This season I watched almost no baseball for the first time in my life. Always appreciated your honest opinion about the A's. I'm glad everyone in the sports landscape in the Bay Area is calling Fisher out even if it's too late. I feel much as you do, my love for baseball is draining away because of greedy owners. Great job, keep being you.
@@texasniner7747 then you’re delusional. The city wanted the team to build far more than just a ballpark. There’s a reason every professional sports franchise has fled Oakland.
This is why I watch the Pluce over lunch. Damon's been on the #FJF leading edge for years. As a longtime A's fan, I appreciate that someone in Bay Area sports talk is talking about this topic.
Goodbye to 38 years of being an Oakland A's fan. I will not be a fan of any other team. I'm done with the MLB unless we get a Browns/Ravens type of expansion deal in Oakland with the name being Athletics. I'll always miss the banter that we used to have between A's and Giants fans. Thanks Damon. You pissed me off a few times on the radio with your negative talk against the A's but you've been speaking the truth regarding A's ownership and what ended up happening with relocation.
Professional sports are corporations now. They have advertising everywhere, they ruined the uniforms with the AD patches. I don't even see the individual player anymore, it's more like Nascar. Hopefully people wake up to this. I canceled my TH-cam tv subscription. I'm done with sports
@@ronclark9724 Warriors wanted a better more up to date arena. They’re still in the Bay Area market. So people from Oakland can still go to the game. They did leave Oakland but same market. So kinda not really.
You hit everything: 1) A’s tanked the team to the point where it was the worse win-loss record in all of Oakland A’s baseball history 2) he not only failed to maintain the stadium, but he decreased the rest of the fan experience 3) he doubled ticket prices when all of this was going on 4) sharp decrease in attendance due to all of the above, yet Fisher and Manfred used it as an excuse to say baseball can’t succeed in Oakland 5).Oakland is one of the most diverse cities in America, with a beautiful mix of white, black, Latino and Asian that truly represents America. Yet MLB is stealing the city’s team, just 3 short years after the league virtue signaled with “BLM” on every pitching mound. 6) Fiaher never really settled on a feasible plan in Oakland until a few years ago. Then not only was it a gigantic project, but there was something like a PANDEMIC that slowed the process down. The “parallel paths in Vegas started before life could get back to normal, and by then Oakland no longer had a shot with MLB waiving the relocation fee, even though the city managed to secure all of the money Fisher asked for 7) the fact MLB unanimously approved the “plan” that has huge holes in it tells us all we need to know, that this was rammed through, all for the money. MLB doesn’t care about its fans, diversity, nothing other than their bottom line. 8) I’m done with MLB, the sport that represents my childhood pastime. Even the Giants, who approved the deal, will not see another penny from me.
Was this a 20 year plan by Fisher? It seems like the city didn’t necessarily play ball either over that time. I do think Fisher got cold feet because Oakland called his bluff.
The warriors won multiple championships in Oakland. The A's won multiple championships in Oakland. The raiders won multiple championships in Oakland. Now they're all gone. And Vegas will soon have all 4 major sports and WNBA and they and the Knights already have championships. Pathetic. FJF.
I met Fisher 1 time .This was when he first became the owner ,he and Mr.Wolfe came into my section (when I was an usher there) I didn't like him from that get-go
Schott & Hoffman started all of this by sitting on their hands on getting a new ballpark when the team across the Bay was doing just that. Then Fisher and Wolff just continued that trend when they bought the team.
@@damonbruceplus yep. I also thought that with the Warriors and Raiders leaving they would have been able to capitalize on that, but they blew that opportunity too.
Definitely a Giants fan but have lived in the Bay Area for a long time. Sad day for the Bay Area. I hope the franchise improves with the move. A's fans, staff, and players deserve it.
I hate the people that say Oakland lost 3 teams in a few years. That clown Stephen A Smith especially. As for the Raiders they have always been nomadic. As for the Warriors they were never Oakland's team. They represent the Bay Area as a whole. They moved to San Francisco but they're still in the Bay Area and still represent it as a whole. The Golden Seals were more than 40 years ago and are barely worth mentioning. The A's though ARE without a doubt Oakland's team. San Francisco has their own team. The A's have been in Oakland for over 55 years and won 4 WS. They were and IMO absolutely rooted in Oakland and that POS John Fisher who hasn't worked a day in his life killed them. They were extremely close on the Howard Terminal deal and the City of Oakland had performed multiple steps to get it off the ground. They'd secured federal funding. They'd successfully defended challenges to it in court. They'd completed environmental impact studies to get it approved. This is just a sad sad day for East Bay fans, baseball fans and sports fans in general. I'm not even from North America and I'm devastated. I'm so f'ing sick of billionaires holding struggling cities to ransom to get stadiums built that are a bad investment for cities especially when the owner can afford to fund the stadium themselves. I'm sick of cities having to divert funds from critical infrastructure and from education to build these poor investments just to keep a team that is run by people who've never had to work a day in their life. I'm by no means a communist but this is what is wrong with the USA!
I live 3 hours north of Oakland and that stadium and team means so much to me and my family I can’t even start to explain it!!! Thank you DB for those words of wisdom!!! I really don’t know how to feel.
Time to put on Funeral for a Friend by Sir Elton John. I’ve already vented my emotions today in the chat but I do wish that Reggie Jackson or Joe Lacob had bought the team.
I'll always have the 2012 team. I loved that squad. All credit to that year's team across the bay, but the 2012 A's, in their own A's way, were magnificent.
Thank you D B for the requiem! Beautifully said! So long baseball! One team coming to Oakland….NSL Oakland Roots soccer club should have a new stadium built in a couple of years. Let’s go Oakland!!
Saw the NYTimes call the A’s leaving Oakland the death of working man’s sports and that seems so accurate. Watching games is harder than ever. Attending games is more expensive than ever. Baseball sells its legacy more than any other sport, as it should. Allowing this team to abandon Oakland seems a damn shame.
We never hated you Damon. We just lashed out in every direction as our heritage and family identity was destroyed by trash ownership. Its over now. Take care. ❤ its over for us now.
@@ripcougrrebl I was a 21 year old Marine down in Camp Pendleton in 88. I was running my mouth for a week about how Oakland was going to beat down LA. I still don't know how the hell they lost, or how Hershiser turned into Sandy Kolfax for a while... I learned to never get too cocky about sports, after that! The next year more than made up for it though! The Gnats damn sure don't have territorial rights on who the East Bay should root for!
I am 50 years old Damon. When I was 8 my grandpa grabbed me and my cousin who is 3 years older than me and he took us to an A’s game. From that day on, my cousin and I were the only A’s fans in my large family. Everyone else loves the giants. My entire family attended the March on baseball when Sacramento sent thousands of fans on buses to the A’s/Yankees game to lobby baseball for baseball in Sacramento. Hundreds of buses going down hwy 80 and a sea of blue took over the colosseum. I was in the upper level out in mount Davis when Giambi didn’t slide against the Yankees. I’ve had so many good times at A’s games and it’s a shame that MLB and Fischer completly killed my fandom. I haven’t been to a game in years because I refuse to give my hard earned money to that POS of an owner. Screw Fischer and screw the MLB.
Nice job Damon. I decided a couple years ago not to give another penny to the A's and MLB even though I'm a lifelong A's fan. I firmly believe when an owner of anything is abusive and does not respect me or what I stand for I stop supporting that person financially. This move and everything that led up to it, and what it has exposed in the A's and MLB is just absolutely disgusting, and it firmly cements my commitment to never giving the A's or MLB another dime of my money. They are not worthy of my support.
Thanks for this DB. I've heard no one else say anything close to this. I got that same dumb ass email. I responded..F U JF and F U MLB . Thanks again DB. 👍👍
I honestly believe the A’s have been gone since the current owners took over. My favorite A’s teams were the ones where Ricky Henderson lead off for them.
I'm a huge A's fan who now lives in central Wisconsin, and it also sickens me that Mark Attanasio, the owner of the Brewers had Rob Manfred threaten the State of Wisconsin in giving him $545 million of approved money to fix up American Family Field, only 22 years old.
While territorial rights are bs, the move to San Jose would have been a disaster. Moving to a place that was 90% Giants fans in the height of their dynasty would not have worked out. Also, I live in Texas now, and just got to experience the Rangers World Series championship. Fisher and Rangers owner Ray Davis have similar political beliefs, but the two couldn't be more different in the way they run a baseball team.
Agreed, I also don't think San Jose would've been the utopia for the A's that A's fans believed it would've been. Look at how things are going for the Niners in Santa Clara for example? Yeah, San Jose and Santa Clara are different, but who's to say that the A's wouldn't run into the same problems in San Jose that the Niners currently are in Santa Clara. Also yes, like you alluded to, San Jose is Giants territory. Giants-A's games in San Jose probably would've been even more of a home game for the Giants, than Giants-A's games in Oakland currently are for the Giants... The A's belonged in Oakland over San Jose. Plus, San Jose A's just doesn't have a ring to it.
@@86byrdman Most A's fans were against the move to San Jose, it was mostly Wolff that wanted it. The problem with Levi's isn't the fact that it's in the South Bay, but more so the stadium design and the specific location. They chose the easiest option of building next to their practice facility.
@@OleDirtyHungus just the usual, sweetie, marinating, lamb chops, make an olive tapenade, making a Swiss chard and roasted pepper, gratin, roasted acorn squash. Got to keep the family I work for well fed!
I'm not sure I agree the Howard Terminal was always a poison pill. I think it's more likely that Fisher is just a completely out of touch idealist who thought he was capable of a massive development project (this was also pre-COVID commercial real-estate downturn). Either way I agree it's completely his fault. Howard Terminal easily could have been half the scale and still been a gem of a ballpark and development that even John Fisher, the seemingly "poorest" billionaire around, could afford.
Damon, you don’t really see what’s happening to the withering MLB, baseball is kinda broken, there’s 10 competitive teams, the rest are SOL also rans doing nothing but treading water.
I remember that Jason Barrett article after the A's left 95.7 in 2018. It sounds like the A's were bad business partners well before Kaval got there. If that was the case, why did the two parties even continue their relationship for 8 years? Why couldn't 95.7 kick 'em off earlier? It was a lose-lose relationship.
Sports has totally outpriced many fans. So MLB wants mega $$$ if Fisher sells "immediately" after arriving to Vegas. Sports can't make enough $$$. Baseball making money for sponsorships on the sleeves on their uniforms. Hockey advertises on the boards similar to international soccer, or futbol. Basketball having a beer sponsor the courts and advertising on uniform. Football advertising on tv. All amongst the sports, and networks, making money hand over fist. Then comes fisher. Taking $$$ and not investing into "his" ballclub. MLB gave him money and kept it.
So you ignore one big issue here. The A's didn't just walk about Oakland, see Howard Terminal, and say "Hey! That's where I want to build a $16B project!". The real villains were the ones who even thought this boondoggle was a good idea when there was a perfectly good spot of land where the Coliseum is. It was the years of infighting in the City Council, lawyers, and Unions that sank the project which was completely "a bridge too far". But the City let them try to move there. It could have, and should have said "No!" on day one. But they wanted the TAX REVENUE from increased property values in the area-- and got none.
It was also A’s who insisted a new spot was needed. Infighting was just window dressing the A’s used to force their way into the Howard Terminal folly.
@@damonbruceplus This is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo typical and the reason why things in Oakland are so screwed up. The A's can't build ANYWHERE they want. The City has to say what is and isn't possible. Ask the A's when Jerry Brown nixed a downtown stadium. The government that sold 1/2 of the Coliseum WITHOUT ANY CONDITIONS to Fisher at a discount is still in power. The City that allowed the A's to give up on the Coliseum and try to do Howard Terminal is still in power. Nothing changes. Nothing is learned because "its all the fault of John Fisher". WRONG!
I am going to the Coliseum in August when the Dodgers head over and I am excited to see the ballpark and the fan base. I hope they decide to make that game a reverse boycott.
I come from a Philadelphia A's household. My first game was my dad taking me to Shibe to watch the A's beat the Yanks in their farewell to Philly and hello to KC. A's won. Grown men in fedoras and suits crying like babies. I was reunited with the A's in '85 upon moving to the Bay Area and have loved them until now. I'm done. Go Phillies.
Is it true the A’s kinda kicked the Raiders out of Oakland ? So now they are following them after kicking them out ? John Fisher killed it man if that’s true !
They didn't really "kick them out." They just made it harder for them to build on the Coliseum site with the lease they signed back in 2014. Tbh though, the Raiders kind of deserved that, for coming back and turning the Coliseum into a terrible stadium.
Raiders wanted to leave Bay Area! Davis likes to use that as an excuse! He could’ve shared with Niners til a stadium was built in Oakland! Don’t believe Mark Davis
@@EvanEscherLibby Shaffer, who was the mayor at the time, had behind the scenes. Business deals with the Oakland Athletics. And so she cited with them over the raiders. Even though the safer bet would have been the raiders.
I will never understand why people from oakland do not think las vegas is diverse. You may have more black people than we do, but we have more mexicans by far than you do. Also more hawaiians considering we are considered the ninth island even in hawaii.
I've been an A's fan my entire life. This is absolutely garbage to see this team being ripped away from Oakland. Las Vegas better be prepared to be pissed off with the A's Ownership as there is no reason to believe that just because they will have a new stadium (in a much smaller market) that all of a sudden the Ownership Group is going to start doing right by the fans and players and injecting money into the team. If the Giants could actually land Shohei Ohtani this off-season it would make it far easier to eventually transition to a Giants fan. While I have always been cheering for them because they are a local team, my true team allegiance has always been the A's. It's more likely that I just won't end up being a fan of any teams once the A's leave. I'm glad I at least got to see them Win a World Series in my lifetime. #FJF
Vegas is absolutely going to be screwed, fans will realize Fisher will cash in on revenue sharing as his profit and keep a cheap almost entirely on pre-arb and minor league free agent players and get rid of the over performers once they get too expensive yet while over charging on tickets, parking, food and beer. The stadium will be filled with 70% of away fans. Fisher and Manfred are embarrassments to baseball.
Well of course. If you can take out the competition and have the entire market to yourself ya do. Plus they’ll make money as the A’s rent their stadium. It’s the only justified yes vote in MLB.
Nobody wants to hear about your "complicated relationship." 95.7 the game only ever talked about the Giants or crapped on the A's. That's why fans didn't listen to you.
Because the A's couldn't draw a picture, much less a crowd. Jesus, Sean, get your head out of your ass for a minute and pay attention. All I was right about, was everything. You're welcome.
Demonizing the MLB, the other teams owners, and Fisher only reveals you LOST the argument. Oakland would still have the A's if they had built a new stadium. If you build it, they will come. Easy peasy...This isn't rocket science...
Ron, I agree 100%. You have to realize that DB is also part of the media (like Brodie Brazil and Casey Pratt) and he can’t truly say what’s really going on otherwise he won’t have an audience that will support and listen to him.
It's not as simple as "if you build it, they will come." First, you have to build it, which isn't easy; then, you have to lure a team, which isn't easy. Look at places like San Antonio and Kansas City, who built stadiums, but no team came. Look at Pittsburgh, St. Petersburg, and Miami, who built stadiums for their teams, but the fans don't show up. It's not "easy peasy".
@@damonbruceplus Cities build stadiums to land and keep teams as they generate revenues for the city as much as they do to the teams. Cities usually get a cut of the parking and concessions, as well as rent for their investment in building stadiums. While individual owners may be able to arrange a loan to finance a stadium, they can't build them without city zoning and infrastructure improvements, especially water and sewer mains that only cities control. Furthermore cities reap significant sales taxes teams generate with not just ticket sales, but with merchandising and marketing. Usually the best solution for everyone is a public-private enterprise as stadiums increase the quality of life for sports fans which has a value as much as wealth. If you wish to LAND or KEEP a team, build a stadium as other cities WILL if you DON'T... Oakland will soon demolish the Coliseum as it holds NO value without a tenant...
@@EvanEscher San Antonio did attract the New Orleans Saints for most of a year after Hurricane Katrina left the Superdome unsuitable for the NFL. If the Las Vegas deal falls apart, at least San Antonio with the Alamodome serving as a temporary stadium can attract the A's as well. Texas has billionaires willing and able to buy the A's, one being Mark Cuban. Furthermore, San Antonio has the taxing ability to BUILD a NEW STADIUM with local political support LACKING in Oakland on the Riverwalk downtown across the freeway from the Alamodome. While San Antonio maybe a smaller market, combed with the nearby Austin market, South Central Texas is actually a huge market approaching SIX million and GROWING FAST...
Damn Damon. You absolutely nailed it.
This season I watched almost no baseball for the first time in my life. Always appreciated your honest opinion about the A's. I'm glad everyone in the sports landscape in the Bay Area is calling Fisher out even if it's too late. I feel much as you do, my love for baseball is draining away because of greedy owners. Great job, keep being you.
Thanks Brian.
This is a masterful segment, thank you Damon
Appreciate that Eric.
One thing you can’t take away from the A’s ownership. Best possum collection in MLB #FJF
That’s perfect.
Snakes 🐍
Shame on the Owners
Shame on the city of Oakland
@@califtomwhat? Shame on the city? Huh? I'm blaming the owners all the way.
@@texasniner7747 then you’re delusional. The city wanted the team to build far more than just a ballpark. There’s a reason every professional sports franchise has fled Oakland.
@califtom I live in texas so I'll bow to ur statement. I'm not aware but I'm never a fan of a team leaving that city.
@@califtomshame on John Fisher
This is why I watch the Pluce over lunch. Damon's been on the #FJF leading edge for years. As a longtime A's fan, I appreciate that someone in Bay Area sports talk is talking about this topic.
Thanks so much for watching. I'm sorry ya lost your team.
Goodbye to 38 years of being an Oakland A's fan. I will not be a fan of any other team. I'm done with the MLB unless we get a Browns/Ravens type of expansion deal in Oakland with the name being Athletics. I'll always miss the banter that we used to have between A's and Giants fans.
Thanks Damon. You pissed me off a few times on the radio with your negative talk against the A's but you've been speaking the truth regarding A's ownership and what ended up happening with relocation.
Thanxs for this Damon...you don't mince your words
I try not to mince anything but onions or garlic. Thanks Mike.
Its not just Johns fault, but every owner as well. Im Giants fan but its becoming very difficult to enjoy baseball anymore
sf giants owner voted yes. 'Nuff Said!!
😡😡😡😡
It’s all about the money. The owners don’t deserve ours
Professional sports are corporations now. They have advertising everywhere, they ruined the uniforms with the AD patches. I don't even see the individual player anymore, it's more like Nascar. Hopefully people wake up to this. I canceled my TH-cam tv subscription. I'm done with sports
Your owner wanted to leave for Tampa Bay at one point.
It is a very sad day that there are no more professional teams in Oakland. I hope someday Oakland will have another team come into this great city.
Apparently after losing two teams recently, Oakland proceeded to keep making the same mistakes and lost a third one...
@@ronclark9724can’t really count Warriors in that because they wanted a downtown on water stadium. Also they are still in the Bay Area market.
@@rudedude985 For real, right? The Warriors are a different case. Plus, their Bay Area history started in SF/Daly City
@@rudedude985 But NOT in OAKLAND...
@@ronclark9724 Warriors wanted a better more up to date arena. They’re still in the Bay Area market. So people from Oakland can still go to the game.
They did leave Oakland but same market. So kinda not really.
You hit everything:
1) A’s tanked the team to the point where it was the worse win-loss record in all of Oakland A’s baseball history
2) he not only failed to maintain the stadium, but he decreased the rest of the fan experience
3) he doubled ticket prices when all of this was going on
4) sharp decrease in attendance due to all of the above, yet Fisher and Manfred used it as an excuse to say baseball can’t succeed in Oakland
5).Oakland is one of the most diverse cities in America, with a beautiful mix of white, black, Latino and Asian that truly represents America. Yet MLB is stealing the city’s team, just 3 short years after the league virtue signaled with “BLM” on every pitching mound.
6) Fiaher never really settled on a feasible plan in Oakland until a few years ago. Then not only was it a gigantic project, but there was something like a PANDEMIC that slowed the process down. The “parallel paths in Vegas started before life could get back to normal, and by then Oakland no longer had a shot with MLB waiving the relocation fee, even though the city managed to secure all of the money Fisher asked for
7) the fact MLB unanimously approved the “plan” that has huge holes in it tells us all we need to know, that this was rammed through, all for the money. MLB doesn’t care about its fans, diversity, nothing other than their bottom line.
8) I’m done with MLB, the sport that represents my childhood pastime. Even the Giants, who approved the deal, will not see another penny from me.
Thank you for watching and the support. I'm sorry the A's left you.
Was this a 20 year plan by Fisher? It seems like the city didn’t necessarily play ball either over that time. I do think Fisher got cold feet because Oakland called his bluff.
Done with MLB. I can't deal with this.
Baseball will never be the same
😂 the A’s on 44 KBHK back in the day! I still remember the bumper sticker
KBHK Channel 44!!!!!
Wow no way I only remember KPIX & Action36. What years was KBHK ???
@@DAILYBLUNTATHON I have to say early/mid 80's. Back when you needed a UHF compatible TV with an antenna on the roof.
@@DAILYBLUNTATHON Around I980
@@drgti16v before my time LOL
Well said Damon, a huge fan listened to you in KNBR and the Game. Miss your content glad you are doing this.
Thanks Maje. Glad ya found me.
The warriors won multiple championships in Oakland. The A's won multiple championships in Oakland. The raiders won multiple championships in Oakland. Now they're all gone. And Vegas will soon have all 4 major sports and WNBA and they and the Knights already have championships. Pathetic. FJF.
The baseball owners are about to lose a ton of money. Remember the Boston Red Sox scandal. Well watch for the Vegas A scandal😂😂😂😂😂
Spot on Damon! Thank you for your coverage of this relocation sham and for calling out some things MLB doesn't want to touch on.
Very welcome
Bud Lew and John screwed us A’s fans out of an ownership group of Reggie Jackson Paul Allen and Bill Gates. Let that marinade
And Joe Lacob. And countless others that would have stepped up to the plate. The entire thing was a long con the more I think about it.
I met Fisher 1 time .This was when he first became the owner ,he and Mr.Wolfe came into my section (when I was an usher there) I didn't like him from that get-go
MLB needs to get a player salary FLOOR because no fans should have to put up with the $#@! Fisher deals !
#FJF
Schott & Hoffman started all of this by sitting on their hands on getting a new ballpark when the team across the Bay was doing just that. Then Fisher and Wolff just continued that trend when they bought the team.
They totally blew their window.
@@damonbruceplus yep. I also thought that with the Warriors and Raiders leaving they would have been able to capitalize on that, but they blew that opportunity too.
Thank you for your Great Words DB… 4EverOaklanD😢
Thanks for watching.
Damon, I don't always agree with you on things... but thank you from this heartbroken A's fan.
I appreciate that
Watching videos of the A's home games there is very little evidence of "Black A's Fans" mostly white fans just like you, why?@@damonbruceplus
Well said Damon, well said.....
Definitely a Giants fan but have lived in the Bay Area for a long time. Sad day for the Bay Area. I hope the franchise improves with the move. A's fans, staff, and players deserve it.
Improves? I think you mean improve on profits but not on team quality.
hit the like button on the way in in out.
I hate the people that say Oakland lost 3 teams in a few years. That clown Stephen A Smith especially.
As for the Raiders they have always been nomadic.
As for the Warriors they were never Oakland's team. They represent the Bay Area as a whole. They moved to San Francisco but they're still in the Bay Area and still represent it as a whole.
The Golden Seals were more than 40 years ago and are barely worth mentioning.
The A's though ARE without a doubt Oakland's team. San Francisco has their own team. The A's have been in Oakland for over 55 years and won 4 WS. They were and IMO absolutely rooted in Oakland and that POS John Fisher who hasn't worked a day in his life killed them. They were extremely close on the Howard Terminal deal and the City of Oakland had performed multiple steps to get it off the ground. They'd secured federal funding. They'd successfully defended challenges to it in court. They'd completed environmental impact studies to get it approved. This is just a sad sad day for East Bay fans, baseball fans and sports fans in general. I'm not even from North America and I'm devastated.
I'm so f'ing sick of billionaires holding struggling cities to ransom to get stadiums built that are a bad investment for cities especially when the owner can afford to fund the stadium themselves. I'm sick of cities having to divert funds from critical infrastructure and from education to build these poor investments just to keep a team that is run by people who've never had to work a day in their life. I'm by no means a communist but this is what is wrong with the USA!
It’s all gross. I’ll agree with that.
i just can't seem to stop going back to this installment. You speak to my heart, which is broken.
I'm sorry it's come to this. Truly.
Can't be understated how much Bud Selig utterly f'd over Oakland... can't believe that guy is in the HOF
Anyone but Lew Wolf went to college with Bud ... the A's are still in Oakland.
Let's hope this move goes over like fart in a space suit and that John Fisher is the space monkey in that space suit.
Have fun with that snake!!! Vegas has no clue what they’re in for!!! Hahaha
I live 3 hours north of Oakland and that stadium and team means so much to me and my family I can’t even start to explain it!!! Thank you DB for those words of wisdom!!! I really don’t know how to feel.
Thank you for this Damon. Between you a Brodie Brazil, the truth has been given to us fans about the lies of Fisher and Kavel.
Werd. Thanks Damon. #ForeverOakland
Live long A's fan. 42 years old. Go Dodgers until Oakland gets a team!
Fair.
was waiting for this video once i heard the news break
5 years ago Oakland was the only West Coast city with sports teams in all three major sports
Time to put on Funeral for a Friend by Sir Elton John. I’ve already vented my emotions today in the chat but I do wish that Reggie Jackson or Joe Lacob had bought the team.
Great song, Tiger Tank.
I'll always have the 2012 team. I loved that squad. All credit to that year's team across the bay, but the 2012 A's, in their own A's way, were magnificent.
Thank you D B for the requiem! Beautifully said! So long baseball! One team coming to Oakland….NSL Oakland Roots soccer club should have a new stadium built in a couple of years. Let’s go Oakland!!
Vegas is getting another horrible owner in Fisher! They already have lousy Mark Davis
Saw the NYTimes call the A’s leaving Oakland the death of working man’s sports and that seems so accurate. Watching games is harder than ever. Attending games is more expensive than ever. Baseball sells its legacy more than any other sport, as it should. Allowing this team to abandon Oakland seems a damn shame.
That’s the perfect way to say it. The pricing out of families will be the eventual death of the game.
Am done as an A'S fan am also done with mlb
The crazy thing is that Fischer is from he Bay and not like Nevada or China or something.
Lifelong A's fan here. I grew up in Berkeley and started following the team in '73. I'm now done with the A's and done with MLB.
I don’t blame you one bit.
Just found your channel - today was awful - so freaking sad - I’m now subbed!
Glad ya found me Mike. Welcome, and I’m sorry about your team.
Appreciate it Damon, but im just done with baseball cant support something that doesnt love me back....
We never hated you Damon. We just lashed out in every direction as our heritage and family identity was destroyed by trash ownership. Its over now. Take care. ❤ its over for us now.
I believe you, and am so sorry I happened.
Congrats St Petersburg Gnats, ya finally got what ya wanted...
I guess I'll buy a Dodgers hat. The enemy of my enemy, is my friend..... 89 SWEEP
Ouch.
Yep. sf giants owner voted yes. 'Nuff Said!! 😡😡😡😡
@TheSuperGenius-Dodgers? So you’re just gonna pretend like the 1988 WS never happened?
@@ripcougrrebl I was a 21 year old Marine down in Camp Pendleton in 88. I was running my mouth for a week about how Oakland was going to beat down LA. I still don't know how the hell they lost, or how Hershiser turned into Sandy Kolfax for a while... I learned to never get too cocky about sports, after that!
The next year more than made up for it though! The Gnats damn sure don't have territorial rights on who the East Bay should root for!
The only city that has both American National League baseball organizations now is New York, New York
I am 50 years old Damon.
When I was 8 my grandpa grabbed me and my cousin who is 3 years older than me and he took us to an A’s game. From that day on, my cousin and I were the only A’s fans in my large family. Everyone else loves the giants.
My entire family attended the March on baseball when Sacramento sent thousands of fans on buses to the A’s/Yankees game to lobby baseball for baseball in Sacramento. Hundreds of buses going down hwy 80 and a sea of blue took over the colosseum.
I was in the upper level out in mount Davis when Giambi didn’t slide against the Yankees.
I’ve had so many good times at A’s games and it’s a shame that MLB and Fischer completly killed my fandom. I haven’t been to a game in years because I refuse to give my hard earned money to that POS of an owner.
Screw Fischer and screw the MLB.
I'm so sorry this happened to you ... ya deserved so much better.
Bravo Damon. You touched on almost every facet that helped elude Oakland A's Fans from keeping the team they knew and loved.
Thanks Trevor.
Nice job Damon. I decided a couple years ago not to give another penny to the A's and MLB even though I'm a lifelong A's fan. I firmly believe when an owner of anything is abusive and does not respect me or what I stand for I stop supporting that person financially. This move and everything that led up to it, and what it has exposed in the A's and MLB is just absolutely disgusting, and it firmly cements my commitment to never giving the A's or MLB another dime of my money. They are not worthy of my support.
They’re unworthy of any support.
Be safe Damon Bruce.............
I gave up on baseball a decade ago.
Thanks for this DB. I've heard no one else say anything close to this. I got that same dumb ass email. I responded..F U JF and F U MLB . Thanks again DB. 👍👍
It was my pleasure. Cpl Tez. Thanks for watching.
I honestly believe the A’s have been gone since the current owners took over. My favorite A’s teams were the ones where Ricky Henderson lead off for them.
I would almost have an ounce of respect for fisher if he wrote a fuck you letter to Oakland instead of this insult to our intelligence
I feel the same way. He's a coward to the end.
I'm a huge A's fan who now lives in central Wisconsin, and it also sickens me that Mark Attanasio, the owner of the Brewers had Rob Manfred threaten the State of Wisconsin in giving him $545 million of approved money to fix up American Family Field, only 22 years old.
And looks who was put in charge of the relocation committee. Owners are gross.
While territorial rights are bs, the move to San Jose would have been a disaster. Moving to a place that was 90% Giants fans in the height of their dynasty would not have worked out. Also, I live in Texas now, and just got to experience the Rangers World Series championship. Fisher and Rangers owner Ray Davis have similar political beliefs, but the two couldn't be more different in the way they run a baseball team.
Agreed, I also don't think San Jose would've been the utopia for the A's that A's fans believed it would've been. Look at how things are going for the Niners in Santa Clara for example? Yeah, San Jose and Santa Clara are different, but who's to say that the A's wouldn't run into the same problems in San Jose that the Niners currently are in Santa Clara.
Also yes, like you alluded to, San Jose is Giants territory. Giants-A's games in San Jose probably would've been even more of a home game for the Giants, than Giants-A's games in Oakland currently are for the Giants... The A's belonged in Oakland over San Jose. Plus, San Jose A's just doesn't have a ring to it.
@@86byrdman Most A's fans were against the move to San Jose, it was mostly Wolff that wanted it. The problem with Levi's isn't the fact that it's in the South Bay, but more so the stadium design and the specific location. They chose the easiest option of building next to their practice facility.
San Jose would be better than Vegas but Oakland is where A’s should be
Fisher made everything so difficult to make a deal! Just like the Raider organization did with Oakland
Actually Raiders would have stayed if Oakland kicked out the A's. Oakland is a football town not baseball
Damon knows....
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Oakland came up with there part ❤️⚾️
Damon you forgot Shibe Park Tavern lol
Well said Bruce! 3 teams left in 5 years…. Oakland is sadly destroyed now
It felt slimy taking the Warriors from Oakland, who'd have thought that'd be the least scummy move of their 3 professional teams moving. Ugh.
I'm not sure I agree the Howard Terminal was always a poison pill. I think it's more likely that Fisher is just a completely out of touch idealist who thought he was capable of a massive development project (this was also pre-COVID commercial real-estate downturn). Either way I agree it's completely his fault. Howard Terminal easily could have been half the scale and still been a gem of a ballpark and development that even John Fisher, the seemingly "poorest" billionaire around, could afford.
How does school over stadiums come into the equation? Worst and best case scenario ?
I don't know ... but I hope they are heard.
Damon, what a cluster F this whole thing is! The only thing that was missing from todays show was Barbra Streisand singing Memories in the background.
He did make a donation… he donated the money from the boycott game publicly as the biggest FU to A’s fans ever
Show me the check. I don’t believe him without receipts.
@@damonbruceplus can’t argue that!
Damon, you don’t really see what’s happening to the withering MLB, baseball is kinda broken, there’s 10 competitive teams, the rest are SOL also rans doing nothing but treading water.
I remember that Jason Barrett article after the A's left 95.7 in 2018. It sounds like the A's were bad business partners well before Kaval got there. If that was the case, why did the two parties even continue their relationship for 8 years? Why couldn't 95.7 kick 'em off earlier? It was a lose-lose relationship.
He believed being a flagship of an MLB team ... but he bet on the wrong horse.
@@damonbruceplus interesting, would you say that mindset was similar to how the A's were too ambitious with their Howard Terminal plans?
Today's video is a bit surreal. I remember your first day on 95.7 talking about the A's stadium saga. This feels like the closing bookend.
Tom, I remember that. Feels like a lifetime ago.
@damonbruceplus we love you DBruce, at least (former) A's fans still have you
@@damonbruceplusshould have listened to Zennie62
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Sports has totally outpriced many fans. So MLB wants mega $$$ if Fisher sells "immediately" after arriving to Vegas.
Sports can't make enough $$$. Baseball making money for sponsorships on the sleeves on their uniforms. Hockey advertises on the boards similar to international soccer, or futbol. Basketball having a beer sponsor the courts and advertising on uniform. Football advertising on tv. All amongst the sports, and networks, making money hand over fist. Then comes fisher. Taking $$$ and not investing into "his" ballclub. MLB gave him money and kept it.
So you ignore one big issue here. The A's didn't just walk about Oakland, see Howard Terminal, and say "Hey! That's where I want to build a $16B project!". The real villains were the ones who even thought this boondoggle was a good idea when there was a perfectly good spot of land where the Coliseum is. It was the years of infighting in the City Council, lawyers, and Unions that sank the project which was completely "a bridge too far". But the City let them try to move there. It could have, and should have said "No!" on day one. But they wanted the TAX REVENUE from increased property values in the area-- and got none.
It was also A’s who insisted a new spot was needed. Infighting was just window dressing the A’s used to force their way into the Howard Terminal folly.
@@damonbruceplus This is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo typical and the reason why things in Oakland are so screwed up. The A's can't build ANYWHERE they want. The City has to say what is and isn't possible. Ask the A's when Jerry Brown nixed a downtown stadium. The government that sold 1/2 of the Coliseum WITHOUT ANY CONDITIONS to Fisher at a discount is still in power. The City that allowed the A's to give up on the Coliseum and try to do Howard Terminal is still in power. Nothing changes. Nothing is learned because "its all the fault of John Fisher". WRONG!
Actually,this is an ok day in Oakland because we are rid of John Fisher anjd neon city needs to deal with him now...at least until he sells.
I am going to the Coliseum in August when the Dodgers head over and I am excited to see the ballpark and the fan base. I hope they decide to make that game a reverse boycott.
I come from a Philadelphia A's household. My first game was my dad taking me to Shibe to watch the A's beat the Yanks in their farewell to Philly and hello to KC. A's won. Grown men in fedoras and suits crying like babies. I was reunited with the A's in '85 upon moving to the Bay Area and have loved them until now. I'm done. Go Phillies.
That's fair for sure. Go Phillies indeed. Thanks for watching.
Is it true the A’s kinda kicked the Raiders out of Oakland ? So now they are following them after kicking them out ? John Fisher killed it man if that’s true !
It’s so gross
They didn't really "kick them out." They just made it harder for them to build on the Coliseum site with the lease they signed back in 2014. Tbh though, the Raiders kind of deserved that, for coming back and turning the Coliseum into a terrible stadium.
Mark Davis is pissed that they are going to be in Vegas.
Raiders wanted to leave Bay Area! Davis likes to use that as an excuse! He could’ve shared with Niners til a stadium was built in Oakland! Don’t believe Mark Davis
@@EvanEscherLibby Shaffer, who was the mayor at the time, had behind the scenes. Business deals with the Oakland Athletics. And so she cited with them over the raiders. Even though the safer bet would have been the raiders.
I will never understand why people from oakland do not think las vegas is diverse. You may have more black people than we do, but we have more mexicans by far than you do. Also more hawaiians considering we are considered the ninth island even in hawaii.
I've been an A's fan my entire life. This is absolutely garbage to see this team being ripped away from Oakland.
Las Vegas better be prepared to be pissed off with the A's Ownership as there is no reason to believe that just because they will have a new stadium (in a much smaller market) that all of a sudden the Ownership Group is going to start doing right by the fans and players and injecting money into the team.
If the Giants could actually land Shohei Ohtani this off-season it would make it far easier to eventually transition to a Giants fan. While I have always been cheering for them because they are a local team, my true team allegiance has always been the A's. It's more likely that I just won't end up being a fan of any teams once the A's leave. I'm glad I at least got to see them Win a World Series in my lifetime.
#FJF
SAN JOSE A’S!!!!!!!!
Vegas is absolutely going to be screwed, fans will realize Fisher will cash in on revenue sharing as his profit and keep a cheap almost entirely on pre-arb and minor league free agent players and get rid of the over performers once they get too expensive yet while over charging on tickets, parking, food and beer. The stadium will be filled with 70% of away fans. Fisher and Manfred are embarrassments to baseball.
Time to look in the mirror Oakland. You got nobody to blame but yourself. Losing 3 teams in 6 years speaks volumes about your community.
Now Las Vegas has two minor league baseball teams. - Big Gay John in Berkeley
Great to have ya here BIG GAY JOHN!
Love your show, Bid Daddy!
Good luck, Las Vegas!
sf giants owner voted yes. 'Nuff Said!!!
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Well of course. If you can take out the competition and have the entire market to yourself ya do. Plus they’ll make money as the A’s rent their stadium. It’s the only justified yes vote in MLB.
@@damonbruceplus Walter Haas is rolling in his grave......
Idk I’m not rooting for a LA TEAM BRUCE I think imma cross over to the dark side SF GIANTS LOL GOOOOO GIANTS
Same here. Let's go S.F Giants
Nobody wants to hear about your "complicated relationship." 95.7 the game only ever talked about the Giants or crapped on the A's. That's why fans didn't listen to you.
Because the A's couldn't draw a picture, much less a crowd. Jesus, Sean, get your head out of your ass for a minute and pay attention. All I was right about, was everything. You're welcome.
JF major failure of an individual!
LMFAO!!!! It’s called BUSINESS Damon and kids! No hard feelings! 👊🏻. Get over it
John Fisher drove business away with 18 years of shitty ownership. It was the plot of major league. Retard our own attendance so they let us move.
Best of luck to the A’s in Vegas!
Demonizing the MLB, the other teams owners, and Fisher only reveals you LOST the argument. Oakland would still have the A's if they had built a new stadium. If you build it, they will come. Easy peasy...This isn't rocket science...
That’s up to billionaire owner, who owns the team. You are beyond ignorant of any of the details.
Ron, I agree 100%. You have to realize that DB is also part of the media (like Brodie Brazil and Casey Pratt) and he can’t truly say what’s really going on otherwise he won’t have an audience that will support and listen to him.
It's not as simple as "if you build it, they will come." First, you have to build it, which isn't easy; then, you have to lure a team, which isn't easy. Look at places like San Antonio and Kansas City, who built stadiums, but no team came. Look at Pittsburgh, St. Petersburg, and Miami, who built stadiums for their teams, but the fans don't show up. It's not "easy peasy".
@@damonbruceplus Cities build stadiums to land and keep teams as they generate revenues for the city as much as they do to the teams. Cities usually get a cut of the parking and concessions, as well as rent for their investment in building stadiums. While individual owners may be able to arrange a loan to finance a stadium, they can't build them without city zoning and infrastructure improvements, especially water and sewer mains that only cities control. Furthermore cities reap significant sales taxes teams generate with not just ticket sales, but with merchandising and marketing. Usually the best solution for everyone is a public-private enterprise as stadiums increase the quality of life for sports fans which has a value as much as wealth. If you wish to LAND or KEEP a team, build a stadium as other cities WILL if you DON'T... Oakland will soon demolish the Coliseum as it holds NO value without a tenant...
@@EvanEscher San Antonio did attract the New Orleans Saints for most of a year after Hurricane Katrina left the Superdome unsuitable for the NFL. If the Las Vegas deal falls apart, at least San Antonio with the Alamodome serving as a temporary stadium can attract the A's as well. Texas has billionaires willing and able to buy the A's, one being Mark Cuban. Furthermore, San Antonio has the taxing ability to BUILD a NEW STADIUM with local political support LACKING in Oakland on the Riverwalk downtown across the freeway from the Alamodome. While San Antonio maybe a smaller market, combed with the nearby Austin market, South Central Texas is actually a huge market approaching SIX million and GROWING FAST...
Could’ve built the stadium in the parking lot! Kept Bart going too
Their plans to build anywhere else were always comical.
Selig made sure his butt brother LEW Wolffe and John Fisher got the A’s
Giants have all ex-A’s guys anyway. Farhan and Melvin are just two