Armstrong had strong words for the city after hearing news of Oakland’s beloved baseball team moving to Nevada
Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong had some choice words for the city of Las Vegas for taking his beloved baseball team away from the Bay Area — and now there’s consequences.
At a hometown show in San Francisco’s Oracle Park on Sept. 20, the punk frontman did not mince his words. Although he was originally a diehard Oakland A’s fan, the team’s planned move to Las Vegas switched his loyalty to the Oakland Ballers, even going as far as vandalizing the team’s logo during a tour stop in Canada.
“We don’t take no s— from people like John f—ing Fisher who sold out the Oakland A’s to Las f—ing Vegas,” he said onstage. “I hate Las Vegas. It’s the worst s—hole in America.”
Armstrong is referring to John Fisher, former part-owner of the San Francisco Giants alongside his father and current owner of the A’s as of 2005. In April, the team announced their planned relocation to the Las Vegas Strip at the soon-to-be-completed New Las Vegas Stadium to replace the shuttered Tropicana Las Vegas. At the team’s last Oakland game, the crowd broke out in a “F— John Fisher” chant.
The owner couldn’t hear, because he hasn’t been to a game in two seasons.
While Bay Area residents and fans alike would be sympathetic to Armstrong’s expletives, Las Vegas residents were less enthused. Las Vegas rock station KOMP 92.3 announced on Instagram that they “pulled any and all Green Day from our playlist.”