Billie Joe Armstrong, Oakland and Green Day

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and Too $hort Invest in Oakland Minor League Baseball Team
The Hollywood Reporter revealed on Wednesday (March 5) that Armstrong has joined fellow Oaktown legend rapper Too $hort as part of the ownership
Welcome to Paradise? Billie Joe Armstrong Buys Stake in Minor League Baseball Team (Exclusive)
The privately owned club — it was founded by former head of comedy at Fusion Bryan Carmel and his Oakland boyhood friend and edtech entrepreneur Paul Freedman, with the help of outside investors — offered fans a chance to join a $1.2 million financing round last year. Some 2,200 of them signed up. A $2 million round is planned for this year.
Rapper Too Short, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong join Oakland Ballers ownership group
The Oakland Ballers on Wednesday announced that two Bay Area music icons were joining the team's ownership group with the addition of legendary rapper Too Short and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
Oakland Ballers add Too $hort and Billie Joe Armstrong to ownership group
Last summer, the Oakland Ballers — a Pioneer League baseball team that played its inaugural season in 2024 — welcomed more than 2,200 fans into its ownership group through a community investment round that raised $1.
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, Too $hort join Oakland Ballers ownership
The Green Day lead singer and legendary Oakland rapper are new celebrity investors of the Pioneer League baseball club.
Rapper Too $hort, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong buy stake in minor league baseball team
Armstrong, 53, founded Green Day in 1987 with Mike Dirnt. The band has sold more than 85 million records worldwide and has won four Grammy Awards. Armstrong also won a Grammy for Best Musical Show Album for “American Idiot,” which also featured Green Day.
Billie Joe Armstrong and Too Short Join Oakland Ballers Ownership Group
The Oakland Ballers are getting ready for the new season by welcoming in a couple of new owners to the team in internationally renowned, yet local musicians Bil
Billie Joe Armstrong invests in Oakland Ballers after months of criticizing A's
Billie Joe Armstrong spent most of last summer slamming the Oakland A’s in protest of their impending move to Las Vegas. Now, the Green Day frontman has found a new East Bay baseball team to throw his support behind.
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Green Day frontman calls J.D. Vance a “ret**d” to 60,000 fans at concert
Billie Joe Armstrong, the bisexual frontman of the rock band Green Day, called Vice President J.D. Vance a “r**ard” during a ...
Green Day goes off on Vice President JD Vance
At a show in Melbourne, Australia, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong swapped the lyrics of one of the band's songs to take a ...
Green Day calls JD Vance a slur in rework of band’s 2000s-era song
Legendary punk rock band Green Day took a major swipe at Vice President JD Vance during a recent performance of one of their ...
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Green Day Changes “Jesus Of Suburbia” Lyric To Slam The Vice President: “Am I Re****ed Or Am I Just JD Vance?”
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has never been shy about his political leanings. The 53-year-old has been very vocal ...
Oakland Athletics
OAKLAND — Seeking to raise $2 million in community investments, the Oakland Ballers of the Pioneer League added two celebrity ...
Opinion
‘No longer culturally relevant’: Green Day’s anti-Trump statement called out
To Di For’ podcast host Kinsey Schofield believes Green Day’s anti-Trump and Musk statement at a concert in Australia occurred because they are “no longer culturally relevant”. Green Day’s Billie Joe ...