Episode 157: A's Fans All Talk No Action

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Grant Napear

Football, Sports, Basketball

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Oakland A's owner John Fisher has been taking a lot of flack for having such a low pay roll and trading away the team's best players. On today's episode I explore the role of owners and discuss what is exactly you want from your team's owner. To me it is very simple. An owner has a responsibility to put a good product on the field or court. John Fisher has done that. A's fans don't show up. The A's are near the bottom in attendance numbers every year, The die hard A's fans are very loyal, but there aren't enough of them. To me, Fisher has done his job. The A's have been very competitive during his tenure as owner and the fans have stayed away. What is an owner to do? It works both ways! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now, Grand Nature! And another episode if you don't like that as we are in the first week of April post-N C-W-A basketball season.
0:27.6	What a game last night with the amazing comeback by Kansas to beat North Carolina. We got a lot to talk about on
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1:05.8	What is the role of an owner of a professional sports team?
1:10.1	What do you want as a sports fan when we talk about owners?
1:14.3	I know what I want.
1:15.6	I want the owner to put the best possible product on the court or on the field.
1:20.6	That's what I expect from an owner of a team that I root for.
1:24.0	Fortunately I grew up in New York and money was really not an object for the owners of
1:30.1	teams but when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, the New York Giants were absolutely
1:36.7	awful.
1:37.7	I remember as a kid sitting in the bleachers every Sunday of the Giants home games, listening
1:42.3	to the chance of, bye alley by by alley by
1:49.8	we're sad to see you go talking about the late Ali Sherman and that's all I remember you know I mean the
1:55.6	giants were horrible just absolutely awful as a kid growing up the Yankees when I was
2:01.8	growing up were absolutely awful until George Steinbrenner came onto the scene and you would think that gee the Yankees bad awful. Yeah, they were terrible. Absolutely awful when I was a kid. The Knicks, different story. The Knicks were the toughest ticket in the NBA, the toughest ticket in all of New York, and of course won their first championship in 69 and 70.
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