Pelotero Peez

OAKLAND A's! #SellTheTeam ! Raider Nation! Washed-Up College Baseball Player. Pretend Stock Trader. Card Collector.

[Pelotero Peez @Peezzo22]

54,000 at the 2019 Wild Card game. #FisherOut #StadiumScam #OaklandForever

[Michael Colbruno ☮️ @MikeOpera]

This guy is claiming that A’s fans didn’t show up to games even when the team was winning. Anyone want to retweet with photos proving him wrong?

[Pelotero Peez @Peezzo22]

As a non-soccer watcher, I thought this dude was Zava from Ted Lasso this whole time

[The Touchmine | 𝐓 @TouchmineX]

🚨𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪: Zlatan Ibrahomovic has scored a grand total ZERO goals in the FIFA World Cup. ⚽❌

[Pelotero Peez @Peezzo22]

I give up

[Pelotero Peez @Peezzo22]

@Elifbenad @LastDiveBar not sure how this ended up on Turkish twitter but I love it

[Pelotero Peez @Peezzo22]

@AdamThaSportFan They were all traded right before their peaks, and you’re talking 5-9 years ago. Of course most of them have faded

[NFL Fashion Advice @fashion_nfl]

NFL PRIMARY LOGO FINALS

Vikings v Raiders

Which team has the best primary logo in the NFL?

Poll below.

[NFL Fashion Advice @fashion_nfl]

Better primary logo?

[Jason Burke @ByJasonB]

In 2020 no fans were permitted and in 2021 limited attendance was still in effect. In 2022, coming off a lockout, the A’s traded Olson, Chapman, Bassitt and Manaea before the season and went on to lose 102 games. 2023 they announced the move to Vegas after the first homestand.

[Pelotero Peez @Peezzo22]

The A’s belong in OAKLAND. This what what John Fisher ripped from thousands of families

[Casey Pratt @CaseyAPratt]

I grew up loving a team that was treated like a regional asset. The game I loved has changed. It’s no longer about the fans, it’s about extracting as much out of them as possible. Sure. It’s business. But when you’re doing that while also using public funds and an anti-trust exemption, what is it?

[Pelotero Peez @Peezzo22]

@AthleticsRants “John Fisher Must Dye”… it’s a play on words from the 2006 movie “John Tucker Must Die”, as well as Jermaine Dye, as well as how Oakland A’s fans feel about John Fisher. Ton of American history!

[Liz @chasinstars22]

Dave Kaval is a dumb bitch

[Pelotero Peez @Peezzo22]

@MilesBurris @Raiders Phil used to come to the Black Hole tailgates back in Oakland. Pretty badass

[Phill @MeekPhill_]

Roger Maris Jr had to follow Aaron Judge around for 2 weeks so he can watch him have the SEVENTH most HRs in a single season

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

World, this is Walter Haas Jr.

Haas bought the A's in 1980 for around $12 million. The A's were, at the time, the worst team in baseball. (In 1979, they went 54–108.) They had baseball's lowest attendance. The Coliseum, now 14 years old, was drab and showing wear. Oakland, meanwhile, was corkscrewing. The city was bleeding employers. Crime was surging. And its most important institutions all seemed to be abandoning it.

Charlie Finley—the man Haas bought the A's from—had been trying for several years to move the team to Denver. Al Davis was in the middle of suing the NFL for the right to move the Raiders to Los Angeles.

Things seemed bleak. Just a few years prior, Oakland had been the most successful sports town in America. Now it seemed to be dying. Many outside observers wrote both team and town thoroughly off. No doubt casual fans around the country would have bought the idea that the Oakland Coliseum was no longer a place worth investing in.

Haas—former president and CEO of Levi Strauss and Co.—said fuck that. He spent his own money to upgrade the Coliseum. He built up the organization, hiring the likes of Sandy Alderson, Andy Dolich, and, later, Billy Beane. He invested in the community. ("We built 10 little league fields in and around Oakland,” Dolich, an Executive VP, told me, for my book. “Reading programs. Affordability programs to bring little league groups and schools to games. We were partners with the Oakland Zoo. We tried to immerse ourselves in the community. That stuff makes people proud.”) And he compiled a roster full of stars (Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, hometown heroes Dave Stewart and Rickey Henderson).

By the end of the 1980s, the A's were the very best team in baseball. They had baseball's second highest attendance. They had baseball's highest payroll and among its highest revenues. They went to three World Series in a row, beating the Giants in one. In 1987, Oakland hosted the All Star game.

Health failing, Haas sold the A's in 1995 for $85 million. The price was laughably low—Haas offered buyers a discount, in return for their promise that they keep the A's in Oakland—but it still constituted a massive return on that initial $12 million investment.

The idea that the A's, just ten years later, were not an organization worth investing in—that both baseball and business success could never be had in East Oakland—betrays an ignorance of history and a lack of imagination.

Fisher could have spent money on players in Oakland. He's a billionaire (richer than Haas was) who collected revenue-sharing checks nearly every year of his tenure. In 2017, he could have built a new stadium right at the Coliseum site. The Raiders were gone (again). He had the historic East Bay market to himself. He could have had what Haas had. He could have given Oakland what he's now giving Las Vegas. Oakland would have rewarded him for it.

Let us be frank about what happened: he chose not to.

That choice should not be accepted at face value. As Walter Haas's son, Wally, once told the @sfchronicle, it was, rather, "unforgivable."

I appreciate Evan's reporting here. It's an incredible about-face we're witnessing. But the history that was thrown away in Oakland is an important part of this story. Without it, the story's incomplete.

[Pelotero Peez @Peezzo22]

@CrosbyMaxx

[Maxx Crosby @CrosbyMaxx]

Everything Happens For A Reason. Believe Nothing You Hear & Half Of What You See. Im A Raider. I’m Back. Run That Sh*t. 🦅🏴‍☠️

[Pelotero Peez @Peezzo22]

Maxx changed his profile pic and deleted his 13 minute video 😂 what a crazy day

[Joe Arrigo @JoeArrigo_]

FWIW #RaiderNation, just my gut feeling: I think there is more to this story than just a failed physical. The #Raiders were being praised for the deal & FA signings while the Ravens were losing players & may have some buyers remorse.

[Tom Pelissero @TomPelissero]

One GM summarized the feelings around the league: “This is very much bullshit on Baltimore’s part.”

[Pelotero Peez @Peezzo22]

@EetMorAsparagus He had a fat chew in during that interview, in high school, with blood running out his nose and into his lip lmao