The Oakland Ballers — the East Bay’s feel-good replacement to the feel-bad A’s — have enjoyed a run of good news recently.
Last fall, in their debut season in the Pioneer League, the team put together a torrid second-half winning streak and finished just one game from the league championship. They raised more than $2 million from fans in their first community investment round. Then, earlier this month, they announced two attention-grabbing local celebrity investors — East Bay music legends Too $hort and Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day.
But the team’s latest star investor thinks a correction is due.
“I’d like to finally give them some bad press,” said comedian Chelsea Peretti of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Saturday Night Live, and Parks and Recreation fame. The Ballers, according to team sources, will be unveiling Peretti as the team’s newest big-name backer this week.
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