@@dogcowrph. Baseball is slowly dying in America. A crappy meaningless Monday Night Football game pulled in bigger television ratings than the World Series Game it was up against a few years ago. Very few teams are packing the house anymore (yes, there are a few that do).
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When I was in school, there were 16 MLB teams, now approximately twice that many. I long for the days of 16 teams.
One of my friends is a die hard A’s fan and this has hit her hard. A team is lucky to have fans. I am happy they won last night for all the fans at the game last night.
Blame the owner if you want, but the city of Oakland is a trash dump run by inept politicians. They are losing all three of their sports franchises for a reason.
It's a sad ending for the stadium being that this used to be a fairly nice-looking ballpark. If you look back in the 1980s early 1990s before Mount Davis was built it was a cute little ballpark. now this ballpark is an eyesore and with poor A's ownership this ending was inevitable sadly.
@@sirchi8731 The Coliseum was the worst multipurpose stadium of all time. The conversion process was stupid, inefficient and expensive, even before Mount Davis. I can't imagine why anybody thought that would work.
The African American Sports and Entertainment Group (AASEG) owns the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California. The AASEG is a Black-owned development group that acquired the Coliseum after purchasing both the city's and the Oakland Athletics' shares in the property. The AASEG's plans for the Coliseum include: Developing the site with a $5 billion redevelopment Creating a mix of residential, sports, entertainment, and retail projects Including a 25% affordable housing requirement Keeping the Oakland Arena operating
I grew up in the Bay Area in the 80's.. the A's were rolling in the late 80's and it was big crowds. I live in Houston now and my friend wanted to go see an A's game before the end. So we went memorial day weekend. People were great there. My heart went out to them The stadium is a concrete toilet bowl. Truly sad. Oakland used to have a Football, Basketball and Baseball team.. now in less than a week they will have NONE. What a bunch of morons!
I feel sorry for the people of the entire East Bay area. The entire area is turning into a dump, prices (especially rent and real estate) are Way too high, and they’ve lost Three professional sports teams in the last five years. Sad.
I grew up a baseball fan in the Bay Area, and when I was a kid, the Giants were the team. And it was a great team: Mays, Cepeda, Davenport, McCovey, Felipe Alou, Marichal. By nature I'm a contrarian, usually identifying with the underdog, so in 1968 when the Athletics moved to Oakland, and probably because all of my friends were Giants fans, I decided to join the fandom of the new Oakland Athletics. And they didn't disappoint. Catfish, Reggie, Capt. Sal, Rudi, Campaneris, Vida, Rollie. They came into town and from Day-1 had swagger. They made the playoffs in '71. Won it all in dynastic fashion the next three years. They quickly rewarded me for shifting my fandom to the A's in '68. Of course, the history and legacy of the A's in Oakland makes the move from Oakland painful. But for me, the heart and soul of the A's over its history was formed by the city they played in. The culture of Oakland and the East Bay became the culture of the A's. They developed a reputation for tenacity, hard work, family, blue collar never-say-die determination, winning when they were counted out, exceeding expectations. Always the underdog, but always #1 with their fans. The Athletics will not be the same team, will not have the same culture and character now that they have been yanked away from Oakland, because Oakland formed the culture and character of the A's. What sort of culture will they adopt in West Sacramento when the owner won't even formally acknowledge that the A's are playing in Sacramento for the next three years? What sort of culture will they have in Vegas (if they ever play there) which other than glitz and cheesiness doesn't have a real community identity? It was the identity of the OAKLAND Athletics which gave the fans pride. And now that's gone. My fandom is now in free agency.
@@great-one0389 It never was. The Giants were saved twice at the very last minute from moving out, first to Toronto, then to Tampa. The A's should have never left KC, but Finley made himself so obnoxious to the KC people that they preferred to get an expansion team over keeping the A's. Somehow Finley thought Oakland was a place to get rich (er). He would have been better off moving them back to Philadelphia, LOL.
I live in Vegas, maybe cause no marketing has been spent, but there is no hype… like at all. I only care cause I see my Phillies come to town when they come
I heard of all of the hoopla that happened when the Washington Senators played their last game at RFK Stadium against the Yankees. The fans stormed the field and they weren’t able to finish the game and had to forfeit to the Yankees.
My first job out of college was 2 blocks away from this stadium, this was 1978. It was a jungle and nightmare then. Can’t imagine how bad it is today. Almost anywhere will be better than Oakland.
there are blueprints out now for the new Vegas stadium that were released last week at the Rio where they announced the hiring event for construction workers
@@controlyourvessel1710 I know that. What baffles me is that the A's won 5 World Series when they were in Philadelphia, but still didn't have the same level of fan support as the Phillies. This is despite the fact that the Phillies didn't win their first World Series title until 1980. I will never understand that. Throughout the A's time in Kansas City, they never had a winning record. However, their departure angered a U.S. Senator from Missouri named Stewart Symington, who heavily lobbied MLB to put another team in Kansas City. This explains the existence of the Royals.
@@TommyBuskulic-u2k The same thing happened in the Bay Area. I lived there from 1985-1995. All my friends where Gants fans and this was during the Bash Brothers days. I couldn't wrap my head around it. The Giants had never been to a Wol Series in San Francisco and they'd be there since the 50's. The White elephant mascot was developed because they are the team nobody wanted. The legacy continues
Sacramento usually gets into the 100's in the summer, but it is not consistent heat. Sacramento gets a sea breeze which usually breaks the 100 degree heat after a few days. Also, I only remember only 2 - 3 times in the 43 years I lived there where the heat got over 112 degrees. They have a lot of 102-108 degree days.
In the next FIVE years, I believe Nashville, Portland, Salt Lake City, and Austin (TX) WILL ALL have a new expansion team. With the A's STAYING in Sacramento.
I’ve been in the Sacramento area for 20 years and can’t wait for them to play here, and we will support them …..Oakland never did, attendance data doesn’t lie…..
The Sacramento move is ridiculous. The heat situation is simply too much. If they were insistent on moving out of Oakland, there are any number of places they could have moved.
In 1999,I sat behind the plate for one game. A hostess asked me what I had to think about their stadium. I told her:"You need a new one as soon as possible. I then added:"They shouldn't have let Davis come back here." She wasn't used to East Coast bluntness.
Come to salt lake. It’s a clean safe city with low crime. It’s growing and has a great economy and low cost of living. It’s close to lots of outdoor recreation. The government and citizens are happy to fund stadiums and will show up to support every team. All these cheap dirty crime ridden cities with poor fan support deserve to lose their teams to better places. The nfl and mlb would be insane not to invest in slc. The potential is off the charts.
You said that the chances of A’s reverting back to Oakland is basically 0%. But do you think maybe east bay in general (ie Fremont or San Jose) would be possible? I know that San Jose plan was shut down by giants in the past, but maybe another antitrust case can be opened on the A’s behalf (which would give A’s the autonomy to move into San Jose regardless of what giants desire).
I live about an hour from the A's in Oakland, but I grew up in L.A. Since this was their final season in Oakland, a bunch of us decided to go to a game when they were playing the Dodgers. The Dodgers won 9-1 or something like that. 3/4s of the stadium was filled with Dodger fans, the rest with As fans. It was fun, but the stadium was terrible. I grew up doing to the finest stadium in the league (Dodger Stadium) Parking was a joke. I got out of the car and walked into the stadium, but the people I drove with didn't get in until the 5th inning! The concessions were pathetic. The best thing though was that they had an awesome firework's show. The best one I have ever seen and we got to watch it lying right behind 2nd base in center field. I am looking forward to them playing at River Cats stadium in Sacto, though. Much closer to me and the stadium is not surrounded by homeless villages where people openly shoot up. I will go again when they play the Dodgers. Oakland is a mess and it really needs to get its shit together. I am sure the owner sucks, as well.
MLB Commisioner Rob Manfred should have John Fisher be forced to sell the team to Golden State Warriors owner Jacob Lacob in order to keep the team on the bay area. Another option sell it to Larry H Miller Group to relocate to Utah.
The A’s started on the East Coast, moved to the Midwest, then west to Oakland, and eventually they’ll move east to Vegas. They’re bouncing across the map like a pong game.
The Oakland Coliseum is what you get with 30+ years of Progressive government. The City and County refused to spend a dime on the facilities they owned. Every time the A's try to come up with a new location to build on, either the government or labor unions or regulations or lawyers or greed got in the way (aka the Giants blocked them from San Jose). Meanwhile the surrounding area fell apart, the City fell into a crime ridden chaos, MLB gave up after years of warning, and every sports team left to a better business environment. This isn't about the A's. Its about complete government failure which unfortunately, won't admit it or change.
And NOBODY wants to invest in that shlthole city anymore. I've been a Raiders fan since 1970, and I was glad to see them leave for Las Vegas. The city refused to work with them on anything. Just another disaster of the Progressive activists, ruining another city in the United States of America. These cities are a SHINING EXAMPLE of what they want for the entire country !! How can ANYONE look at these cities and actually want to live like that ???? Someone please enlighten me if you subscribe to those policies... I feel for the people that are stuck in that situation. Maybe you can save enough to leave at some point in the future. Good luck ✌️🙏
@@RobertCunningham-pf9tg I hear you brother. Next week I’m moving to Las Vegas too. My buddy has a spot for me under the strip in the tunnels. Beautiful neighborhoods down there nothing like Oakland. Well except for the hookers.
Anyone know how the broadcasting will change? Will the flagship station be one in Sacramento? Will there still be A's games broadcast here on the AM 960 Bloomberg station?
I wonder if the stadium will have any chance of being repurposed. most likely it'll just get torn down. RIP to the Oakland A's from a lifelong Giants fan
I'm somewhat torn. I just got from San Francisco/Oakland a few weeks back. Yes, Oakland looked like a dump from the Bart train Yes, the site around the stadium was a dump Yes, the coliseum itself was a dump. HOWEVER, those were some of the most rabid fans I'd ever seen. I'd rather watch a game with those fans (and arguably in the Oakland Coliseum) over the Rangers at Globe Life Field anyday. I'm 100% confident that if they gave those fans a new stadium it would be packed. There were lots of fans taking the train from San Francisco to watch the As.
Blame Oakland city council and the mayor’s prior to the current Mayor right now, the current mayor now was making an effort which you have to give credit.
It's argued that Sacramento will never have an MLB team - A's or otherwise. The fan support is there, but there is no money. No corporate money is there, no real potential for investors. Who is going to finance a $1.5-$2 billion dollar stadium?
The construction of "Mount Davis" was one of the extreme examples of a renovation that made a baseball stadium look worse. I understand that it was because the Raiders returned to Oakland in 1995, but it was still lousy. The Oakland Coliseum should have been condemned long ago just for the leaky sewage pipes, & the infestation of rates & feral cats. John Fisher (and other possible investors) should have paid for a new stadium, or the owners of other MLB teams should have forced him to sell the team.
I was at the game last night. How could something SO GREAT become extinct?! One man is messing up generations of love for this team! He should be punished for his behavior not rewarded! The Coliseum might be old but it's a FUN place to watch baseball. MLB needs to make it right here in one of THE BIGGEST MEDIA MARKETS IN THE NATION!!
Bottom line: 4 Word Series Championships in less than 60 years. Few can match that during that tenure if at all-"big market" or not-including those across the Bay.
There will not be a 3rd or 4th deck if its only 35000 so its a smaller look. A minor league park look. So fisher will have a minor league park look in vegas. The whole problem started back in the 60ies and 70ies when both the A's and Raiders had to play in the same building. Other cities around the usa built stadiums for each baseball and football but the bayarea didnt and thats what started the whole problem. As soon as Al Davis wanted luxury boxes and didnt get them. One of the 2 teams needed another stadium and it never happened and now we lost both teams.
City politicians lost all 3 teams. Oakland/East Bay is the common denominator. Plenty of chances to provide the public money needed for a new ballpark but their ideology wouldnt let them
@@starsandstripes76 actually the mayor said they didn't get the 350 million grant money needed for the infrastructure. Just because I'm a billionaire doesn't mean Oakland couldn't contribute. Ita not a charity it's business
I never understood why Philadelphia preferred the Phillies over the Athletics. Worst case scenario is the Kansas City Royals wanna move, They can always get back the A’s too.
Both teams were garbage in the late 30's to mid 40's. In the late 40's to early 50's, the Phillies became good while the Athletics were trash. The people liked the Phillies more and were fed up with the Athletics being a circus at the ownership level. You'd have to change the name if you move the Phillies as opposed to the Athletics as well.
So they don't just move to Vegas and play in their AAA park which is newer and nicer. But they move to somewhere that isn't their farm team and almost just as hot. Makes sense. Reno would have been better for weather but not big enough metro area I'm guessing.
Raiders, Warriors, and now A’s leaving Oakland because why would anyone want to have a sports team in a city if trends continue, could be far worse than Memphis or Camden? Might as well turn the city into a maximum security prison.
Where the heck are you getting your temperature readings for Sacramento? You make it sound like it's Phoenix or Arlington, yet a simple Google search will show you average temps in July are a high of 95 with a low of 62.
The Coliseum site will transform into something special. Thriving arena, 2 soccer teams, possible housing, entertainment, bars, etc...and hopefully the area around it will improve too.
@oiler62 Lol, there is ZERO budget available for development in a city that's a Ghetto festering mess with a %@$# mayor who's facing several fraud charges.
@oiler62 It's a Ghetto city in debt with Zero funding available. They also won't bother saving 66th ave since it's car jack crime & abandoned businesses.
Doubt Sacramento will come up with the funds to want to keep the A's in town. This is a big chance for Sac to prove it IS a baseball city and that they're ready for an MLB team
Get ready for the Oakland Sacramento A’s of Las Vegas!
Lol literally there new name
The Las Vegas Oakramentics!
The Las Vegas Athletics of Sacramento
The Sacramento California Oakland Athletics of Las Vegas Nevada.⚾️
@@RobertJohnson-bj5lk The Las Vegas, Nevada Athletics of Sacramento, California, formerly of Oakland
MLB doesn't need more expansion. The product is already watered down plenty.
MLB needs contraction.
And the NFL isn’t? Okay bud
Agree completely.
@@dogcowrph. Baseball is slowly dying in America. A crappy meaningless Monday Night Football game pulled in bigger television ratings than the World Series Game it was up against a few years ago. Very few teams are packing the house anymore (yes, there are a few that do).
When I was in school, there were 16 MLB teams, now approximately twice that many. I long for the days of 16 teams.
Rooting for Sacramento to keep them. Use the old Arco land
One of my friends is a die hard A’s fan and this has hit her hard. A team is lucky to have fans. I am happy they won last night for all the fans at the game last night.
It is sad to see passionate fan base that Oakland has, will not have a pro sports team after tonight.
Even theiir new WNBA team REFUSES to play in OAKLAND. They signed on to play specifically at 'Chase Arena' across the bay.
What does THAT tell ya?
Blame the owner if you want, but the city of Oakland is a trash dump run by inept politicians. They are losing all three of their sports franchises for a reason.
I agree with you. On espn Stephen A Smith and Mad Dogg Russo pointed this out
It’s really not, but ok.
Amen
She's the ho chi minh city.
Exactly even In N Out burger left
So many memories at that stadium sad to see it go but I knew this was cooking on the back burner for awhile
It's a sad ending for the stadium being that this used to be a fairly nice-looking ballpark. If you look back in the 1980s early 1990s before Mount Davis was built it was a cute little ballpark. now this ballpark is an eyesore and with poor A's ownership this ending was inevitable sadly.
In fairness to the Raiders. Coliseum was for them. Not the A's. Oakland should have taken care of the Raiders
They actually offered to buy the stadium and the surrounding land, then build a new one. The city said no.
@@sirchi8731 The Coliseum was the worst multipurpose stadium of all time. The conversion process was stupid, inefficient and expensive, even before Mount Davis. I can't imagine why anybody thought that would work.
I hope Sacramento gets to keep them.
No
Enjoy Fisher.
The lawsuit from GLPI and Ballys would break MLB if they did so they won't
Sacramento is just as bad as Oakland, are you kidding? Vegas isn’t high on my list either, but waaaaay higher than Sacramento or Oakland!
Only for 2 years.
Oakland in line for expansion pickle ball franchise.
If you honestly believe that then you have no clue
@@arcas8423 More like Oakland in line for the smash and grab Olympics
The African American Sports and Entertainment Group (AASEG) owns the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California. The AASEG is a Black-owned development group that acquired the Coliseum after purchasing both the city's and the Oakland Athletics' shares in the property. The AASEG's plans for the Coliseum include:
Developing the site with a $5 billion redevelopment
Creating a mix of residential, sports, entertainment, and retail projects
Including a 25% affordable housing requirement
Keeping the Oakland Arena operating
I hope for the city residents that this comes to fruition and something exciting happens in that area.
So if we say something is white owned - we would be racists. :(
Las Vegas has it's bad areas, but the whole damned city of Oakland is bad and WORSE!
I was at a game in 1990 back when they were a decent team and went to three straight World Series appearances.
Not an Oakland fan but this game made me cry
This stadium is a dump, but then again, the city of Oakland is also a dump
This is what you get when you vote blue !
I grew up in the Bay Area in the 80's.. the A's were rolling in the late 80's and it was big crowds. I live in Houston now and my friend wanted to go see an A's game before the end. So we went memorial day weekend.
People were great there. My heart went out to them
The stadium is a concrete toilet bowl.
Truly sad.
Oakland used to have a Football, Basketball and Baseball team.. now in less than a week they will have NONE.
What a bunch of morons!
@@michaelgleason9083 Vegas is blue,, so. As well where all sports teams are,, so you hate all sport teams which mean you hate America
Yet In N Out was kick out of Oakland
@@texZR2 They got what they voted for.
MLB needs a salary floor as much as it needs a salary cap.
I feel sorry for the people of the entire East Bay area. The entire area is turning into a dump, prices (especially rent and real estate) are Way too high, and they’ve lost Three professional sports teams in the last five years. Sad.
I grew up a baseball fan in the Bay Area, and when I was a kid, the Giants were the team. And it was a great team: Mays, Cepeda, Davenport, McCovey, Felipe Alou, Marichal. By nature I'm a contrarian, usually identifying with the underdog, so in 1968 when the Athletics moved to Oakland, and probably because all of my friends were Giants fans, I decided to join the fandom of the new Oakland Athletics. And they didn't disappoint. Catfish, Reggie, Capt. Sal, Rudi, Campaneris, Vida, Rollie. They came into town and from Day-1 had swagger. They made the playoffs in '71. Won it all in dynastic fashion the next three years. They quickly rewarded me for shifting my fandom to the A's in '68.
Of course, the history and legacy of the A's in Oakland makes the move from Oakland painful. But for me, the heart and soul of the A's over its history was formed by the city they played in. The culture of Oakland and the East Bay became the culture of the A's. They developed a reputation for tenacity, hard work, family, blue collar never-say-die determination, winning when they were counted out, exceeding expectations. Always the underdog, but always #1 with their fans. The Athletics will not be the same team, will not have the same culture and character now that they have been yanked away from Oakland, because Oakland formed the culture and character of the A's. What sort of culture will they adopt in West Sacramento when the owner won't even formally acknowledge that the A's are playing in Sacramento for the next three years? What sort of culture will they have in Vegas (if they ever play there) which other than glitz and cheesiness doesn't have a real community identity? It was the identity of the OAKLAND Athletics which gave the fans pride. And now that's gone. My fandom is now in free agency.
I wish I was rich so I could buy the As
Oakland is a complete 💩hole that even managed to run out InNOut Burger. They're never going to get another team.
And the bay area really isn't big enough to warrant two teams, the leagues are probably gonna want to spread out teams in other cities.
@@great-one0389 It never was. The Giants were saved twice at the very last minute from moving out, first to Toronto, then to Tampa. The A's should have never left KC, but Finley made himself so obnoxious to the KC people that they preferred to get an expansion team over keeping the A's. Somehow Finley thought Oakland was a place to get rich (er). He would have been better off moving them back to Philadelphia, LOL.
I live in Vegas, maybe cause no marketing has been spent, but there is no hype… like at all. I only care cause I see my Phillies come to town when they come
Lemme guess, you’re a Bryce Harper fan and you started as a Nats fan because Harper is from Las Vegas
Oakland is almost done even being a city . It’s no wonder it can’t keep sports teams. There’s plenty of other places that can afford them .
Athletics playing in Sac for three, then LV A's in 28 in a cool modern baseball stadium.
That's if the stadium opens on time, their are things like weather and construction delays that could happen
I heard of all of the hoopla that happened when the Washington Senators played their last game at RFK Stadium against the Yankees. The fans stormed the field and they weren’t able to finish the game and had to forfeit to the Yankees.
I definitely dislike the A’s ownership but the fact that the city of Oakland let all 3 teams go says something.
My first job out of college was 2 blocks away from this stadium, this was 1978. It was a jungle and nightmare then. Can’t imagine how bad it is today. Almost anywhere will be better than Oakland.
there are blueprints out now for the new Vegas stadium that were released last week at the Rio where they announced the hiring event for construction workers
Vegas guy here. We'll take the team.
Are you ready to work part time for a minimum wage at the concessions.
$400 million well spent 😂😂😂😂
Good luck with fisher not paying anyone good
Enjoy being the doormat of the AL and continuing to have bad attendance.
I was in Las Vegas last month on vacation, and they have already broken ground near the Las Vegas Strip for the new A's stadium.
What a sad day hard to believe it is over for sports in oakland god bless all of you❤❤❤❤❤
The Oakland athletics move should be like the cleveland browns where the team moves, but the name and history stay in the old city.
I would have liked that.
The A's where in Philadelphia and Kansas City before Oakland. The A's brand dosn't belong to Oakland
@@controlyourvessel1710 I know that. What baffles me is that the A's won 5 World Series when they were in Philadelphia, but still didn't have the same level of fan support as the Phillies. This is despite the fact that the Phillies didn't win their first World Series title until 1980. I will never understand that.
Throughout the A's time in Kansas City, they never had a winning record. However, their departure angered a U.S. Senator from Missouri named Stewart Symington, who heavily lobbied MLB to put another team in Kansas City. This explains the existence of the Royals.
@@TommyBuskulic-u2k The same thing happened in the Bay Area. I lived there from 1985-1995. All my friends where Gants fans and this was during the Bash Brothers days. I couldn't wrap my head around it. The Giants had never been to a Wol Series in San Francisco and they'd be there since the 50's. The White elephant mascot was developed because they are the team nobody wanted. The legacy continues
@@controlyourvessel1710 It's funny how it was meant to defy the meaning of "white elephant", but they've become it on two occasions.
Sacramento usually gets into the 100's in the summer, but it is not consistent heat. Sacramento gets a sea breeze which usually breaks the 100 degree heat after a few days. Also, I only remember only 2 - 3 times in the 43 years I lived there where the heat got over 112 degrees. They have a lot of 102-108 degree days.
No one wants a professional team in that cesspool. Very smart for the A.
City of Oakland did it to themselves
Let me ask you this. If John Fisher would sell, would there be a buyer?
@@djbttncrt When he gets to Las Vegas, with the new stadium, the franchise value will double. That's what he wants and then he'll sell.
It isn’t oaklands fault that the owner is a pos
@@RRaquello With what money? He hired a firm to find investors and no one is going to front $500 million to do business with him because he’s a liar.
@BrentLA your city is a dump
In the next FIVE years, I believe Nashville, Portland, Salt Lake City, and Austin (TX) WILL ALL have a new expansion team. With the A's STAYING in Sacramento.
Why would he sell the Oakland club when he can sell the Las Vegas club? MLB doesn’t want a team in Oakland
Charlie Finley tried to move them to Denver, then New Orleans, but was blocked.
Woah an actual baseball video and not a political one!
right?
Poor political leadership definitely had it's part in this mess, too. Just about anything that could go wrong, did...
I’ve been in the Sacramento area for 20 years and can’t wait for them to play here, and we will support them …..Oakland never did, attendance data doesn’t lie…..
I am living in Las Vegas and became a raiders fan once they moved , don’t judge everyone 😊
The Sacramento move is ridiculous. The heat situation is simply too much. If they were insistent on moving out of Oakland, there are any number of places they could have moved.
I was at the last Coyotes game in Arizona in April. I also will be at the last A’s game in Oakland tomorrow.
In 1999,I sat behind the plate for one game.
A hostess asked me what I had to think about their stadium.
I told her:"You need a new one as soon as possible.
I then added:"They shouldn't have let Davis come back here."
She wasn't used to East Coast bluntness.
Come to salt lake. It’s a clean safe city with low crime. It’s growing and has a great economy and low cost of living. It’s close to lots of outdoor recreation. The government and citizens are happy to fund stadiums and will show up to support every team. All these cheap dirty crime ridden cities with poor fan support deserve to lose their teams to better places. The nfl and mlb would be insane not to invest in slc. The potential is off the charts.
Salt Lake would make more sense as National League team. They'd be far away from all division rivals in the AL West.
That 2005 rendering was so nice.
Between your political analysis and stadium/relocation/sports videos, I love your channel 🍻
The final sound bite on the speaker system in oakland should be the theme from Skyfall. 'This is the end"
LaSteroid Daddy Hack IV bought the Oakland A's and moved them to Shanghai.
You said that the chances of A’s reverting back to Oakland is basically 0%. But do you think maybe east bay in general (ie Fremont or San Jose) would be possible? I know that San Jose plan was shut down by giants in the past, but maybe another antitrust case can be opened on the A’s behalf (which would give A’s the autonomy to move into San Jose regardless of what giants desire).
I live about an hour from the A's in Oakland, but I grew up in L.A. Since this was their final season in Oakland, a bunch of us decided to go to a game when they were playing the Dodgers. The Dodgers won 9-1 or something like that. 3/4s of the stadium was filled with Dodger fans, the rest with As fans. It was fun, but the stadium was terrible. I grew up doing to the finest stadium in the league (Dodger Stadium) Parking was a joke. I got out of the car and walked into the stadium, but the people I drove with didn't get in until the 5th inning! The concessions were pathetic. The best thing though was that they had an awesome firework's show. The best one I have ever seen and we got to watch it lying right behind 2nd base in center field. I am looking forward to them playing at River Cats stadium in Sacto, though. Much closer to me and the stadium is not surrounded by homeless villages where people openly shoot up. I will go again when they play the Dodgers. Oakland is a mess and it really needs to get its shit together. I am sure the owner sucks, as well.
MLB Commisioner Rob Manfred should have John Fisher be forced to sell the team to Golden State Warriors owner Jacob Lacob in order to keep the team on the bay area. Another option sell it to Larry H Miller Group to relocate to Utah.
I think that only night games can be compared to the CPBL in Taiwan which only plays night games due to the hot climate.
The owner won't eat in the sun. His shadow might ask him for a bite.
The Coliseum was a dump when I went there on my honeymoon in 1999. The Howard Terminal would have been a beautiful ballpark.
Oh yeah, we went to a River Cats game, we almost died from the heat, but it's a cute stadium and was a lot of fun.
The A’s started on the East Coast, moved to the Midwest, then west to Oakland, and eventually they’ll move east to Vegas. They’re bouncing across the map like a pong game.
The Oakland Coliseum is what you get with 30+ years of Progressive government. The City and County refused to spend a dime on the facilities they owned. Every time the A's try to come up with a new location to build on, either the government or labor unions or regulations or lawyers or greed got in the way (aka the Giants blocked them from San Jose). Meanwhile the surrounding area fell apart, the City fell into a crime ridden chaos, MLB gave up after years of warning, and every sports team left to a better business environment. This isn't about the A's. Its about complete government failure which unfortunately, won't admit it or change.
All people need to do is behave themselves.
So it had nothing to do with John Fisher, putting up his own money? I think you forgot to mention that.
And NOBODY wants to invest in that shlthole city anymore. I've been a Raiders fan since 1970, and I was glad to see them leave for Las Vegas. The city refused to work with them on anything. Just another disaster of the Progressive activists, ruining another city in the United States of America. These cities are a SHINING EXAMPLE of what they want for the entire country !! How can ANYONE look at these cities and actually want to live like that ???? Someone please enlighten me if you subscribe to those policies... I feel for the people that are stuck in that situation. Maybe you can save enough to leave at some point in the future. Good luck ✌️🙏
@@RobertCunningham-pf9tg The entire state is nuts.
@@RobertCunningham-pf9tg I hear you brother. Next week I’m moving to Las Vegas too. My buddy has a spot for me under the strip in the tunnels. Beautiful neighborhoods down there nothing like Oakland. Well except for the hookers.
So they are going to be playing in the Sydney opera house?
Anyone know how the broadcasting will change? Will the flagship station be one in Sacramento? Will there still be A's games broadcast here on the AM 960 Bloomberg station?
They go to Vegas and win a world series.✌️🇺🇲
I wonder if the stadium will have any chance of being repurposed. most likely it'll just get torn down. RIP to the Oakland A's from a lifelong Giants fan
I'm somewhat torn. I just got from San Francisco/Oakland a few weeks back.
Yes, Oakland looked like a dump from the Bart train
Yes, the site around the stadium was a dump
Yes, the coliseum itself was a dump.
HOWEVER, those were some of the most rabid fans I'd ever seen. I'd rather watch a game with those fans (and arguably in the Oakland Coliseum) over the Rangers at Globe Life Field anyday. I'm 100% confident that if they gave those fans a new stadium it would be packed. There were lots of fans taking the train from San Francisco to watch the As.
Grew up going to the coliseum for raiders game's and As... super sad...
2 other teams leave that city and u blame the owner
Blame Oakland city council and the mayor’s prior to the current Mayor right now, the current mayor now was making an effort which you have to give credit.
I hope Portland gets an MLB team for the Mariners sake!
Portland Oregon Should have gotten a NHL Team a Long Time Ago.
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Portland getting this team makes sense. No division realignment needed.
They should move to Omaha, Nebraska. Omaha already has a nice ballpark. All it needs is 15,000 more seats.
I heard Spirit Halloween gots first dibs on the stadium 😂
It's argued that Sacramento will never have an MLB team - A's or otherwise. The fan support is there, but there is no money. No corporate money is there, no real potential for investors. Who is going to finance a $1.5-$2 billion dollar stadium?
Funny, about tearing down the stadium ten years ago. They had a 30 year bond since 1995.
It's a shame Oakland could not get a new ballpark built.
The construction of "Mount Davis" was one of the extreme examples of a renovation that made a baseball stadium look worse. I understand that it was because the Raiders returned to Oakland in 1995, but it was still lousy.
The Oakland Coliseum should have been condemned long ago just for the leaky sewage pipes, & the infestation of rates & feral cats.
John Fisher (and other possible investors) should have paid for a new stadium, or the owners of other MLB teams should have forced him to sell the team.
MoneyBall is still one of my favorite movies! I don't blame the A's for getting out of that Sh*t Hole.
I was at the game last night. How could something SO GREAT become extinct?! One man is messing up generations of love for this team! He should be punished for his behavior not rewarded! The Coliseum might be old but it's a FUN place to watch baseball. MLB needs to make it right here in one of THE BIGGEST MEDIA MARKETS IN THE NATION!!
It will with the San Francisco Giants.
@@willp.8120 Forget the Giants
Bottom line: 4 Word Series Championships in less than 60 years. Few can match that during that tenure if at all-"big market" or not-including those across the Bay.
As a lifelong Seattle Supersonics/Sonics fan, I feel your pain Oakland A's fans!!!
QUIT COMPLAINING! Seattle is getting ANOTHER NBA team in 2-3 years. It's already in the works
@@RansomHollywoodNot working hard enough it's been 16 years since the Sonics left for OKC
@michaelleroy9281 I agree. They have a good fan base, they just couldn't secure a NEW arena. But the Storm team seems to be HAPPY.
@@RansomHollywood when they built Climate Pledge Arena for the Kraken, they built an NBA locker room in it for a possible Sonics return!!!
@@tahuyachris Then I guess they're coming back, since it's GUARANTEED
There will not be a 3rd or 4th deck if its only 35000 so its a smaller look. A minor league park look. So fisher will have a minor league park look in vegas. The whole problem started back in the 60ies and 70ies when both the A's and Raiders had to play in the same building. Other cities around the usa built stadiums for each baseball and football but the bayarea didnt and thats what started the whole problem. As soon as Al Davis wanted luxury boxes and didnt get them. One of the 2 teams needed another stadium and it never happened and now we lost both teams.
City politicians lost all 3 teams. Oakland/East Bay is the common denominator. Plenty of chances to provide the public money needed for a new ballpark but their ideology wouldnt let them
Oakland had raised nearly a billion dollars raised for infrastructure per espn for the A's proposed stadium.
Why would any city/county give public money to a billionaire?
@@Fifty_Jay because you benefit from hotels...places to eat..business etc. OAKLAND DIDNT KNOW watch those places be effected
@@starsandstripes76 actually the mayor said they didn't get the 350 million grant money needed for the infrastructure. Just because I'm a billionaire doesn't mean Oakland couldn't contribute. Ita not a charity it's business
4 teams, the California Golden Seals in 1976, for Cleveland
Give poor New Mexico a team. Although it is majority Hispanic and Mexicans probably care about soccer much more.
Hispanics like baseball. A baseball team would do well especially if it's the only game in town.
They still have the Giants. Thats an upgrade
Coliseum will be used for MLS and Cricket. Not being demolished.
We really don’t want the A’s in Sacramento long term. We have more pressing needs.
I never understood why Philadelphia preferred the Phillies over the Athletics. Worst case scenario is the Kansas City Royals wanna move, They can always get back the A’s too.
Both teams were garbage in the late 30's to mid 40's. In the late 40's to early 50's, the Phillies became good while the Athletics were trash. The people liked the Phillies more and were fed up with the Athletics being a circus at the ownership level. You'd have to change the name if you move the Phillies as opposed to the Athletics as well.
Montreal id imagine would make a comeback in an expansion
So they don't just move to Vegas and play in their AAA park which is newer and nicer. But they move to somewhere that isn't their farm team and almost just as hot. Makes sense. Reno would have been better for weather but not big enough metro area I'm guessing.
I think they also get to keep some TV money by staying in that part of California, but I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
@@RogerBates7 Good point I'm sure something like that is in play.
Raiders, Warriors, and now A’s leaving Oakland because why would anyone want to have a sports team in a city if trends continue, could be far worse than Memphis or Camden? Might as well turn the city into a maximum security prison.
Long live Catfish and Reggie.
The best---I got chills thinking about them, even though the team beat the Dodgers back in those days!
AND RICKY
Reggie is a Philly guy! Too bad he never had the opportunity to play for the A’s in Philadelphia!
Catfish passed away in 1999
@@volodymyrzablotsky5372 And Catfish started his career in Kansas City and ended it in New York.
The fans stopped those stealing the chairs and put them back
The A's need a Steve Ballmer to save them.
When they get to Vegas, it would be better if they were called the Nevada A's, instead of Los Vegas A's. It rolls off the tongue better.
How about build an exact replica of the Oakland Coliseum minus Mount Davis?
Nooooooooooooo ...😢
If only they added a dome. The coliseum would have sold out every game.
what city's worst: Oakland or Chicago?
That’s normal heat here in Louisiana lol
The city and owner are both at fault and will never get back the A's and the Raiders too.
I guess they don't want anyone watching it on TV...honestly an early afternoon game on a Thursday?
Where the heck are you getting your temperature readings for Sacramento? You make it sound like it's Phoenix or Arlington, yet a simple Google search will show you average temps in July are a high of 95 with a low of 62.
It's a terrible neighborhood with zero future.
Yes, looks like the tunnels they have in Las Vegas
The Coliseum site will transform into something special. Thriving arena, 2 soccer teams, possible housing, entertainment, bars, etc...and hopefully the area around it will improve too.
@oiler62
Lol, there is ZERO budget available for development in a city that's a Ghetto festering mess with a %@$# mayor who's facing several fraud charges.
@oiler62
It's a Ghetto city in debt with Zero funding available. They also won't bother saving 66th ave since it's car jack crime & abandoned businesses.
@@oiler62
It's a Ghetto city with zero public funds available. That only means more taxes.
Why is the game so early on a weekday??
Doubt Sacramento will come up with the funds to want to keep the A's in town. This is a big chance for Sac to prove it IS a baseball city and that they're ready for an MLB team