I genuinely appreciate that you are one of the extremely rare national voices who is reporting on this honestly. This needs to be a much bigger story, right down to the 💩way the A’s notified employees that their employment is over on 10/31. Fisher, Kaval, and MLB should be utterly embarrassed.
They got several months notice their job was over. So what? If you had a real job in the real economy you would know that happens all the time. Stop your hand wringing.
@@MA_808 what a colossally flawed argument. The utter lack of care for the struggles others go through just adds to the 💩 sandwich that is your asinine argument. Just because something happens “all the time,” that makes it okay? That whole line of reasoning is an overgeneralization, lacks any specificity, is a failure to consider individual differences, and grossly oversimplifies a complex issue. I’ve been in the same industry for 20 years. I’m the head of two departments. I’ve never been fired, and I kiss no one’s ass. Keep licking that corporate boot, though. Maybe mix in some seasoning to liven up the flavor.
The Vegas media has been all but cheerleading instead of reporting. Nobody is asking the hard questions. I can’t believe Vegas still trusts John Fisher and I can’t believe the commissioner hasn’t demanded Fisher sell the team.
DA, I think you should do more of these types of videos. Not necessarily about the As but sports stories that aren't being heard and deserve a spotlight. A better version of Sports Reporters.
@rainbowmade1880 I think he is aware of the situation, whether through DA or not. I'm guessing he A) Doesn't want to upset his "friend" and B) Doesn't want to lose his pride (whatever pride he thinks he has) by admitting he was wrong.
Thank you for talking about how the A’s were responsible for the raiders move. I was full of hate towards the raiders until I found out the stunt the A’s pulled. Now the hate is toward the A’s.
If your talking about folks from the bay then you are correct . However the Sacramento locals are used to that heat so I can see them filling up that ballpark. As for me i have no desire to watch baseball in sac .
@@frv1995 nobody will watch a game in 105 degree heat and no player wants to play in it. I’m surprised the mlbpa hasn’t stepped in. Sac has fans sure but will it be enough to support a team with a losing record in dangerous heat levels? I don’t believe it will. You couple that with the fact fisher is excited to see other teams hit homeruns off A’s pitchers in sac…… it just speaks to how moronic this all is. I think this all falls apart when they are in sac. If mlb is smart the let lacob buy the team and drop Vivek. Vivek doesn’t really know what he’s doing either and it shows.
Damon I've been an Oakland Athletics fanatic since I saw Catfish Hunter throw the first no-no at the Coliseum back in '68..his later reaction to a question"Well,the sun don't shine on the same dogs ass everyday ." cemented tghat fanaticism. And now that club is being torn from my heart ?? Hurts Damon really hurts bad .
Im so glad to see people are finally seeing fisher for what he is and actually doing their homework on him and his history instead of taking him and his lies at face value. Nothin in his history should indicate even a little bit that he has good intentions or keeps his word. He will screw vegas over jus like hes been doing to oakland and As players and staff for years.
@@MA_808 the Coyotes weren’t going to sell either. Then the whole saga became an embarrassment for the NHL. They stepped in and forced Meruelo to sell it to the league, and flipped it to Ryan Smith over a weekend. Any more egg on their faces, and MLB may do the same thing.
Thanks, Damon! I gave this a full watch. Love the cynicism from Scott, much needed cynicism. Was really interesting to learn just how "clueless" Vegas is to pro sports teams, and not necessarily the fault of the Vegas "brokers." Or, how they cannot admit failure.
Zennie ...show us the money?! Fisher doesnt have it. Joe Public doesnt need to understand stadium financing. They just need to know the ownership isnt able to get this project moving forward due to lack of private investment.
I don't Sacramento is a perfect place either... because the River Cat's SF Giants would not allow them to move...good report... Oakland water front area is location #1
@@ryanwitzke6289 I've been to many ballparks this year as this is my last season as an Oakland Athletics fan. Once they are done in Oakland, so am I. Having a ballpark close to public transportation, like BART, is a game changer. There are many different design possibilities for the Oakland Coliseum site but they don't see that. Do a story on that please!
Vegas thinks that the A's coming to LV is going to be a money maker for the city. They don't give a rat's ass about whether or not there will be a fan base for the team as long as visiting fans come in and spend money. Doubt that is going to happen but that is the thought process.
There have been some folks suggesting that there is no way Fisher would sell the team, and maybe he wouldn’t willingly. That said, there is precedent to make him sell. Here is a partial list of teams that were sold under pressure from their respective leagues: NHL: Arizona; NBA: LA Clippers, Phoenix Suns; NFL: Carolina Panthers (and it may happen to them again), Washington; MLB Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers. If the league gets tired of this circus, they can decide to force Fisher out, keep the A’s in Northern California, and grant Vegas a team in the next round of expansion.
@@damonamendo agreed. The Dodgers and Coyotes are the best precedents here. Both of those had to do with horrible mismanagement. In Frank McCourt’s case, he leveraged himself too much in his purchase of the Dodgers, and he never got out of the hole while owning one of the Crown Jewels of MLB. The A’s aren’t the Dodgers, but hopefully MLB sees the parallels with Fisher soon.
The bottom line: Why would ANY city want to welcome a team that has been the worst team in baseball for decades? Does anyone really believe that Fisher is going to make the moves to improve the A’s fortunes? Back to the current issue, Fisher will not be able to raise the money to build this eyesore. The location is awful, its lot size unrealistic, no parking near it. Look for the league to push/force Fisher into selling the team to the Millers, and the team will play in Salt Lake City.
How have the A’s been the worst team in the past decades? Since the year 2000, the A’s have the 9th best record. Since that time they’ve had 5 different teams that were in the World Series hunt. So again I ask, how do you make a statement like that so confidently when it’s not true?
Lol because the city makes them do the opposite. They were telling the A’s they had to build low income housing around the ballpark. So your idea wouldn’t fly in communist Oakland
Let's say that LV falls through, and Fisher has to sell. What I don't get from the idea of staying in Sac is they'd have to start from square one and go through all the progress they've already made in Oakland. The NHL just forced the Coyotes to move because they played 2 seasons in a 5,000 seat college arena with nothing on the horizon. They couldn't do that any longer. Would MLB allow the A's to keep playing at Sutter Health with that shared arrangement and the artificial turf indefinitely while they're trying to figure out the stadium? At least Oakland had all the progress before Fisher backed out and a stadium to use in the meantime that's Major League ready albeit an old one. Would the Seminole money make the whole situation turnkey? I don't know. Bottom line is this whole mess really didn't have to happen. MLB could've forced Fisher's hand to sell by either making him pay for relocation or saying he didn't have a binding enough agreement to meet the Jan 2024 deadline for revenue sharing. One would think either of these things is a reasonable requirement. Instead, they just kept lowering the bar for him, and we're stuck with this mess, while the people who suffer the consequences are the fans, players, and the team and stadium employees.
Raj Mathai's "interview" with John Fisher was a total joke. Raj has no shame as a journalist. He should have quit his job at KNTV and go work as Fisher's PR man.
Scott doesn't know CRAP about sports. He hates all sports. JUST ASK HIM. He said the Golden Knights would fail. Its on his own website from 10 years ago. How did that work out? This guy makes a living getting paid from Casino's. He'd do anything for publicity. The more publicity, the more eyeballs he gets and the more $$$ he makes. If you were honest, you would report this. He's shaking down the A"s for money. If they sent him some cash, the A's would be as well like with him as Video Poker.
@@damonamendo If you want fake news and clickbait, he's your guy. If you want someone who actually understands Sports, he's a zero. The guy not only doesn't know sports, he hates them. Your choice. Your audience isn't as stupid as you make them out to be.
No secret, A’s have the worst owner, I blame MLB as much or more! Are they going to get stuck and play 5 plus years in a minor league park?! They should be forced to sell, new park in Oakland, and Vegas gets an expansion team.
The main problem is Scott strings together a lot of falsehoods already coughed up by the local media, but shows zero knowledge of how stadium financing works. He never asks the real question “can the stadium throw off enough cash to justify an investment? He just acts like the rich folks come in and spend their money. That’s not true. He can’t wrap his head around the math of stadium financing and he knows it. He just hates sports but won’t admit his bias against it to Damon. He has to me.
Don't listen to Zennie, he's a guy with a thousand burner accounts on here and Twitter. He also uses his tiny platform to blast instacart drivers that he has issues with. Zennie is just scorned by the fact that Oakland officials never listened to his wild tirades. He also lives nowhere near Oakland and is obsessed with their politicians.
Zennie…. Stop grifting on other creators pages. Nobody watches your vids and bad takes. Weird no actual finance news has come out…. Just silence. You got a few fun renderings to remember though!
Zennie, Scott's thing is casino gossip, nothing else. He has made some comments on the A's relocation that folks in Vegas knew were not only false, but ridiculous. He just wants attention. Folks in Vegas know he's a total clown and just laugh that there are uninformed people buying his stuff.
I genuinely appreciate that you are one of the extremely rare national voices who is reporting on this honestly. This needs to be a much bigger story, right down to the 💩way the A’s notified employees that their employment is over on 10/31. Fisher, Kaval, and MLB should be utterly embarrassed.
They got several months notice their job was over. So what? If you had a real job in the real economy you would know that happens all the time. Stop your hand wringing.
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, the national media has only scratched the surface of this disaster. We have to keep digging
@@MA_808 what a colossally flawed argument. The utter lack of care for the struggles others go through just adds to the 💩 sandwich that is your asinine argument. Just because something happens “all the time,” that makes it okay? That whole line of reasoning is an overgeneralization, lacks any specificity, is a failure to consider individual differences, and grossly oversimplifies a complex issue. I’ve been in the same industry for 20 years. I’m the head of two departments. I’ve never been fired, and I kiss no one’s ass. Keep licking that corporate boot, though. Maybe mix in some seasoning to liven up the flavor.
@@MA_808 you know everything. you are so fucking smart!
STOP! DA, stop giving me hope that this will fall thru with your faithful coverage!! This interview was awesome! Thank you. SELL THE TEAM.
The Vegas media has been all but cheerleading instead of reporting. Nobody is asking the hard questions. I can’t believe Vegas still trusts John Fisher and I can’t believe the commissioner hasn’t demanded Fisher sell the team.
Sounds like they’re finally waking up to the con
@@damonamendo Vegas is the City of Cons, why wouldn't they trust this goomb looking mofo
Thank you again DA for exposing this scam! As a lifelong Oakland A's fan from Oakland this makes me sick to my stomach! F Fisher F Kaval F Manfraud!!
John the Con
Thanks you for the coverage
You got it
Glad i found your channel.
Welcome!
Well done.
Thanks Ryan
DA, I think you should do more of these types of videos. Not necessarily about the As but sports stories that aren't being heard and deserve a spotlight.
A better version of Sports Reporters.
That’s a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@damonamendohow can we make sure Manfred sees your videos? We need him to realize how bad this looks for him and force a sale!!
Fisher is waiting for LV to get desperate and start giving him more money, only it’s not happening.
@rainbowmade1880 I think he is aware of the situation, whether through DA or not. I'm guessing he A) Doesn't want to upset his "friend" and B) Doesn't want to lose his pride (whatever pride he thinks he has) by admitting he was wrong.
John the Con! Sell the Team!!!!
SELL
Thanks again for all your coverage and your trip to Oakland this year!
My pleasure coming out there and doing these videos
Thanks for speaking and exposing how much of a piece of you know what fisher is. Respect ✊
Thanks Francisco
Damon I just love how you pound the truth zone again and again. Solid stuff. Respect.
Thanks. Hopefully it exposes the truth little by little.
Another great video. Thanks for all you are doing in shining the light on John The Con!
You got it Darren
Thanks, DA & Scott! Great job exposing Mr. Fraudster. #SellTheTeamDoofus
Thanks for watching. John’s the worst.
Thank you for talking about how the A’s were responsible for the raiders move. I was full of hate towards the raiders until I found out the stunt the A’s pulled. Now the hate is toward the A’s.
My pleasure. Have to keep the spotlight on
Over 100 degrees in sac when the A’s were playing in Oakland. Nobody is gonna sit in that heat to watch the A’s.
No way I’d go to a Rivercats day game.
The night games are doable. Hope the A’s don’t mess up a beautiful little ballpark.
If your talking about folks from the bay then you are correct . However the Sacramento locals are used to that heat so I can see them filling up that ballpark. As for me i have no desire to watch baseball in sac .
@@frv1995 nobody will watch a game in 105 degree heat and no player wants to play in it. I’m surprised the mlbpa hasn’t stepped in.
Sac has fans sure but will it be enough to support a team with a losing record in dangerous heat levels? I don’t believe it will. You couple that with the fact fisher is excited to see other teams hit homeruns off A’s pitchers in sac…… it just speaks to how moronic this all is.
I think this all falls apart when they are in sac. If mlb is smart the let lacob buy the team and drop Vivek.
Vivek doesn’t really know what he’s doing either and it shows.
Great stuff
Thanks Rank 👊🏼
Scott Roeben is great! I've just started following him a couple years ago, but he is fantastic and I hope he is right about this situation.
I thought he was really interesting in our conversation.
Damon I've been an Oakland Athletics fanatic since I saw Catfish Hunter throw the first no-no at the Coliseum back in '68..his later reaction to a question"Well,the sun don't shine on the same dogs ass everyday ." cemented tghat fanaticism. And now that club is being torn from my heart ?? Hurts Damon really hurts bad .
I can’t even imagine Mike. It’s so ridiculous what MLB is allowing to happen
10:20 well well well…welcome Vegas to how we have been treated in Oakland for years…astute and accurate assessment sir!
Im so glad to see people are finally seeing fisher for what he is and actually doing their homework on him and his history instead of taking him and his lies at face value. Nothin in his history should indicate even a little bit that he has good intentions or keeps his word. He will screw vegas over jus like hes been doing to oakland and As players and staff for years.
Correct
It was very hard for us employees at Tropicana to lose our jobs for something EVERYONE knew was BS from the start.
Sorry man
I like the quote from the cabbie. “Vegas likes a winner. The A’s are losers. There is no interest in the team. “
She summed it up perfectly
MLB must make Fisher #Sell
Just like they forced F McCourt to sell the Dodgers.
SELL
Appreciate you DA.
Thanks 👊🏼
Excellent job from both sides. I hope Las Vegas and MLB wake up and John The Con Fisher has to SELL!
Thanks. I thought Scott was really great
The team is a business and he is never going to sell it because its value will triple in Vegas overnight.
@@MA_808 the Coyotes weren’t going to sell either. Then the whole saga became an embarrassment for the NHL. They stepped in and forced Meruelo to sell it to the league, and flipped it to Ryan Smith over a weekend. Any more egg on their faces, and MLB may do the same thing.
Thanks, Damon! I gave this a full watch. Love the cynicism from Scott, much needed cynicism. Was really interesting to learn just how "clueless" Vegas is to pro sports teams, and not necessarily the fault of the Vegas "brokers." Or, how they cannot admit failure.
Yeah I thought that was an interesting dynamic too
They are staying in sacramento. and they can kick rocks over there
Zennie ...show us the money?! Fisher doesnt have it. Joe Public doesnt need to understand stadium financing. They just need to know the ownership isnt able to get this project moving forward due to lack of private investment.
I wonder if Kaval still texts zennie his secret plans lol. I’m sure that text thread has gone silent lol.
I don't Sacramento is a perfect place either... because the River Cat's SF Giants would not allow them to move...good report... Oakland water front area is location #1
Fisher is a terrible owner
Howard Terminal is perfect location
@damonamendo I agree, but I'd also take a knock down rebuild at the Coliseum site. It's hard to beat its freeway/BART access.
@@ryanwitzke6289 I've been to many ballparks this year as this is my last season as an Oakland Athletics fan. Once they are done in Oakland, so am I. Having a ballpark close to public transportation, like BART, is a game changer. There are many different design possibilities for the Oakland Coliseum site but they don't see that. Do a story on that please!
Please keep exposing J Fisher. This is a complete dog and pony show.
I intend to. It really is.
Hey D.A do you think fisher will sell the team to his buddy in Sacramento and they’ll just build there?!?!
Anything is on the table. We know John doesn’t wanna own a team anymore. He just wants a free ballpark and then to cash out
Vegas thinks that the A's coming to LV is going to be a money maker for the city. They don't give a rat's ass about whether or not there will be a fan base for the team as long as visiting fans come in and spend money. Doubt that is going to happen but that is the thought process.
Hard to be a huge money maker with a terrible owner
Sacramento is going to outbid Vegas in the end
There have been some folks suggesting that there is no way Fisher would sell the team, and maybe he wouldn’t willingly. That said, there is precedent to make him sell. Here is a partial list of teams that were sold under pressure from their respective leagues: NHL: Arizona; NBA: LA Clippers, Phoenix Suns; NFL: Carolina Panthers (and it may happen to them again), Washington; MLB Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers. If the league gets tired of this circus, they can decide to force Fisher out, keep the A’s in Northern California, and grant Vegas a team in the next round of expansion.
You’d hope so. Problem is most of those other forced sales is bc the owners did something criminal
@@damonamendo agreed. The Dodgers and Coyotes are the best precedents here. Both of those had to do with horrible mismanagement. In Frank McCourt’s case, he leveraged himself too much in his purchase of the Dodgers, and he never got out of the hole while owning one of the Crown Jewels of MLB. The A’s aren’t the Dodgers, but hopefully MLB sees the parallels with Fisher soon.
The bottom line: Why would ANY city want to welcome a team that has been the worst team in baseball for decades? Does anyone really believe that Fisher is going to make the moves to improve the A’s fortunes? Back to the current issue, Fisher will not be able to raise the money to build this eyesore. The location is awful, its lot size unrealistic, no parking near it. Look for the league to push/force Fisher into selling the team to the Millers, and the team will play in Salt Lake City.
That’s the key point here. Vegas would inherit the worst owner in sports and he won’t suddenly become a good owner
How have the A’s been the worst team in the past decades? Since the year 2000, the A’s have the 9th best record. Since that time they’ve had 5 different teams that were in the World Series hunt. So again I ask, how do you make a statement like that so confidently when it’s not true?
The A's are going to Vegas!!! It sucks on ice!!! John Fisher get lost!!!
John the Con
The A's should buy out tracks of low income homes in Downtown to build their stadium.
Lol because the city makes them do the opposite. They were telling the A’s they had to build low income housing around the ballpark. So your idea wouldn’t fly in communist Oakland
Let's say that LV falls through, and Fisher has to sell. What I don't get from the idea of staying in Sac is they'd have to start from square one and go through all the progress they've already made in Oakland. The NHL just forced the Coyotes to move because they played 2 seasons in a 5,000 seat college arena with nothing on the horizon. They couldn't do that any longer. Would MLB allow the A's to keep playing at Sutter Health with that shared arrangement and the artificial turf indefinitely while they're trying to figure out the stadium? At least Oakland had all the progress before Fisher backed out and a stadium to use in the meantime that's Major League ready albeit an old one. Would the Seminole money make the whole situation turnkey? I don't know.
Bottom line is this whole mess really didn't have to happen. MLB could've forced Fisher's hand to sell by either making him pay for relocation or saying he didn't have a binding enough agreement to meet the Jan 2024 deadline for revenue sharing. One would think either of these things is a reasonable requirement. Instead, they just kept lowering the bar for him, and we're stuck with this mess, while the people who suffer the consequences are the fans, players, and the team and stadium employees.
All great points. I agree. MLB waited and watched from afar as Fisher bungled the whole thing and now everyone has a black eye
Hey John Fisher are you listening? Vegas considers you the laughing stock! You're leaving a die hard loyal fan base for this?? MLB wake up!!
Total laughing stock ownership
He has no shame.
Raj Mathai's "interview" with John Fisher was a total joke. Raj has no shame as a journalist. He should have quit his job at KNTV and go work as Fisher's PR man.
It was a bad look for the reporter and the tv station
Scott doesn't know CRAP about sports. He hates all sports. JUST ASK HIM. He said the Golden Knights would fail. Its on his own website from 10 years ago. How did that work out? This guy makes a living getting paid from Casino's. He'd do anything for publicity. The more publicity, the more eyeballs he gets and the more $$$ he makes. If you were honest, you would report this. He's shaking down the A"s for money. If they sent him some cash, the A's would be as well like with him as Video Poker.
I don’t think Scott is dumb enough to think the A’s pay cash for anything lol
@@mikelfrance-l6x Zennie burner, similar verbiage to his other comment
Zennie is that you ?
@@damonamendo If you want fake news and clickbait, he's your guy. If you want someone who actually understands Sports, he's a zero. The guy not only doesn't know sports, he hates them. Your choice. Your audience isn't as stupid as you make them out to be.
Note the similar verbiage between this comment and Zennies.
Hi Zennie!
They're not not coming to Vegas. The Tropicana didn't get torn down for $**ts and giggles. Anyone who tells you otherwise is coping.
Elite use of the double negative here
@@damonamendo Cope harder
@@gablefisk-govphost817 your the one bringing cope energy bra . Look in the mirror
@@frv1995 See you at Opening Day in 2028!
No secret, A’s have the worst owner, I blame MLB as much or more! Are they going to get stuck and play 5 plus years in a minor league park?! They should be forced to sell, new park in Oakland, and Vegas gets an expansion team.
MLB is worse no matter where the A’s play with Fisher as an owner
Stop the shitshow!
They're not staying in Oakland.
Please stop giving these fans hope, it's cruel.
This video is mostly about how Vegas is souring on the A’s
VIVA Las Vegas Baby,,,,,,
The main problem is Scott strings together a lot of falsehoods already coughed up by the local media, but shows zero knowledge of how stadium financing works. He never asks the real question “can the stadium throw off enough cash to justify an investment? He just acts like the rich folks come in and spend their money. That’s not true. He can’t wrap his head around the math of stadium financing and he knows it. He just hates sports but won’t admit his bias against it to Damon. He has to me.
What?
Don't listen to Zennie, he's a guy with a thousand burner accounts on here and Twitter. He also uses his tiny platform to blast instacart drivers that he has issues with.
Zennie is just scorned by the fact that Oakland officials never listened to his wild tirades. He also lives nowhere near Oakland and is obsessed with their politicians.
Zennie…. Stop grifting on other creators pages. Nobody watches your vids and bad takes.
Weird no actual finance news has come out…. Just silence.
You got a few fun renderings to remember though!
@@cg5968 Yeah. Zennie is a clown.
Zennie, Scott's thing is casino gossip, nothing else. He has made some comments on the A's relocation that folks in Vegas knew were not only false, but ridiculous. He just wants attention. Folks in Vegas know he's a total clown and just laugh that there are uninformed people buying his stuff.
Over 100 degrees in sac when the A’s were playing in Oakland. Nobody is gonna sit in that heat to watch the A’s.
Those day games will be brutal