Attending games doesn't help prevent relocation anyway. Did bad attendance doom the Houston Oilers? The Oakland Raiders? The Quebec Nordiques? The Dodgers in Brooklyn? Hell, even the Sacramento Kings before they were saved at the last second? Did the Browns selling out every game in Cleveland keep them in the city before being removed to Baltimore, or the Colts being overnight shipped to Indy? Going to games doesn't mean shit
@@joekaput747 I didn't say going to games prevents relocation. What i'm saying is that fans shouldn't waste their money going to see their teams play unless they are good. Because being "loyal" and going to see a bad team is pointless because the owner wouldn't show you the same loyalty back.
As someone who’s been in the Bay Area my whole life, Larry Beal has been on local media since I was a kid. Unless they’re talking about him a long long time ago and Beal is older than I thought.
Sawe the words disingenuous and Sampson’s picture and figured we were talking about his time with the marlins. But if anything he’s an expert on terrible baseball ownership/management.
In Las Vegas they will make money. Nobody wants to be in Oakland but they will like Las Vegas. Then with the cash they make they will be able to keep a team together instead of being the Yankees farm club. It helps when you make money and anyway since when has the A's ever got support from the fans? Like never.
@@805fillmore Well... Fisher is worse than him. Fisher is a moron rich kid who inherited the family farm, but he's so clueless and incompetent that his handlers are the only thing that's saving him from pissing all the money away and becoming a hobo on the Las Vegas strip.
Samson’s ten minutes were worthwhile. Super good, even. Bunch of considerations I wouldn’t have intuitively known and a really unfiltered about how execs really feel. They want to win if they can make money doing it but they need the money first, for the most part anyway.
Wait, he's saying a broadcaster who shows some spine "shouldn't" because MLB doesn't like the fact that they've lost control of the narrative?! What MLB shouldn't like is the sh*t show that is Fisher's ownership. Biel is just speaking facts.
Instead of passing legislation to give this billionaire a free stadium, they should’ve passed a law to seize the team from this penny pinching crybaby. So sad, I’d be devastated if this happened to my team. Generations upon generations of my family have been fans, can’t even imagine how it feels to be an A’s fan today.
Since when have Oakland fans supported the A's? They don't have enough money to keep a team together and are basically the Yankees farm club. Oakland can't fund schools much less a pro baseball team. Get used to it Oakland is a ghetto.
Did Fisher make the Raiders leave? Did Fisher make the Warriors leave? Blaming the current owner, while ignoring the endless parade of horrible city officials voted in by dumb voters. Neither having the foundational knowledge of business or economics. What happened to all the tax revenues made by that stadium for six decades, no one knows.
Eff Fisher and MLB. Oakland doesn't want them back. We'd rather rebulid the game of baseball, with a sustainable community ownership based league...Yeah. Go ahead and laugh all you want trolls...
There is only one reason why the A's are leaving. The stadium is crap and has been mismanaged by the government that owns it for 30 years. If that stadium had been taken care of MLB would have never let the A's leave. As it is, they couldn't get the team out of Oakland fast enough.
No. The stadium is old, not mismanaged. Secondly, governments shouldn't own stadiums. Thirdly, Fisher is a cheap bum who won't pay for his own stadium.
There was a fully fleshed-out plan to build a new waterfront stadium, and over $400 million raised for it. After they rejected a (better) fully fleshed-out plan to build multiple new facilities including a new MLB park on the Coliseum site. No one was even talking about renovating the Coliseum.
@@mithcee This is total and complete BS. The Mayor had "a plan" of Tax increment financing for the missing $300M. She was $300M SHORT by the City's own numbers. TIF -- that's PUBLIC MONEY. And that's not me talking. That's direct quotes from the Mayor's interview with Casey Pratt of ABC7, No way the city or city council would go for that. What good is "a plan" if its never going to happen? You think the voters of Oakland would vote for public money for a stadium owned by "John Fisher"? Half the city council, including the current Mayor when she was on it, wanted the team to build at the Coliseum. Half wanted Howard Terminal. The lawyers and the Union and the dock wanted the Coliseum. When Libby Schaaf left, there was no champion for HT. The Mayor herself while running barely mentioned "the A's" and said she only cared if they stayed "on her terms". Its a pity more people do not understand what was really going on. Too much BS from people on social media and RUclips.
@@scottsmith1455Nope. SF Giants and Warriors paid for their own. Try again. Stop licking billionaire boot, okay. It's pathetic. Taxpayer funding of stadiums is socialism and theft.
This BS with the A's is exactly I will never criticize fans that don't go to watch a bad team.
Attending games doesn't help prevent relocation anyway. Did bad attendance doom the Houston Oilers? The Oakland Raiders? The Quebec Nordiques? The Dodgers in Brooklyn? Hell, even the Sacramento Kings before they were saved at the last second? Did the Browns selling out every game in Cleveland keep them in the city before being removed to Baltimore, or the Colts being overnight shipped to Indy?
Going to games doesn't mean shit
@@joekaput747 I didn't say going to games prevents relocation. What i'm saying is that fans shouldn't waste their money going to see their teams play unless they are good. Because being "loyal" and going to see a bad team is pointless because the owner wouldn't show you the same loyalty back.
Yet somehow they kept going to Giants games -- 6 miles away.
@@joekaput747 When you are as poor as the A's are it sure does.
@@milt6208 *as poor as your owner worth $3BILLION makes you
Larry Beil was a staple in the Bay before his ESPN gig btw… he just came back home
How did they not do two seconds of research to learn that about Larry.
Yes. He was on KTVU, though. Now he is on KGO.
@@vincesmith2499yeah that’s how I remember him. Mark Ibanez was on 7… Gary Radnich on 4… what a time.
@@thenajbIbanez was always on 2. He and Beil worked together for a while.
@@vincesmith2499 you right I stand corrected. I moved to the east coast in the 90s but I remember being hyped seing Beil on sportscenter
As someone who’s been in the Bay Area my whole life, Larry Beal has been on local media since I was a kid. Unless they’re talking about him a long long time ago and Beal is older than I thought.
He was on ESPN for a while.
It sucks to live in Oakland man. Everyone left. No more Warriors, No more Raiders and No more As. Sad man.
Sadland
I would move somewhere else if I lived there. Sadly others can’t do that
Yet someone we are to believe its all "John Fisher's fault".
@@mikelfrance-l6xWrong. It's John Fisher's AND Mark Davis' fault.
Dude, you can just go over the Bay Bridge to see the Warriors. They didn't leave Oakland any more than they left San Francisco in 1971.
Larry's frustration echoes ALL of us A's fans sentiments. Fisher is absolute trash.
@@draeblak did you ever go to A's games?
@@milt6208 Yes. Many of them over the course of the last 30 years.
Sawe the words disingenuous and Sampson’s picture and figured we were talking about his time with the marlins. But if anything he’s an expert on terrible baseball ownership/management.
In Las Vegas they will make money. Nobody wants to be in Oakland but they will like Las Vegas. Then with the cash they make they will be able to keep a team together instead of being the Yankees farm club. It helps when you make money and anyway since when has the A's ever got support from the fans? Like never.
I remember him at espn Aloha Means Goodbye. Reading he has not worked at espn since 2001 makes me feel old tho.
Samson gonna Samson. Absolute husk of a human being
But he says fisher is worse than him
@@805fillmore Well... Fisher is worse than him. Fisher is a moron rich kid who inherited the family farm, but he's so clueless and incompetent that his handlers are the only thing that's saving him from pissing all the money away and becoming a hobo on the Las Vegas strip.
What's up with the pic of Whitlock in the background? 😆
Right?! Dan "Le Retard" Ghost? 😂
He is also disingenuous? 😂
It’s Mark Robinson. Gamecocks polo. Running for SC Gov. he’s been in the news.
Larry!!! Get em!!! 😊
Samson’s ten minutes were worthwhile. Super good, even. Bunch of considerations I wouldn’t have intuitively known and a really unfiltered about how execs really feel. They want to win if they can make money doing it but they need the money first, for the most part anyway.
Samson shouldn't speak on this..guy ruined the Expos
Destroyed the A's as well by not putting pressure on the governments in Oakland but had fun posting John Fisher hate instead of something useful.
Wait. Is Samson now saying that the A's will go to Vegas? I thought he was still claiming that Fisher would screw it up.
Bad Oakland politics or Owners being assholes? Combo of both? That’s the percentage of guilty
Wait, he's saying a broadcaster who shows some spine "shouldn't" because MLB doesn't like the fact that they've lost control of the narrative?! What MLB shouldn't like is the sh*t show that is Fisher's ownership. Biel is just speaking facts.
Instead of passing legislation to give this billionaire a free stadium, they should’ve passed a law to seize the team from this penny pinching crybaby.
So sad, I’d be devastated if this happened to my team. Generations upon generations of my family have been fans, can’t even imagine how it feels to be an A’s fan today.
Since when have Oakland fans supported the A's? They don't have enough money to keep a team together and are basically the Yankees farm club. Oakland can't fund schools much less a pro baseball team. Get used to it Oakland is a ghetto.
I miss the dodgers in BK
Not an A’s fan, but this sucks. I feel for the fans
Look at that ball behind him with the red face… iykyk
It’s funny. All the fake media outrage over the move. Where was everyone when the mlb owners unanimously approved the move?
"We tried!" Or did we?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Samsom? He was the worst GM ever. Terrible dude
FJF. I've heard better lies from Jussie Smollett
Enough w this bum, put people on that are relevant and understand US! Sampson is the furthest thing from your listeners! Gotta get smarter fellas!
Manfred is a worthless coward for allowing owners to tank franchises just so they can relocate.
does dan love whitlock
Did Fisher make the Raiders leave? Did Fisher make the Warriors leave? Blaming the current owner, while ignoring the endless parade of horrible city officials voted in by dumb voters. Neither having the foundational knowledge of business or economics. What happened to all the tax revenues made by that stadium for six decades, no one knows.
Eff Fisher and MLB. Oakland doesn't want them back. We'd rather rebulid the game of baseball, with a sustainable community ownership based league...Yeah. Go ahead and laugh all you want trolls...
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There is only one reason why the A's are leaving. The stadium is crap and has been mismanaged by the government that owns it for 30 years. If that stadium had been taken care of MLB would have never let the A's leave. As it is, they couldn't get the team out of Oakland fast enough.
No. The stadium is old, not mismanaged. Secondly, governments shouldn't own stadiums. Thirdly, Fisher is a cheap bum who won't pay for his own stadium.
@@vincesmith2499fjf
There was a fully fleshed-out plan to build a new waterfront stadium, and over $400 million raised for it. After they rejected a (better) fully fleshed-out plan to build multiple new facilities including a new MLB park on the Coliseum site. No one was even talking about renovating the Coliseum.
@@mithcee This is total and complete BS. The Mayor had "a plan" of Tax increment financing for the missing $300M. She was $300M SHORT by the City's own numbers. TIF -- that's PUBLIC MONEY. And that's not me talking. That's direct quotes from the Mayor's interview with Casey Pratt of ABC7, No way the city or city council would go for that. What good is "a plan" if its never going to happen? You think the voters of Oakland would vote for public money for a stadium owned by "John Fisher"?
Half the city council, including the current Mayor when she was on it, wanted the team to build at the Coliseum. Half wanted Howard Terminal. The lawyers and the Union and the dock wanted the Coliseum. When Libby Schaaf left, there was no champion for HT. The Mayor herself while running barely mentioned "the A's" and said she only cared if they stayed "on her terms".
Its a pity more people do not understand what was really going on. Too much BS from people on social media and RUclips.
@@vincesmith2499say bye bye then
The City of Oakland ruined everything
No. Fisher did. Stop licking billionaire boot.
Wrong.
@@vincesmith2499 build a stadium, build an arena or you lose your teams. Every other city had done that, Right
@@scottsmith1455 Billionaires should fund the stadiums, period. We've seen it done before, and it should be the norm and not the outlier.
@@scottsmith1455Nope. SF Giants and Warriors paid for their own. Try again. Stop licking billionaire boot, okay. It's pathetic. Taxpayer funding of stadiums is socialism and theft.
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