The irony of the “Sell the Team!” chant for the Oakland Athletics is that the team’s current owner has been a part of seven playoff years since joining the management group for the organization in 2005. Meanwhile, the owner of the former Oakland Raiders has overseen just two playoff campaigns since inheriting the team in 2011 from his father. Both Mark Davis and John Fisher are nepo babies, for sure, but one is an idiot.

And we don’t mean Fisher, since we don’t let emotional arguments into this space as clearly established.

That means we’re looking at you, Mr. Bad Haircut. Fisher may be getting all the venom, but Davis is the one who has no business owning a professional sports franchise. His family screwed Oakland over twice with its greed, and he has shown no ability to consistently field a winning team since taking over the reins of the Silver & Black in 2011. With eight difference head coaches in just 14 seasons, too, Davis is clearly a lunatic.

Las Vegas has seen just one winning team since the Raiders arrived in 2020, and Davis immediately fired the coach that got them there in 2021. The club is 16-23 since then, with the players on their second head coach as well. Before winning 10 games that season, the Silver & Black had experienced one winning season (2016) since reaching the Super Bowl in 2002 under Davis’ father—the infamous Al Davis. Let that sink in.

Overall, the franchise has posted a winning record just twice in the last 21-plus seasons, shafted the City of Oakland financially, and been a constant punchline for opposing fans, yet no one cries for Mark Davis to sell the team. Why not? Fisher, with his seven postseason appearances in 20 seasons of owning the A’s to one degree or another, looks absolutely brilliant in comparison to the Davis family. Success is success, no?

The A’s finished in first place as recently as 2020 under Fisher’s leadership; the Raiders haven’t finished in first place since 2002. It’s pretty simple, folks: you’ve been getting angry at the wrong person, and maybe it’s because he was the last person standing in the socioeconomic pit that Oakland has become in the last handful of decades. Of course, the A’s tried to move to San Jose, and MLB wouldn’t let them. So … yeah.

Yet the City of Oakland gave the Raiders money it should have given to the much-more successful Athletics. Yet the sports fans in Oakland chant for Fisher to sell the team while many of them still embrace Davis and the Raiders despite having left town twice (in 1981 and 2019). This is what we mean by emotions ruling people’s actions instead of facts and logic. Oakland sports fans should hate Mark Davis—not John Fisher.