A's done in Oakland

[bpj]

What do you guys think about this?

Am I the only one that thinks that Oakland doesn't deserve to have the team anyways?

The city's a dump. And the stadium is a dump.

Their valuation will skyrocket being in Las Vegas imo.

Nobody wants to go to Oakland to see a game. I think getting out of there will be a positive thing for MLB, what are your thoughts?

[Hy Feiber]

What cities aren’t dumps, look at downtown Seattle after 2020!

Baltimore, Detroit, Cleveland, and on and on….

Third World hellholes.

What fan would feel comfortable having their favorite players traipse through MLK Jr Way on their free time?

[Donn Beach]

Was gonna say, thought it was Seattle that was the cesspool.

What's wrong with MLK way? That to me is an interesting street, how it connects the different ethnic groups. For me, that's a city, that hodgepodge. I'd love for players to poke around there. Heck, it's the site of Seattle's original ML baseball team.

[Juliooooo]

I’m just excited to be able to drive 2 hours for a game.

[D-train]

I’m just excited to be able to drive 2 hours for a game.

With traffic that is about how far I have to drive to Anaheim or Dodger's stadium.

[gil]

All cities have their problems, and always have. But descriptions of places as hellholes or cesspools just not match my experience. *Of course* there is crime and there are things that we wish weren't part of our lives. But most of the time, for most people, you can live your life - go out, raise your kids, etc. I suspect that most people who trash cities don't spend much time in them.

[Seattle or Bust]

I've never understood why a city needs 2x baseball teams or sports teams in general. SF and Oak are the same place. I was also not a fan of the Chargers moving to LA for that reason.

Vegas is an awesome place for the A's to move IMO. Close enough that A's fans can enjoy a fun weekend in Vegas to catch a few games. It's not like they sent the A's to shithole OKC.

[Donn Beach]

Paul Sewald who's from Vegas thinks it's a terrible idea

.“I think it’s a terrible idea,” Arizona Diamondbacks closer Paul Sewald said. “The whole thing, I fear, is going to be an abject disaster.”

“We just don’t have enough bandwidth to invest in three, four, five professional teams,” Sewald said. “We just don’t have enough people. That’s OK. We don’t have to be a city that has all four major sports.”

“They are all Dodgers fans,” he said. “Ninety percent of the people there are from California. That’s how my dad got there. That’s how I became a Dodger fan growing up. They’re not leaving the Dodgers fan base, just because you have a team.”

“No one in Vegas is an A’s fan,” Sewald said. “Why are they going to change allegiances to a team that is not trying to win?”

It's interesting the try to win aspect.

“By moving into our new stadium on the Las Vegas Strip,” Fisher said in a statement, “we will finally have the resources to significantly increase our payroll, retain our most talented young players, and make acquisitions through trades and in the free-agent market.”

A’s fans like to point out — they may be emailing me at this very moment — that Fisher’s Major League Soccer team, the San José Earthquakes, moved into a new stadium nine years ago. The Earthquakes have neither posted a winning record nor hosted a playoff game since then, and their payroll generally ranks in the bottom half of the league.

[Seattle or Bust]

Paul Sewald who's from Vegas thinks it's a terrible idea

.“I think it’s a terrible idea,” Arizona Diamondbacks closer Paul Sewald said. “The whole thing, I fear, is going to be an abject disaster.”

“We just don’t have enough bandwidth to invest in three, four, five professional teams,” Sewald said. “We just don’t have enough people. That’s OK. We don’t have to be a city that has all four major sports.”

“They are all Dodgers fans,” he said. “Ninety percent of the people there are from California. That’s how my dad got there. That’s how I became a Dodger fan growing up. They’re not leaving the Dodgers fan base, just because you have a team.”

“No one in Vegas is an A’s fan,” Sewald said. “Why are they going to change allegiances to a team that is not trying to win?”

It's interesting the try to win aspect.

“By moving into our new stadium on the Las Vegas Strip,” Fisher said in a statement, “we will finally have the resources to significantly increase our payroll, retain our most talented young players, and make acquisitions through trades and in the free-agent market.”

A’s fans like to point out — they may be emailing me at this very moment — that Fisher’s Major League Soccer team, the San José Earthquakes, moved into a new stadium nine years ago. The Earthquakes have neither posted a winning record nor hosted a playoff game since then, and their payroll generally ranks in the bottom half of the league.

In 2023, the avg attendance at Raiders games was 63K.

You don't need the local population to attend. You need tourists to attend.

And surely attendance will crush the piss poor numbers they always had in Oakland.

It's also a silly narrative that Vegas locals won't shift to becoming A's fans in time.

And correlating soccer in the US to other major sports in the US is hilarious.

[Donn Beach]

It's correlating it to the owner