It's not greed, it's just business. Oakland simply can't afford a sports team. If you cannot afford more tax dollars or find investors to help build the stadium, that simply means you cannot afford a team. The Warriors and Raiders leaving is the best thing that has ever happened to them... just because Fisher can afford to pay more for the stadium, he doesn't have to. It's the same reason why Elon is worth 250b but still took out a loan to buy Twitter for 44b. It's just business. Oakland is just a horrific place to do business.
@@H1mynameisLarry You’re sweet to think that it’s just above board business. There’s so much corruption behind the scenes it would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic.
Still remembering those “dollar hotdog” games at the coliseum. You could walk up to the ticket booth and get opening night tickets at face value, no scalpers like At&T. I still remember leaving night games and walking that bridge to BART and it was perfectly safe and clean. Wow.. how much has changed.
It's sad to see the A's leaving Oakland . I will continue to follow them but it will never be the same ! I love the Oakland A's. A fan from Connecticut since 1970.
The A's left Philly in 1954? They were in Oakland longer than they were ever in Philly. One would need to be 75 years old to remember the A's in Philly.
@@volodymyrzablotsky5372Philly got the Phillies before the A’s moved to KC. And KC got the Royals because MLB promised the city another team after the A’s moved to Oakland. The move to Vegas is done simply out of greed. And why even buy a sports team if you never spend money to win? It’s weird.
The A’s should play “Last Kiss” when there are two outs in the ninth. It would be cool to see the A’s walk-off with a home run and a fan catches the ball.
I remember going there in 2006 watching that great team along with The Big Hurt Frank Thomas who played the best baseball of his entire career. I wish they had won the ALCS that year.
@@boogitybear2283 a great team that was just a player or 2 short when injuries piled up late in the year. I would put that team behind the 2002-3 editions as the most capable to win it all. Ahead of any of the recent playoff teams.
I'm a NY Rickey Henderson fan. Happy that Oakland goofed and let him go to the Yankees to play a 4.5 great years with Winfield and Mattingly. I got to see him play once at the Coliseum in '95. MVP seats 10 rows behind the A's dugout. Forever memories.🙏🏾
From all 4 major league teams in the seventies (California Golden Seals of NHL being least remembered) to zero teams...The political situation in Oakland is so swell....
I feel for the fans, Oakland was one of the baseball cities of America like Boston,New York and St.Louis. To whom much is given much is expected, Fisher doesn’t have a clue as to what that means.
People blame the owner but the city of Oakland has a huge hand in this. When Mark Davis was looking to get a stadium in order to keep the Raiders in Oakland he legitimately tried to negotiate with the city. Libby Schaaf pretty much said no to Raiders staying. Maybe it was the right decision financially? But that was pretty much the end for the colisuem. The A's have been having plans to build a new stadium in Oakland for years. Never happened. There are cities that will say yes. Oakland and it's leadership has only said no to keeping professional sports teams. They need to go interview Libby Schaaf or whomever is running that show nowadays.
@@ronclark9724 it's a shame. I used to attend Raiders games in Oakland often. Haven't been to any games in Vegas, and I really don't have any reason to go to Oakland anymore. I miss the Raiders being here in California. They haven't even been showing the Raider games on TV in my part of the state. SMDH...
@@IsaacLopez-hj5hr mark Davis did not have the funds to build in CA & the city was still paying off loans for helping the raiders reconfigure the coliseum. You think the city should give more $ to the raiders when they haven’t even repaid the first loan?libby Schaaf no opinion but I’d have given mark davis nothing in her position.
@@Jcg510 Yeah, all those crimes that are happening there and the businesses leaving. That stuff is happening because the city is too GOOD for the average loser. Only the best of the best live in Oakland. Not a single scumbag to be found. Oakland is literally a shangrila. And if you don't agree with that, you're 'soft'.
Your sentiment is as dated as saying Harlem is too dangerous to a certain group of gentrifiers. Funny how it no longer gets the dominant society's public scorn.
I grew up going to Giants-A's games at the Coli all the time! Gonna miss those days 😭 Fisher is easily the worst owner in the MLB, by an absolute long shot.
I'm a Raiders fan was a season ticket member not really a baseball fan but I feel their pain losing your team all Oakland had to do was build a new stadium but couldn't cause their so darn greedy!!
The Coliseum needs a lot of repairs that the city of Oakland will never do. The A's need a new stadium, almost 60 years in the same stadium? Forget it. The Raiders left, the Warriors left and now the A's, who's guilty? The City of Oakland for sure. I have like the A's since 1973. I was 14 years old.
Yes, John Fisher destroyed the team. So the fans in East Bay can't blame either the Oakland City Council or the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. I empathize with the fans. In 1968 $1.50 was also the price for bleacher seats at Dodger Stadium.
For most of my life I was a rabid San Francisco Giants fan. That changed when the Giants allowed and condoned players disrespecting Old Glory🇺🇸. Allowing players to kneel or hide in the clubhouse during our National Anthem! I haven’t attended a game, listened to a game on the radio or watched a game on TV since! I feel bad for Oakland and the As fans
The MLB Commissioner is HIRED and FIRED by the team owners, not team fans... Get over it... Oakland had a decade to address the issue of an aging Coliseum, either build a new stadium or significantly upgrade and refurbish the Coliseum.... The city did NEITHER... The city took the attitude where are you going to go? Well, to the first city that offered a new stadium and were willing to fund most of it...
I don’t know how many people you talked to but nobody I know is going to sac to watch. Most are simply finding another team and the giants will never be that other team
@@lamar310 anyone under 40 has never seen the A’s sign a free agent or retain a star player and has lived their entire fandom with ownership telling them they’re looking to move. So under those conditions are u going to games?
Rotflmao, blame the owners. Yeah, right. I was there for a day game last year. There was only about 3000 people there. Blame your local government. And yourself. I remember when it was first built and when the A's came from Kansas. Good they are gone. Maybe a wake up call. Stop voting democrat.
@@98765-j last yr was about 5-7 yrs after ambivalence set in for this fanbase. You don’t understand though, not many people can. Is there a team in your city you follow? I’ll walk. U through it.
the word FAN is shortening of fantic and these people prove it. Crying over a business that many probably did not support. Then again Oakland is $hith0le where you are probably going to get mugged anyway.
Your (Oakland area) votes. That's what caused this. Otherwise I'd legit feel very sorry for you. Many not only tried to warn you, we were called horrible names for doing so. Just like you would refuse to work for an employer who won't pay you, a pro sports franchise will not work for a city that they cannot profit in. None of them will. Fisher actually posted losses for quite a long time before giving up, longer than any of you would have worked for nothing, let alone having to PAY to work.
Put a retractable roof on the stadium, convert it into transitional housing as well as affordable housing. The facility has numerous kitchens, bathrooms, and private boxes - all suitable for immediate use. Ample sewer, water, and electrical infrastructure is already there. The spectator seating areas can be reconstructed into stacked housing units that are made from re-purposed shipping containers. The field can be made into a park. Tens of thousands of jobs can be created. The Build-Back-Better program created by President Biden and Kamala Harris has the money to make this a reality. Let's have a POSITIVE vision: Vote for Kamala Harris - let's move America forward and strengthen the Middle Class and urban core.
@@Deport702 you sound surprised. You get the liberals with the sports team it’s kind of understood. Backcountry nowheresville- conservative. Thriving metropolis- liberal. Maybe it’s you who should be moving. Try Sparks it’s more your kinda vibe.
3:49 - Epic Moment
As an Arizona Coyotes fan who just lost our team, I feel their pain. 😔
I want that coyotes back in Phoenix and as in Oakland,sonics in Seattle, every owner want money 💸 like fisher
Sorry but, hockey should never have been played in Arizona
Why? They have fan base
Could they last forever in a 4, 500 seat arena? that was never going to work out in the long run
They have chance to build new arena untill 2019
As a Raiders fan who isn't an A's fan, I know their pain. Greed killed sports
Honest Q: Do you still root for the Raiders?
If you are a raider fan you are pathetic let's be honest
It's not greed, it's just business. Oakland simply can't afford a sports team. If you cannot afford more tax dollars or find investors to help build the stadium, that simply means you cannot afford a team. The Warriors and Raiders leaving is the best thing that has ever happened to them... just because Fisher can afford to pay more for the stadium, he doesn't have to. It's the same reason why Elon is worth 250b but still took out a loan to buy Twitter for 44b. It's just business. Oakland is just a horrific place to do business.
@H1mynameisLarry great excuse for being a complete failure you gotta blame someone huh truly worthless
@@H1mynameisLarry You’re sweet to think that it’s just above board business. There’s so much corruption behind the scenes it would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic.
Baseball is a perfect reflection of America. And there is no better reflection of the powerlessness of the people against corporate America.
No one wants to get jumped on the way home from a game. Clean up Oakland
@@TestingTestTest-zr5jb facts they had this coming
Mate teams have been moving locations since the 19th century
Still remembering those “dollar hotdog” games at the coliseum. You could walk up to the ticket booth and get opening night tickets at face value, no scalpers like At&T. I still remember leaving night games and walking that bridge to BART and it was perfectly safe and clean. Wow.. how much has changed.
It's sad to see the A's leaving Oakland . I will continue to follow them but it will never be the same ! I love the Oakland A's. A fan from Connecticut since 1970.
Sad…the city lost the Raiders, Warriors and now the A’s.
How epic would it be if the fans chant “let’s go OAKLAND!” Even while playing in Sacramento and Vegas
Giants ownership loving this
Not really. From anyone I've heard, they are sad about this. The Bay Bridge rivalry was good for the area.
They’re not gonna root for the giants just like the raiders didn’t start rooting the 49ers
Politics issues in Oakland
Ya that's DEFINITELY it....... no sarcasm at all
It’s like disconnecting someone you loved all your life off life support.. I can’t stop crying
I am a lifelong Seattle Supersonics/Sonics fan!!! I feel your pain!
There's no reason why the Sonics shouldn't still be playing in Seattle.
As a Reds fan this makes me sad , the A's have had some great players over the years
I got a signature from Jim Abbott on the first base line 25 years ago as a kid. Great memory.
@@forestc6014 the 1 armed pitcher?
The MLB is disgusting for allowing, no, encouraging this move to happen. Truly despicable.
Oh well! How do you think we felt in Philly when the A’s left. Oakland was never really their home
The A's left Philly in 1954?
They were in Oakland longer than they were ever in Philly. One would need to be 75 years old to remember the A's in Philly.
@@volodymyrzablotsky5372Philly got the Phillies before the A’s moved to KC. And KC got the Royals because MLB promised the city another team after the A’s moved to Oakland.
The move to Vegas is done simply out of greed. And why even buy a sports team if you never spend money to win? It’s weird.
@@J-Roy Finley's moved the A's to Oakland due to GREED as well... What goes around comes around...
@@volodymyrzablotsky5372 Ask your Grandpa.
catfish hunter, what a name, from my state
The A’s should play “Last Kiss” when there are two outs in the ninth. It would be cool to see the A’s walk-off with a home run and a fan catches the ball.
So many great teams
The 70s & 80s . ⚾️🖐😓
I remember going there in 2006 watching that great team along with The Big Hurt Frank Thomas who played the best baseball of his entire career. I wish they had won the ALCS that year.
@@boogitybear2283 a great team that was just a player or 2 short when injuries piled up late in the year. I would put that team behind the 2002-3 editions as the most capable to win it all. Ahead of any of the recent playoff teams.
great fan base
Where? Never saw sellout.
@@paulkonieczny3815 because they don't wanna support John Fisher. And because their stadium is literally falling apart...
@@losangerooski9517 maybe there are lots of fans that don't live in California world wide fan base
I'm a NY Rickey Henderson fan. Happy that Oakland goofed and let him go to the Yankees to play a 4.5 great years with Winfield and Mattingly. I got to see him play once at the Coliseum in '95. MVP seats 10 rows behind the A's dugout. Forever memories.🙏🏾
@@brucesmith1754 a long tradition of pilfering Oakland talent. Yankees may never win again with what Fishers been putting out lately.
I hope the folks in Vegas reject Fisher
The already have.
Not the rich tho 😂 They are excited to have the A's in vegas
Sad but a sign of the times. The fans deserve better.
Oakland Athletics 💪
From all 4 major league teams in the seventies (California Golden Seals of NHL being least remembered) to zero teams...The political situation in Oakland is so swell....
All four left Oakland... Apparently Oakland IS not a major league city....
Thank the voters for creating the environment in their cities that makes teams and businesses leave
They wouldn't have if they knew it would come to that. That's just the chance we take when we vote.
Can't wait to watch em in Vegas! Much cleaner safer and safer than California
I feel for the fans, Oakland was one of the baseball cities of America like Boston,New York and St.Louis. To whom much is given much is expected, Fisher doesn’t have a clue as to what that means.
As a Browns fan, I feel bad for the A's fanbase. I'm sorry this happened to you due to failures in the ownership 😢❤
They lost the Raiders and now the A's... I feel for that side of the Bay.
No A’s fan said they’re “happy to cheer for the sf giants”.
For their sake, I'm kinda hoping for a miracle.
A's and Coyotes fans right now: 🤝
People blame the owner but the city of Oakland has a huge hand in this. When Mark Davis was looking to get a stadium in order to keep the Raiders in Oakland he legitimately tried to negotiate with the city. Libby Schaaf pretty much said no to Raiders staying. Maybe it was the right decision financially? But that was pretty much the end for the colisuem. The A's have been having plans to build a new stadium in Oakland for years. Never happened.
There are cities that will say yes. Oakland and it's leadership has only said no to keeping professional sports teams.
They need to go interview Libby Schaaf or whomever is running that show nowadays.
Apparently the NBA, NFL, and MLB aren't PRECIOUS in the city of Oakland...
@@ronclark9724 it's a shame. I used to attend Raiders games in Oakland often. Haven't been to any games in Vegas, and I really don't have any reason to go to Oakland anymore.
I miss the Raiders being here in California. They haven't even been showing the Raider games on TV in my part of the state. SMDH...
@@IsaacLopez-hj5hr your story about mark davis is simplistic & more like a fable than a recounting of events.
@mustbtrouble hmmm... Libby Schaaf fan, I assume...
@@IsaacLopez-hj5hr mark Davis did not have the funds to build in CA & the city was still paying off loans for helping the raiders reconfigure the coliseum. You think the city should give more $ to the raiders when they haven’t even repaid the first loan?libby Schaaf no opinion but I’d have given mark davis nothing in her position.
No one wants to stay or go to Oakland it’s too dangerous An run down
Nah just u and whoever thinks that is soft asf
@@Jcg510facts bro
@@Jcg510 Yeah, all those crimes that are happening there and the businesses leaving. That stuff is happening because the city is too GOOD for the average loser. Only the best of the best live in Oakland. Not a single scumbag to be found. Oakland is literally a shangrila. And if you don't agree with that, you're 'soft'.
Your sentiment is as dated as saying Harlem is too dangerous to a certain group of gentrifiers. Funny how it no longer gets the dominant society's public scorn.
It's run by democrats. What else do you expect?
I'm still mad about the Rams leaving St. Louis. I feel your pain, people of Oakland.
@@stlfatman that’s probably the closest analogy from any of the other teams that moved.
Feel bad for the whole city of Oakland I feel the mayor the governor of California destroyed them with horrible policies not protecting the residents!
1:20 makes a long flight for many baseball games must be filthy rich
Fisher sucks
I grew up going to Giants-A's games at the Coli all the time! Gonna miss those days 😭 Fisher is easily the worst owner in the MLB, by an absolute long shot.
🫡 Oakland A's from Detroit
20 bucks says someone’s squatting in the arena still right now
I'm a Raiders fan was a season ticket member not really a baseball fan but I feel their pain losing your team all Oakland had to do was build a new stadium but couldn't cause their so darn greedy!!
The Coliseum needs a lot of repairs that the city of Oakland will never do. The A's need a new stadium, almost 60 years in the same stadium? Forget it. The Raiders left, the Warriors left and now the A's, who's guilty? The City of Oakland for sure. I have like the A's since 1973. I was 14 years old.
Betty Yu has an Americanized white sounding voice, and not a foreign Asian accent.
Don't hate d players .. it's d game .. in this case .. d A' s owner is d game
MAN,,,No More A's And RAIDERS... And they're going to VEGAS! COME ON MAN!!
They shouldn’t let the fans walk on the field
I wished mc hammer came for one last time singing take me out to the ballgame
Yes, John Fisher destroyed the team. So the fans in East Bay can't blame either the Oakland City Council or the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. I empathize with the fans. In 1968 $1.50 was also the price for bleacher seats at Dodger Stadium.
Margarita Plaza
On the bright aide, they won't be far away in Sacramento for a few years.
The owner should sell it to joe lacob
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😢😢😢😢
Vegas bought themselves a team for 380 million. They didn’t have too
Look Sheng Thao, look what you have done.
Not a fan of Davis, Manfred or Fisher, but they must have hated Libby Schaff. I would concur
Hope yall enjoyed yourselfs,back to business tomorrow..see you out there....🤫
If half of the fans that have attended these last few games the team may not be leaving.
For most of my life I was a rabid San Francisco Giants fan.
That changed when the Giants allowed and condoned players disrespecting Old Glory🇺🇸.
Allowing players to kneel or hide in the clubhouse during our National Anthem!
I haven’t attended a game, listened to a game on the radio or watched a game on TV since!
I feel bad for Oakland and the As fans
If you want to honor your Anthem then stop censoring the third stanza which tells what "Merrica" is really all about.
@@ThatGuy-p5z you’re not an A’s fan & I don’t think you know what respect, or patriotism, or fandom is .
Spoiler alert: They won their final game at the Oakland Coliseum.
I met Dan Pagan at my one and only A's playoff game. Good people.
Betty Yu is looking cute...
Sad.
Oakland is Giants country!
The city of Oakland should start becoming Giants fans.
Attendance was horrible the last decade. What do you expect
I truly believe this isn't on Fisher or the city of Oakland, but MLB for not demanding they stay in place.
The MLB Commissioner is HIRED and FIRED by the team owners, not team fans... Get over it... Oakland had a decade to address the issue of an aging Coliseum, either build a new stadium or significantly upgrade and refurbish the Coliseum.... The city did NEITHER... The city took the attitude where are you going to go? Well, to the first city that offered a new stadium and were willing to fund most of it...
@@ronclark9724Oakland had over 20 years to get a new ballpark.
Blame DA Price
Fans must stand up and fight for back a s back 2025
Sad and horrible the owner is horrible
Bye
I don’t know how many people you talked to but nobody I know is going to sac to watch. Most are simply finding another team and the giants will never be that other team
😂😂😂 you voted for this
The mayor of Oakland and Governor Newsom has been advocating for the A’s to leave
This is comedy...the A's played in empty stadium with no fans all these years. Now people wanna pretend to be sad once they leave...is this a joke?
Just band wagon fair weather. fans who only attend playoff games...
@@lamar310 anyone under 40 has never seen the A’s sign a free agent or retain a star player and has lived their entire fandom with ownership telling them they’re looking to move. So under those conditions are u going to games?
Feel bad for the fans. But, the city of Oakland is a crime infested wasteland
😅😂
Capitalism values the desires of one man over all others.
Oaklands trash anyways. A's deserve better.
Nah. Oakland deserves better than this.
that annoying chanting all game every game didnt help. so annoying. 1:07
Those drummers did more to chase away fans than actually attracting fans...
@@ronclark9724 exactly
PLEEEEEASE...the MLB`s been dead for years....who cares anymore??????
Oakland waste land
Rotflmao, blame the owners. Yeah, right. I was there for a day game last year. There was only about 3000 people there. Blame your local government. And yourself. I remember when it was first built and when the A's came from Kansas. Good they are gone. Maybe a wake up call. Stop voting democrat.
@@98765-j last yr was about 5-7 yrs after ambivalence set in for this fanbase. You don’t understand though, not many people can. Is there a team in your city you follow? I’ll walk. U through it.
the word FAN is shortening of fantic and these people prove it. Crying over a business that many probably did not support. Then again Oakland is $hith0le where you are probably going to get mugged anyway.
Fanatic.
Your (Oakland area) votes. That's what caused this. Otherwise I'd legit feel very sorry for you. Many not only tried to warn you, we were called horrible names for doing so. Just like you would refuse to work for an employer who won't pay you, a pro sports franchise will not work for a city that they cannot profit in. None of them will. Fisher actually posted losses for quite a long time before giving up, longer than any of you would have worked for nothing, let alone having to PAY to work.
The A's have been a joke for decades
Fisher is leaving the Oakland “suckers and losers”, probably vote for chrump 🤨
Not an A's fan at all.. business is business at the end of the day so quit crying lol
Put a retractable roof on the stadium, convert it into transitional housing as well as affordable housing. The facility has numerous kitchens, bathrooms, and private boxes - all suitable for immediate use. Ample sewer, water, and electrical infrastructure is already there. The spectator seating areas can be reconstructed into stacked housing units that are made from re-purposed shipping containers. The field can be made into a park. Tens of thousands of jobs can be created. The Build-Back-Better program created by President Biden and Kamala Harris has the money to make this a reality. Let's have a POSITIVE vision: Vote for Kamala Harris - let's move America forward and strengthen the Middle Class and urban core.
That all sounds horrible. Everything you said is just wrong. Build back better? Laughable.
I'm not going to vote for a cackler and chief
Vote for Kamala? Ya got to be kidding. How come she is not stepping in to help Oakland as VP to clean up her hometown from crime and homelessness?
This sounds like a dystopian fantasy. Believe it or not, there’s more to life than politics.
Right! Kacklin Kamala will fix it!
😂 Make America Marxist Uptopia!🥳
Does it really matter all u Cali liberals are moving to Vegas anyways
@@Deport702 you sound surprised. You get the liberals with the sports team it’s kind of understood. Backcountry nowheresville- conservative. Thriving metropolis- liberal. Maybe it’s you who should be moving. Try Sparks it’s more your kinda vibe.
@@mustbtrouble Na!!! Carson City