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'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 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
@@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.
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...
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 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.
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...
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.
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!
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.
I know people from the area are not going to like this but Oakland doesn't deserve any pro sports teams. The city is the real problem here. No professional franchise wants any association with the city of Oakland. It has become a third world city. You could transplant the city to Argentina or Venezuela and it would fit right in and Oakland's voters have only themselves to blame.
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.
I’d be livid if Sacramento gets to keep the A’s. If they do, what was the point of this entire stand off. Unbelievable. I hope it fails is Sacramento and fails in Vegas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
Oakland is so cheap this stadium will still be standing 10 years from now guaranteed
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.
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
The stadium will be turned into a wildlife sanctuary for all the critters that already live there
Possum Paradise!
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.!!!
And when they knock it down they will still be paying for Mt Davis and will be for the next 10 years at least.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
“Affordable housing” 🤣 That was a good one Ginger
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.
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?
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.
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.
A little sad how the Oakland Athletics and the stadium isn't having a kinda renovation or getting bigger.
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.
Were you gonna make a video about Connecticut wanting an NBA team? The New England Founders is what they want to call it
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!
Might get USL soccer there next season. Roots and Soul are working to play home games at the coliseum next season
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
"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!
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.
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."
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
I’ve heard they might turn the coliseum into a soccer stadium for the USL Oakland team
They will replace it with a store that sells spray paint.
it will end up just being a abandoned building for the next 5-10 years
0:14 "....where the stadium is right now...."
It's in the Toilet....💩🤣
As move back to KC and the Royals move to Las Vegas?
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.
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...
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.
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.
UFL should expand to Oakland and the west coast
Oakland Beez Expansion team. Dark Blue, and gold. Primary Hat logo is "B's"
Secondary would be a bat swinging bee.
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?
Do guaranteed rate next lol
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?
nice parking lot.
They could house a million people on all that land
Massive outdoor Methlabs and homeless camps. Power to the people.
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
The Tampa Bay Rays might move to Las Vegas.
It''s going to be a Parking lot in the long run.
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.
Yeah, this isn’t like the Coyotes, where they’d get an expansion team back.
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They should tear it down and build more housing like this country needs.
4th in team HRs, pretty good for a weak offense. The fans are here, just need a new owner and ballpark.
I think the Oakland Roots plan on playing there in 2025
The message in the thumbnail for that video does not happen to be the truth. /
A homeless encampment
A tent city, perfect place to put it
When are they planning the next boycott? Definitely want to attend that one
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.
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 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.
It will eventually be the largest outdoor market in the bay area. A place to buy stolen property and any drugs.
Are the Oakand Ballers going to charge people to watch their games? lmao.
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...
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!!!
UFL team and maybe soccer
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.
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"
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!
It’s gonna be demolished. Huge plot of land in a prime spot
I think some minor league soccer teams are going to be playing at Coliseum next year
In 2025, the Coliseum will be Soccer Specific, no baseball team would be playing there.
Move the Oakland ballers into the colosseum if not river cats
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!
I know people from the area are not going to like this but Oakland doesn't deserve any pro sports teams. The city is the real problem here. No professional franchise wants any association with the city of Oakland. It has become a third world city. You could transplant the city to Argentina or Venezuela and it would fit right in and Oakland's voters have only themselves to blame.
I’m from the area and I agree 100%
Just remodel it. Gut it to nothing and rebuild it
Oakland is the West Coast version of Baltimore. Keep voting the same, you get the same.
Except that people in Baltimore actually go to baseball games.
It will be demolished in about two or three years.
It'll take five just to get to the permits.
I don't care if they move or even go out of business. This is stupid.
John Fisher will not sell the team unless he can build a stadium in Las Vegas. MLB needs to force this Billionaire grifter out.
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.
I’d be livid if Sacramento gets to keep the A’s. If they do, what was the point of this entire stand off. Unbelievable. I hope it fails is Sacramento and fails in Vegas.
Turn it into a homeless tent city