On Monday, I went to the A’s-Mariners game at the Oakland Coliseum, wearing a green shirt I’d spray-painted with a heartfelt message in yellow: JOHN FISHER F—K U. I came hoping to stir things up, to party with bitter-but-raucous A’s fans one last time at their home stadium, the infamous “last dive bar in baseball.” Instead, what I got was a big, fat bummer. A recent ESPN story had the A’s in their “hospice phase” in Oakland, and that’s a fitting description of the vibes at the Coliseum right now.
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Don’t get me wrong: Most A’s fans still heartily endorse the sentiment that was printed across my chest in barely legible lettering.