A's Turning Off Fans, Replies

Here's the thing with posts on Twitter: You can post something and then just mute the conversation, so any replies you receive don't result in a notification. They'll be there, but you can just ignore them when you log in again. 

By leaving the comments off, they made it so that people's only recourse was to quote tweet the crap out of their signing and dunk on the team for leaving the comments off. Instead of isolating fan's frustrations to their own comment section, they let it spread. 

Let's be clear: This isn't advanced-level knowledge about how Twitter works or anything. This is pretty basic stuff. 

What's funny is that after a few hours, the team actually decided to turn the replies on, thinking that they would be in the clear once the initial barrage ended. They would have been wrong. 

There was a point when the comments were turned off that you had to wonder if getting quote-tweeted was the plan all along. They could have been going with the "there's no such thing as bad publicity" marketing strategy in order to get their account seen by more people. You see people employ this strategy on social media all the time and it can be pretty effective. The A's turning the comments on later got rid of that thought pretty quickly. 

One thing that the A's seem to keep forgetting is that Oakland doesn't quit. With everything that has gone on with relocation, the fans are pissed. They're angry. They're also going to be a nuisance for years to come whether the comments are on or not. Even if/when the A's move to Las Vegas, you can bet that the fans they left behind the in Bay Area will revel in tormenting John Fisher at every chance they get for taking the team that they loved away. 

But hey, at least John Fisher is going to put some of his family's artwork in the new ballpark, because nothing screams "I'm at a baseball game!" like an art gallery.