In pro sports, angry fans are vocally demanding regime change.

Oakland Athletics fans organized boycotts two years ago as the team plotted relocation.

“Don’t know how much front offices and owners pay attention. But players, we hear it," says a former A's player.

BALTIMORE – It was a cry that emanated, as it often does, from the cheap seats, so high above the playing field that Athletics players on the field at Nationals Park earlier this week did not hear the chant they’re so familiar with yet, for once, was not aimed at their franchise.

“Sell! The! Team! Sell! The! Team!”

On this August evening, it wasn’t desperate and determined fans of the Oakland Athletics imploring owner John Fisher to sell their beloved franchise in the name of competence and to ensure a future in the Bay A

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