted by security for wearing 'SELL' t-shirt caught on live broadcast
They simply go by the Athletics now, as the team formerly stationed in Oakland will soon plant their roots in Las Vegas. For now, the team plays their games at Sutter Health Park, a minor league field in Sacramento, while the transition to Las Vegas continues to run its course. As a result, there is a large portion of the team's fanbase that remains disgruntled at ownership for moving to Sin City instead of continuing to play in Oakland. Well, one fan decided to make his presence known during the team's pregame show on Thursday ahead of the match-up with the Minnesota Twins. He wore a t-shirt that read, "SELL." While the pregame show was going on, that fan was quickly confronted by a Sutter Health Park security guard, and more team and field officials quickly followed suit. The whole thing was captured on the live broadcast. Joe Horton identified himself on social media as the man in question, and he noted that security allowed him to remain in his seat for the game after speaking with them. He told Awful Announcing, who posted the pregame clips on X, that this was "not my first rodeo." "When they show up I think the whole time – you know this too is on TV right?" Horton replied on X. Horton even had some fun on X posting a screenshot of himself in the background of the pregame show desk surrounded by security and white-polo-wearing officials. "Look how many friends I made today," he captioned the screenshot. Fans like Horton remain ticked off by A's owner John Fisher, who is leading the move to Las Vegas. Similar t-shirts, signs, and flags were seen at the Oakland Coliseum last season when the team's home games started to dwindle as the schedule came to a close. The Athletics will be playing in Sacramento for at least the next couple of seasons, as the team's new ballpark in Las Vegas won't be ready until 2028 at the earliest. So, fans like Horton continue to voice their opinion on Fisher's moves, and it's clear a good portion of the fan base wishes him out of baseball. He doesn't seem inclined to do so. The Athletics remain a very young team with some budding talent, including Brent Rooker, Tyler Soderstrom, Jacob Wilson and Lawrence Butler, among others. They are 24-40 entering Thursday, which is last in the AL West division. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
CBS News
18-05-2025
- Sport
- CBS News
A's return to Oracle Park for first time since Oakland departure draws mixed emotions from fans
The San Francisco Giants and the Athletics have played each other more than a hundred times, but the games this weekend are a little different. It's the first time the A's are back in the Bay since leaving Oakland for Sacramento. With that move, what was once called the "Bay Bridge series" has been informally rebranded as the "Highway 80 series" or "I-80 series." Ed Schriger was wearing green to the game, but when asked if he was an A's fan, he had an interesting answer. "Used to be, yeah," said Schriger. About 30 years ago, he bought a home just 10 minutes from the Oakland Coliseum. That launched him into his A's fandom, which later ended in heartbreak. "It was sad and I think it exposed Major League Baseball for what it is," said Schriger. "They expect you to be loyal to their team no matter what they do." He said he won't go to Sacramento to watch them play, but decided to come out to Oracle Park, he did wear a shirt with the word "Sell" on it as a form of protest. "Because John Fisher should sell the team," said Schriger. "Still, sell the team. He's probably the worst owner in professional sports ever. Even worse than Charlie Finley, the original owner of the A's." But some other A's fans say they're still supporting the team, despite the move. "I'm from Oakland," said Nuala Gorshow. "I've lived in Oakland my whole life, at the end of the day, it's still my team. There's no other team I could ever cheer for." "I am," said Cat Lake, who is also from Oakland. "I always will. There's no doubt about that. A's forever." Another former A's fan decided to attend the game because it feels nostalgic. "It still feels kinda like home because it's just across the bridge," said Rosie Drury. Many A's fans say they're conflicted, they don't know if they will continue to support the team when they are scheduled to move to Las Vegas in 2028. But Schriger says he knows they won't be his team. "I'm a free agent and I'm loving it," said Schriger. "Let's go, Mets." The final game of the series is on Sunday at 1:05 p.m. The Giants have won the first two.
San Francisco Chronicle
17-05-2025
- Sport
- San Francisco Chronicle
Giants welcome spurned A's fans as rivalry trades Bay Bridge for ‘Highway 80'
Hanging in the merchandise shops scattered around Oracle Park is a new T-shirt designed for the San Francisco Giants' weekend series against the Athletics. Merging orange and black with green and gold, a familiar blend for local baseball fans, the shirt depicts a span of the Bay Bridge with 'Highway 80' scrawled across the front in bold letters. With the Athletics' move to Sacramento, it's the Giants' acknowledgement of a local rivalry now separated by an extra 80 miles west down Interstate 80 (where did Highway 80 come from?). Major League Baseball deemed it 'Rivalry Week' across baseball, but this quasi-local affair shines a light on the awkward transition the once storied Bay Bridge rivalry has made. Despite the 'Highway 80' shirts and the patch on the A's jerseys, the A's won't officially claim Sacramento their home as they pursue an uncertain future in Las Vegas. It's created a behemoth of an opportunity for the Giants in Northern California as they're in position to claim wayward East Bay fans who've lost their local team. It's fair to wonder if the Giants had those lost A's fans in mind when the organization hung a sprawling banner across the right-field bleachers. The sign had San Francisco's 415 area code and the East Bay's 510 area code with a massive heart connecting the two. The sign was a message that 'all baseball fans are welcome to the park, but especially this weekend those from the 510. (The) East Bay,' the Giants said in a statement. The Giants haven't raised a banner for any other team's arrival. The crowd for Friday's series opener was a rich blend of green and orange, but not just for the rivalry. Some A's fans in attendance, including Alameda's Joseph Hoyt, came to the game because it was one of few opportunities to watch his favorite team play close to home. To him, the 'Highway 80' series served as a reminder of the role the Giants played in the A's departure from Oakland. He's acutely aware that it was a unanimous vote among MLB owners to let John Fisher's A's move out of the Town. 'It's really interesting, because it feels like the Giants really pushed the A's out of town,' Hoyt said. 'Their ownership voted for them to leave. And it's just unfortunate that the A's ownership group decided to take this path, because there are lots of different options. If John Fisher didn't want to build in Oakland, he could have sold to Joe Lacob or anyone else and they would have done the same thing. So I'm disappointed overall. But at the same time, I'm happy to be here and root for my team. But it's totally bittersweet.' Since the A's moved out of the Coliseum, where Hoyt grew up playing catch in the parking lots outside before catching a game, he's become more of an Arizona Diamondbacks fan. Because his grandparents are huge Giants fans, Hoyt came to a fair amount of games in San Francisco – he saw Barry Bonds hit home runs No. 72 and 73 in 2001. But he doesn't anticipate more frequent visits to watch the Giants. 'You would think I would naturally come over to the Giants, but I don't have that kind of emotional attachment to the Giants even though I'm from here,' he said. 'I'm following the A's, but it doesn't feel as important. I know the Diamondbacks are going to play the A's in a few weeks. I'm rooting for the Diamondbacks because they're in a playoff hunt and I'm not sure the A's will do anything.' For those involved on the field, the local rivalry feels very much the same – with a few notable differences. The A's, traveling back from a series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, will stay at a hotel instead of in their Bay Area homes – as was normal for the A's and Giants during the Bay Bridge Series in previous years. Giants manager Bob Melvin, who managed the A's for more than a decade and grew up attending concerts at the Coliseum, has previously expressed his sadness that baseball is no longer at the Coliseum. But he said the baseball rivalry felt just as strong despite the A's playing ball at Sutter Health Park. 'I think it's going to be the same energy here as across the Bay and up the road a little bit,' Melvin said. 'It's a much better team, they're playing good baseball, and it's always electric when the A's play the Giants. So it's not going to be any different for me.' The crowd might've had the same rivalry feel, but the dynamic is undeniably different. 'It does (feel different). I thought I would have an easier commute today than I've had, but the bridge traffic was terrible,' A's general manager David Forst said. 'It's different. A's and Giants will be a rivalry for a while, there's always generations of fans who will see A's and Giants and think of it the same way, but it's definitely different. We're not right across the bay.' The strangeness could intensify when the Giants visit for the second part of the season series at Sutter Health Park over Fourth of July weekend. Not just because of how small the Sacramento ballpark plays, but because the A's temporary home doubles as the home of the Giants' Triple-A River Cats.
Wall Street Journal
12-05-2025
- Wall Street Journal
An American Pope in the Era of Trump
As John Fisher, the great English martyr who tussled with Henry VIII over the king's demand for a divorce and a terminal break with Rome, languished in the Tower of London on charges of treason in 1535, Pope Paul III sent word that he was making the elderly bishop a cardinal. The hope was that while Henry might happily eliminate more junior prelates or dissident laymen, he wouldn't dare execute a prince of the church. The king's response—referring to the galero, broad, tasselled red headgear that was then the symbol of the Catholic cardinalate—was laconic: 'The pope may send him a hat, but I'll make sure he doesn't have a head to wear it on.' The cardinal, who centuries later would be canonized as St. John Fisher, was beheaded a few weeks afterward.
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Aaron Judge hits 2 homers in his return to the Sacramento area
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Aaron Judge celebrated his return to the Sacramento area by hitting two home runs Saturday for the New York Yankees against the Athletics to extend his major league lead to 14. Judge is playing in the Sacramento area for the first time since college in New York's first visit to the A's temporary home near California's capital. Judge was born in Sacramento and grew up not far away in Linden and had many friends and family in the crowd of 12,113 at the minor league park that is hosting the A's. 'It just felt like being home,' Judge said after the Yankees' loss on Friday night. 'Any time we play the A's, that's always something that's familiar to me and close to home, to me. It was special.' After going 1 for 4 with a walk and two near homers in the series opener, Judge granted A's owner John Fisher his wish on Saturday. He led off the 4th inning with a homer off JP Sears and then connected again to lead off the sixth against Justin Sterner to the delight of the Yankees fans in attendance, many of whom chanted 'MVP! MVP!' The second homer gave Judge 14 on the season and pushed his average above the .400 mark as he is off to a sizzling start to the season. Judge's 41 career multi-homer games are fourth most in Yankees history. When the A's announced their plans last season to play in this minor league park, Fisher said he was excited to see what players like Judge could do in a stadium known for offense. 'We're excited to be here for the next three years playing in this beautiful ballpark, but also being able to watch some of the best players in baseball, whether they be Athletics players or Aaron Judge and others launch home runs out of this very intimate, the most intimate ballpark in all of Major League Baseball,' he said. ___ AP MLB:
