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Waiving the relocation fee during negotiations is NOT fighting for Oakland! Not to mention he dragged this fan base EVERY chance he got. Yes he said what he said YEARS ago but obviously they had a change of heart. They will regret what they have done here. There is a stain on baseball from all of this sham of a relocation!

I agree with you said that if the city of Oakland really wanted to keep the A's, they could have found a way.

Thank you from Las Vegas Nevada thank you some of your arguments I have been making with people from Oakland for the past year or so

My favorite part of the whole saga is when Oakland city council sent gift boxes to the other owners hoping for 8 no votes

Another awesome show Booney. Filled in a lot of gaps. You had me at the GAMETIME advert. I was thinking how cool it was you were at "The Catch" game with your dad. Thanks for these three shows, as a lifelong A's fan it was enlightening. Keep up the good work, it's almost spring training and really looking forward to baseball again.

I am so happy we are almost finished with the protests, flags and green shirts!

Oakland doesn't have the corporate sponsorship like Vegas and San Jose does. The A's would make more money and revenue in Vegas and San Jose. Yes Oakland is a top 10 media market but you can't make money and revenue to sustain a franchise. The A's and raiders were at the bottom of their leagues when it comes to revenue. Revenue is how you retain your star players and sign big free agents. Vegas is the number 40 media market but it is a money maker the A's would make a lot of money in Vegas you lose the loyal fan base in Oakland but they will be in a better position financially!!! Just look at the raiders they are doing better financially than they ever was in Oakland!!!

If the A's can't come up with the construction costs for the Las Vegas ballpark which they haven't as of today the A's will have to regroup and find another location. At the last LV Stadium Authority meeting on Dec 5 Sandy Dean said the Fisher family were organizing to get the $1.75 billion together. MLB set the deadline last year in Dec 2024 for Dec 2025 and it's been over a year. If Fisher can't come up with the money the A's should reconsider Oakland. Oakland has a NEW mayor Kevin Jenkins and it wouldn't hurt to explore a ballpark location at 12th and Broadway in downtown Oakland. Unless MLB has closed off any chance for the A's to return to Oakland, Fisher just may not have the money for Vegas reconsidering Oakland might be that solution. As of now there is no secured funding for Vegas or no solution.

When a person buys a house, for example, doesn’t that person lose money every year until ultimately making money in the end due to appreciation while also enjoying the asset? Doesn’t that also hold true for baseball teams? John Fisher never enjoyed the asset. He’s no fan of the team. Yet, he’ll certainly make plenty of money when he cashes out soon. All team owners will profit in the end. But they should also be fans and appreciate the club and fan base. Otherwise, just buy a bunch of Mc Donald’s franchises.

The A’s have had attendance issues their entire existence, but it doesn’t help that they frequently threatened (or tried) to relocate from the moment they left Philly. While in KC, Finley threatened to move to Dallas and Louisville before actually moving to Oakland. Almost immediately after moving to Oakland, Finley began threatening and even applying to move to Denver, and even looked at New Orleans. The Haas era was the best stability the franchise had in Oakland. Attendance was their best, they had superstar players, and they won- a lot. Under Shott and Wolff/Fisher the A’s had dwindling attendance but also refused to re-sign star players, all while threatening or attempting to move to San Jose, Fremont, Portland, and Vegas. Yes, the A’s have had attendance issues, but they also have spent most of the past 55+ years threatening or exploring relocation. It’s a chicken or an egg situation. Did the fans stop showing up because the team kept threatening to move and spend money, or did the team threaten to move and refuse to spend money because fans weren’t showing up? There’s a lot of nuance, but it’s a shame that the team has spent almost the entirety of their post Philly existence threatening to move.

I believe there are wonderful fans in Oakland that I truly feel sorry for… unfortunately there aren’t enough of them. I hope your facts help them channel their energy from protesting to making Oakland a better city. Thank you as I know compiling this information was time consuming as the misinformation seems to overshadow facts.

Thank you for being the oasis of truth.

A's fan from Chicago here. Ive never been to Oakland but having watched thousands of thousands of A's baseball games on TV I will give my two cents as an outsider. 1. The A's made the playoffs 11 times since 2000, yet ranked lowest in attendance year after year 2. It doesnt make good business sense for Fisher to invest in Oakland when the city is in shambles and all other sports teams left years ago. 3. I want the A's to be a thriving organzation that can resign their own stars and build dynasties again. Idc if thats in Oakland, Sacramento or Las Vegas, but it became obvious after 2020 it was never going to work in the city of Oakland.

While you did hit on some of the inconvenient truths, you are still leaving out a lot of the story. The Wolff part of the story, however, was spot on.

''I'm Booney. I'm From The Bay Area, I've Been an A's Fan Since 1981''......( BUT, YOU DON'T MIND THEM MOVING TO SCABCRAMENTO FOR 3 POSSIBLY 4 YEARS AND THEN POSSIBLY MOVING ONTO ''LOST VAGUE ASS'') when you had them in your own backyard now will have to travel to Scabcramento about an hour and a half each way to play in a minor league ballpark paying way over high ticket prices then have to hop a flight to VAGUE ASS'.....'Loyal To The Soil'' in OAKLAND? BULLCRAP......you sold out ''BAY AREA Booney’

Booney thanks for all you do and keep up the good work.

The average attendance was 13,646 over 57 years. McGwire had 24 homers in 59 games in 1997. Homer every 8.1 at-bats in 95 and 96. The average attendance was 15,000. He got traded to St. Louis, became an international superstar and saved baseball. If he was in Oakland, he would have had 38 at the All-Star break with an average of 16,000

Okay Booney, although I differ in general from what you're trying to put across, I am a smart enough, long time fan who realizes that to your point there are a lot of gray areas concerning this whole subject. That being said, your statistical analogy of the Haas era to SH era conveniently leaves out the fact of what the two ownerships inherited. Despite Rickey already being there, when Haas bought the A's the Finley farm system couldn't have had much going for it. So when you cite "winning percentage" of the two eras, the Haas era is definitely skewed by the 1982/86 years. Take those years out and how does it look now? In other words, there was a MAJOR difference in what the Haas ownership INHERITED as opposed to what the SH group inherited. Again, you skipped over this in favor of focusing on deferred contracts. I might be wrong, but when a MLB team is sold isn't it fairly normal for the buyer to realize the payroll of players on the team that are already owed money for upcoming years? All I'm trying to get at here, is if your video is going to come across as you being someone that is covering all the under the radar facts, disclose ALL OF THEM fairly, ok?

What a great episode Booney. I have read a lot of the narrative busting things you brought up. It was good to see them all in one place and to refresh my memory. As I have said on numerous occasions, I have never lived in the Bay area so the A's moving doesn't affect me as much as a local. I grew up an Oakland A's fan so the idea of them not being that is something I'll get used to. Thanks again and keep up the good work.

Leclerc is a good arm. Look at some of the stuff on Baseball Savant. He was supposed to have a 3.50 era

This is a freaking John Fisher shill site. To blame a mayor who just got into office(regardless of the corruption) is just incorrect. Fisher systematically ran this team into the ground during his entire tenure. This is the era of re-writing history aka gaslighting led by our fuerer in chief Herr Trump. Your show is a piece of garbage Mr. Fisher tool.

I understand what you're saying. I also understand that baseball can thrive in Oakland with quality ownership. In the history of the Oakland A's they've only had one quality owner and that was the Haas family. When the Haas family sold to Shott and Hoffman the only thing they talked about was moving the team. I'm sure that turned off a lot of people. If MLB wanted the Oakland A's to succeed they never would have sold to John Fisher. You had the Joe Lacob group and you also had the Reggie Jackson group that offered 25 million more than John Fisher but was turned down because they told MLB they were committed to Oakland. If you were a true Oakland A's fan like you say you are the last place you would want your team to go is to Las Vegas. In Las Vegas the team will never have a true fan base. Have you ever been to a Raider game it's like a road game. The A's will be in the same situation, but it will be a lot worse because you have an owner that doesn't like spending. If you ever want to talk about the situation in Oakland bring it on dude because I will school you. Do you know who Charlie Finley is. If you were a true Oakland A's fan you would be asking MLB why he isn't in the Hall of Fame.

Are they going too do the A"s hall of fame this year in Sacramento Dwayne Murphy belongs in there one of the best center fielder in A"s history

Let's invite Trevor bauer to camp!

Another great interview Booney!! Very much enjoyed this one! Great questions as always. Oh man what a career he had, amazing stories. That clubhouse must have been something, being traded to one of the most insane baseball dynasty runs in recent memory. I was always rooting against them at the time but respect, none the less. Not many teams can even win 2 WS in a row these days. Scott sounds like a great coach too! He nailed a lot of points with the small ball stuff were missing in todays game. Take care! Look forward to more.

With this news, you do have to wonder how much this affected the A's staying in Oakland. That would be wild if the MLB knew about this before we all did last week. I wonder if more will come out of this later, but either way, the A's probably aren't coming back to Oakland. With that being said, I do agree that the A's didn't really want to be in Oakland, especially when they looked to move to Fremont and then San Jose originally. They probably were going to leave Oakland regardless. If the A's would've been approved to move to even Fremont or San Jose despite the road blocks of either of those two moves back then, they probably would've left Oakland years ago.

Given ownership’s history under Fisher, I still firmly believe he would have relocated the team regardless. Our city’s leadership has been shit for years, and definitely didn’t help, but regardless of this scandal, I believe he was always going to move the team out of Oakland. It’s easier to blame the city with Thao’s clear incompetence but I view her scandal as just another reason our the Town has continued to plunge to the bottom

It’s always in my opinion that it was the Oakland mayor at fault for the As departure.

THE A's Are Loaded. SACTOWN will ROCK & Onto VEGAS. Oakland Leadership Care more about 1.5% of the Population than FAMILIES. In 2017 If you had a baby born, You Seen Oakland Go from Worst to Worst with No Sports Teams. NO RAIDERS! NO WARRIORS! NO WALMART! NO TARGET! NO A's! All Family Activities! SACREMENTO & FEW GAMES IN VEGAS WILL ROCK! THANK YOU DAVE KAVAL & JOHN FISHER from Saving The A's Fron EXTINCTION FROM Mayor SHAM THAO & Her OAKLAND PRIDE PARADE AGENDA!

The Democrat Party Leadership Of OAKLAND from Mayor SHAM THAO to City Leadership cared more about DEI, Legacy Of George Floyd & All of Those Joy Pride Parades in OAKLAND than the Legacy Of Rickey Henderson, Dave Stewart, Jackson, Rudi, Giambi, Mulder, Huddy, Zito, The Big Hurt, Chavey, Chappy, Olsen, Reddick, Bash Bros, Dave Parker, Don Baylor I could write 300 A's Players the 60 Years. The DEMOCRAT PARTY LEADERSHIP DESTROYED OAKLAND there's 1500 RV's that surround Oakland Coliseum 10K to 15K Under reported Homeless all over Oakland. NO WALMART, TARGET, IN&OUTBURGER, ETC Ghost Buildings. NO WARRIORS, NO RAIDERS.2023, 14700 Cars Stolen Out Of Control Crime ETC... THE DEMOCRAT PARTY WOKE AGENDA! John Fisher & Dave Kaval Saved the A's Franchise from Extinction. Good News: The A's Are Loaded 1. Etuis Ruiz CF 2. Lawrence Butler LF 3. Brent Rooker DH 4. JJ BLEDAY RF 5. Tyler Sodersome AKA The Matt Olsen 1B 6. Shea Langeliers C . 7. Zack Gelof 2bI Call Him Jeff Kent Jr 8. Jacob Wilson SS 9. Either Max Muncy/Seth Brown/Denzil Clark or Wild Card Nick Kurtz A Young Jim Thome & Ryan Howard Type 1B and Convert Tyler Sodersome to 3B. The A's are a Young ASTROS/DODGERS Team Barring INJURY. Jacob Wilson & Lawrence Butler Cards are some of the Top Selling. Jacob Wilson batted .400 In The Minors. The A's with A Top 8 Bullpen & They just need better than avg pitching. They will score runs in that ball park & especially on the Road the A's Ball PARK worked against the A's All Those Years and was the reason they could never win a Playoff series. RANT OVER. SACTOWN will ROCK. Oakland Mayor SHAM THAO won her election by 680 Votes LOL! The Same amount that showed up to A;s games over the last few years

I still blame budd seeley

Best episode yet! Sully knows baseball, Coy only talked about disappointment in the relocation, Burke was filled with rage at ownership…. You know A’s Baseball!! This feels like Locked on A’s for the first time!! Thank you 🙏

I wish they would give Trevor Bauer a shot at making the team. He was cleared of all charges. Hope to see you at Big League weekend in Las Vegas!

For sports fans, it's always easy to blame the evil, billionaire owner. That's just how it is. But in this situation, the corrupt, inept city government of Oakland, starting with the former mayor are to blame. Oakland has lost three major sports teams in the past 10 years. There's a common denominator here.

Is Casey Pratt still alive? I never see that dude anymore.

Where you at Brodie?

I felt something was fishy about how Thoa all the sudden was elected Oaklands new Mayor.She sure didn't help matters hmmm? One in her position ought to be aware that others are watching her actions...tred lightly

Democrats ruin everything they touch this is no surprise.

Good point. I think there were also other factors that led to the team leaving. 1) Poor attendance over decades even when the team performed well and the stadium was in better condition. 2) Poor attendance over the last few years motivated by media and YT video creators who encouraged fans to stay away and not give any money to the hated Fisher. 3) Both the Mets and Cubs had periods with ownership issues and poor performance. But the fans still attended. 4) The media and video creators tactic of covering for the city and hating Fisher leading to low attendance backfired. 5) As another poster commented, Stomper is active in Las Vegas and was featured in their holiday community outreach. I expect we will see him at the upcoming Big League Weekend. [Booney - come to the weekend. Last year the SF Chronicle sent Susan Slusser, and she wrote a fair story.]

Stomper did not leave, The Athletics have been doing community outreach events in Las Vegas attended by Stomper as late as a few weeks ago. Fisher and Dean are walking a tightrope paying tribute to a temporary home in Sacramento and I think the patch was a great idea.

They can relocate to Oblock for all I care but they can’t get rid of stomper

Can we finally put to bed the idea the Fisher is the greedy one and Kaval is the devil? Oh the irony of it all, it is Shen Thao, who is the greedy one and should shoulder all the blame for the A's moving to Las Vegas IMPO.

Holy smokes! This is huge scandalous news!!! That’s why there was a gag order on talking about it!

Stomper will return!

I don't know if this particular abomination was a factor, but Oakland's decline ( and California's?) surely was seen as a harbinger of tough times for the A's.

Colby thomas should be on this roster

Now get Trevor Bauer to round out the rotation!

Still think the A's are going to add one more to the roster. GM David forst was talking about adding a veteran infielder to pair with max Schumann. Also talk about adding another starting pitcher

I love the energy from you and the team!! Nice shirt!!

I want the A's to win the division as much as the next guy but don't you think you're being a bit too optimistic? It defiantly seams like on paper the A's are the best team in the AL west and I would agree if the season was just based on paper stats and offseason acquisitions the A's would win, but i'm not sure.