📆 Sunday, September 29th
🕓 12:10 pm
🎟 Tickets start at $17
📍 T-Mobile Park: 1250 1st Ave S, Seattle
Pour one out for the Oakland Athletics.
After being #rootedinoakland since 1968, after winning three World Series in a row in the early ’70s and then destroying the San Francisco Giants in the earthshaking 1989 Battle of the Bay (itself sandwiched between two more Series appearances), after inspiring one of the all-time great baseball movies in Moneyball and the lunatic Netflix special The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience, after everything, the A’s are vacating The Town. What’s next for the team that owner John Fisher took control of with his Gap clothing brand inheritance money, only to intentionally alienate the fanbase and crater the franchise? First, they’ll do three years hard time in a Sacramento minor league stadium, and then potentially move to Las Vegas. Yes, it’s not even a done deal in Sin City, I’m bitter, life is stupid.
But glory be, pretty much every other baseball fan in the world feels for what the A’s have been through the past several years, including the Seattle Mariners. So if you want to say goodbye to them before the powers that be remove any mention of Oakland from their uniforms and pretend the past 50-plus years don’t exist, it just so happens that the A’s will be the Mariners’ opponents in the final series of the regular season. As of writing, the M’s are chasing Houston for the AL West lead, so unless the Astros really start to flop, it’s going to be a tough final few weeks.
What can you expect from this three-game set? Many attendees will sport loud green “SELL” shirts underneath their open M’s jerseys (I’ll be one of them), security guards will wear green armbands in solidarity, tears will be shed, memories will be shared, and loooooots of people will rightfully compare Fisher’s gaffe to that awful time the Supersonics moved to Oklahoma (the place where they shot Twisters? No thank you).
You won’t just be saying goodbye to the season; you’ll be saying goodbye to a legacy. See you there.
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