Fat Chance

A’s fans hope to pack the Coliseum for tonight’s game against the Rays in an effort to show the powers that be Oakland is a good place for baseball but John Fisher is a bad owner. Good luck with that. Let’s say they pack the place with just under 47,000 fans. Then what? Fisher belongs to an exclusive group, or a cartel, if you prefer, where one baseball team owner scratches the back of another, and Rob Manfred keeps everyone itch-free in his role as commissioner. These guys are going to rise up against one of their own? I doubt it. Anyone in the mood, I suggest they Google “Jerry Reinsdorf baseball public interest” and read what Reinsdorf had to say a little before he joined ownership ranks. Why, owning a team was a “public trust,” and Reinsdorf said he “never did forgive Walter O’Malley for moving the Dodgers” from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Only Reinsdorf later threatened to move the Sox to Florida if he didn’t get a new stadium built for him. Last month, Manfred was up in Milwaukee trying to pressure public officials to find close to $450 million in renovations the Brewers say American Family Field nee Miller Park requires. Wow, twenty-two years old and in need of so much work. According to Manfred, it’s got to be done because the lease says so. Threats implied and inferred are left to the beholder. Yeah, Reinsdorf and Manfred are going to lead the charge to get the A’s new ownership. Just as soon as hell freezes over.