They are both unlikely Northern California success stories—one a nomadic baseball team turned world champion four times over, one a hardscrabble punk band turned Rock & Roll Hall of Fame act.
Given their shared underdog origins, it only makes sense that Green Day would oppose the Athletics' expected departure for Las Vegas. In attendance as Oakland fans staged a “reverse boycott” at Oakland Coliseum on Tuesday night, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong made his feelings on the subject abundantly clear.
“Oakland forever. Vegas never. #selltheteam,” Armstrong wrote on his Instagram story, with a sea of Athletics fans as a backdrop.
