Scenes from Athletics’ awkward home opener in Sacramento: ‘Sell the team’ chants and a lopsided final score

Western Sacramento, California. – During the historic day, the historical day, the historical day began during the historical day, the “Sell Team” with chants of “selling the team” began during the historic day.

An announced mob 12,192 fans were introduced in the Lies Health Park Monday evening to watch the West Sacrami that athletics play the cubs first MLB Game City History. It will be many of the firsts, as Athletics has announced their plans to play at the Sacramento River Cat House after the 2027 season, after escaping through their eyes in Las Vegas.

And before the players and staff of A landed in the Sot-City, the culture that decades decades had filled the 18-3 losses of opening Oakland’s air on Monday.

Let’s start from the top.

I wanted to receive the full experience of “Sacramento”, so I decided to place the center of Pokitol, and to move half a walk to the Historical Old Sacramento and to the ball.

The two cities, the Oakland and Sacramento are now connected to baseball fans. Has the right expert or not, the fans will inevitably have to compare the experience in each respective city.

In this case, it was on the morning and winds scattered on Monday at 4 pm. It is clear that Sacramento did not touch so much excitement in the center. Bars and restaurants were silent. Most of the sacred people were just out of work. The march itself was stage, but there were very few athletics shirts, signs, stories or promotion.

For comparison, the areas near the Colosseum in Oakland were almost not as much step. But the city of Oakland, uncontrollably, had his love and the pan was embossed all over the city.

The attempt at the tailing dump against the Sacramento was also a major obligation. It doesn’t matter which time it was or on the day of the week, Oakland’s fans always have parking lots in Colize, which collected the colleague and hip hop.

As for the Sacramento’s absorber, I could have calculated on a hand of how many tailings groups were when I climbed.

When I entered the stadium inside, I found almost every inch of the branding of San Francisco giants (river cats were a three-trimed subsidiary). For the new video board and souvenir glasses of the new video board and souvenirs, the stadium seems more than the cats of the river.

Excitement aroused when the gates opened for a ball. The crowd was the green and golden sea. The line of entering a new team store was so long that it wrapped it twice. Concessional stop queues can be longer. Fans with the laws of the lawn have left the right field fence to get the best place. The sellers shouted, the music was filled with the ball, and the fireworks filled the sky during the import of composition.

The debut of Sacramento was the coolest ticket in the city, and it was also not cheaper. The average ticket price for A’s home games in this season is $ 181, According to GametimeThe head coach of a number Mark Koms said at his preliminary press conference. “This can become an advantage of a household for us. It is our goal.

Was there on Monday A is also Famer Rickey Henderson Honored Hall After his death in December, each player having a number 24 on their jersey.

It was like a home crowd. It sounded MLB Game The field was flooded with talent. It had all all ceremonies: Lega League Leggable Ball Experience. Then the game started itself.

The cubs scored on top of the firsts, including return home, from Michael Busch and Dansby Swanson. But it seemed that it was not the assessment that surprised the level of the emergence of the crowd.

Even Shortstop Jacob Wilson has hit the home team with a third intention and later cut off the fourth place, the crowd was never comfortable with the pitch.

The host address of A’s public address, Amelia Shimmel, never says to “Sacramento” micro. It’s just “A”, which is exactly how the club wants to be mentioned. This leaves the team without urban affiliation. Even the stadium stadium tells “Chicago” and “Arches”.

Which begins the question, it’s even a team of Sacramento.

Some groups of fans tried “bag-men” chants, but they have died rapidly. “Let’s go to Oakland” chants started, but they didn’t give it. “Let’s go to SACTO, it’s tried, but failed. Somehow, it almost felt that “Sacramento” and “Oakland” were competing with each other, despite about 75% of the root crowd of the same team.

There was no syllable in the whole match that sounded at Unison. There are no percussion or kazoos. The absence of Oakland Coliseum Right-field bleach staff pronounced:

Maybe the tallest syllable of the game is a “Sell Team” Chant – directed to the owner of A owner, John Fischer after the 6th time.

About half of the stadium were emptied before the game is over, as home team deficiency is a balloon up to 15 runs. It was an ugly game all the way.

The team had no urban affiliation. A is played in the size of the spring training in the size of the spring, which already occupies one of the clubs of the juvenile league of their opponents. And they are playing in a new city for the base of new fans.

There is no other way to express it. It felt uncomfortable.

And here’s probably a little premature to make assumptions after one game. If the wind of the A’s became offs, it would be shocking to see this city, a city that is historically full of sports full of sports, not following the NBA kings.

Athletics plan left for Las Vegas in 2028. It’s alone to make it a little worrying about the next few years.