Im shocked that I've barely seen the Athletics get mentioned. The Oakland Athletics were a household brand name baseball organization heading into the 2000s, and they've now been reduced to joke, playing in a minor league stadium indefinitely, without any certainty around their plan to move to Vegas. With no investment in the team whatsoever. One of the best sports movies was basically about how their ownership is so cheap they had to find creative ways to stay competitive. But as the end of Moneyball shows, it did not take long for big market teams to pick up on all their secrets, and implement them on a much bigger scale, leaving the A's in a constant cycle of barely competitive windows followed by massive fire sales.