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    Let’s go Ballers! 👏🏻,👏🏻,👏🏻-👏🏻-👏🏻

    These games feel like small town events in ways people in neither place would believe. Everyone’s having fun and happy to be there, more than at big, super corporate happenings. Local companies dominate the ads. Downtime entertainment has footraces for kids and grownups competing to make funny voices. There are taco trucks.

    And I can’t get enough of it.

    A baseball diamond taking from behind home plate, looking down the 3rd base line. The batter is set. The pitcher is winding up. It’s night time and the stadium lights are on. The glow of Oakland, California’s skyline is low in the background.

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    Let’s go Ballers!

    A pro baseball game from behind home plate, looking down the 3rd base line. Downtown Oakland is in the background.
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    There are more people at tonight’s Oakland B’s game than at the average A’s games this year.

    John Fisher can bite me.

    View of the B’s outfield, with downtown Oakland in the background.
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    We’re getting ready to see the first ever home game of the Oakland Ballers. Go B’s!

    An Oakland B’s ballcap sitting on a white background. It’s dark green with a giant “B” on the front and the “Oaklandish” logo on the side. If you look closely, the opening in the bottom half of the B is shaped like the home plate of a baseball diamond.
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    While I dropped a friend off and helped him unload his stuff, I told him about the Oakland Ballers cap I was wearing and how I’m glad we have a new local baseball team. Not 10 seconds after we’d finished talking about it, a woman on the sidewalk yelled “Go Ballers!” to me, and that started a new conversation with her about opening day, season tickets, the new ballpark renovations, and all that.

    I think I’ve convinced my buddy that he should get tickets, too. 100% of the time he’s heard of the Ballers, they were so popular that complete strangers entered the chat.