{"id":273790,"date":"2025-11-09T18:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/273790\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:50:07","slug":"las-vegas-as-allow-social-media-comments-for-first-time-since-early-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/273790\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas A\u2019s allow social media comments for first time since early 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"CLEVELAND, OHIO - JULY 19: A closeup view of the Athletics logo on the Nike jersey worn by Luis Ur&#xED;as #17 prior to a game against the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field on July 19, 2025 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Nick Cammett\/Diamond Images via Getty Images)\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PZY4PVKTFRAJJPDC6PZ7Z3CQBY.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>A post on X from Jan. 19, 2024 was the \u201clast time the A\u2019s posted on X while allowing anyone to reply\u201d before Saturday. Diamond Images\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The A\u2019s this weekend \u201cturned replies back on their social media channels for a request for comment from their fans.\u201d A post on X from Jan. 19, 2024 was the \u201clast time the A\u2019s posted on X while allowing anyone to reply.\u201d The replies to Saturday\u2019s post were \u201cwhat you would imagine from a fan base that has been muzzled\u201d as its team is \u201cpulled away from its home of the past six or so decades so owner John Fisher can enjoy Las Vegas.\u201d Both the move from Oakland and the move to turn off comments have \u201ccost the A\u2019s in reach on social media,\u201d as they \u201cwent from at least 605,000 X followers earlier this year to around 586,800 now.\u201d The \u201cfate of the team rests on whether its new fans in Vegas can replace a passionate fan base in Oakland\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/breaking-news\/article\/athletics-get-immediately-roasted-after-allowing-social-media-comments-for-first-time-in-nearly-2-years-004737284.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/breaking-news\/article\/athletics-get-immediately-roasted-after-allowing-social-media-comments-for-first-time-in-nearly-2-years-004737284.html\">YAHOO SPORTS, 11\/8<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A post on X from Jan. 19, 2024 was the \u201clast time the A\u2019s posted on X while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-273790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}