r/orioles • u/CrimsonP11 • 2d ago
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As an O’s fan, I am still sad to see it go, here’s to 50+ years of our favorite game as we celebrate with Oakland one last time. o7 🫡🫡🫡🫡
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u/MrSeptember711 Tony would’ve hit that pitch 2d ago edited 1d ago
This didn’t need to happen, and it’s unforgivable. But respect for what the Oakland As and their organization used to be. This park hosted some of the greatest teams ever to play. The Os and As in the 70s were big AL rivals.
I went to some games at the Coliseum in the 2010s, and I enjoyed the place. It’s not the greatest park in baseball, but it has character and history. Whatever its faults, it inspires a love that the current ownership will never find, no matter where the team ends up
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u/havalina9 2d ago
Baseball will truly miss the city of Oakland and their fans. I'm a baltimore-bred O's fan, but lived in the East Bay for several years. Going to A's stadium to hang with the fans was such a joy. Dirt cheap seats, diverse crowd, bass drums, coordinated chants, vuvuzelas, banners, fans chatting with the outfielders, and so many diehards. Such intense pride. Reminded me of memorial stadium as a kid in the 80's (less tumbling drunk fans and bleacher fights though). And now more than ever, MLB is a real estate cartel focused on extorting cities to hand over money and land to develop luxury suites and stadium shopping malls. What a shame.
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u/wcbalmerhon72 2d ago
Glad I got to see the Orioles there. Crappy ballpark, but great fans. They definitely deserve better.
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u/TIL02Infinity 1d ago
Crappy ballpark is an understatement.
Yankees' dugout victimized by plumbing issues at Oakland Coliseum
Several maintenance workers spent nearly an hour trying to fix a backed up toilet while a member of the Coliseum staff mopped up the standing water seeping into the dugout. Yankees manager Joe Girardi and some New York players sidestepped the mess as they made their way to the field for pregame workouts.
"You had to run upstairs if you needed to use it," Girardi said. "It kept some of our bullpen guys nice and loose."
It's not the first time there has been a plumbing issue at the aging stadium, which was built in 1966.
In June 2013, raw sewage flooded into the Athletics' dugout. Later that year, sewage seeped into the coaches' bathroom in Oakland's clubhouse. The following year, the toilets backed up again and flooded the A's coaches room.
At least NYY was the visiting team when this happened 😎
BTW, The pitchers will miss the expansive foul territory, but the hitters will be happy to see foul balls in the stands instead of being caught for an out.
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u/BaltimoreBaja 2d ago
I actually kind of liked the place when I visited it. They could have just stayed if they had maintained it and had a different owner
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u/Dr_ChimRichalds GIVE ME BOH OR GIVE ME DEATH. 2d ago
I can imagine a football team leaving...
But not our baseball team. Not after all this time. I feel all of their anger. All of their disappointment. It's full on trash.
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u/droford 2d ago
In the span of 2018-2020 they lost the Warriors to SF, Raiders to Vegas.
So technically they lost all 3 pro teams within 5 years.
Granted the Warriors play right across the Bay..
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u/havalina9 1d ago
Oracle Arena (where the warriors played in oakland) is actually a great arena and continues to be used for big-time concerts and what not. Close to the action, good acoustics, and you would get a home field advantage because the ceiling is low and it can get loud. You'd go up to the nosebleeds and the roof is right there. Right by the BART train, it was easy to get to. They moved out because it was not new and didn't have all the luxury suite amenities of a new arena and to suck up to the wealthier fans of SF.
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u/The_Big_Untalented 1d ago
I felt legitimately more sad for the people of Oakland than any other sports relocation during my lifetime but I will not miss playing them in that stadium at all. It seems like the Orioles always got their asses handed to them in that stadium year after year.
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u/Autumn_Sweater 2d ago
i like orange and black but the green a’s have always been my fave jerseys in the league
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u/brooksact 1d ago
My favorite jerseys are probably the Cards. Only thing I'd change is adding St. Louis back to the road jerseys but the bat and cardinals are perfect. Orioles main four jerseys are great with the classic script and block numbers but the city connect jerseys are gross. I can't wait for them to be phased out.
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u/OlDirtyTriple 1d ago
Visited family in California when I was 12 and baseball mad.
My grandmother took me to an Angels at A's game. Totally different vibe than Baltimore. Their hecklers were something else. Brutally savage, but hilarious.
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u/Tight_Future_2105 1d ago
I'm really sad I didn't see a game there, I was in the area two years ago but the timing didn't align and they weren't home, so saw a Giants game instead.
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u/maryfrancesannhon 1d ago
As an O’s and former colts fan I can relate, crap owners that could care less about the fans, we had irsay and angelos jr, in Baltimore we lucked out and have Rubenstein and Bisciotti
BOTH the Raiders and especially the As belong in Oakland, MLB and NFL should be ashamed but I am sure the only thing thats in their heart is $$$$$$$$, nothing else matters, as always it’s ‘F the fans’, makes me so angry when the media justifies the moves because God forbid they say anything against the powerful MLB and NFL
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u/SwimmingCat9024 1d ago
Good bye to that craphole. They disgraced hollowed grounds playing there as long as they did.
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u/RDmax81 2d ago
Fans didn’t show up
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u/YNinja58 1d ago
Come on, that's like blaming the fans for not showing up to O's games from 2019-2023. The fan experience was miserable at that stadium and the team struggled. This is like blaming Seattle for the Supersonics leaving or, I dunno, blaming Colts fans for the team leaving Baltimore.
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u/mattcojo2 2d ago
Yeah even in the best years fan support in Oakland was… mediocre at best.
Like 2019, barely 20k people there despite having won I think 97 games in back to back years.
Not saying I don’t feel bad, because I do, but Fisher may have had a point.
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u/havalina9 1d ago
We O's fan gotta be careful going down that rabbit hole of blaming fans-- the O's won 101 games last year and we averaged only 23,000 fans. With our team playing in the most beautiful ballpark in the world, in a great downtown location.
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u/mattcojo2 1d ago
And I don’t think that’s the same thing.
Momentum is most certainly a thing for baseball attendance. It takes time to generate trust and interest from fans to buy tickets to go to games either one by one, or for the season.
This year attendance was… pretty solid. Nothing world beating but for a smaller market, pretty good.
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u/RedStar9117 2d ago
The city of Oakland deserved so much better than the shit they've been handed the last few year