I've seen 100's of games there going back to the early 70s. It's not the prettiest and the area around it has gone downhill, but I've still enjoyed going there and have great memories of A's games, the Raiders and tons of great concerts.
The area around the Coliseum/Oracle arena is not safe. When I attended a game there a few years ago, it was advised to go in groups, leave in larger groups, and get on the BART ASAP and leave the area. If they want to attract a new MLB team the stadium must be in another safer area (and there are very few safer areas in Oakland these days)
How do you think the families who live around the stadium feel about that sentiment? God forbid they revitalize the stadium and support the community around it.
That's dumb as hell. The Coliseum is next to the freeway and there is a guarded walkway that directly runs from the BART station to the gates of the Coliseum. Also, Oakland is just fine I spend 2-3 nights a week walking around there doing comedy and have never had a problem.
It’s dangerous during times when games aren’t happening. I have felt unsafe there during those times, and have felt very safe before and after A’s/Raiders/Warriors games.
I think Oakland gave MLB baseball the finger,,why would they give Oakland a Franchise.! By the way for all those who say Oakland has supported the A's just look at their season attendance season by season since they arrived to Oakland..They blame it on Fisher,,but Fisher did not own the A's in 1979 when Oakland attendance was Only 306,763 paying customers (an average of 3,984 for 77 home dates; there were four doubleheaders) showed up to watch the A's in 1979, the team's worst attendance since leaving Philadelphia.
@@jamesbyrnes1208 Oakland attendance has more the most part, been lower than the Giants across the bay. And since the opening of “Oracle” Pacbell Park etc, the Giants have outdrawn the A’s, even when the A’s had a better record. The main reason MLB made the decision to move the A’s, was that the Giants want the market ( Bay Area) to themselves.
I went there to see a game before the move. Drove in parked in the first row and walked in the stadium. It was a perfectly fine place to see a baseball game. I didn't go to hang out at a rooftop terrace or play in an arcade or make sure my phone had wifi. I went to see a baseball game and it was perfectly fine for that.
@@P31B There aren't many fans left then that actually care about the game then. People went to watch just a baseball game in a stadiums from 1880 to around 2003.
My people. I have it on good authority that the River Cats and the A’s will be sharing Sutter Health Park. The River Cats will not be playing in Oakland or SF.
One of the problems with the Howard Terminal renderings that no one talks about is that home plate is on the northern part of the site. The idea of batters looking into the sun is absurd.
@@randallwong7196 One would think. The rendering from behind home plate had those cranes in the background which looked very cool. Obviously, they would be a nonfactor if the field was oriented properly.
To keep the Coliseum in use, it is expected that the Oakland Roots USL soccer team will move there, and maybe the other minor league soccer team, Project 51O. But it is most important that the stadium also gets mass renovated so it is no longer outdated, and so the city can get its NFL and MLB teams back in expansion, but that's the difficult part
They're not gonna expand to Oakland. The thought is laugh out loud hilarious. Oakland ain't getting jack. It's over. Oh right, they'll get their little USL soccer team. Whatever!
@@osaji922 Oakland is already on the shortlist for MLB expansion, and when the NFL ever decides to expand past 32 teams, they'll be on that list as well, due to the history the A's and Raiders have in the city. But my comment was more about stadium renovations than expansion or minor league soccer, and all it needs is to be funded privately
"Difficult" doesn't begin to describe it. Solving climate change is "difficult." Oakland getting both an MLB and NFL team... that's raising Lazarus from the dead "difficult."
@@karnubawax Like I said, they're already on the shortlist, meaning it's likely to happen in a few years. The biggest obstacle is the stadium being old and outdated, which is why my original comment was primarily about renovation
Oakland/East Bay missed their opportunity in the 90's. Should have built a ballpark next to the Coliseum. Oakland went cheap and now has lost all 3 teams. Public funding is never going away
Tell all the facts. Oakland DID publicly fund renovations the Raiders move back to Oakland in 95 as well as the arena renovation a couple of years , they got massively burned and are still paying for it to this day five years after the Raiders left. That’s why they’re so reluctant to give money to sports teams and I don’t blame them . Always easy to say what should be done with money that’s not yours.
@@neneshubby every city has provided the public funding needed to up keep their sports teams. Oakland is no exception. If Oakland can't afford it. Both the Raiders and A's should have left in the 90's
@@sirchi8731 Dude, you couldn’t be more wrong. Plenty of stadiums have been built without public money. Ever hear of Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles? Only the most expensive stadium ever built. Built entirely with private money. Ever hear the San Francisco Giants? They had 4 public referendums voted down to provide funds them build a new ballpark in San Francisco to replace Candlestick Park in the 80s and early 90s. They finally decided to move and were all but relocated to Tampa Bay when a local ownership group stepped in, bought them and kept the team here. Then they privately financed what is now Oracle Park. I mean, at least try to do some homework before you post.
@@neneshubby So fi is a exception not a rule. If I was a billionaire I would not fully private fund a stadium. I would demand a public subsidies as well. If not another city will.
If Oakland is smart, which they are not, they would turn the coliseum area into housing. That land is pretty valuable and could host a lot of new homes which are badly needed in the Bay Area.
My views, after having lived in the SF Bay Area for some 50 years: 1) The Coliseum was built INTO the ground with the idea of having a relatively low profile and not block off so many views, etc. This seemed like a great idea at the time, but soon they realized that having the field level so close to the Bay's elevation meant they were going to have major drainage problems, including players slipping a lot on the damp field... and PLUMBING issues. Water does NOT go UP very well. Clubhouses and dugouts got flooded with sewage more than a few times over the years. No room to raise the field level up, either; it would be too high for first-row fans to see the game well. 2) Because of the things mentioned in Point 1, the best thing to do is BRING OUT THE BULLDOZERS and WRECKING BALLS as soon as the season is over. Rip the thing down before the rainy season starts! 3) If the Rivercats are displaced for a few games here and there, play their games at Oracle. Make 'em weekend twi-night double headers if the Giants are in town, would be a great draw!. They're the Giants' minor-league team, after all... 4) If things in Vegas fall through for the A's, tough. They made their bed, go lie in it. Or go find another city/victim, anyway...
Too much crime in Oakland. A lot of the tax base, businesses and corporations have already left the city. Oakland is your typical failed left coast city.
If you tear it down to one infield deck and make it a community stadium there are three local JuCos and multiple high schools that would line up to play games even before renovations. It would be the East Bay version of Kezar.
I could see like a 12,000 seat soccer stadium and a lot of housing. There is no way in hell Oakland gets an MLB expansion team - hell, there's no way ANYBODY is getting an expansion team in this economy. The only way into the MLB or NFL right now is dead man's boots.
Oakland’s broke, the state of California is over $700 billion in debt. That boondoggle Speed Train and a new Oakland Stadium being built? Not a chance...
@@ivandragomiloff2356 I don't think Vivek's group would build a MLB park in West Sacramento.....It's going to be in the Railyards in Downtown Sacramento if it were to happen.
the A's told local news that they hope to play a few home series games in Las Vegas starting next year... maybe that will help with the conflict with the Rivercats?
Im hoping that the AASEG can make that site great again. For a major league team to be there, they could play a season or 2 while a new stadium is built on the site. Build a stadium similar to the one that was proposed to go on the Howard Terminal site. And get a team owner who cares about the community. It can be done there.
The Oakland Coliseum does not need to be demolished. It needs to be a football stadium. Like it was meant to be in the first place we've got the UFL. A new football team can be put in the Oakland Coliseum. Which is why it needs to be renovated.
The A's have been trying to purchase a 50% share of the Coliseum, and a local business group has been going after the other 50%. It would be between them when a demolition happens and the type of construction that goes in.
When I think about how closed leagues and ownership works in the major leagues (all sports), it is the most glaring example of the weakness in capitalism or the unwillingness of the federal government to regulate monopolies. Underperforming firms are incentivized to continue to underperform because there is no competition. Absentee owners deserve to get relegated instead of preserving value by generating scarcity.
My prediction will be that it stays as is, at least until the ownership of the property reverts to one entity. I dont see anything happening with the A's owning half the property.
A’s should go to Nashville or New Orleans. Force an ownership change to someone that gives a damn about putting a good team/organization on the field. The most talked about moment with the A’s happened in the stands.
Aren't the Oakland Roots and Oakland Soul soccer teams supposed to play in the Oakland Coliseum in the 2025/2026 season? If the A's had stayed instead of going to Sacramento wasn't part of the cost reconfiguring the field back and forth between baseball and soccer?
I had to laugh when you said the Arena saw a "ton of winning" with the Warriors. People forget that for the 20 years before that they were probably the most dysfunctional team in professional sports, when their highlight reel consisted of players choking coaches.
A's fan for life. Remember the 70's dynasty. Remember the 80's. Remember RICKEY !! With that said, I don't care where they play. With that said, I believe they will be in Vegas. Here's what I think has already happened. I believe Fisher's family has told him to do, "His due diligence," and the family will do the rest. That's why it doesn't look like there is money right now. Because there isn't any.
Why the hell would Oakland want the Rivercats to play there after Fisher took the team to Sac? The Giants can host their little minor league team in their own stadium if they want.
The River Cats plan to play as many games as possible at home if the schedule can be worked out. If there is a conflict and the Giants are on the road I could see them maybe playing a few games there since that is their parent club. If not maybe one of the California League stadiums, Stockton, Modesto or Fresno might work out for a few games. I don't see them going to Oakland , the coliseum seems intent to move on from baseball. If the River Cats were to play in Oakland I would expect them to draw far more than 500 fans. Most triple A games draw around 5,000, anything less than that would prove that Oakland is no longer a baseball town.
@@cyclingoptions9007the river cats should temporarily move to Fresno, they have a 10,000+ seat stadium. The Grizzlies should move to Lancaster and retake the Jethawks name. Hopefully they haven't started renovating the Hangar for USL Soccer. The soccer team should move to someplace with lots of soccer fans. There are lots of locales for them in SoCal.
@@David-xr4yd The River Cats and A's have already set their 2025 schedules. They won't be in Sacramento on the same days, there will be about 188 days of baseball at Sutter Health Park in 2025! They are installing a type of high tech turf with a water cooling system under it because it would be impossible to care for natural grass with all the use. They are also constructing new clubhouses, I understand the A's are picking up the bill for the improvements. The River Cats have a contract with the Giants through 2030 to provide a team the stadium. I thought that perhaps the River Cats could play a series or two at the Giant's single A stadium in San Jose or a few games in San Francisco if there were conflicts but they seem to have worked out the schedule. Since the owner of the Sacramento Kings also owns the River Cats, Sutter Health Park and the land around it the Giants really have no say who else plays in his stadium when the River Cats aren't there.
I used to feel bad for Oakland because they are losing their teams, but then I remember they voted for wacko liberals who allowed the city to go to shit.
They’re totally not (A’s) going to Las Vegas. John Fisher is going to screw this up somehow plus the city would rather have an expansion team anyway. Look how wonderful the Golden Knights have done in the NHL so far. Strategically the most sensible decision should be to ditch John Fisher and get a new Stadium deal in Oakland; even if they still have to be in Sacramento for the next 3 seasons since John Fisher already agreed to it!
None of what You said is even close to being true! The A's will never play another major league game in the coliseum after 2024. There is no where to play in Oakland, that's why they are leaving
@@Danadams-v1s None of what you said had anything to do with what I said! The A’s had a deal in place but because of Covid-19; John Fisher instead dances around with negotiating and thought Vegas would be more profitable in the short term. Who actually said there’s nowhere to play in Oakland? The stadium they’re in right now isn’t being demolished anytime soon. It’s not a good stadium but it’s still functional.
Probably turn into a soccer stadium on Saturdays and a swap-meet on Sundays. Oh and don't forget some taco stands out front with some counterfeit items.
It looks like moving to Las Vegas won't work either. Nobody there cares. My thought was to move them to Oklahoma City. It's a big city and the people there would actually like baseball.
Say what you want about the Coliseum, but I love that place. It’s not flashy and it doesn’t have all the “Bells and Whistles” but to me there was no better place to watch a football game. All the stadiums today are clones and just copy each others except for a few minor differences. They are all boring, sterile, antiseptic piles of concrete. Nothing beats a football game played on the dirt baseball infield. Nothing beats seeing players in dirty uniforms with lumps of sod stuck in the face mask. Football today has become boring and hard to watch. And don’t get me started on “domed” stadiums. Stadiums like the Coliseum may be a thing of the past for NOW, but with the costs of stadiums today, multi-purpose stadiums will return with modern technology like retractable fields, flex seating, hydraulic seating platforms, etc. Additionally, football stadiums today are trending toward smaller seating capacities so the days of humongous stadiums are numbered. The days of baseball and football teams sharing stadiums will return!
As a Giants fan originally from the Bay Area, I hope John Fisher sells the team and the A's stay in Sacramento so we can still have both MLB teams in Nor Cal! Vegas should just get an expansion team. If the A's do move to Vegas, Oakland needs to sue to keep the Athletics name and force the Vegas team to have a different name!
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The city of Oakland already said, "They ARE ABSOLUTELY KEEPING Oracle arena. They have NO plans in tearing it down." I saw the news interview on this.
I've seen 100's of games there going back to the early 70s. It's not the prettiest and the area around it has gone downhill, but I've still enjoyed going there and have great memories of A's games, the Raiders and tons of great concerts.
The area around the Coliseum/Oracle arena is not safe. When I attended a game there a few years ago, it was advised to go in groups, leave in larger groups, and get on the BART ASAP and leave the area. If they want to attract a new MLB team the stadium must be in another safer area (and there are very few safer areas in Oakland these days)
How do you think the families who live around the stadium feel about that sentiment? God forbid they revitalize the stadium and support the community around it.
California isn't safe? What no way!
Hence why it became howard terminal or bust
That's dumb as hell. The Coliseum is next to the freeway and there is a guarded walkway that directly runs from the BART station to the gates of the Coliseum. Also, Oakland is just fine I spend 2-3 nights a week walking around there doing comedy and have never had a problem.
It’s dangerous during times when games aren’t happening. I have felt unsafe there during those times, and have felt very safe before and after A’s/Raiders/Warriors games.
Oakland getting an expansion team is like asking your ex-wife on a date
Didn’t work for Tom Haverford. Then he sued Dr. Wendy for alimony.
Killing me.....
Haha Oakland will get nothing and like it!
I think Oakland gave MLB baseball the finger,,why would they give Oakland a Franchise.! By the way for all those who say Oakland has supported the A's just look at their season attendance season by season since they arrived to Oakland..They blame it on Fisher,,but Fisher did not own the A's in 1979 when Oakland attendance was Only 306,763 paying customers (an average of 3,984 for 77 home dates; there were four doubleheaders) showed up to watch the A's in 1979, the team's worst attendance since leaving Philadelphia.
@@jamesbyrnes1208 Oakland attendance has more the most part, been lower than the Giants across the bay. And since the opening of “Oracle” Pacbell Park etc, the Giants have outdrawn the A’s, even when the A’s had a better record.
The main reason MLB made the decision to move the A’s, was that the Giants want the market ( Bay Area) to themselves.
That's home. 😢😢😢. I've cleaned that stadium 🏟 from top to bottom. Parking lot included. ❤❤
I’ve cleaned my toilet many times, it’s nothing to brag about.
Knock it all you want but I saw a lot of great games in that stadium, football and baseball.
I went there to see a game before the move. Drove in parked in the first row and walked in the stadium. It was a perfectly fine place to see a baseball game. I didn't go to hang out at a rooftop terrace or play in an arcade or make sure my phone had wifi. I went to see a baseball game and it was perfectly fine for that.
Hence why it doesn’t draw the casual fan. Only the diehards
@@P31B There aren't many fans left then that actually care about the game then. People went to watch just a baseball game in a stadiums from 1880 to around 2003.
Sacramento has a better chance of getting an expansion team or keeping the A's.. Oakland is not getting any team.
Oakland can get a team. It's gonna take a new mayor and city council that is more friendly to businesses 😊
Not having Fisher as the owner wouldn't hurt...
No place to build HT is long gone .
What happened to the Oakland 'Ball-HUGGERS' everyone was talking about?
The stadium will be turned into a wildlife sanctuary for all the critters that already live there
Possum Paradise!
My people. I have it on good authority that the River Cats and the A’s will be sharing Sutter Health Park. The River Cats will not be playing in Oakland or SF.
One of the problems with the Howard Terminal renderings that no one talks about is that home plate is on the northern part of the site. The idea of batters looking into the sun is absurd.
No, it would have been aligned so the batters are not facing that direction.
@@randallwong7196 One would think. The rendering from behind home plate had those cranes in the background which looked very cool. Obviously, they would be a nonfactor if the field was oriented properly.
The ballpark plan would have the batters facing East. The cranes are in a southeastern corner of that patch of land.
@@randallwong7196 According to Google Maps (for whatever that is worth), it is in the southwest corner.
Oakland's a hell hole. You'd have to be crazy to put a new team there.
It's a large market though
@jamest.7589 She's just one of those conservative types who's scared of any city with a population over 10,000.
It be great for side Shows
So True! Crime is the number One growing buisness in Oakland!
To keep the Coliseum in use, it is expected that the Oakland Roots USL soccer team will move there, and maybe the other minor league soccer team, Project 51O. But it is most important that the stadium also gets mass renovated so it is no longer outdated, and so the city can get its NFL and MLB teams back in expansion, but that's the difficult part
They're not gonna expand to Oakland. The thought is laugh out loud hilarious. Oakland ain't getting jack. It's over. Oh right, they'll get their little USL soccer team. Whatever!
@@osaji922 Oakland is already on the shortlist for MLB expansion, and when the NFL ever decides to expand past 32 teams, they'll be on that list as well, due to the history the A's and Raiders have in the city. But my comment was more about stadium renovations than expansion or minor league soccer, and all it needs is to be funded privately
"Difficult" doesn't begin to describe it. Solving climate change is "difficult." Oakland getting both an MLB and NFL team... that's raising Lazarus from the dead "difficult."
@@abakella Unless you're still in high school, I can safely say it ain't gonna happen in your lifetime.
@@karnubawax Like I said, they're already on the shortlist, meaning it's likely to happen in a few years. The biggest obstacle is the stadium being old and outdated, which is why my original comment was primarily about renovation
Oakland/East Bay missed their opportunity in the 90's. Should have built a ballpark next to the Coliseum. Oakland went cheap and now has lost all 3 teams. Public funding is never going away
The site is not big enough to build another building without knocking one down which was not possible with 3 teams sharing two buildings .
Tell all the facts. Oakland DID publicly fund renovations the Raiders move back to Oakland in 95 as well as the arena renovation a couple of years , they got massively burned and are still paying for it to this day five years after the Raiders left. That’s why they’re so reluctant to give money to sports teams and I don’t blame them . Always easy to say what should be done with money that’s not yours.
@@neneshubby every city has provided the public funding needed to up keep their sports teams. Oakland is no exception. If Oakland can't afford it. Both the Raiders and A's should have left in the 90's
@@sirchi8731 Dude, you couldn’t be more wrong. Plenty of stadiums have been built without public money. Ever hear of Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles? Only the most expensive stadium ever built. Built entirely with private money. Ever hear the San Francisco Giants? They had 4 public referendums voted down to provide funds them build a new ballpark in San Francisco to replace Candlestick Park in the 80s and early 90s. They finally decided to move and were all but relocated to Tampa Bay when a local ownership group stepped in, bought them and kept the team here. Then they privately financed what is now Oracle Park. I mean, at least try to do some homework before you post.
@@neneshubby So fi is a exception not a rule. If I was a billionaire I would not fully private fund a stadium. I would demand a public subsidies as well. If not another city will.
There is no way that the mlb is gonna put an expansion team in Oakland
If Oakland is smart, which they are not, they would turn the coliseum area into housing. That land is pretty valuable and could host a lot of new homes which are badly needed in the Bay Area.
It's gonna become that anyway for Crackheads and Druggies!
And when they knock it down they will still be paying for Mt Davis and will be for the next 10 years at least.
Oakland is so cheap this stadium will still be standing 10 years from now guaranteed
The Roman Colloseum would be a better stadium than the Oakland Collesium, at this point.
"Could you imagine how dead the Coliseum would be if a AAA team were playing there?"
The Yankees AAA team has been playing there since the 90s!
I think the Coliseum is turned half into other buildings (like housing) and half into a smaller USL sized soccer stadium for the Oakland Roots
Go Boots.!!!
It's going to end up a homeless camp.
It will eventually be the largest outdoor market in the bay area. A place to buy stolen property and any drugs.
This! A Flea Market for Crackheads
My views, after having lived in the SF Bay Area for some 50 years:
1) The Coliseum was built INTO the ground with the idea of having a relatively low profile and not block off so many views, etc. This seemed like a great idea at the time, but soon they realized that having the field level so close to the Bay's elevation meant they were going to have major drainage problems, including players slipping a lot on the damp field... and PLUMBING issues. Water does NOT go UP very well. Clubhouses and dugouts got flooded with sewage more than a few times over the years. No room to raise the field level up, either; it would be too high for first-row fans to see the game well.
2) Because of the things mentioned in Point 1, the best thing to do is BRING OUT THE BULLDOZERS and WRECKING BALLS as soon as the season is over. Rip the thing down before the rainy season starts!
3) If the Rivercats are displaced for a few games here and there, play their games at Oracle. Make 'em weekend twi-night double headers if the Giants are in town, would be a great draw!. They're the Giants' minor-league team, after all...
4) If things in Vegas fall through for the A's, tough. They made their bed, go lie in it. Or go find another city/victim, anyway...
great points here.
The Las Vegas Athletics really rolls off the tongue.
River cats when displaced should play at Stockton Banner Island ballpark.
From a booklet from 1966 ( which I found a few years ago ) touting the East Bay, the field level is 28 feet below ground.
@@randallwong7196the engineer must have been from New Orleans.
Too much crime in Oakland. A lot of the tax base, businesses and corporations have already left the city. Oakland is your typical failed left coast city.
Maybe it needs a right-winged mayor like me, to change all that.
If you tear it down to one infield deck and make it a community stadium there are three local JuCos and multiple high schools that would line up to play games even before renovations. It would be the East Bay version of Kezar.
I could see like a 12,000 seat soccer stadium and a lot of housing.
There is no way in hell Oakland gets an MLB expansion team - hell, there's no way ANYBODY is getting an expansion team in this economy.
The only way into the MLB or NFL right now is dead man's boots.
It was great to see Campy Campaneris and Rick Monday play there - also Ben Davidson, George Blanda, Warren Wells. Great stadium.
I went to see Ted Nugent play there. Twice.
Oakland’s broke, the state of California is over $700 billion in debt. That boondoggle Speed Train and a new Oakland Stadium being built? Not a chance...
I'd bet a AAA would draw about as much as the As will this summer.... the prices will likely be lower, and maybe they would be willing to stay longer!
How about doing a video on the chances that Sacramento can build a major league ball park in the Sacramento Railyards?
Or in West Sac, there is open space just adjacent to the current ballpark
@@ivandragomiloff2356 I don't think Vivek's group would build a MLB park in West Sacramento.....It's going to be in the Railyards in Downtown Sacramento if it were to happen.
@@AK-qo6tx I think it’s an option. But I believe more and more that Vegas will get an expansion team, and the A’s will stay in Sac
the A's told local news that they hope to play a few home series games in Las Vegas starting next year... maybe that will help with the conflict with the Rivercats?
Have to mention that Oakland is a city in great distress. Losing businesses due to high crime due to progressive leadership. The city is done.
A homeless encampment
A tent city, perfect place to put it
Im hoping that the AASEG can make that site great again. For a major league team to be there, they could play a season or 2 while a new stadium is built on the site. Build a stadium similar to the one that was proposed to go on the Howard Terminal site. And get a team owner who cares about the community. It can be done there.
The Oakland Coliseum does not need to be demolished. It needs to be a football stadium. Like it was meant to be in the first place we've got the UFL. A new football team can be put in the Oakland Coliseum. Which is why it needs to be renovated.
They will replace it with a store that sells spray paint.
Oakland has lots of issues businesses can’t leave fast enough I don’t think a baseball team is going to Oakland in the foreseeable future
“Affordable housing” 🤣 That was a good one Ginger
Maybe the Giants will move their top AAA minor league to Oakland in a brand new 8000 capacity new ball park and call them the Oakland 💩 holes
Massive outdoor Methlabs and homeless camps. Power to the people.
Think of all the R.V's the homeless could cram in that parking lot.
The A's have been trying to purchase a 50% share of the Coliseum, and a local business group has been going after the other 50%. It would be between them when a demolition happens and the type of construction that goes in.
When I think about how closed leagues and ownership works in the major leagues (all sports), it is the most glaring example of the weakness in capitalism or the unwillingness of the federal government to regulate monopolies. Underperforming firms are incentivized to continue to underperform because there is no competition. Absentee owners deserve to get relegated instead of preserving value by generating scarcity.
"Capitalism" is always the scapegoat. But nobody ever considers the SIN of individuals.
@@davidlafleche1142it's the system, people have always signed. You might say it's biblical.
Leave the Oakland Coliseum and Mt Davis exactly the way it is as a symbol to all the bullshit that goes on in the world!!!
It's the Roots stadium. Perhaps shared with the Ballers.
A little sad how the Oakland Athletics and the stadium isn't having a kinda renovation or getting bigger.
My prediction will be that it stays as is, at least until the ownership of the property reverts to one entity. I dont see anything happening with the A's owning half the property.
I’ve heard they might turn the coliseum into a soccer stadium for the USL Oakland team
0:14 "....where the stadium is right now...."
It's in the Toilet....💩🤣
A’s should go to Nashville or New Orleans. Force an ownership change to someone that gives a damn about putting a good team/organization on the field. The most talked about moment with the A’s happened in the stands.
Might get USL soccer there next season. Roots and Soul are working to play home games at the coliseum next season
Were you gonna make a video about Connecticut wanting an NBA team? The New England Founders is what they want to call it
it will end up just being a abandoned building for the next 5-10 years
Aren't the Oakland Roots and Oakland Soul soccer teams supposed to play in the Oakland Coliseum in the 2025/2026 season? If the A's had stayed instead of going to Sacramento wasn't part of the cost reconfiguring the field back and forth between baseball and soccer?
I had to laugh when you said the Arena saw a "ton of winning" with the Warriors.
People forget that for the 20 years before that they were probably the most dysfunctional team in professional sports, when their highlight reel consisted of players choking coaches.
Be that as it may, there was still a lot of winning afterwards. Helps people forget about the bad times. It means something to people.
Well apart from the We Believe run in the 2007 playoffs of course lol. The last 5 years at Oracle Arena made up for all the bad times in the arena!
A's fan for life. Remember the 70's dynasty. Remember the 80's. Remember RICKEY !!
With that said, I don't care where they play. With that said, I believe they will be in Vegas.
Here's what I think has already happened.
I believe Fisher's family has told him to do, "His due diligence," and the family will do the rest.
That's why it doesn't look like there is money right now. Because there isn't any.
Maybe they can turn it into a giant homeless encampment?
They should get an expansion team and call them the Bees!
Oakland Bippers
They already did. Their season starts soon. They’re called the Oakland Ballers (B’s).
And the junir fan club could be the "Sons of the B's."
nothing a translucent retractable roof and a couple beer gardens can't fix.
That would be more popular in Oakland WITHOUT the distraction of baseball...
UFL should expand to Oakland and the west coast
Why the hell would Oakland want the Rivercats to play there after Fisher took the team to Sac? The Giants can host their little minor league team in their own stadium if they want.
The River Cats plan to play as many games as possible at home if the schedule can be worked out. If there is a conflict and the Giants are on the road I could see them maybe playing a few games there since that is their parent club. If not maybe one of the California League stadiums, Stockton, Modesto or Fresno might work out for a few games. I don't see them going to Oakland , the coliseum seems intent to move on from baseball. If the River Cats were to play in Oakland I would expect them to draw far more than 500 fans. Most triple A games draw around 5,000, anything less than that would prove that Oakland is no longer a baseball town.
@@cyclingoptions9007the river cats should temporarily move to Fresno, they have a 10,000+ seat stadium. The Grizzlies should move to Lancaster and retake the Jethawks name. Hopefully they haven't started renovating the Hangar for USL Soccer. The soccer team should move to someplace with lots of soccer fans. There are lots of locales for them in SoCal.
@@David-xr4yd The River Cats and A's have already set their 2025 schedules. They won't be in Sacramento on the same days, there will be about 188 days of baseball at Sutter Health Park in 2025! They are installing a type of high tech turf with a water cooling system under it because it would be impossible to care for natural grass with all the use. They are also constructing new clubhouses, I understand the A's are picking up the bill for the improvements. The River Cats have a contract with the Giants through 2030 to provide a team the stadium. I thought that perhaps the River Cats could play a series or two at the Giant's single A stadium in San Jose or a few games in San Francisco if there were conflicts but they seem to have worked out the schedule. Since the owner of the Sacramento Kings also owns the River Cats, Sutter Health Park and the land around it the Giants really have no say who else plays in his stadium when the River Cats aren't there.
The Oakland Roots will be playing there. The Arena isn't going anywhere they make more money now w concerts than when the Warriors play there
They should tear it down and build more housing like this country needs.
I don't care if they move or even go out of business. This is stupid.
Oakland Beez Expansion team. Dark Blue, and gold. Primary Hat logo is "B's"
Secondary would be a bat swinging bee.
It will be demolished in about two or three years.
It'll take five just to get to the permits.
4th in team HRs, pretty good for a weak offense. The fans are here, just need a new owner and ballpark.
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Level it , make spot accessible for street takeovers.
I used to feel bad for Oakland because they are losing their teams, but then I remember they voted for wacko liberals who allowed the city to go to shit.
Absolute failure at City Hall.
They're planning pro soccer games at Coliseum for a couple of years
next to the R.V.s
nice parking lot.
This site will be getting rebuilt , to what , I am unsure . The city got grants to rebuild . Most likely housing and mixed business .
Which - in 20 years - will be slums and empty, vandalized businesses.
Yeah, this isn’t like the Coyotes, where they’d get an expansion team back.
It''s going to be a Parking lot in the long run.
The Tampa Bay Rays might move to Las Vegas.
Your not real smart are You
I know you’re very young but seriously…California has red tape. These stadiums rot for years and years of disuse before they get knocked down.
The message in the thumbnail for that video does not happen to be the truth. /
They’re totally not (A’s) going to Las Vegas.
John Fisher is going to screw this up somehow plus the city would rather have an expansion team anyway. Look how wonderful the Golden Knights have done in the NHL so far.
Strategically the most sensible decision should be to ditch John Fisher and get a new Stadium deal in Oakland; even if they still have to be in Sacramento for the next 3 seasons since John Fisher already agreed to it!
None of what You said is even close to being true! The A's will never play another major league game in the coliseum after 2024. There is no where to play in Oakland, that's why they are leaving
@@Danadams-v1s None of what you said had anything to do with what I said!
The A’s had a deal in place but because of Covid-19; John Fisher instead dances around with negotiating and thought Vegas would be more profitable in the short term.
Who actually said there’s nowhere to play in Oakland? The stadium they’re in right now isn’t being demolished anytime soon. It’s not a good stadium but it’s still functional.
Do guaranteed rate next lol
Convert it into a prison for the citizens of Oakland.
Even if they did they wouldn't use it.
They would put the good citizens in prison.. and let the criminals run free... its California
It already is.
"Big cities bad, durhurrrrr"
Santa Rita West!
I think the Oakland Roots plan on playing there in 2025
In 2025, the Coliseum will be Soccer Specific, no baseball team would be playing there.
Your killing me smalls
Probably turn into a soccer stadium on Saturdays and a swap-meet on Sundays. Oh and don't forget some taco stands out front with some counterfeit items.
It’s gonna be demolished. Huge plot of land in a prime spot
Are the Oakand Ballers going to charge people to watch their games? lmao.
It looks like moving to Las Vegas won't work either. Nobody there cares. My thought was to move them to Oklahoma City. It's a big city and the people there would actually like baseball.
Are you sure you know what the hell your talking about.
When are they planning the next boycott? Definitely want to attend that one
It will have great results🤣
Warriors..ba bye..Raiders..Ba bye....Athletes...B... well you know the rest.
As move back to KC and the Royals move to Las Vegas?
smoking crack
UFL team and maybe soccer
Move the Oakland ballers into the colosseum if not river cats
Say what you want about the Coliseum, but I love that place. It’s not flashy and it doesn’t have all the “Bells and Whistles” but to me there was no better place to watch a football game. All the stadiums today are clones and just copy each others except for a few minor differences. They are all boring, sterile, antiseptic piles of concrete. Nothing beats a football game played on the dirt baseball infield. Nothing beats seeing players in dirty uniforms with lumps of sod stuck in the face mask. Football today has become boring and hard to watch. And don’t get me started on “domed” stadiums. Stadiums like the Coliseum may be a thing of the past for NOW, but with the costs of stadiums today, multi-purpose stadiums will return with modern technology like retractable fields, flex seating, hydraulic seating platforms, etc. Additionally, football stadiums today are trending toward smaller seating capacities so the days of humongous stadiums are numbered. The days of baseball and football teams sharing stadiums will return!
I think some minor league soccer teams are going to be playing at Coliseum next year
Homeless area
As a Giants fan originally from the Bay Area, I hope John Fisher sells the team and the A's stay in Sacramento so we can still have both MLB teams in Nor Cal! Vegas should just get an expansion team. If the A's do move to Vegas, Oakland needs to sue to keep the Athletics name and force the Vegas team to have a different name!
That is a dead end idea. Fisher owns the name. The Mayor already tried that. And MLB backs Fischer anyway.
It's dead bc of fisher.
They will bring in an WNBA team that nobody watches anyway.
That ship already sailed.
John Fisher will not sell the team unless he can build a stadium in Las Vegas. MLB needs to force this Billionaire grifter out.