Great job on this subject from both of you. Went tonight with my son one last time. Saw so many incredible moments in that park. Rickey breaking the record, Stewart vs Clemons, A’s vs Giants in 89, and 20 in a row. Saw all them moments live. I hadn’t been back in 3 years since that prick John Fisher said he was moving. It felt good to feel the Oakland vibe and energy one last time tonight. Oakland forever!!!
Damon - thanks for this segment. FWIW - you are not the only person that thinks the door to Oakland is completely closed (e.g., former Marlins team president David Samson has laid out a plausible Oakland scenario). People on the ground in LV who are connected to the "scene" have indicted John Fisher is not a serious person and is completely out of his element. There is no appetite for the A's in LV. Additionally, the A's must spend 100 million of their own $, to access the public funds. This is not even counting problems with the Tropicana site. There is "talk" of the Seminole tribe being interested in helping in Sacramento but short of that, there is no money. The bottom line is Fisher can't close - no matter if it's LV, HT, Sacramento, Salt Lake, etc. and that's a big problem for MLB going into the upcoming CBA with the MLBPA. Karma might be a wonderful bitch.
This whole situation absolutely sucks. I’m an A’s fan who grew up in the east bay and moved to the Sac suburbs in 03 with my parents as a 15 year old. I don’t even know if I’m going to watch my childhood team anymore now that they will be playing this close to me. I can’t give clown ass Fisher any of my money.
My hope … the LV thing goes nowhere and MLB finally does the right thing and forces JF to sell to an owner who is committed to bringing back and keeping the A’s in Oakland. FJF
@@gabbax2hey77 It ain't going to happen. They are going to do great in Las Vegas. And MLB knows that. Face it In and Out Burger left too. Sadly Oakland is a ghetto. And dangerous.
@@gabbax2hey77 While anyone would support stadium employees and contract workers getting some severance and at least a temporary continuation of health insurance, sure as hell not gonna cosign all this moaning about this guy. When you own something you have the right to do with it as you please and really don't have to explain yourself to anyone. It takes money and new buildings to hold teams these days-play ball or bye, bye. Really that simple. Since Oakland has lost pretty much every pro franchise they had, maybe the problem is with the town and the people there rather than the owners.
The worthless commissioner Manford should have forced Fisher to sell the team, it’s a disgrace that he had allowed Fisher to run the team into the ground like he has.
@@XNTN808 probably about 20 and I live an hour away and I’m retired on a fixed income but I find a way to be there. I’ve been a fan since 1968 and I saw their very first game ever at the Coliseum on my mom and dad‘s black-and-white Sony portable TV, so I’ve been a huge fan of this team from day one .
@@eddief9254 because Manford is the commissioner he has a final say in everything. It’s a bad look on major-league baseball when you allow an owner to run a team into the ground just like John Fisher has done to the A’s these last three years living here in the bay area and putting up with all of Fisher crap raising ticket prices, raising parking hardly any promotions and all he wants is a revenue check. That’s all Fisher cares about, his mommy and daddy‘s money that he inherited that he didn’t earn himself. He’s like a little kid in the candy store and then he’s got the guts to ask for money for a stadium. He’s not the only one to blame too, I blame the politicians in Oakland also too there’s no reason why they can’t have a stadium built in Oakland and there’s a couple of groups out there that would love to buy the team and keep the team in Oakland and build a stadium , I feel bad for the White Sox fans too because the way their owner is running the team into the ground. It’s terrible, if you’re not in this business as an owner to win, then you have no business owning a major league franchise.
Plus the commish should have forced them to leave the name in Oakland. Like how Cleveland kept the Browns name when their owner skipped out with the team
I agree, Damon. Some people are so authentic and talented that they don't need a parachute. I'd put Brodie in that category. I'm still not sure what happened at NBCSC. What happened to his Sharks gig? Do the A's still have a contract with NBC? I'm not sure Brodie can answer those types of questions (God knows they probably attached a hellacious NDA to any severance they might have given him). But since RSNs (Ballys) are tanking everywhere, I'm wondering if the ship is already shoaled over there...OBTW...There is an election coming up. In Nevada. In the Legislature. This whole A's apple cart could get kicked over this coming January, and if I were a betting man, I would say that is probable. Maybe Ranadive counted on this. I can't believe he would SIMP so hard on a guy like Fisher, "friends" or not...
I'm in the agreement. I think the A's will be back. No way will the players association approve games in Sac without a dome. It's a scorcher! Thanks for having Brodie on. He's been a class act this whole time.
Brodie is letting his emotional attachment to the team get in the way of simple logic. The total unwillingness of so many to recognize the truth about why the A’s left is really annoying, to be honest.
He's not clueless or tone deaf. He doesn't give AF. He didn't get the money he wanted from Oakland & is now giving the city & the fans one last "fuck you"
I can’t believe that John Fisher is that oblivious that he would post this letter and not understand the backlash. He’s doing it on purpose and specifically saying “f&$ you” to the fans. That, and posturing to Las Vegas hoping that they will see him as a good guy. Vegas, I feel sorry for you if you can’t see it coming. You’re in for a rude awakening in a few years.
The situation in Oakland is 100% unsustainable for an MLB franchise currently. Stadium falling apart, basically a triple A roster, surrounding area with little to no support. However… it’s the Owner who has played a HUGE role in making it this way over the years. The fact is the people who shell out their hard earned money, the fans have been screwed over by the incompetence of this ownership and the City leadership to not make this work. It could have worked but you must have leadership on all sides committed to it.
Wobble in your voice . Great way to put it Damon but to me that takes a back seat to your Craka-Lacka Shift which I used countless times to describe my early call time shifts when I worked for the Oakland Athletics. Be safe Damon Bruce...
For Brodie to be able to go through this whole mess and keep a straight face without saying one bad word or showing emotions all these years, tells me Brodie has huge Brass Balls. I’m with Damon on this, I would have purposely gone off the rails. Nice to hear your voice again Bruce, I have not heard much of you since your days at 95.7FM… I miss your reporting and personality.
I could careless about the letter, we’re all responding like this is our first introduction to John fisher. At the end of the day none of this will bring back our A’s. I doubt we ever see pro sports back in Oakland if Seattle hasn’t been given back the SuperSonics were going to wait forever.
@@Johnfisher12345 John Fisher doesn't own the Raiders. Fisher doesn't own the Warriors, who only crossed the bay. Rest assured that he had no hand in the Oakland Seals hockey team, who went extinct back in the mid-70's.
@arthurgscholich3833 That’s exactly the point: The city of Oakland killed ALL pro sports there, including the A’s. John Fisher did what anyone in their right mind would do.
I wish the A's had the Angels payroll, at least your owner actually spends money and tries. He just has a terrible GM and front office making terrible baseball player decisions, over paying for talent. They need to a new GM and scouting department.
How much more money does a billionaire owner need? He could of been a bay area hero. Instead, just another Vegas CEO overcharging tourists for their entertainment..
I don’t understand any of this … where do Fans and baseball tradition stand with Owners and the MLB these days ? New stadiums and more $$$ obviously mean more than Fans or baseball tradition …
Such misguided hatred. If you owned a business in a failing city, you’d move to rather than continue to invest. Every business man would. But somehow people seem to think baseball is a charity, not a for-profit business.
Brazil biodie I'm sorry for the city of Oakland for losing their baseball team it really sucks when the ownership and how to see treated the teams I live in Dallas fort Worth if lost Texas rangers or the Houston Astros I'll be very pissed off and I don't blame the Oakland fans and you yourself for being pissed off too this is complete bulshit in MLB should do something about it and stop being silent and quiet about it listen to the fans in the City and not move the A's😢
This was almost unintelligible. All it would take for you is one trip to the hellhole that is Oakland and see the area around the ballpark for yourself and you will understand instantly why they left. I’ve seen been to both stadiums, and if you’ve never been to Oakland you simply have no concept of just how bad it is.
Yup, that would have done it. From Day 1 he wanted out of Oakland, searching for land in Fremont and San Jose. Then he puts this crazy Howard Terminal project that's way over his head, then bails on that. Just a new, modern ballpark on the Coliseum site would be great. Add some developments down the road, clean the area up, make a difference in an area that really needs it. But No!!
The truth? Do you really want the truth? Well Oakland is a ghetto. The Coliseum is old and ancient. Oakland can't afford to fund their schools properly. The A's have never made much money there and how can they compete when now they are basically the Yankees farm club. And they needed a new stadium twenty years ago. Be honest has the Oakland fans ever really supported them? What kind of attendance have the A's had? In Las Vegas this will change big time. Plus it will be a whole lot safer to go to a game.
Someone buy the team and keep them in Oakland. John Fischer is worse than Jed York. Never though I'd say that. Vegas can get an expansion. So can Sacramento, Portland, Nashville, Charlotte and Montreal.
@@jasontapia1032 Everyone has a price. Charlie Finely would never have abandoned Oakland. He's probably rolling his grave right now. This is why I'm starting to not care about pro sports. They don't allow this shit in other countries.
@jasontapia1032 NOBODY wants to invest in Oakland, sports teams or other businesses. It’s a failed city. The city forced everyone out. People REALLY need to understand that instead of spewing misguided hatred towards the owner who is doing the right thing for his business.
PONY UP THE MONEY OR SHUT UP. Not gonna listen to a bunch of sads whining about some rich guy and how he's doing them wrong and all that f-ing nonsense. Quite simple in sports today, these teams and owners require new stadiums and if the town won't support it they leave. Get with the program. Owner guy doesn't owe that place anything nor does he have to explain himself. Maybe the problem is that jerk water town which has lost every pro franchise it ever had. COINCIDENCE??? Probably not.
When someone, like Fisher, is not transparent and honest, it leads people to speculate about conspiracy theories. My conspiracy theory is that Fisher isn’t making decisions. Fisher sold his soul, and the soul of the A’s, to the Commissioner by accepting millions and millions of dollars in revenue sharing (and he still is!) from MLB. It’s the Commissioner who pulled the plug on Oakland, the Commissioner who decided the A’s are moving to Vegas. Lacking truth from Fisher, that’s my theory.
Why wouldn't the players and MLB just oust Fisher from ownership? They've done it before with the Dodgers. It would be so much better for the sport financially just to get rid of him. I live in Virginia. I've been an A's fan since I was a kid in the late '80s with the arrival of the Bash Brothers. Although I'm across the country, I've watched thousands of games...whenever I could. Here's what outsiders like me generally thing about all of this: we acknowledge it's a shame for the fans. However, there are countless times where even when they were winning the fans didn't show. The stadium is awful and it shows on TV. It seems to me from watching them and in their attendance figures that Oakland has never been a great baseball town. If it were it wouldn't get 13K in mid-September when they're winning the division. It's always floored me when I saw that. It was ridiculous. Again, the ownership certainly hasn't helped things but there hasn't been great fan support either.
The Dodgers situation was financial, McCourt literally couldn't afford to keep the team. Fisher isn't in financial trouble, he's just gamed the system in MLB to force them to allow relocation. I'm sure there are 10-20 owners that don't like what happened in Oakland, but they don't want to set a precedent that the other owners can just vote them out if they don't like they way they are running their team.
@kcnoise Talk about tone deaf! Do you even hear yourself?? Force a for-profit business to stay in a failed city with a failed market that cannot make anything like the kind of money it can make elsewhere?? What is this, Venezuela?? What is wrong with you people??
I'm not sure why anyone is still beating the A's fans got hosed drum. It's over. Is it a coincidence that the Warriors and Raiders left town too? This is such a ridiculous thing. Is it possible that it's not just the A's ownership? *** Just found the letter and what's the big deal? What was everyone expecting? Doesn't matter what he said it'd be a problem. If he left town and said nothing he'd be blasted for not thanking the fans. It's lose lose situation. I'd just remember the A's are the 3rd major sport to leave town in 5 years not the 1st. There is one common denominator in all of this and it's not the A's.
@GuillermoSanchez-jr6mp It was ONE HUNDRED PERCENT the city’s fault due to its incredibly poor “leadership”, what are you talking about?? Stop blaming Fisher while totally ignoring the crumbing, destroyed, worthless city all around you!
The A’s are a for profit company, the attendance in Oakland has been far below the league average for a very long time, except for an occasional year. Oakland has lost a football team now a baseball team and other businesses are leaving. If I owned the team I would simply say well folks I am following the money … just like lots of businesses.
@@dispatcherrich Since 1968 the A’s have only exceeded the MLF average attendance 5 or 6 times. That does not make for profitable baseball. And in the era of free agency you cannot compete. Just ask the Pirates. Granted the A’s are in the 10th biggest media market but with that attendance I doubt A’s the media income is in the top ten. I have no doubt the ownership is not the strongest but that is pretty poor attendance even prior to him acquiring the team.
@GuillermoSanchez-jr6mp I can’t speak for the original commenter, but I HAVE been there and calling it a pit is being VERY gentle about it. The city, the stadium and the area around it are totally indefensible. AWFUL. Nobody in their right mind would keep ANY kind of business there, especially a major sports team. The A’s should have left 15 years ago.
We 💗 you Brodie! Thanks for this Damon 😊
Great job on this subject from both of you. Went tonight with my son one last time. Saw so many incredible moments in that park. Rickey breaking the record, Stewart vs Clemons, A’s vs Giants in 89, and 20 in a row. Saw all them moments live. I hadn’t been back in 3 years since that prick John Fisher said he was moving. It felt good to feel the Oakland vibe and energy one last time tonight. Oakland forever!!!
Damon - thanks for this segment. FWIW - you are not the only person that thinks the door to Oakland is completely closed (e.g., former Marlins team president David Samson has laid out a plausible Oakland scenario). People on the ground in LV who are connected to the "scene" have indicted John Fisher is not a serious person and is completely out of his element. There is no appetite for the A's in LV. Additionally, the A's must spend 100 million of their own $, to access the public funds. This is not even counting problems with the Tropicana site. There is "talk" of the Seminole tribe being interested in helping in Sacramento but short of that, there is no money. The bottom line is Fisher can't close - no matter if it's LV, HT, Sacramento, Salt Lake, etc. and that's a big problem for MLB going into the upcoming CBA with the MLBPA. Karma might be a wonderful bitch.
This whole situation absolutely sucks. I’m an A’s fan who grew up in the east bay and moved to the Sac suburbs in 03 with my parents as a 15 year old. I don’t even know if I’m going to watch my childhood team anymore now that they will be playing this close to me. I can’t give clown ass Fisher any of my money.
My hope … the LV thing goes nowhere and MLB finally does the right thing and forces JF to sell to an owner who is committed to bringing back and keeping the A’s in Oakland.
FJF
Charlie Finley is rolling in his grave.
Neither the Sacramento deal nor the Las Vegas deal has the necessary funding.
@@scotttild tell that to Frank McCourt
@@gabbax2hey77 It ain't going to happen. They are going to do great in Las Vegas. And MLB knows that. Face it In and Out Burger left too. Sadly Oakland is a ghetto. And dangerous.
@@gabbax2hey77 While anyone would support stadium employees and contract workers getting some severance and at least a temporary continuation of health insurance, sure as hell not gonna cosign all this moaning about this guy. When you own something you have the right to do with it as you please and really don't have to explain yourself to anyone. It takes money and new buildings to hold teams these days-play ball or bye, bye. Really that simple. Since Oakland has lost pretty much every pro franchise they had, maybe the problem is with the town and the people there rather than the owners.
Can't wait to hear Brody take the governor off... Always wanted to hear what he's really feeling and thinking right now and for the last few years
All i would have say to John Fisher as an A's fan - I could sum it up in one finger . . !!!
The worthless commissioner Manford should have forced Fisher to sell the team, it’s a disgrace that he had allowed Fisher to run the team into the ground like he has.
how many games did you go to in the last ten years?
@@XNTN808 probably about 20 and I live an hour away and I’m retired on a fixed income but I find a way to be there. I’ve been a fan since 1968 and I saw their very first game ever at the Coliseum on my mom and dad‘s black-and-white Sony portable TV, so I’ve been a huge fan of this team from day one .
Why do people blame Manford he works for the owners smh he's also a loser
@@eddief9254 because Manford is the commissioner he has a final say in everything. It’s a bad look on major-league baseball when you allow an owner to run a team into the ground just like John Fisher has done to the A’s these last three years living here in the bay area and putting up with all of Fisher crap raising ticket prices, raising parking hardly any promotions and all he wants is a revenue check. That’s all Fisher cares about, his mommy and daddy‘s money that he inherited that he didn’t earn himself. He’s like a little kid in the candy store and then he’s got the guts to ask for money for a stadium. He’s not the only one to blame too, I blame the politicians in Oakland also too there’s no reason why they can’t have a stadium built in Oakland and there’s a couple of groups out there that would love to buy the team and keep the team in Oakland and build a stadium , I feel bad for the White Sox fans too because the way their owner is running the team into the ground. It’s terrible, if you’re not in this business as an owner to win, then you have no business owning a major league franchise.
Plus the commish should have forced them to leave the name in Oakland. Like how Cleveland kept the Browns name when their owner skipped out with the team
I agree, Damon. Some people are so authentic and talented that they don't need a parachute. I'd put Brodie in that category. I'm still not sure what happened at NBCSC. What happened to his Sharks gig? Do the A's still have a contract with NBC? I'm not sure Brodie can answer those types of questions (God knows they probably attached a hellacious NDA to any severance they might have given him). But since RSNs (Ballys) are tanking everywhere, I'm wondering if the ship is already shoaled over there...OBTW...There is an election coming up. In Nevada. In the Legislature. This whole A's apple cart could get kicked over this coming January, and if I were a betting man, I would say that is probable. Maybe Ranadive counted on this. I can't believe he would SIMP so hard on a guy like Fisher, "friends" or not...
I'm in the agreement. I think the A's will be back. No way will the players association approve games in Sac without a dome. It's a scorcher!
Thanks for having Brodie on. He's been a class act this whole time.
Just as certain that you’ll in Oakland assumed there was no way the owners would approve the Vegas relocation.
Brodie is letting his emotional attachment to the team get in the way of simple logic. The total unwillingness of so many to recognize the truth about why the A’s left is really annoying, to be honest.
He's not clueless or tone deaf. He doesn't give AF. He didn't get the money he wanted from Oakland & is now giving the city & the fans one last "fuck you"
Exactly. That, and posturing to the Vegas public that he's a 'good guy'. Vegas is in for a rude awakening in a few years.
@@murrayklow honestly I think Vegas knows, but they're so desperate for an MLB team that they're willing to overlook it for now
But... But... He's tried EVERYTHING AND IS SO SO SORRY 😞🥺
Fjf.
I can’t believe that John Fisher is that oblivious that he would post this letter and not understand the backlash. He’s doing it on purpose and specifically saying “f&$ you” to the fans. That, and posturing to Las Vegas hoping that they will see him as a good guy. Vegas, I feel sorry for you if you can’t see it coming. You’re in for a rude awakening in a few years.
The situation in Oakland is 100% unsustainable for an MLB franchise currently. Stadium falling apart, basically a triple A roster, surrounding area with little to no support. However… it’s the Owner who has played a HUGE role in making it this way over the years. The fact is the people who shell out their hard earned money, the fans have been screwed over by the incompetence of this ownership and the City leadership to not make this work. It could have worked but you must have leadership on all sides committed to it.
Wobble in your voice . Great way to put it Damon but to me that takes a back seat to your Craka-Lacka Shift which I used countless times to describe my early call time shifts when I worked for the Oakland Athletics. Be safe Damon Bruce...
Right on
This is so awful that Oakland A's are moving cause John Fischer isn't a good owner cause he is a snake oil salesman
Its also on the MLB owners and Manfred for allowing it to happen. The difference with Sacramento is that they had the backing of David Stern.
I believe it’s Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire’s fault, they stopped producing years ago.
@@Rick-C-117 They traded away their best players to contenders or let them walk and got nothing in return
You rock Brodie ...I think you will land just fine !!
I remember when he started on cal hi sports report 😊
How many companies or businesses are going to Oakland to open up shop because it is a safe well run city?
For Brodie to be able to go through this whole mess and keep a straight face without saying one bad word or showing emotions all these years, tells me Brodie has huge Brass Balls.
I’m with Damon on this, I would have purposely gone off the rails.
Nice to hear your voice again Bruce, I have not heard much of you since your days at 95.7FM… I miss your reporting and personality.
I’m here now, and better than ever. Hope ya subscribe. Cheers Adrian
Brodie is a true good person
I could careless about the letter, we’re all responding like this is our first introduction to John fisher. At the end of the day none of this will bring back our A’s. I doubt we ever see pro sports back in Oakland if Seattle hasn’t been given back the SuperSonics were going to wait forever.
DISGRACEBALL: If you kill the market, you can move your team.
Such incredible foolishness, to blame one man for FOUR pro teams leaving Oakland as the city rots down the tubes. Amazing ignorance!
@@Johnfisher12345 John Fisher doesn't own the Raiders. Fisher doesn't own the Warriors, who only crossed the bay. Rest assured that he had no hand in the Oakland Seals hockey team, who went extinct back in the mid-70's.
@arthurgscholich3833 That’s exactly the point: The city of Oakland killed ALL pro sports there, including the A’s. John Fisher did what anyone in their right mind would do.
A billionaire who wants it all served on a silver platter with his silver spoon.
So are the Angels teams
I wish the A's had the Angels payroll, at least your owner actually spends money and tries. He just has a terrible GM and front office making terrible baseball player decisions, over paying for talent. They need to a new GM and scouting department.
Yes it was an insulting letter. I only read part of it but it's total B.S.
The city government in Oakland deserves a lot of blame for this as well. They have allowed 3 sports teams to bail.
They deserve essentially all of the blame. FOUR teams, at that.
And politicians as well….
How much more money does a billionaire owner need? He could of been a bay area hero. Instead, just another Vegas CEO overcharging tourists for their entertainment..
The truth isn't hard to see Oakland is a terrible city and businesses are fleeing
Taxpayers should never have to pay for a stadium. Oakland is a poop hole
Fisher & Fahran, LLC
The Tone Deaf Dream Team
It's like, hey A's fans, let me spread that wound open, and pour some salt in there!!! SELL THE TEAM! FIRE FISCHER, FIRE MCDANIELS!!!
I don’t understand any of this … where do Fans and baseball tradition stand with Owners and the MLB these days ? New stadiums and more $$$ obviously mean more than Fans or baseball tradition …
Yep!! Only takes one idiotic grifter to ruin it for everyone!! Thx fisher For Nuthin'!!! 😡😡😡
You're hatred should be towards MLB and the owners. They wanted this to happen and they facilitated it.
Such misguided hatred. If you owned a business in a failing city, you’d move to rather than continue to invest. Every business man would. But somehow people seem to think baseball is a charity, not a for-profit business.
Brazil biodie I'm sorry for the city of Oakland for losing their baseball team it really sucks when the ownership and how to see treated the teams I live in Dallas fort Worth if lost Texas rangers or the Houston Astros I'll be very pissed off and I don't blame the Oakland fans and you yourself for being pissed off too this is complete bulshit in MLB should do something about it and stop being silent and quiet about it listen to the fans in the City and not move the A's😢
This was almost unintelligible. All it would take for you is one trip to the hellhole that is Oakland and see the area around the ballpark for yourself and you will understand instantly why they left. I’ve seen been to both stadiums, and if you’ve never been to Oakland you simply have no concept of just how bad it is.
He would've gotten a better reaction if he had just said "Forget you all. It's my team. Im rich! We're gone and you all suck!"
Yup, that would have done it. From Day 1 he wanted out of Oakland, searching for land in Fremont and San Jose. Then he puts this crazy Howard Terminal project that's way over his head, then bails on that. Just a new, modern ballpark on the Coliseum site would be great. Add some developments down the road, clean the area up, make a difference in an area that really needs it. But No!!
The truth? Do you really want the truth? Well Oakland is a ghetto. The Coliseum is old and ancient. Oakland can't afford to fund their schools properly. The A's have never made much money there and how can they compete when now they are basically the Yankees farm club. And they needed a new stadium twenty years ago. Be honest has the Oakland fans ever really supported them? What kind of attendance have the A's had? In Las Vegas this will change big time. Plus it will be a whole lot safer to go to a game.
Someone buy the team and keep them in Oakland. John Fischer is worse than Jed York. Never though I'd say that.
Vegas can get an expansion. So can Sacramento, Portland, Nashville, Charlotte and Montreal.
Can't buy the team if Fisher doesn't want to sell. It seems like MLB and the owners don't want to be in the Oakland market anymore.
@@jasontapia1032 Everyone has a price. Charlie Finely would never have abandoned Oakland. He's probably rolling his grave right now. This is why I'm starting to not care about pro sports. They don't allow this shit in other countries.
@jasontapia1032 NOBODY wants to invest in Oakland, sports teams or other businesses. It’s a failed city. The city forced everyone out. People REALLY need to understand that instead of spewing misguided hatred towards the owner who is doing the right thing for his business.
@NerdNest83 No he's not. Finley was Fisher before Fisher.
@@Johnfisher12345Nobody except for the guys who want to buy the A's and keep them in the Bay.
John Fisher is a cork soaker!
That fargin’ cork soaker
PONY UP THE MONEY OR SHUT UP. Not gonna listen to a bunch of sads whining about some rich guy and how he's doing them wrong and all that f-ing nonsense. Quite simple in sports today, these teams and owners require new stadiums and if the town won't support it they leave. Get with the program. Owner guy doesn't owe that place anything nor does he have to explain himself. Maybe the problem is that jerk water town which has lost every pro franchise it ever had. COINCIDENCE??? Probably not.
When someone, like Fisher, is not transparent and honest, it leads people to speculate about conspiracy theories. My conspiracy theory is that Fisher isn’t making decisions. Fisher sold his soul, and the soul of the A’s, to the Commissioner by accepting millions and millions of dollars in revenue sharing (and he still is!) from MLB. It’s the Commissioner who pulled the plug on Oakland, the Commissioner who decided the A’s are moving to Vegas. Lacking truth from Fisher, that’s my theory.
Why wouldn't the players and MLB just oust Fisher from ownership? They've done it before with the Dodgers. It would be so much better for the sport financially just to get rid of him. I live in Virginia. I've been an A's fan since I was a kid in the late '80s with the arrival of the Bash Brothers. Although I'm across the country, I've watched thousands of games...whenever I could. Here's what outsiders like me generally thing about all of this: we acknowledge it's a shame for the fans. However, there are countless times where even when they were winning the fans didn't show. The stadium is awful and it shows on TV. It seems to me from watching them and in their attendance figures that Oakland has never been a great baseball town. If it were it wouldn't get 13K in mid-September when they're winning the division. It's always floored me when I saw that. It was ridiculous. Again, the ownership certainly hasn't helped things but there hasn't been great fan support either.
The Dodgers situation was financial, McCourt literally couldn't afford to keep the team. Fisher isn't in financial trouble, he's just gamed the system in MLB to force them to allow relocation. I'm sure there are 10-20 owners that don't like what happened in Oakland, but they don't want to set a precedent that the other owners can just vote them out if they don't like they way they are running their team.
@kcnoise Talk about tone deaf! Do you even hear yourself?? Force a for-profit business to stay in a failed city with a failed market that cannot make anything like the kind of money it can make elsewhere?? What is this, Venezuela?? What is wrong with you people??
I'm not sure why anyone is still beating the A's fans got hosed drum. It's over. Is it a coincidence that the Warriors and Raiders left town too? This is such a ridiculous thing. Is it possible that it's not just the A's ownership?
*** Just found the letter and what's the big deal? What was everyone expecting? Doesn't matter what he said it'd be a problem. If he left town and said nothing he'd be blasted for not thanking the fans. It's lose lose situation. I'd just remember the A's are the 3rd major sport to leave town in 5 years not the 1st. There is one common denominator in all of this and it's not the A's.
The TRUTH: The City of Oakland lost the Seals, Raiders, Warriors and now, the Athletics.
It wasn’t the cities fault
@GuillermoSanchez-jr6mp It was ONE HUNDRED PERCENT the city’s fault due to its incredibly poor “leadership”, what are you talking about?? Stop blaming Fisher while totally ignoring the crumbing, destroyed, worthless city all around you!
The A’s are a for profit company, the attendance in Oakland has been far below the league average for a very long time, except for an occasional year. Oakland has lost a football team now a baseball team and other businesses are leaving. If I owned the team I would simply say well folks I am following the money … just like lots of businesses.
The issue is John Fisher sabotaged the team in order to get the attendance to drop making it look like there was no fan base.
@@dispatcherrich Since 1968 the A’s have only exceeded the MLF average attendance 5 or 6 times. That does not make for profitable baseball. And in the era of free agency you cannot compete. Just ask the Pirates. Granted the A’s are in the 10th biggest media market but with that attendance I doubt A’s the media income is in the top ten. I have no doubt the ownership is not the strongest but that is pretty poor attendance even prior to him acquiring the team.
@@derjaeger3321prior to him acquiring the team and years after there were sell outs
Finally, someone who really gets it!
The truth? Oakland is a pit, and no one wants to play there anymore.
You haven’t been there or are scared
@GuillermoSanchez-jr6mp I can’t speak for the original commenter, but I HAVE been there and calling it a pit is being VERY gentle about it. The city, the stadium and the area around it are totally indefensible. AWFUL. Nobody in their right mind would keep ANY kind of business there, especially a major sports team. The A’s should have left 15 years ago.
He would've gotten a better reaction if he had just said "Forget you all. It's my team. Im rich! We're gone and you all suck!"