A's Owner John Fisher breaks years of silence
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After 55 years of avid A's fandom, I am done with MLB Baseball and specifically the Oakland A's. Thanks John Fisher!
Sacramento boy here, the Maloofs tried to sneak my Kings to Vegas, then take my Chargers out of San Diego. This is as crooked as ever
Welcome to the club. I walked away from 44 years of A’s fandom about two months ago. Haven’t watched any baseball since and don’t miss it at all. Too much garbage at the top to bother with it. The owners are greedy crooks and the commissioner is a worthless lackey. Don’t see a bright future for that league.
@Salty_Bae_2k23 ah buddy I wish people with money cared about anyone it'd be a different world
True that! I am sticking with an actual sport that is more recognized worldwide, soccer. I will start to focus my efforts on Oakland Roots, hopefully others do as well.
@Salty_Bae_2k23, It's easy. They never much cared about me or any other loyal A's fan from the start.
"I wanna win" - continually tanks the team
"Be able to spend money" - continually gets rid of players when their contracts come to a close because he doesn't want to spend money
What a clown
"I want to win".... " I want to spend money" ( Fisher's own words) ...... NOT IN THIS REALITY... maybe in the Twilight Zone
right lol
Las Vegas will find out soon enough that John Fisher is a goniff and does not care about the city, the fans or the team's performance.
Spend money
but not on the fucking team
wants to win
not the World Series
only in how much government green he can count
Thank you Brodie and Raj. Fisher is disgusting. I'm at least glad to know that he's "hurt" when he hears the chants and sees the T-shirts. To call himself a baseball fan is an insult.
Yeah, like he brought NONE of this on HIMSELF!!!!
I am seriously dumbfounded that he said he's a "fan of baseball" while throwing the rich history and tradition of Oakland away.
lol the comment about his uncle owning a team just shows how completely removed this guy is from the average basesball fan. This guys is so much more rich than any of us normies and he won't spend a few extra K$ to staff a functional baseball team.
The A's have a longer richer tradition the team itself, than Oakland... The A's have moved before, and can do so again...
And it's not just baseball where he's like this as he is also the owner of the San Jose Earthquakes in MLS. Apart from a few years in the early 2010's & this current season (more to do with the coaching than anything else) the Quakes have been an embarrassment to MLS during his time as owner & right up there with Meritt Paulson in Portland & AEG with the LA Galaxy as the worst owners in the league. Heck John Fisher almost moved the Quakes to Phoenix if he didn't get the land & some taxpayer money from San Jose to build PayPal Park. I doubt that he has ever attended a Quakes match during his time as an owner.
@@ronclark9724that doesn’t mean they need to keep moving
@@ronclark9724sh!t take my dude. The A’s have been In Oakland longer than they were in Philly and KC…. What’s your next lame argument?
@@ronclark9724 I disagree with your statement, this is a travesty for baseball..
Like hell he's a baseball fan!
Fisher closed a wide open competitive window when he didn't resign Marcus Semein. That's when I knew 100% that he was all about the dollar.
@Salty_Bae_2k23 Ya I think so
If he wanted to win, he wouldn't dump every single star they've ever come across. I think the catalyst that pissed us off first was trading Cespedes for Jon Lester in the middle of a HUGE playoff push
he's a narcissistic liar
In fairness, they did need some pitching depth.
That was a rough one - still have my Cespedes jersey 😢
That team did a great job with the staff they had in the first half but you could see the pitchers getting gassed. They wouldn’t have lasted. The second half was a shit show. Lester didn’t deliver. I believe they traded for the shark as well.
This guy Fisher is a piece of work. No cameras or audio? What an odd guy. One hour with him…”which was plenty”….I bet…haha
Dude must be terrified of his own voice if he is so scared of doing an audio or video interview...
worst owner in sports
actions > words
Right next to mark davis
@@NorCal4o8 I think when he saw "bowl cut's" stripper girlfriend in the owner's box he got jealous ?
We shoulda had Reggie!!!
or lacob...hence why fisher didn't want to talk finances
Baby Gap finally speaks... And of course it's all 🐕🦺💩. He was probably told to speak ny advisors.
"Speak to my advisors".. one of whom is, no foubt, Rob "Manfraud " Manfred
1000 curses on you Fisher for moving the A’s out of Oakland!
I think Vegas was initially Manfred's idea. He gave the option to the A's because they are in the most need of a new ballpark, and moving there wouldn't involve any division realignment. The A's went along with it so they could stick to revenue sharing and not have to pay a relocation fee. Basically, Fisher decided to take the easy route.
Interview was Manfred's idea too. The audience is the 29 other owners, not us.
@@ianbent0n Rob Manfred is driving this thing 100%, especially after seeing how bad Kaval and Fisher have screwed up the public perception. That's also why he's waiving the relocation fee.
The selfish route, you mean
@@matthewgreen8628 are you so foolish as to believe Oakland doesn't love it's A's?
@@matthewgreen8628 I don't understand the "the Bay Area already have a team" argument. If that was the case, they wouldn't have moved there in '68 when the Bay Area's population was even smaller. Also, not to mention the Bay Area has 3 distinct population centers (Peninsula, East Bay, and South Bay), each with 2+ million people. How many other major metro areas can say that? More people live in the East Bay (Alameda/Contra Costa County combined) than the whole Las Vegas Combined Statistical Area.
If he never wanted to be the owner of the Oakland A’s-He should never have bought them in the first place.
If he only bought the team to collect revenue share money, go cheap, then sell the team for a profit, Major League Baseball SHOULD BE ASHAMED to have him as a owner.
Every A's fan in attendance at the next home game should stand at the beginning of the 5th inning and moon John Fisher.
And by submitting a complete relocation application does it specify precisely how much this stadium is going to cost? Have they solved the retractable roof issue?
If Fisher is right that "baseball is in his DNA," then somebody ought to check him for genetic abnormalities. And Fisher never had any intention of making a deal in Oakland. Nobody busts up a deal because of transportation funding after money is appropriated for the building. The transport stuff always gets done if there is a commitment for the building.
Charlie Finley was a champ in comparison.
@@Vegaslocal Finley couldn't wait for the sports complex that was about to be built
Thanks Raj and Brodie. I don’t question my fandom for pro sports. I have my answer - I’m done with pro sports, period.
He might want to win but obviously not in Oakland. He intentionally tanked the team, raised ticket prices and pocketed the revenue into hopes of building a compromised stadium in the desert far away from the Oakland Athletics home base. He's flat out willing to disregard us and trade his loyal, passionate fans for profit and no matter how he tries to sugar coat it there is a better deal in Oakland yet he's infatuated with Las Vegas. I wish MLB would make him sell the team and allow him to be the owner of a bonified Las Vegas expansion team. How can an entire REGION be against something so wrong yet the rest of the nation is captivated by us and what's happening to our team and one guy has the power to ruin everything??
Fisher is not a baseball fan at all says he wants to win what a joke. It’s all about money and the dollar .
Fisher clearly just doesn't have enough money to own a MLB team. The league should reject his application to move and force a sale to someone who can sustain the losses that will be necessary to undo the damage left by this creep.
He has the money now, he could spend it on fee agents if he wanted. What a bunch of lies.
well GAP stock did fall to around 10 dollars a share. . things have tanked a bit
John fischer is the worst owner in baseball. He was born on thirdbase and is now standing on first trying to tell everyone he hit a grandslam. Thanks for ruining my memories and my favorite baseball team.
SELL THE TEAM
Fisher is damned if he speaks or doesn't speak. Nothing he can say will assuage A's fans because now that he decided in favor of Vegas he has to be all in regarding Vegas. There is no good way to relocate a team. Hearts will be broken and people will be angry. Just ask "San Diego" Chargers' fans. I'm sure thousands of Oakland Raiders' fans feel betrayed and abandoned. Sports is big business. Teams require modern state of the art facilities to play in. Fisher, rightly or wrongly, is convinced that Vegas is his only solution. It remains to be seen whether he can get it done. Plenty of challenges and pitfalls lay ahead for him and his family. Until he's convinced that Vegas won't work be prepared to see or hear him down play whatever progress may have been made in Oakland. To him, it's Oakland that failed, not him. But it's not over until it's over as a wise man once said.
To this day Montreal fans cry. Especially in 2019 when the "Nationals" finally won it all. It's sad.
Sorry Brodie, i’m not buying them retaining players in LV.
Neither am I, nor am I buying his whole excuse about not interacting with the fanbase or doing interviews, because he's "private".
'We will see 5 years from now'. By then, it will be too late. Taxpayers and Las Vegas will have realized their mistake but will have no course of action to rectify their mistake.
He wants to win alright! Selling all of their superstar players. Forget it
If what he says about wanting to win is true then that confirms that he has some sour feeling towards the city of Oakland and has been not spending money out of spite to force a move. He could have been spending more money, at least that is how I see it.
It's NOT TRUE! LOSERS ALWAYS LOSE..thats why Fisher is a LOSER! His success is 100 💯 from mommy and daddy...he'd give Trump a run for his money who is the DUMBEST business man
@@harukuhitoki2991 Then what is the deal? Also I want to add why the hell did he not ask him what went wrong with the city/county, that would have been the first thing I asked, pretty dissapointed that wasnt covered.
Doesn't want any misinterpretation and doesn't want the conversation recorded in anyway. Makes sense then to have a third party tell the public what was said instead of directly telling the public yourself.
Where I come from (East Oakland), that's called being a PUNK!!!!
Damon Bruce has iterated everything I have to say about John Fisher.. and David Letterman's quote "anything i have to say I can sum up in one finger" . - anywho, it sounds like Fisher is cash poor as his finances are tied up in equity, and alot of that equity has faltered. .my bet is he's going to sell after or if he can move to Vegas, because things aren't going to get easier for him there...believe me on that.
I’m not able to keep it polite and civil Brodie…MLB down the drain.
All talk... Yeah!
I believe Fisher couldn't put together the financing for the $12B Howard Terminal development. Las Vegas and the associated stadium only deal is his face saving move.
The longer this drags out, the more this feels like the only thing that really makes sense. Gap stock tanking + rising costs and interest rates + covid impacting ticket sales.. suddenly he found himself in a situation unable to afford his ambitious Howard Terminal project. He knew MLB has been wanting to join the Vegas market with the rise of sports gambling and other leagues establishing a presence there. Just secure some public financing and a proposal for a bare minimum stadium and Fisher knew MLB would have his back.
Fisher is lying
Great job brodie
Note to John Fisher: you live in a world with people in it, not just balance sheets, Excel spreadsheets, country clubs. Your cavalier attitude that your gaming for financial gain brings you well justified disdain from millions of us. You invested in a people-oriented business but you ignored people. As such, you lose the game of Life, regardless of how many zeros end up in your Excel sheets.
"Baseball fan", "wants to win", "an owner is not like a politician", "candid and genuine answers".....what a bunch of crap
How many kids go to Las Vegas with mom and dad? This alone is going to be one reason the attendance numbers there wouldn’t be any higher than they are now. Spend some money on a new ballpark in Oakland. Las Vegas A’s minor league team fans (many) don’t want the pro team there anyway. How many people would go to any game with Las Vegas temperatures over 100 degrees? The Nevada residents handle the heat well. How many tourists in Las Vegas would enjoy sitting in these temperatures?
There is a commercial on TV for Vegas about how dad dissuaded his son to want to join him on a parental trip there, and the dad walks off smiling.
Sorry, Mr. Fisher Price, but #SellTheAs.
Thanks Brodie and Raj. Will watch the interview but he has been the worst owner in MLB in decades.
When he says he wants to retain these great players from Oakland, after getting what he wants in Vegas, is he talking decent caliber MLB players, or the best he can manage to pull off the Aviators roster?
I'm just going to push the stadium issue aside... If John Fischer really wants to win, he should've put money in on that 2018 - 2021 team and got pitching/reinforcements. WE HAD A WORLD SERIES CALIBER TEAM ON THE FIELD with Oly, Chappy, Semien. I feel like the A's were not aggressive enough in reinforcing that team and they spent the 2020-2021 offseason not making a single move (I think it wasn't until February when they got Cole Irvin and Rosenthal). 2020 or 2021, the bullpen was gassed in the second half. I'm just tired of the whole rebuilding phase and then when you got the team on the field, they don't spend.
"I'm just a private guy". Bro you own an MLB team you gave up that privacy long ago.
i want it all as long as it costs me nothing and i screw all of my players. eff offg
Like every other biz he's owned, his family has to either bail him out or it fails. No "fan" destroys the team. He realized he couldn't afford his end of Oakland HT, so he did what he always does - fail. His ego will never allow him to give the true fans a win. They hurt his feelings. Poor baby. Hopefully the other owners will force him to sell before he totally bankrupts the team and sacks taxpayers in Vegas with a losing venture.
Raj and Brodie Rock!
Don’t believe a damn word he says. He’s a coward for not facing the fans & doing this on camera.
He’s hurt?? What about the A’s fans??
LIES …LIES…LIES #FisherOut #SellTheTeam
Dick Fisher let great players go to make fans less interested. He raised prices of just about everything there so even more people would not come. This way he thinks that showing less and less attendance makes more sense to move the team. Although, I would not be surprised if his staff came up with the idea of not explaining this to him either.
I have to give credit to Raj Mathai in this video. He did what a good journalist should do. Even though he would clearly prefer for the A's to remain in Oakland, he stuck to the facts and only minimally injected his opinion. Even when Brodie asked leading questions, Raj kept an even keel and remained professional. The takeaway is that A's ownership has maintained all along that they could not increase spending on players until they got their stadium situation resolved. We shall see what happens. Anybody who says it won't happen is clearly guessing because NOBODY knows what will happen.
Judging how he runs his other teams and company - fisher will continue to fail everywhere he goes.
He forgot to ask, so what if the owners reject the move ?? what would you do then ??
Where's the ghost of baseballs past when you need them to unfreeze this scrooge's heart
Why not give good contracts ?
I was going to turn to Horse Racing now , but even Golden Gate FIelds is closing...sad
Sounds like his Vegas project is in danger of failing
I know that's what you WANT to hear... And I get it.... But, sorry dude... It is actually the total opposite!!! He is talking like the deal is done, and they are going to Las Vegas... And trust me, he knows... You don't think owners talk??? And he knows he has the Las Vegas part covered... He put all his ducks in a row...
@@aspireahead8388 i hope his move goes over like a fart in a space suit
wow, this is insane!
Fisher has decided that he will be Oakland’s Art Modell. I don’t think Fisher will fond the love that Modell did in Baltimore. FYI, Modell had to be bailed out with the Ravens too
I think John Fisher will spend money, and people won’t be mad at him anymore once he gets his new stadium
The man is selling team equity and banking on "family loans" to get Vegas done.
What money is he gonna spend that ain't his????
It doesn't matter what money he spends on the Las Vegas A's, the Oakland fans will still be mad at him...
@@aspireahead8388 Wouldn't you, if the owner of your favorite team, basically showed his/her entire ass to the fanbase by not actually investing in the team or interacting with the fanbase under any circumstance and when accountability is demanded, wants to be secretive?
as he did w/ the bottom feeder SJ Quakes, yea? (who also have bad attendance) he's a compulsive liar
@katemoo9581...... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! SUCKER!!!!
All the owners have to say they want to win in order to trick the fans.
Yeah he’s obviously selling the team after the vegas move all that extra value with everything will be the right time for him
Good for you A’s, get out of that hell hole state, at least in Vegas they prosecute criminals, stealing isn’t legal and you can walk out your door without stepping in poop!
It comes down to what the hotter market is people want to do business in Vegas Oakland on the other hand is a dump
Fisher may or may not spend in Las Vegas, but the Oakland Coliseum does NOT have the luxury boxes MLB teams require today to boost revenues significantly. While the new baseball stadiums are getting smaller with seat capacity, the newer baseball stadiums have dozens of more lucurative luxury suites even in the AL West. Houston, Arlington, and Seattle. Furthermore the Angels will probably be getting a new stadium within this decade as well, if not another refurbishment Oakland never did. Its hard to compete economically within your division if you have the worst stadium generating the least revenues... PERIOD...
He should sell the team instead of F*ing Oakland fans over
it's been out... he's a terrible owner who won't open the purse strings. . no sense of community, with him it's all about the dollar. .
Well baseball was fun, but I'm an MLS lifer now... Go Roots and LAFC!!!
Just a reminder to everyone else, Fisher owns the San Jose Quakes as well. Giving up the Gap was easy (their product sucks now), but Almost made the mistake of getting Quakes tickets which then would feed Fisher’s pockets.
FISHER OUT
I wonder if baseball thinks it’s to big to fail like Disney did…. Just when they think they are at their strongest - they will Continue to make moves in bad faith and the cracks will reveal it’s not so big and tough……
baseball ratings will continue to flounder
If only Raj was a Sicario!
He’s the worst owner in pro sports. Definitely not motivated to win, which is the whole point. Sometime many years ago, winning as the goal shifted to making a profit in baseball. The sport is in serious trouble.
So my takeaway from Raj is: “Owners gonna own” and “it sucks to be a sports fan but you’ll eventually find a way to watch sports in spite of the owners’ actions”
Pretty much
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas
This is a disgrace. Absolute disgrace
Why lie, just SELL........
He’s a fan of making money, will move the team and get government money to build a new stadium and then sell the team for billions….he might be an idiot and a bad guy but he’s not stupid
his responses are very scripted. he went radio silent with Raj, so his lawyers could right possible answers to any questions. He wants Vegas so the investors can do the funding of the team that he hasn't done over the years. If he was hurt by the Sell Movement, as a "fan" he would have said something before now.. #babygap is a failure.
#selltheteam
To me... The MOST IMPORTANT takeaway from this is, this deal is done... They are moving to Las Vegas!!! He knows what votes he has... He knows the situation... The only thing left now is to dot the i's on the paperwork...
Fisher is all about the $$ money. .that's it
As a Christian I don’t hate anyone but if I did, it would be him. He has destroyed my favorite team. As an owner he has a fiduciary responsibility to the fans. It’s actually THEIR team, not his. He is a caretaker…and he has failed miserably.
Wants to win... loves baseball... needs more money...
its over brodie. stop being spiteful and move on.
Awe poor Johnny trying to play the victim..😅
Lies!!!!!!
booooooo
Fisher is right.
he's a liar, and a cheap skate.
I'd have asked Jon Fisher why the hell should the tax payer give him money to build a ball park anywhere! If he's so damn rich, use his own $!