A California mayor is getting trolled on social media for celebrating the victory of a local ultimate frisbee team after the wave of major sports teams that have left her city in recent years.<\/p>\n
Mayor Barbara Lee of Oakland, who is up for re-election this year, is featured in a video from Oakland\u2019s City Hall explaining who the Oakland Spiders frisbee team is and congratulating them for winning the 2026 Ultimate Frisbee association championship.<\/p>\n
Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee addresses the crowd during the Golden State Valkyries 2026 Jersey Reveal at Oakland City Hall in Oakland, California, on Monday, March 30, 2026. ISI Photos<\/p>\n
One X account @FireBarbaraLee<\/a>\u00a0said that Lee has \u201cruined Oakland,\u201d and blamed her for the loss of three sports teams.<\/p>\n \u201cOakland lost the Raiders. Lost the Warriors. Lost the A\u2019s. Three real teams. Gone,\u201d the post said.<\/a><\/p>\n The post from the X account @FireBarbaraLee.<\/p>\n \u201cSo Barbara Lee is on Instagram celebrating the Oakland Spiders, an ultimate frisbee team. \u201c8 legs, 1 heart. Let\u2019s Go Oakland,\u201d the post continued. \u201cThat is the mayor of a city that lost the Raiders, the Warriors, and the A\u2019s. Out here posting like a frisbee title brings the Town back.\u201d<\/p>\n California Mayor Barbara Lee is pictured. Lee was trolled after celebrating frisbee champions.<\/p>\n The user went on to recall the large championship celebrations Oakland once held for its major sports franchises, arguing that the Spiders\u2019 title underscored how dramatically the city\u2019s professional sports landscape has changed.<\/p>\n The Oakland Spiders frisbee team is pictured. Instagram\/@oaklandspiders<\/p>\n \u201cNow City Hall is hyping a disc because that is all that is left,\u201d they continued. \u201cThis is who has ruined Oakland. Leave Barbara Lee off your ballot for Mayor!\u201d<\/p>\n Others joined in the criticism in the comments. In the comments, X user @5150Brando<\/a> wrote \u201cTalk about the soft bigotry of low expectations\u201d while @JimmyMac1960<\/a> wrote \u201cEven the rate left-wing of my family that still lives in Joakland is fed up, and that\u2019s saying something\u201d<\/p>\n Members of the Oakland Spiders frisbee team are pictured in California. <\/p>\n The departure of major professional sports teams from Oakland happened over the course of five years. <\/p>\n In 2019 is when Oakland lost the Warriors to San Francisco, then in 2020 the city lost the Raiders to Las Vegas and then in 2024 the city lost the A\u2019s as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California mayor is getting trolled on social media for celebrating the victory of a local ultimate frisbee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7,7000,6424,4415,4182,143,22533,145,144,3586],"class_list":["post-463732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-california","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-mayor","tag-metro","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-as","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}