A's closer Liam Hendriks on the Warriors: They became '(expletive)'
The Golden State Warriors will no longer call Oakland home. Starting this season, they’ll officially make the move to San Francisco and the billion-dollar Chase Center.
But it doesn’t sound like Oakland Athletics closer Liam Hendriks is too upset to see the Warriors make that move across the Bay.
In a recent interview with The Athletic, the A’s reliever ripped Golden State for how the franchise treated the A’s once that Curry-led dynasty started. Hendricks joined the A’s in 2016, and said that the neighborly relationship worsened each year.
Via The Athletic:
“I don’t follow the Warriors,” Hendriks said of the A’s wildly popular ex-neighbors. “They treated us like (expletive) over here so we don’t care for them much.”
His reasons have nothing to do with the on-court product.
“When the Warriors sucked and the A’s were good, the A’s would give them tickets,” he said. “When the Warriors became good they decided to cut all ties and become (expletive)holes. So, no love lost for them leaving.”
Hendriks went on to recall a security guard telling him that A’s players weren’t as important as Warriors fans and made the team wait to leave a parking lot. The Warriors and A’s had shared the same complex, which was home to Oracle Arena and Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
He’s also looking forward to the Raiders’ departure, but that has more to do with stadium infrastructure than a personal beef with the organization.
Hendriks is otherwise enjoying a career year with a 1.43 ERA and 16 saves.