The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/10/06/watch-oakland-ballers-baseball-team-celebrates-championship-with-hyphy-infused-west-oakland-parade/The minor-minor leaguer Oakland Ballers won a championship in just their second year of existence, and took to the streets with their wacky possum mascot Sunday to celebrate how they’ve replaced the Oakland A’s with a bona fide champion. The Bay Area is currently enjoying a Golden Age of upstart new cult-hit sports teams. The Class C minor league Baseball team Oakland Ballers, founded largely out of inspired spite toward the Oakland A’s for leaving town, are such an unapologetic troll of the A’s franchise that their baseball hats say they’re the B’s, and their mascot is a possum, a direct insult to the myriad feral wildlife

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