John Fisher

Owner of the Athletics. Billionaire by birthright. Lifelong Giants fan. 14 year guardian of Dave Kaval (terminated). Parody…sort of

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

Introducing the @Athletics official City Connect Jerseys!

While we have not decided which government has offered me the best bail out, we felt this paid homage to the ineptitude of our relocation efforts. #RootedInSomewhere

@DaveKaval @MLB @CatherineAker @SteveYeagerNV

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@Athletics Those kids better have paid full price. No free loaders.

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

One of. But certainly not the most…

@MLB @Athletics

[Chris Williams @ChrisMWilliams]

This will go down as one of the most greed driven, unpopular decisions in the history of sports. Right?

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@JustBB_Media @BNightengale That’s right! No more deadweight teams. They’ll just be taking league subsidies away from those of us who need it most.

@Athletics

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@PardonMyTake This is the right call. Fans should go to games to pay, not to enjoy themselves.

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@Athletics I was against rebranding because it costs money, but given the people of Sacramento weren’t attending because they have “dignity”, I was forced to reconsider.

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@KasselMedia @Athletics Because my dad never hugged me (he was ashamed of me), I decided to take away the opportunity for father-son bonding away from as many people as possible.

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@Jimmyking35 Love the potential in this kid! Keeping him on our roster is evidence that I am serious about building a winning team for Vegas!

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@Alexe525 @Illumimatti @RyanMDowning @SFGiants @Athletics @MLB Exactly! Why should owners bear any of the impact of their decisions or demands of governments/taxpayers?!

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

Disgusting. If this passes then a kid who is a fan of the @SFGiants can’t work hard to inherit his dads money, gain control of the rival team across the water, and sabotage them/ force a move refusing to sell to local billionaires. This is unamerican! @Athletics @MLB

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

Holy shit. @BernieSanders and @RepCasar just introduced The Home Team Act, a bill that would “Require team owners who want to relocate to first offer local owners the chance to buy it."

This would have saved the A’s. Full stop.

It would help prevent owners from "uprooting teams that people have rooted for for generations. No more extorting taxpayers for billions." (Casar.)

It would prevent owners from "blackmailing one community against another for multi-billion-dollar subsidies." (Sanders.)

It goes without saying this is needed. “Nearly every major city in the nation [has been] asked to mortgage its future to the sports industry," @fieldofschemes has written.

If I may. The relationship between sports fans and the sports business has been broken ever since the Supreme Court gave MLB an antitrust exemption in 1922.

Multiple Supreme Court justices have criticized the ruling as “unrealistic, inconsistent, and illogical.”

The ruling stemmed from a whimsical interpretation of professional sports as a fundamentally communal, rather than capitalistic, enterprise. In practice the exemption merely grants team owners license to run their teams in the most ruthlessly capitalistic ways possible. “The major leagues” Kevin Baker has written, “remain to this day the most complete and enduring cartel in American history.”

But it hasn't ever been addressed. In America, owners get to have it both ways. They're permitted to run their businesses like robber barons. The sports industry is insulated from both government regulation and free-market competition.

Fans and cities possess no power or protection. This bill would give them some.

Hell ya.

It's also not that ridiculous at all.

A version of this law already exists in Ohio. Lawmakers passed it after Art Modell moved the Browns, to protect fans in the state from ever having to go through that kind of thing again.

Stronger versions of this sort of thing exist in Europe.

In 2025, England passed the Football Governance Act, a regulatory framework designed, in the language of the law, “to protect and promote the sustainability of English football.”

The law mandates team owners and league executives regularly consult with fan representatives on all matters relevant to fan interests. And it empowers an Independent Football Regulator (IFR) to evaluate the potential impact of all proposed changes by an owner to his or her club on fans and community members and to strike down those changes found not to be in fans’ interests. These include changes to a club’s name, crest, and, most fundamentally, its home.

Versions of this sort of thing have been batted about by US lawmakers before. Most have not been given much attention. I hope this time it's different.

It's too late to save the A’s. But I hope it passes so that no other fans have to suffer the indignities fans suffered here. So that sports work better for future fans like my sons.

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@americaforevs @SFGiants @Athletics @MLB Guessing you mostly read books with pictures?

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@SenSanders @As_Fan_Radio Who will speak for the nepo babies of businessmen who exploited SE Asian child labor? You don’t represent us!

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@PeteATurner Thank you for ignoring my insistence on a $12B neighborhood ballpark combo from Oakland. Without my lapdogs shilling blame only at the city, people may realize I tried to set the city up to fail and panicked when it was almost time to pay.

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@Athletics @VegasAthletics This is written in blood folks. Everyone knows when John Fisher posts a rendering, it happens no less than 4% of the time.

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@LasVegasLocally I’d have asked for more public funding. Didn’t know they’d show their belly so easily.

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@DamonBruce @SFGiants The Cardinals should be sanctioned for this. It violates the spirit of modern baseball. @MLB @Athletics

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@Athletics Fulfilling my dreams since I was just a boy, thank you @SFGiants

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

Iran has no idea that US military leadership, Saudi Royalty, and UAE princes are all sheltering at my home in Atherton.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Iran is now attacking Dubai. This is the Fairmont Hotel, Dubai.

Who still thinks Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize?

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@memeshiftedwake El Mencho is nothing. He is a loser who didn’t inherit anything.

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@MattGeorgeSAC

[John Fisher @MiserlyJohn]

@BrodieBz Good luck! It’s impossible to build in the Bay Area without being asked to spend your dads money.