A’s Need Their Fans to Change Their Shirts
By Tony Frye
If we want the A’s to win, these masks need to be swapped out or replaced by full body possum costumes. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. A’s fans are insane. We’ve been watching our beloved team lose night after night after night after night after night while you wear the same jersey with the same beard with the same haircut and the same socks. This is all our fault.
As fans of the greatest (although currently not the best) team in baseball, we owe it to our beloved boys in green and gold to make the changes necessary for their success. If you’ve grown a Jonny Gomes beard, it’s time to shave it. If you’ve got Coco Crisp corn rows, it’s time to go afro. If you’ve got Alberto Callaspo hustle, it’s time to hit the gym (I just can’t let a day go by without a cheap shot at Al). This is your team, people. Do something.
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As a season ticket holder, I attend about a third of the home games. Every day that I go, I see the same people waving the same flag in the same hat that they wore yesterday. If you’re going to a game, don’t keep wearing your tainted Kurt Suzuki jersey to the game. People, it’s time to get creative! We have nine games left before this season is over and we are as equally close to losing a wildcard berth as we are to getting one. If you always wear green, switch to gold. If you always watch the game at home, go to a sports bar. If you’ve never treated me to a beer and a hot link, find me at the next game and treat me to a beer and a hot link. Do whatever it takes to change your habit and affect real change for this struggling team.
A’s fans are widely known as the best fans in baseball. Our energy and enthusiasm is contagious and players are willing to deal with smaller crowds, leaky toilets and watered down hot cocoa to play here. Since “the trade” we have let them down. Sure, we bring our banners and our possums and our rally caps but we’ve failed to evolve with the team to insure a maximum number of victories.
Now is not the time to give up hope. Now is not the time to sit idly by and watch as the ship sinks. Now is the time to grab a bucket and save the ship. What are you going to do in order to fix this curse? I, for starters, will not wear anything I received at one of those tainted giveaway days. They are the kiss of death for this team, as I explained in THIS article, and we should all be using them as kindling for our tailgate bar-b-ques. I’ll also refrain from wearing my new jersey to the two games I’m attending next week and will wear the oldest A’s shirt I’ve got. It’s ugly and more appropriate for a man twice my age but I got it on sale 10 years ago and it’s coming out of the closet this week.
I want to know what you’re doing in these remaining games. Leave a comment below and pledge to make a change to save this team. They, clearly, can’t do it without our help. It’s time to answer the call and save the day. Who’s with me?! LET’S GO OAKLAND!