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T-shirts imploring A's owner John Fisher to sell the team could be seen throughout the crowd at Tuesday night's game.

Baseball’s enduring, warring factions – passion and greed – intersected Tuesday. The juxtaposition was jarring.

In Oakland, California, more than 27,000 hard-bitten A’s supporters showed up for what was billed as a “Reverse Boycott,” a guerrilla faction of fans organized largely through social media, most clad in kelly-green shirts impossible to miss on TV, bearing just a single word.

SELL.

The Town is about to lose its last team standing, as the Athletics – rooted in Oakland since 1968, facility vagabonds since the Raiders laid waste to their stadium in 1995 – are far along in their dalliance with Las Vegas, where taxpayer dollars are looser than the slot machines. Owner John Fisher and his walking PowerPoint lieutenant, club president Dave Kaval, have opted for the quick fix in the desert. Rather than continue negotiating with Oakland on a complex yet potentially lucrative deal, Fisher – perhaps spooked by tumbling prices of Gap stock, perhaps for reasons we’ll never know – is literally trying to take the money and run.



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