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Damon Amendolara, one of the loudest national voices defending A’s fans, rips into MLB and Rob Manfred after the Oakland A’s embarrassing opening week in Sacramento. Playing in a minor league ballpark for three years is a disgrace, and D.A. is fed up with the hypocrisy.
He highlights Manfred’s comments on SiriusXM about needing everything "in line" before a team relocates — so why is MLB turning a blind eye to this disaster? D.A. also exposes the cronyism that’s plagued A’s ownership for decades, beginning with Lew Wolff’s frat ties to Bud Selig, which led to years of backroom favors and terrible decisions for the franchise.
If you're an A’s fan or just care about the integrity of the game, this is a must-watch.
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clear out for a second because I got to
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talk Oakland A's h Sacramento
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A's the opening home stand is in and as
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you might imagine it was exactly the
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opposite of what John Fiser and Rob
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Manfred and the king's owner was telling
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us that it was going to be this wondrous
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experience where because the capacity
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was so small and because the atmosphere
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was so intimate it was going to make it
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more
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special boy wake me up when it's more
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special it begins at opening night when
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there's sell the team chance breaking
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out when also we see if a player gets
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injured run from the dugout across the
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diamond across the outfield and out
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through the outfield
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fence how's that for Major League
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Baseball we also saw the tool shed that
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the media availability is in and look
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I'm not here to play violence for the
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media all of us went through the rigors
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no matter what level we are in sports
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media covering minor league baseball as
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I did covering small college basketball
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Olympic sports what have you everyone's
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done media availabilities and something
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like that the problem is those are
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multi-million dollar professional
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athletes at the major league baseball
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level they shouldn't be subjected to
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doing interviews in a tool shed you can
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get at
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Lowe's but there in lies the rub here
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everything that Manfred everything that
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John Fischer's insisting is not
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happening and take a number how many of
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those have we had over the last couple
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of years you know here's the bit i just
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don't understand this why John Fischer
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is getting this type of preferential
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treatment because you may have heard me
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mention this on my radio show rob
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Manfred did an interview on my channel
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Mad Dog Sports Radio on SiriusXM with
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Christopher Russo for opening day and
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Rob Manfred said something that will
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always stay with me and he was talking
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about expansion teams in his tenure you
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don't want an expansion club to go into
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a temporary facility you want them to go
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into the market with the stadium built
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make the big splash get that great
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season ticket base going and take off
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you got to have the ballpark ready you
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got to have the red carpet rolled out
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you got to be ready for the expansion
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city to embrace its new team
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everything's got to be
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ready and yet here we are in the no
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man's land of Sacramento for the next
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three plus years with nothing cemented
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and solidified in Las Vegas and you tell
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me why that is let's just go through
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some of the hoops that we've jumped
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through to make sure the A's franchise
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is playing in Sacramento a ton of
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excitement they have Major League
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Baseball in Sacramento they're going to
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play all night games i mean we've
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essentially even on getaway days yeah we
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we've gotten some flexibility from the
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union i think there's one or two dates
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where they play during the day over the
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course of the entire season um we put a
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unique um grass uh uh system in there
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that we think is going to be the coolest
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possible as opposed to going to turf i
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don't think we play the World Series in
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Sacramento i know for sure we're not
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going to but maybe a round we'll see but
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you would not rule out a wildcard round
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there if I won't rule that out right now
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i really won't um I'm not saying I will
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but we're going to have to decide number
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one Rob and Fred bragging we changed the
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turf it's not artificial turf it's going
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to be grass we can play on grass it
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makes it cooler in the summer why do we
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have to worry about the grass being
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changed well that's because it's so darn
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hot in Sacramento they can't play day
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games and so they had to make sure they
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got a green light from the MLB Players
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Association just to make sure that they
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can play all night games this year
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because day games getaway games travel
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days will be too impossibly scorching
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hot so that's number two number three
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Rob Manfred can't commit to any playoff
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games i don't think that's going to be a
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problem but should the A's make the
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postseason he couldn't even promise a
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wildcard round in the ballpark because
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it's so amateur and they're definitely
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not playing following rounds
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specifically the World Series he said
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there's no way that would happen and so
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the A's got the benefit of we'll make
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sure we make it grass we'll make sure
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there's no day games and we're not even
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playingoff games there but we're going
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to make sure you have to leave Oakland
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there is a ballpark in Oakland right now
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sitting and being used by a team a
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soccer team next up why the favor to
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John Fiser to do all this because do you
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realize every other franchise in North
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American sports when they leave their
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city have to pay a relocation fee to the
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league you want to move a football team
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a baseball team a basketball team a
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hockey team the Thrashers become the
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Jets that's a relocation fee and yet
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there's no fee associated to John Fiser
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again I'm asking why are we doing so
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many favors for the worst owner in the
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league and the worst owner in sports in
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Sacramento if you are a Sacramento
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resident and you want to buy Sacramento
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A's gear you can't because the A's
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aren't putting Sacramento in anything
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that they own it doesn't say it on their
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jersey doesn't say it on their hat they
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won't even sell t-shirts with it they're
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just the A's if you go on to MLB.com
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there's no Sacramento there's no Vegas
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there's no Oakland it's just A's so
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you've already given the middle finger
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to the fans that are supposed to show up
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very nice and just note that there's Las
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Vegas tourism signs in the outfield of
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the ballpark so if you're going there as
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a Sacramento resident you are being
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reminded this isn't really your team
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anyway again why are we doing these
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favors let me add this you might
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remember that Rob Manfred as well as
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John Fiser and the Kings owner insisted
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this was going to be the hottest ticket
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in baseball and A's fans saw this train
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coming because when finally tickets were
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released on the open market in the off
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season Ace fans looked it up and
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realized "What the heck is going on
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these tickets are quadruple the price
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that they used to be what are they doing
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here?" And the insistence was "The
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demand is going to be so high you're not
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even going to be able to get in the
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ballpark." Well guess what it seats
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about 13,000 on
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Tuesday i think that was the fourth game
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in
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Sacramento 9,000 people announced
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they're giving away tickets already for
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free they haven't been there two
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weeks 9,000 people well correct me if
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I'm wrong but wasn't that the attendance
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that they were so angry about in Oakland
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again there's a major league ballpark
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granted there's been no love given to it
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for years paint is peeling foundations
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cracking possum in the press box but at
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least it can host playoff games and they
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sold that bad boy out to end last year's
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regular season what if you're going to
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get 9,000 people anyway why are we doing
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it in a place with a tool shed for the
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media this is what I'm asking why the
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favors being done if you're going to be
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insistent that they move to Las Vegas
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that's one thing you believe that's a
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market you got to get to you believe the
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Vegas money is just going to be pumped
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out of there you want to be in the
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business of gambling you got to get to
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Vegas so be it what was the rush in
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getting to
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Sacramento why did Rob Manfred agree to
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all of this why did the baseball owners
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agree to this nomadic ridiculous
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absurdest cheap juvenile unprofessional
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JV existence for the A's for three years
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minimum why there's a
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ballpark there's a ballpark in
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Oakland this is
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insanity it seats 13 grand they can't
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sell that out it's day four
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why are they doing this favor for John
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Fiser well I don't know and we may never
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know but I'm going to add
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this once upon a time Bud Celig
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facilitated the sale of the Oakland A's
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he facilitated the sale of the Oakland
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A's to a former frat brother of
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his john Fiser was part of that
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purchasing
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team bud Celig Rob
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Manfred like this Manfred worked under
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Bud Celig for
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years smells like there's been a favor
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all along smells like there's been
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cronyism all along smells like there's
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been an inside deal all along once upon
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a time was make sure that Bud Celig's
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frat
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bro gets that baseball
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team and how many years later let's make
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sure John Fiser doesn't have any
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penalty in trying to extricate himself
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in the most haphazard hamfisted absurd
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way ever were playing in a AAA stadium
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for 3 years completely
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unnecessarily professional athletes are
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doing interviews in a makeshift tool
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shed why why the rush why no relocation
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fee why
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