As a matter of habit, I still catch myself writing “Oakland Athletics.” After finishing each piece, I CTRL+F “Oakland” and find myself deleting it from all mentions. Because the brutal truth is, the Oakland Athletics aren’t from Oakland anymore. After holding that name and playing from the Oakland Coliseum since 1968, nearly six decades of history have been callously discarded.<\/p>
Let’s call this what it really is: a travesty. John Fisher has accomplished the unthinkable, taking a storied franchise with four World Series trophies and a passionate fanbase, and turning it into a homeless, identity-less shell of itself. The A’s aren’t in Vegas yet. They’re stuck in baseball purgatory, exiled to Sacramento in a half-baked transition that screams incompetence.<\/p>