Fan holds up a sign at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland for ownership to sell the team and stay in Oakland. Fans plan to do a reverse boycott on Tue Jun 13, 2023 with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in town to show Major League Baseball the fans are not the problem but it’s Rob Manfred and MLB that wants to create the illusion that fans don’t support the team and therefore the A’s need to move out of Oakland. (file photo si.com and insidethea’s.com)

Rooted by Fans

That’s Amaury News and Commentary

By Amaury Pi-González

OAKLAND–June 13 has been designated by an organized group of Oakland A’s fans as the day to show the world that the problem with the A’s is not the fans. These fans are planning a “reverse boycott” that urges all A’s fans to fill the Coliseum when they host the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday, June 13 during a night game.

Night games during the middle of the week draw small crowds at Ring Central Coliseum, and the Tampa Bay Rays are among those teams that never bring a lot of fans to Oakland. These fans figure this will be the perfect plan to show everybody including the A’s ownership and the media that the fans are not the problem.

The Commissioner of Baseball Robert Manfred continues to say that the Oakland Athletics will likely to move to Las Vegas. A good friend of mine, and lifelong A’s fan in Oakland, Adalberto “Ucho” López told me he believes that the “reverse boycott” is a good idea but… Ucho also told me (in Spanish) “buena idea, pero probablemente muy tarde” trans- “good idea, but probably too late”

It is very simple. Any A’s fan that wants to keep the A’s in Oakland could make his voice heard by attending the game this June 13. This is solely organized by A’s fans, not the A’s organization, front office or ownership or the media. In simpler words, this is “Rooted by Fans”.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the lead voice for Spanish radio on the Oakland A’s radio network on 1010 KIQI San Francisco and 990 KATD Pittsburg and does News and Commentary at http://www.sportsradioservice.com