Oakland Athletics fans of booing
The Baltimore Orioles just finished up a weekend series with the Oakland Athletics and they lost the series two to one. The Orioles played well in every game but the final game, which was on a Sunday a day that the Orioles typically do not play well on. The Athletics are a very good team and the Orioles have had their feuds with them since the Manny Machado and Josh Donaldson incident.
I personally have always liked the Athletics as a baseball team since I was a kid. The Athletics were on my list of teams that I did not mind seeing win when the Orioles were in their down years because they were a low-budget small-market team. Honestly, I still do not have a problem with seeing them win against the likes of the Angels and Texas Rangers.
I was expecting Machado to get booed by the Athletics fans a little bit during the first game. Machado answered by hitting his tenth homer, but the booing continued throughout the series. The Athletic fans have been getting a bad reputation for booing it’s own players like Jim Johnson and other teams players.
The Orioles and Athletics do not have a long history of being rivals, it is not like Boston Red Sox, or Orioles fans booing Alex Rodriguez at every at bat, that is a bit more justified. Booing a young player for three-games straight over a small feud was a bit unjustified. I totally understand booing Machado for the first game but it should have ended there.
Look the Athletics are a very good team this season and are surprising a lot of commentators. Their fans should be cheering and not booing, be happy that the Athletics are looking playoff bound. It is bad enough that the Athletics are one of the best teams in the league and they can not draw a good crowd. Right now the Athletics draw the 23rd out of 30 in average home game attendance, that’s really bad. The Athletics only average 24,584 fans per home game, that is really bad for a winning team.
My message to Athletic fans is this, enjoy the ride, cheer for your team and go out to the game. Beware because the Orioles and Athletics new rivalry will continue and the Orioles do not like to lose to the same team over and over again.
