Thank you so much for having Mr. Dolich on the show, someone who was part of the best ownership the Oakland Athletics ever had and knows what good things can happen when you do things right.
A's fans can't thank you enough. Giving some national media attention to what is actually happening to this team and its fan base, beyond the league and the team's gaslighting, means the world to the entire A's fandom.
Thank you DA for continuing to get this truth out! We need to keep up the pressure on the league and ownership to resolve this situation in the right way!
Such good points from Andy. The Bay Area is easily a 2 team market. The East Bay is it's own thing and the A's could draw. Fisher just wants to do the least amount possible while increasing his asset's value. Unfortunately, Manfred is complicit.
Andy knows of what he speaks, worked for the A's, the Memphis Griz and The Warriors along with the 49ers for a time as they built Levi's. He I believe is still a college professor in sports management.
@@hoapres ok man, clearly you want them to leave, you comment on all these videos, I'm glad the media is starting to see the truth in this matter, I would hope you'd feel the same
I live in clark county, NV where the A's have said they're moving. Last news report I saw here was a clark county commissioner saying on the news that they've received NO proposals from fisher. He said that the commission should have received the proposal for $500 million TAX CREDIT last week. They're getting as frustrated with the fisher do nothing way of operating as anyone who's ever done business with him. Fisher's about to blow it here too. I did some research into his other business dealings and he has pretty much run all of them into the ground. If he sold right now, he could make 10+ times profit he invested. Just sell, fisher. If vegas is in the cards for the A's, let someone who loves baseball move them with all good intent that goes with that love. That being said, I imagine that the best for everyone is for the A's stay in Oakland where they have the most loyal fans in the world right there. If I were still living there, I'd be boycotting fisher too, even though I love the players. Casinos bought up Raiders tix here to give to their visiting patrons. The black hole is not as it was in oakland. The fans are tourists coming to see their home teams that are playing the raiders. There is no "home crowd" even though there are a lot of raider fans who live here. It's sad that both my teams are here, headed here, only for the money. If Fisher had kept the coliseum maintained, as previous owners, it wouldn't be the dump it is. He's the only reason people don't go to A's games. Just sell, fisher.
As an A's fan, I'd like to say thanks to Damon. The A's are not talked about often, but he's getting the word out there about the sketchy ownership and other things people may not know about.
WoW! This is awesome! Thank you DA for having Andy Dolich on your show! Keep the heat on Fisher and Manfred! A's belong in Oakland! Andy nails it on the head, the fans that go to A's games, same as Giants games come from the greater Bay Area and North California area. That includes San Jose (Silicon Valley) and further south, and that includes up to Sacramento other areas.
We appreciate you D.A. for shining a light on this dilemma and standing up for the A's fans here in the Bay Area. You're absolutely right and we can't just stand by and watch ownership and the MLB Commissioner get away with this! Las Vegas needs an expansion team and Oakland deserves to keep their A's!!!
They are 1000% accurate. The money is HERE IN THE BAY AREA!!! Just imagine how amazing a Bay Bridge series would be at the gorgeous waterfront Stadiums on BOTH sides of the Bay. That's what's good for BASEBALL and the Oakland A's fans. Stop tanking the damn team, build it and WE WILL COME!!!
Even if Vegas fails and the owner is forced to sell, the outcome stays the same... A's are leaving Oakland... Stadium problem is just a facade, MLB want to funnel the Bay Area market to the Giants, and moving the A's to a brand new, currently empty market... Personally I prefer Sacramento though, the River Cats stadium have a parking lot that can be built for another stadium, then ask Giants to move River Cats somewhere, maybe to Oakland or Fremont... But if Vegas is gonna be done, then qué sera sera... 🤔🤔🤔
what people don’t understand is if a new stadium is built at Howard Terminal with development around it the value of team will skyrocket. New stadiums boost the value of team no matter where they play
Andy Dolich speaks and knows the truth. I saw my first A's game in 1971 and have attended at least 5 games every season since, sometimes more. I was even a season ticket holder. The past two seasons I have absolutely refused to set foot in that ballpark and spend one cent on John Fisher's debacle. The A's had the colossal nerve to raise ticket prices last season while fielding a team that was more suited to play in Triple A. Fisher NEVER attends games and uses Dave Kaval as his mouthpiece. There is ZERO promotion of the team and they have done everything they can to alienate long-time fans and traditional season ticket holders. What Fisher and Kaval have done to this franchise is reprehensible.
I grew up in Northern California as an A's fan and went to A's games all the time in the 80s and 90s. There is a very clear distinction of the Walter Haas era, and all the other owners. Haas invested in the team and it showed. Fisher is 100% to blame for this current mess.
I am buying your book, Andy. I'm sorry the team is moving. I am a lifelong O's fan with another bad owner but I'm now living in Sarasota watching the Rays and hope they don't move like Oakland. I'm sorry for the fans.
Thank you for bringing people back from the A's glory days to remind people that Oakland is a great sports town. A's ownership has been playing the victim and blaming the fans for far too long. This disaster is squarely on the ownership. I was a kid when I became an A's fan in the late 80's and I remember the great times when they drew 3 million fans a year.
Andy Dolich was part of an ownership group which included Reggie Jackson that was 100% committed to staying in Oakland and rebuilding the A’s into a quality organization. That group was pushed to the curb by Bud Selig who favored the sale of the A’s from Steve Schott to a group including Lew Wolff and John Fisher. Wolff was a college buddy of Selig’s. And then Selig stabbed his buddy in the back when he torpedoed Wolff’s desire to build a new A’s ballpark in San Jose. So there is decades long collusion involving the MLB Commissioner and cheap money-grubbing owners to milk the A’s and its fans of money and loyalty.
Great conversation. The A’s moving to Vegas will be a disaster. Keep up the good work, DA. You are showing that this isn’t just a local issue in Oakland, but is a national issue because it is revealing corruption within MLB and in particular in the person of Rob Manfred.
Remember, MLB was the sport that ignored Washington for one-third of a century as it transformed from a medium-sized sleepy semi-southern burg into an affluent top 10 market. (Dolich spent several years with the Capitals, so he knows of what I speak.)
The way you look at this situation it’s the same: white collar corruption, the greed of a billionaire destroying his corporation, not caring about the costumers, the industry, the city that hosts his business, this is just personal greed and collective industry corruption, the consumer (the fans) don’t matters, workers (major and minor leaguers) don’t matter, the city doesn’t matter, just their pockets
That all goes back to the previous MLB leadership, they didn't open the bidding for the A's and made sure Lew Wolf was the winning bidder (with Fisher) to get the A's, They thought they could just take SJ even though it had been "awarded" to the Giants. Like it or not, those rights were granted, if they had worked out some sort of a deal for SJ great. SJ is the biggest City in the Bay Area, but it's also on the far end of their territory, their population reach into the East Bay and Sacramento is even stronger in Oakland than it would be in SJ.
@@bobbowie9350 the Giants had been granted the rights to SJ on the 80s, could a deal have been worked out, probably but they never really even negotiated, they just drew up plans.
Land/houses are worth what people pay for it-that's how a market works. Sorry if you can't seem to comprehend that and choose to say something otherwise.
Note: Oakland didn't lose the Warriors they choose SF to build their own arena vs renting its a easy choice. Vegas should hold our for an expansion team. MLB"s mistake was not clarifying to Vegas it was the A's or nothing.. just like Bryce Harper said they want an "expansion team' to build their own legacy and should ole the A's
As the possibility of the Oakland A’s relocating to Las Vegas nears reality, Bill Hornbuckle, CEO and president of MGM Resorts International, believes the move could bring 400,000 more tourists to the area annually.
If Oakland was such a good place for professional sports this would not have been an issue for the Raiders, twice, nor the Warriors, nor the A’s for years. There’s a problem, is it multiple ownership groups?
What this Oakland A's / Las Vegas relocation has proven is that anytime someone speaks... no one really has a clue of anything or is very spot on. Not saying I know everything but I do know that this guy is slighty off on how Vegas works.
I actually agree with Andy that he is simply trying to move the team to Vegas then sell the team and then make the most profits from his purchase of the A's
If you have to die then die standing up. It won't happen but let's have Oakland city council and the Mayor make a proclamation saying that the A's are no longer welcome in Oakland with Fisher as owner calling for a complete fan boycott along with wishing Vegas the best of luck with Fisher as owner. Granted the fans get screwed here but they were getting screwed for years with Fisher as owner. Imagine the reaction of Fisher and Kaval realizing that they have NO LEVERAGE at all in Vegas and maybe the powers that be tell Fisher that no public monies are available. Fisher is just looking for a $500 million subsidy so he can sell the team in a couple of years. No sense giving a billionaire that doesn't need the money public charity.
This whole mess is the same old "I need a new stadium" scam that has been run in numerous markets over the past several decades. Professional sports has priced embarrassed itself time and time again!
No. Lacob wouldn’t be trying to swindle the city into giving him a massive amount of real estate as part of the deal. Fisher wants to be a land baron and when Oakland won’t bend over for him, he tried to leverage vegas against them. Lacob has a bit more dignity than Fisher, and would make a deal work for both parties.
Seems to me if Fisher's motive is asset value, and he obviously doesnt care about the A's as a baseball team or its fans, rather as purely an investment, then a good solution would be for him to sell the A's to someone who wants to keep them in the Bay Area and MLB grant him a franchise team in LV. If LV is smart though they will hold out for a new franchise with the stipulation that Fisher doesnt own it.
So the owner was supposed to sell his team to a another billionaire that keeps the team in Oakland and 100% was gonna pay every dime of a new stadium 😟 that was the plan ? no wonder they left.
Man you guys are hating on Vegas so hard it’s so crazy to watch this city has expanded tremendously. An to be calling us neon ville ? Sorry man not our fault the teams want to leave Oakland.
New owner or move the team. Oakland needs to take a stand. The A's are gone but if the A's can't get a Vegas deal done then Fisher needs to know that he has to sell the team or move the A's.
Stop your no speaking the truth. Please tell me 2013, 2014 and 2015 and then again in 2018, 2019 and 2020 As are in the playoffs but still bottom of league in attendance. Your guest is speaking with a book to sell. He has passed his time. 75% of fans in Alligiant are simply not visiting fans. Stop and speak truth
KC has only 2 more wins than the A's. When you gonna start butchering them? Call for them to "sell the team" will you? How about this: Have you seen the Giants play this year? Is salary the problem there too? Maybe call for them to be sold? Don't look now your bias is showing.
That could be any City USA-stop fear mongering to create a narrative that's not true. Oakland has issues yes, but there are many other cities that have a higher crime rate.
@@deanwille334 And the point is? Chicago and Detroit are entities in and of themselves. Oakland is a xxxxhole all by itself. That's unfortunate to say that. NO ONE really wants to live in Oakland and to lump Oakland as part of the Bay Area while geographically accurate isn't socially accurate. Oakland needs to get its act together before worrying about keeping a ball team. Let's get real here. IF you have the money then you aren't going to be raising your wife and two kids in Oakland. You are going to get the heck out of Oakland be it Albany, Santa Clara, etc. before raising your family in Oakland. Heck, you probably aren't even likely to set your foot in Oakland PERIOD. New owner or move the team. Oakland needs to show some backbone and tell Fisher point blank that he is persona non grata. If Fisher keeps ownership of the A's then the team needs to MOVE.
@@hoapres Chicago and Detroit have teams and have same problems Oakland has. Point is, those cities have lousy leadership but keep their teams. The owners want to stay
@@deanwille334 Chicago was able to rebuild Wrigley Field. Detroit has its own ballpark. I don't like Fisher at all but HT was a crazy idea in the first place as it was a real estate play disguised as a ball park development. What was needed was the Laney college site. Once that fell through then the A's should have just left. That would have been the ethical thing to do. San Jose would have been best but MLB blocked that. Fisher shouldn't have jerked everybody around with tanking the team and just LEAVE. If Fisher doesn't want to stay in Oakland then well it is America and one can move ones business. Just go out and do it.
Maybe you just don’t get it: Oakland is a hellhole and no place better exemplifies that then the embarrassment that is the Coliseum. MLB is a business and John Fisher would be foolish to stay where he isn’t wanted.
Wow, too much "news" isn't healthy for you. I suggest your family take the remote control away, delete certain channels and bring you back to reality. Does Oakland have issues, sure, does every major city and small town? Of course stop buying into the fear mongering narrative and find the facts.
A's will end up being contracted when Fisher sells it back to MLB. They would then be consolidated with the Giants, thereby opening a slot for one of the expansion listed cities to bid on. This will likely be the same fate of the Rays, Royals, and the D'Backs. The current balanced schedule doesnt allow for more or less than 30 teams. And if MLB has to consolidate some teams and give their spots to new expansion cities, they'll do it!
the highest ticket price in NHL is the Golden Knights and they sell out.... the highest ticket price in the NFL is the Las Vegas Raiders. the worst attendance in the MLB is Oakland.
@@theRealJustMe so they will continue to be the worst attendance team in MLB? How do you explain the triple A Las Vegas team out drawing a MLB team? I guess the odd part is why is MLB behind putting a team in Las Vegas? so many experts with excuses why the A's have never had a good attendance record ... when they are going deep into the playoffs they were still #19 in attendance with the coliseum was in good shape....
@@deanwille334 95.5% capacity.. Las Vegas does not sell standing room like other teams... (FOX5) - The Raiders being in Las Vegas is raising the franchises value to an all-time high. A new valuation by Forbes places the Raiders worth at $5.1 billion, a nearly 50% jump in value from the same report last year. The A's are at about 5% for comparison.
@@togoandmoss if Raiders had a new stadium in Bay Area, same thing would’ve happened. It’s because Allegiant is brand new stadium not because it’s Vegas.
He signed a 10 year exclusive on the coliseum site blocking the Raiders from building in the parking lot which was the original plan, You are buying the con like DA says.
@@rtyable that Las Vegas is not losing anything..... those liberal cities you mentioned are the problem. Fans are voters too... bad choices in the ballot box have consequences
Fisher got the Raiders to move because he wouldn't work with MD, MD would be in Oakland now if he had agreed to work on the Coli site and move out for a few years. He said no and thus forced MD's hand. This has all been explained over and over again by many in the Raiders organization including the retired Amy Trask. But, hey you do you and believe what you want to believe instead of facts.
😭 this has ruined so many days for me and my family 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 we have always be fans and love the OAKLAND A’s This happens and I can’t with sports anymore MLB shows it’s f the fans we only want $$$ 🖕🏼manfred
Thank you so much for having Mr. Dolich on the show, someone who was part of the best ownership the Oakland Athletics ever had and knows what good things can happen when you do things right.
A's fans can't thank you enough. Giving some national media attention to what is actually happening to this team and its fan base, beyond the league and the team's gaslighting, means the world to the entire A's fandom.
Thank you DA for continuing to get this truth out! We need to keep up the pressure on the league and ownership to resolve this situation in the right way!
Such good points from Andy. The Bay Area is easily a 2 team market. The East Bay is it's own thing and the A's could draw. Fisher just wants to do the least amount possible while increasing his asset's value. Unfortunately, Manfred is complicit.
Andy knows of what he speaks, worked for the A's, the Memphis Griz and The Warriors along with the 49ers for a time as they built Levi's. He I believe is still a college professor in sports management.
The Bay Area is easily a 2 team market. That isn't obvious. The numbers don't seem to back that contention.
He made a great point about northern California, it's a massive area and plenty of people including myself, will drive to the bay to watch games
@@whalesequence Not plenty of people will drive to Oakland. A solitary few might drive to Oakland but it won't be many.
@@hoapres ok man, clearly you want them to leave, you comment on all these videos, I'm glad the media is starting to see the truth in this matter, I would hope you'd feel the same
I live in clark county, NV where the A's have said they're moving. Last news report I saw here was a clark county commissioner saying on the news that they've received NO proposals from fisher. He said that the commission should have received the proposal for $500 million TAX CREDIT last week. They're getting as frustrated with the fisher do nothing way of operating as anyone who's ever done business with him. Fisher's about to blow it here too. I did some research into his other business dealings and he has pretty much run all of them into the ground. If he sold right now, he could make 10+ times profit he invested. Just sell, fisher. If vegas is in the cards for the A's, let someone who loves baseball move them with all good intent that goes with that love. That being said, I imagine that the best for everyone is for the A's stay in Oakland where they have the most loyal fans in the world right there. If I were still living there, I'd be boycotting fisher too, even though I love the players. Casinos bought up Raiders tix here to give to their visiting patrons. The black hole is not as it was in oakland. The fans are tourists coming to see their home teams that are playing the raiders. There is no "home crowd" even though there are a lot of raider fans who live here. It's sad that both my teams are here, headed here, only for the money. If Fisher had kept the coliseum maintained, as previous owners, it wouldn't be the dump it is. He's the only reason people don't go to A's games. Just sell, fisher.
Vegas' smart play is to not give Fisher a DIME. Let Fisher spend his OWN money.
As an A's fan, I'd like to say thanks to Damon. The A's are not talked about often, but he's getting the word out there about the sketchy ownership and other things people may not know about.
Thanks for putting this together D.A. 🫡
DA, if you’re ever in denver for a rockies game comment on this. Beer on me. You’re doing god’s work for Oakland fans.
WoW! This is awesome! Thank you DA for having Andy Dolich on your show! Keep the heat on Fisher and Manfred! A's belong in Oakland! Andy nails it on the head, the fans that go to A's games, same as Giants games come from the greater Bay Area and North California area. That includes San Jose (Silicon Valley) and further south, and that includes up to Sacramento other areas.
We appreciate you D.A. for shining a light on this dilemma and standing up for the A's fans here in the Bay Area. You're absolutely right and we can't just stand by and watch ownership and the MLB Commissioner get away with this! Las Vegas needs an expansion team and Oakland deserves to keep their A's!!!
I appreciate your coverage and getting the truth out to the world!
They are 1000% accurate. The money is HERE IN THE BAY AREA!!! Just imagine how amazing a Bay Bridge series would be at the gorgeous waterfront Stadiums on BOTH sides of the Bay. That's what's good for BASEBALL and the Oakland A's fans. Stop tanking the damn team, build it and WE WILL COME!!!
Even if Vegas fails and the owner is forced to sell, the outcome stays the same... A's are leaving Oakland...
Stadium problem is just a facade, MLB want to funnel the Bay Area market to the Giants, and moving the A's to a brand new, currently empty market...
Personally I prefer Sacramento though, the River Cats stadium have a parking lot that can be built for another stadium, then ask Giants to move River Cats somewhere, maybe to Oakland or Fremont... But if Vegas is gonna be done, then qué sera sera...
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what people don’t understand is if a new stadium is built at Howard Terminal with development around it the value of team will skyrocket. New stadiums boost the value of team no matter where they play
Too late.. Even if there is new ownership,, team will still leave.. Why these 2 are crying !!??
Wow! Thank you for making it clear on the current A’s mis-management! Thank you 🙏
This dude is the voice for every a's fan past and present that has to endure this ownership
Andy Dolich speaks and knows the truth. I saw my first A's game in 1971 and have attended at least 5 games every season since, sometimes more. I was even a season ticket holder. The past two seasons I have absolutely refused to set foot in that ballpark and spend one cent on John Fisher's debacle. The A's had the colossal nerve to raise ticket prices last season while fielding a team that was more suited to play in Triple A. Fisher NEVER attends games and uses Dave Kaval as his mouthpiece. There is ZERO promotion of the team and they have done everything they can to alienate long-time fans and traditional season ticket holders. What Fisher and Kaval have done to this franchise is reprehensible.
Truth
SOAB hid behind Wolff for years pushing the f u Oakland fans since day 1
Then brings in snake oil salesmen kaval
I HATE THEM BOTH
This current would get their ass kicked in triple A as well.
Thank you so much Damon. From all Oakland fans.
Wow. Thanks for this.
Saludos D.A. thanks for reporting on the Oakland A's situation
Great interview DA👍
Las Vegas Is an expansion market not a foster home for our Oakland A's!!
Ya'll should correct his last name in the TH-cam title...but great video!
I also don't get why the $500M fee to move was waived. If I was any of the other owners, I would be very unhappy about that.
I grew up in Northern California as an A's fan and went to A's games all the time in the 80s and 90s. There is a very clear distinction of the Walter Haas era, and all the other owners. Haas invested in the team and it showed. Fisher is 100% to blame for this current mess.
Pure Greed and I hate seeing this.
I am buying your book, Andy. I'm sorry the team is moving. I am a lifelong O's fan with another bad owner but I'm now living in Sarasota watching the Rays and hope they don't move like Oakland. I'm sorry for the fans.
Terrific, thanks!
Thank you for bringing people back from the A's glory days to remind people that Oakland is a great sports town. A's ownership has been playing the victim and blaming the fans for far too long. This disaster is squarely on the ownership. I was a kid when I became an A's fan in the late 80's and I remember the great times when they drew 3 million fans a year.
Andy Dolich was part of an ownership group which included Reggie Jackson that was 100% committed to staying in Oakland and rebuilding the A’s into a quality organization. That group was pushed to the curb by Bud Selig who favored the sale of the A’s from Steve Schott to a group including Lew Wolff and John Fisher. Wolff was a college buddy of Selig’s. And then Selig stabbed his buddy in the back when he torpedoed Wolff’s desire to build a new A’s ballpark in San Jose. So there is decades long collusion involving the MLB Commissioner and cheap money-grubbing owners to milk the A’s and its fans of money and loyalty.
I’ve watched the COO and the A’s fans ripped by the ignorant for years now. Finally someone is telling the truth.
Thanks much again for these, Damon. Andy spoke great volumes! Fisher will NOT get away with this long term.
Andy Dolich for President!!!
Keep A's in Oakland.
Great conversation. The A’s moving to Vegas will be a disaster. Keep up the good work, DA. You are showing that this isn’t just a local issue in Oakland, but is a national issue because it is revealing corruption within MLB and in particular in the person of Rob Manfred.
They always moved the goal posts. Trust me ive seen it with my own eyes
Remember, MLB was the sport that ignored Washington for one-third of a century as it transformed from a medium-sized sleepy semi-southern burg into an affluent top 10 market. (Dolich spent several years with the Capitals, so he knows of what I speak.)
100% agree with the expansion idea
The way you look at this situation it’s the same: white collar corruption, the greed of a billionaire destroying his corporation, not caring about the costumers, the industry, the city that hosts his business, this is just personal greed and collective industry corruption, the consumer (the fans) don’t matters, workers (major and minor leaguers) don’t matter, the city doesn’t matter, just their pockets
MLB dropped the ball by not allowing San Jose long time ago if Oakland can’t work
That all goes back to the previous MLB leadership, they didn't open the bidding for the A's and made sure Lew Wolf was the winning bidder (with Fisher) to get the A's, They thought they could just take SJ even though it had been "awarded" to the Giants. Like it or not, those rights were granted, if they had worked out some sort of a deal for SJ great. SJ is the biggest City in the Bay Area, but it's also on the far end of their territory, their population reach into the East Bay and Sacramento is even stronger in Oakland than it would be in SJ.
@@theRealJustMe San Jose is better than leaving market. That’s my point. East bay is the ideal place
Giants blocked it, I thought
@@bobbowie9350 they did what I’m saying is unblock it
@@bobbowie9350 the Giants had been granted the rights to SJ on the 80s, could a deal have been worked out, probably but they never really even negotiated, they just drew up plans.
Housing values being inflated don’t mean the market is better 😂😂😂😂
Land/houses are worth what people pay for it-that's how a market works. Sorry if you can't seem to comprehend that and choose to say something otherwise.
@theRealJustMe people are house poor then. Another reason to stay home
Note: Oakland didn't lose the Warriors they choose SF to build their own arena vs renting its a easy choice. Vegas should hold our for an expansion team. MLB"s mistake was not clarifying to Vegas it was the A's or nothing.. just like Bryce Harper said they want an "expansion team' to build their own legacy and should ole the A's
vegas would have told Manfred to kick rocks if they said A's or nothing lol
MLB suppressing the reach of this video
As the possibility of the Oakland A’s relocating to Las Vegas nears reality, Bill Hornbuckle, CEO and president of MGM Resorts International, believes the move could bring 400,000 more tourists to the area annually.
All of the ridicule that Fisher and the A’s organization is getting is WELL-DESERVED!!!
If Oakland was such a good place for professional sports this would not have been an issue for the Raiders, twice, nor the Warriors, nor the A’s for years. There’s a problem, is it multiple ownership groups?
Dolich> (9pm to 5 am )....is he living still 1950's??
What this Oakland A's / Las Vegas relocation has proven is that anytime someone speaks... no one really has a clue of anything or is very spot on. Not saying I know everything but I do know that this guy is slighty off on how Vegas works.
I actually agree with Andy that he is simply trying to move the team to Vegas then sell the team and then make the most profits from his purchase of the A's
If you have to die then die standing up. It won't happen but let's have Oakland city council and the Mayor make a proclamation saying that the A's are no longer welcome in Oakland with Fisher as owner calling for a complete fan boycott along with wishing Vegas the best of luck with Fisher as owner. Granted the fans get screwed here but they were getting screwed for years with Fisher as owner. Imagine the reaction of Fisher and Kaval realizing that they have NO LEVERAGE at all in Vegas and maybe the powers that be tell Fisher that no public monies are available. Fisher is just looking for a $500 million subsidy so he can sell the team in a couple of years. No sense giving a billionaire that doesn't need the money public charity.
Real let them go to Vegas but let Oakland keep the name and make and expansion team in Oakland with the A’s name
This whole mess is the same old "I need a new stadium" scam that has been run in numerous markets over the past several decades. Professional sports has priced embarrassed itself time and time again!
If Lacob bought the team, wouldn't he be facing the same difficulty getting a stadium Fisher is?
No. Lacob wouldn’t be trying to swindle the city into giving him a massive amount of real estate as part of the deal. Fisher wants to be a land baron and when Oakland won’t bend over for him, he tried to leverage vegas against them. Lacob has a bit more dignity than Fisher, and would make a deal work for both parties.
Seems to me if Fisher's motive is asset value, and he obviously doesnt care about the A's as a baseball team or its fans, rather as purely an investment, then a good solution would be for him to sell the A's to someone who wants to keep them in the Bay Area and MLB grant him a franchise team in LV. If LV is smart though they will hold out for a new franchise with the stipulation that Fisher doesnt own it.
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None of these people understand sports betting. The future of the sport will be streaming and sports betting apps. You are all lost
So the owner was supposed to sell his team to a another billionaire that keeps the team in Oakland and 100% was gonna pay every dime of a new stadium 😟 that was the plan ? no wonder they left.
Clearly don't know crap about the Vegas fan base! 9-5 😂 Ever seen a knights game?
Man you guys are hating on Vegas so hard it’s so crazy to watch this city has expanded tremendously. An to be calling us neon ville ? Sorry man not our fault the teams want to leave Oakland.
These guys have NO IDEA what theyre talking about. Biased trash. Living in the Bay Area, let alone california is the biggest CON ever.
New owner or move the team. Oakland needs to take a stand. The A's are gone but if the A's can't get a Vegas deal done then Fisher needs to know that he has to sell the team or move the A's.
Stop your no speaking the truth. Please tell me 2013, 2014 and 2015 and then again in 2018, 2019 and 2020 As are in the playoffs but still bottom of league in attendance. Your guest is speaking with a book to sell. He has passed his time. 75% of fans in Alligiant are simply not visiting fans. Stop and speak truth
Umm. san Francisco is a a rich community,, not Oakland!!!
The new theme song for the Oakland A's: Ain't got no home.
Dolich makes fun of Vegas totally l pompous.... Good attendance existed in Oakland 20- 30 years ago!
KC has only 2 more wins than the A's. When you gonna start butchering them? Call for them to "sell the team" will you? How about this: Have you seen the Giants play this year? Is salary the problem there too? Maybe call for them to be sold? Don't look now your bias is showing.
it is a horrible stadium and i knew over a year ago the A s were leaving
Oakland is in a mess having enough other problems to deal with. One gets robbed, get killed on a daily basis and is like a war zone.
Detroit and Chicago have teams
That could be any City USA-stop fear mongering to create a narrative that's not true. Oakland has issues yes, but there are many other cities that have a higher crime rate.
@@deanwille334 And the point is? Chicago and Detroit are entities in and of themselves. Oakland is a xxxxhole all by itself. That's unfortunate to say that. NO ONE really wants to live in Oakland and to lump Oakland as part of the Bay Area while geographically accurate isn't socially accurate.
Oakland needs to get its act together before worrying about keeping a ball team. Let's get real here. IF you have the money then you aren't going to be raising your wife and two kids in Oakland. You are going to get the heck out of Oakland be it Albany, Santa Clara, etc. before raising your family in Oakland. Heck, you probably aren't even likely to set your foot in Oakland PERIOD.
New owner or move the team. Oakland needs to show some backbone and tell Fisher point blank that he is persona non grata. If Fisher keeps ownership of the A's then the team needs to MOVE.
@@hoapres Chicago and Detroit have teams and have same problems Oakland has. Point is, those cities have lousy leadership but keep their teams. The owners want to stay
@@deanwille334 Chicago was able to rebuild Wrigley Field. Detroit has its own ballpark. I don't like Fisher at all but HT was a crazy idea in the first place as it was a real estate play disguised as a ball park development. What was needed was the Laney college site. Once that fell through then the A's should have just left. That would have been the ethical thing to do. San Jose would have been best but MLB blocked that.
Fisher shouldn't have jerked everybody around with tanking the team and just LEAVE. If Fisher doesn't want to stay in Oakland then well it is America and one can move ones business. Just go out and do it.
Maybe you just don’t get it: Oakland is a hellhole and no place better exemplifies that then the embarrassment that is the Coliseum. MLB is a business and John Fisher would be foolish to stay where he isn’t wanted.
Wow, too much "news" isn't healthy for you. I suggest your family take the remote control away, delete certain channels and bring you back to reality. Does Oakland have issues, sure, does every major city and small town? Of course stop buying into the fear mongering narrative and find the facts.
Oakland is telling Fisher to either sell the team or MOVE it.
Maybe so but the rest of the Bay Area isn’t! No reason to leave market
@@deanwille334 Fisher doesn't want to be in Oakland and Oakland doesn't want Fisher. New owner or move the team.
@@hoapres I know that but why should all of the Bay Area suffer because he hates Oakland. MLB should open San Jose and let them go there
A's will end up being contracted when Fisher sells it back to MLB. They would then be consolidated with the Giants, thereby opening a slot for one of the expansion listed cities to bid on. This will likely be the same fate of the Rays, Royals, and the D'Backs. The current balanced schedule doesnt allow for more or less than 30 teams. And if MLB has to consolidate some teams and give their spots to new expansion cities, they'll do it!
Nobody's getting contracted, and MLB will expand to 32 in the next decade.
the highest ticket price in NHL is the Golden Knights and they sell out.... the highest ticket price in the NFL is the Las Vegas Raiders. the worst attendance in the MLB is Oakland.
Raiders are 30th in home attendance
@@theRealJustMe so they will continue to be the worst attendance team in MLB? How do you explain the triple A Las Vegas team out drawing a MLB team? I guess the odd part is why is MLB behind putting a team in Las Vegas? so many experts with excuses why the A's have never had a good attendance record ... when they are going deep into the playoffs they were still #19 in attendance with the coliseum was in good shape....
@@deanwille334 95.5% capacity.. Las Vegas does not sell standing room like other teams... (FOX5) - The Raiders being in Las Vegas is raising the franchises value to an all-time high. A new valuation by Forbes places the Raiders worth at $5.1 billion, a nearly 50% jump in value from the same report last year. The A's are at about 5% for comparison.
@@togoandmoss if Raiders had a new stadium in Bay Area, same thing would’ve happened. It’s because Allegiant is brand new stadium not because it’s Vegas.
@@deanwille334 so it just a coincidence that every pro team left Oakland? why did Walmart and Walgreens pull out too?
why didn't Formula One pick Oakland???
Oakland can't even keep Walmart!!
How did Fisher get the Raiders to move?
He signed a 10 year exclusive on the coliseum site blocking the Raiders from building in the parking lot which was the original plan, You are buying the con like DA says.
And Whole Foods left San Francisco. Chicago has lost so many stores in the past few years. What's your point?
@@rtyable that Las Vegas is not losing anything..... those liberal cities you mentioned are the problem. Fans are voters too... bad choices in the ballot box have consequences
Idiot Mark Davis made himself move
Fisher got the Raiders to move because he wouldn't work with MD, MD would be in Oakland now if he had agreed to work on the Coli site and move out for a few years. He said no and thus forced MD's hand. This has all been explained over and over again by many in the Raiders organization including the retired Amy Trask. But, hey you do you and believe what you want to believe instead of facts.
yeah, yeah, Oakland is a great market: YET all 4 pro teams left will or be GONE!! Give me a break, Homer!
😭 this has ruined so many days for me and my family 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 we have always be fans and love the OAKLAND A’s
This happens and I can’t with sports anymore
MLB shows it’s f the fans we only want $$$
🖕🏼manfred
Hope Vegas says no and Gap boy sells. Vegas should get expansion team