Fire Baalke.
These days you can find the two-word phrase on land, in the air and in cyberspace. For example, the hashtag, #FireBaalke, has been posted on Twitter 1,248 times since last week. By comparison #MerryChristmas has been used 1,587 times during the same span.
Fans now arrive at 49ers games – home and away – with handmade signs pleading for the ouster of general manager Trent Baalke.
Before last Sunday’s game against the Jets, a plane crisscrossed Levi’s Stadium trailing a banner that called for CEO Jed York to fire Baalke. The flyover had fans below shielding their eyes while looking up like the good citizens of Oz when the Wicked Witch of the West buzzed the city and wrote, “Surrender Dorothy,” with her broomstick.