More comments about our oh so wonderful fan base....

by OaktownPower on May 27, 2005 2:32 PM PDT

I hate to see this after all the things are said about our fans....especially since Casey is a great guy with no axe to grind on Oakland.

Cincinnati's Sean Casey said the only time he ever felt unsafe at a park was last year in Oakland, when he was serving as the Reds' DH and made several forays past a gauntlet of fans on his way to and from the clubhouse. "They were some of most hostile fans I've seen," Casey said. "I had to go about 30 feet to get past them and I had hands in my face and people were yelling some pretty rude stuff. It's almost like you're a WWF Wrestler. I didn't enjoy the whole environment, to be honest with you."

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He's Kidding Right?

Worse than Boston, New York, Chicago, Detroit?

Please. This guy sounds like a little girl afraid of strangers on the street.

Hey Casey, grow up.

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by BornInOakland @ Athletics Nation on May 27, 2005 2:44 PM PDT reply actions

Definitely not kidding.

The whole article is on about fans at ESPN.com

Bring back Hammer.

by OaktownPower on May 27, 2005 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions

Available in the ESPN Insider

http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=crasnick_jerry&id=2069734&action=logi n&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fmlb%2fcolumns%2fstory%3fcolumnist%3dcrasnick_je rry%26id%3d2069734

Anyone have access to the Insider? Please post the entire article!

by 2xr on May 27, 2005 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions

No he's right

A three-quarters empty stadium like ours usually is is more ominous than a packed house full of "hostile" fans. A sell-out crowd always has its share of families and sober people. But when you get those crowds of 10,000, the percentage of drunks, profanity and nastiness rises.

by rubin sierra on May 27, 2005 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions

Good We should do everything in our power

Short of touching a player.... to make them as uncomfortable as possible.

Though he did hit a HR that game.

by novaoakland on May 27, 2005 2:59 PM PDT reply actions

Ha

I for one love being called hostile. I am. I'm hostile about anyone who wants to come in and take something from a team I have loved for almost twenty years.

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by dboysick on May 27, 2005 4:01 PM PDT reply actions

There's hostile and there's...

... disrespectful. I remember games where A's fans threw trash onto the field. Then the Giambi beer incident. I just think throwing anything past an opposing HR ball onto the field is trashy and disrespectful to the game.

"My motto is I'm fat, but you're ugly, and I can diet." - David Wells

by JLaff on May 27, 2005 9:00 PM PDT up reply actions

disclaimer

Not aimed at anyone here or anything. But it's fans like that that make Oakland go from "passionate" to "hostile"

"My motto is I'm fat, but you're ugly, and I can diet." - David Wells

by JLaff on May 27, 2005 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions

Wait a sec..

Is this refering to the series we killed them like 134-4? Uhm, I wonder if he was just pissed about getting his arses handed to them? Maybe a little sensitive there Mayor boy.

"Hey Mr. Jay Stew, you have moles on your dome dude, ha ha, you always say that." Terrence

by rook on May 27, 2005 9:33 PM PDT reply actions

Mixed minds about this.

When I don't have my kid with me, I like to let loose a bit. Nothing profane, but hopefully something that gets a chuckle from the other diehards around me. When you here stuff like:

"Hit it to the fat kid in left!" (A's at bat, Manny Ramirez in the field)

"Would a dinosaur have goten to that one?" (Carl Everett in the field)

"Hey ump, bend over and use your good eye!" (any number of situations)...

Well, there's hostile and boring, and then there's hostile and original. Oakland fans are frequently the latter.

"Yucky Head Bad Guy!" - my 5-year-old daughter to Manny Ramirez. She got ice cream immediately afterward.

by DMtShooter on May 27, 2005 11:54 PM PDT reply actions