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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - How to Fight the Cheapest Owner in American Sports

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.732.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Oakland A's are leaving Oakland, but not before a rebel force of die-hards can remind billionaire nepo-baby John Fisher — the Kendall Roy of Major League Baseball — what it really means to be a fan. Slate's Joel Anderson embeds with the boycott movement and stops at nothing to unravel the conspiracy known as WristbandGate… even when it takes him to the depths of a notoriously sewage-infested stadium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

0:06.0

Why would they want to give their hard-earned money to John Fisher, Nepo baby?

0:10.0

Right after this ad.

0:37.0

You're listening to Draft Kings Network. So one of the great pleasures I have hosting this show is that I get to a sign, absurdly accomplished people to do my bidding. And so Joel Anderson, truly one of the greatest podcasters in America, a real superlative that is backed up by awards Joel that's right don't

0:45.6

sarcastically nod it's real it's true I mean you know I don't like to talk about it often

0:51.0

but I did have the best podcast in America last year.

0:53.7

Yes.

0:54.7

Okay, so Joel Anderson, if you did not know, is a writer for Slate.com and the host of the

1:02.2

trophy winning podcast series

1:03.8

Slow Burn, Becoming Justice Thomas.

1:06.5

But the other thing to know about Joel is that he lives in the Bay Area,

1:10.6

meaning that a big story that I've been monitoring from across the country is, for

1:14.6

him, decidedly local.

1:17.0

27,559.

1:21.4

That's how many fans packed the Coliseum on a regular Tuesday night to show their

1:25.4

support for keeping the A's in Oakland. Instead of a boycott, they called it a

1:29.5

reverse boycott and if their goal was to get attention then by all accounts it works.

1:35.0

We heard the crowd go silent and now getting very loud at the Coliseum. I just need you to wrap your head.

1:49.0

And I just need you to wrap your head around the concept of these reverse boycotts here because typically

1:53.8

when you want to protest something you refuse to give it money or pay for tickets

1:59.3

but in Oakland with the A's what fans have been protesting is the team's billionaire owner, John Fisher,

2:05.0

who has been threatening to move the team to Sacramento and eventually Las Vegas,

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