Nobody Is Attending Oakland A's Games Except the Dozens of Cats Now Living in the Ballpark

The Oaklandside — Feral cats are having a “field day” at the Oakland Coliseum, according to stadium authority executive director Henry Gardner. 

An estimated 30 to 40 cats and kittens have made the 130-acre property in East Oakland home, multiplying in population over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, Gardner told The Oaklandside.  

“The good news is the cats have been on rat patrol and they have done an excellent job. We have not seen a rodent in almost two years,” Gardner said in a phone interview. “You have to give them an ‘A’ for dealing with the rodents but we don’t need as many in the army right now. We are overstaffed.”

If you are on Oakland A's fan, I feel genuinely sorry for you. The franchise has an owner who refuses to invest in a team which has proven it can have success, plays in the worst professional sports stadium in America and now that stadium is apparently overrun with feral cats. You can't make this stuff up.

On April 20 and 21, the A's drew 6,451 fans to home games against the Orioles — not to each game, combined. But I don't blame the Oakland fans for that. You'd have to pay me to spend an evening at that dump of a ballpark watching a team that just traded away its two best players, now with the possibility a stray cat may just wander up to your seat and decide to watch a few innings. Who is signing up for that?

For the good of everyone involved, please get that franchise out of Oakland and take it literally anywhere else. Nashville, Las Vegas, Charlotte, wherever. Someone save those poor players.