Old John was right. Major League Baseball is a business, not a game, not a sport. If any of us had any doubt of the truth of that statement, the signs have been numerous and obvious. Support your chosen team by spending hundreds of dollars on caps, shirts, and other “gear”.Disfigure the uniforms worn by the players with patches on the sleeves advertising businesses that have nothing to do with the game. Drive the prices of tickets and concessions up so high that only the well to do can afford to see games in person, and then make them pay even more to park their cars. Owners, executives, and players now make so much money that it is hard for them to relate to common folks. We all know the shameful practice of building stadiums with unearned shiploads of taxpayer dollars. The latest example is the sadistic treatment of the human beings in Oakland, California who happen to like baseball by, not only the hopelessly clueless billionaire who never worked a day in his life but owns the Oakland Athletics, but also the entire roster of other super rich major league baseball owners. It’s no wonder that gambling , which once threatened the viability of the game, is welcomed and fully endorsed by these blood sucking vermin: none of them apparently knows the difference between right and wrong.

John Fisher is the owner who is , with the blessing of his fellow vampires, moving the Athletics to Las Vegas, the same desert crime scene where the son of Al Davis moved the Oakland professional football team a while back. Why anyone would want to move a thriving business with a large following to a tiny sand trap that has been previewing global warming for us for years is a question that I really don’t think I want to know the answer to but I’m sure it’s not good.

If you think I’m annoyed, let me assure you that I am not the only one. Here is part of what Scott Ostler, the venerable sports writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, wrote,” Oakland is no longer held captive by the worst owner in baseball, if not in all sports…Oakland is no longer exposed to the massive risk of entering into a partnership with a guy who has the business acumen of a pair of Gap blue jeans.”

Then there is Ann Killion, also of the S.F. Chronicle. “The owners waived their own chance at a massive relocation fee, accepted and parroted lies from Fisher and his minions, ignored the reality of the situation, all to protect one of their own. The most dysfunctional of their own. A man who has deliberately ruined his own franchise. Which sends a pretty clear message. The people who run baseball do not care about you, the fan…they care only about circling their gold-plated wagons and taking another sip of Macallan single malt while stuffing public tax money in their pockets”

Here are the names of players who not long ago played for the Oakland A’s but were visible among playoff teams this season: Marcus Semien,Matt Chapman , Matt Olson,Chris Bassitt,Sonny Gray, Max Muncy, and Sean Murphy. If you combine them with others who didn’t make the playoffs, you would have a pretty damn good team, wouldn’t you.? Fisher ditched it all for more free money. Welfare for billionaires, apparently the American way.

From now on, Baseball Anarchy will continue reporting on baseball, but not these schmucks.