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The Major League Baseball team formerly known as the Oakland Athletics are in season one of what looks like a potentially lengthy stay in Sacramento and they’ve already brought shame upon the city. Of course, this has little to do with the players, who are playing as hard as they can and have a perfectly respectably 2-3 record through five games.
Instead, it has everything to do with notoriously cheap owner John Fisher who, despite happily siphoning resources off the city Sacramento, refuses to have his ball club actually represent the city before it eventually bolts for Las Vegas. Instead, Fisher is all eyes ahead and is already taking season ticket deposits for a stadium that allegedly opens in 2028 but has continually been caught up in red tape.
As if that weren’t bad enough, Fisher and the Athletics organization (again, we’ll leave the players out of this) aren’t even pretending to make themselves at home in Sacramento. Take, for instance, the paltry excuse for a press box that the organization put up at Sutter Health Park, which it shares with the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats of the Pacific Coast League.
The A’s press conference setup at Sutter Health Park pic.twitter.com/WPrkSf0ijQ
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Athletics Owner John Fisher Shamed Over Ridiculous Media Conference Shed
Now, the Athletics are set to play the next three seasons at Sutter Heath Park. That means the MLB club will play at least 243 games at the ballpark unless they play in an international series. You would think that Fisher would pay to build some sort of media area that is, at least, semi-permanent and up to the standards of Major League Baseball.
But that would cost money. And spending money isn’t exactly Fisher’s M.O. So instead, he’s shoving MLB players, managers and media members into a shed like they’re some sort of gardening tools.
“This is, quite easily, the most pathetic major-league “facility” I’ve ever seen. A’s owner John Fisher is worth about $3 billion, by the way. Beyond embarrassing for @MLB and the @Athletics,” one fan said of the setup.
Others compared it to FyreFest, Four Seasons Total Landscaping, or the trailers you local public school uses as classrooms during renovations. Although at least those trailers felt like permanent structures.
If Fisher could feel shame, this would be shameful. Sadly, that doesn’t seem possible. But it’s an embarrassment for the fans of the team and the people of Sacramento, who deserve better than to be represented by such slop.