The investment made in the Oakland Athletics by their fans across decades has been...
A’s owner John Fisher and President David Kaval talk in the stands at the Coliseum during a game against the Seattle Mariners on April 21, 2017.Is it the billionaire nepo-baby who buys a team, leeches the profits from it and oversees its destruction?
The ones who brought their babies to games and whose babies grew up to bring their babies, who banged drums and rang bells and cheered Hendu and booed Roger Clemens and bashed forearms and tailgated in the massive parking lot and sat in the sun and made lifetime friends and stuck with their allegiance no matter how ownership treated them, which — except for the golden Haas family years — has been miserably..
Fisher paid $180 million for the team in 2016. The valuation for the franchise is now $1.8 billion, and Fisher’s mammoth increase, not to mention the team’s, have come from mostly sitting on his hands. His only real interest seems to be leveraging the team to make a massive real-estate-development deal.
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