Frustrated fans protest for A's owner to sell team. Is it still possible?
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- Опубликовано: 27 мар 2024
- Opening Day's parking lot protest by A's fans is the latest attempt to push back against owner John Fischer and his desire to move the team to Las Vegas.
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The greatest fan base sports have ever seen 💯 Keep fighting Oakland fans!!
Why not? Everybody wins if it happens but Fisher is too stubborn to recognize it
Newscaster sounds unfamiliar with the situation and Bay Area.
No matter how hard they try, they are as good as gone.
The people of oakland are responsible for neglecting their city, which has resulted in it becoming a haven for crime. Businesses can't operate in oakland. I don't blame the A's for leaving.
Exactly
AMEN!!!!!!!!
Used to do Security at A’s games
Even made it guarding the bullpen & Dugout during the games
Best job I ever had 💯
Should this move happen, the MLB will be headed towards a downward spiral. When other fans of other franchises see how incompetent some of these ownership groups can be, I really hope a movement which revokes the MLB's anti-trust excemption comes into play to hurt this business model. This is a real mar on "America's Pastime" this should be a timeline where an MLB stadium is Hallowed grounds and the time honored heritage of local fanbases revered forever.
Not gonna happen. People are enjoying baseball in L.A, Boston, Philadelphia and Texas and all over. It's just the East Bay that is upset
Not really. The Bay Area just doesn’t care about the A’s. The Giants have the history, been around longer, and they have a past of winning and they do whatever they do to attract the fans. The A’s is just the opposite. No matter who owns the A’s, they won’t bring in a decent sized fanbase to Oakland. The East Bay is the larger, more wealthy part of the Bay, and 8 out of 10 baseball fans would rather pass right past the coliseum to see the Giants lose for $150 than watch a fresh group of guys in the green and yellow play for $8 bucks… unfortunately facts don’t care about feelings.
@@champspec also Oakland government and the A's have missed out on some great opportunities to get a ballpark deal done. Oakland qualifies for a bigger minor league ballpark around 25K seats. I think that could have been done but both the A's and city would have to pitch in
Well put sir!
can you really blame anyone for getting out of oakland?
They did it to themselves. Recall Newsom and Price.
I’m a fan in Vegas (in general and highest priority of MLB-overall (no team specifically) and international growth of baseball, due to how that all is best for THE GAME, and then due to my history I’m a fan of 1. Mariners, 2. Dodgers, 3. A’s-and looking very much forward to bumping the A’s to #1 (and M’s way down) if the move goes through due to how (long story) that would be full-circle for me like the Raiders’ move here was). So where do I stand? 1. Vegas will be good for THE GAME no matter what. 2. If it’s the A’s, well that sucks for OAK, but as millions of non-Californians will also tell you, CA and OAK in particular has your blames and priorities all wrong for the myriad of things that ail you, and you just aren’t getting things done there, and (blame Fisher, whatever Commish, blah blah blah all you want) this is just one more sign of that (if it wasn’t, then, at the very least, you wouldn’t have lost the Dubs to The City, for goodness sake), so a solution is needed and most non-Californians will tell you that it it doesn’t lie there the way things are for the foreseeable future regardless of what solutions have already been proposed (if they were so good then they would’ve happened a long time ago, much less by now, for the same reasons alluded to already), so many Las Vegans like myself pledge to be good stewards of the A’s, even though (especially because many of us are also suspect whether Fisher will really put his money where his mouth has been regarding building a new ballpark here) it will take time for the A’s fanbase to grow here, with winning being the crux of that. And, my main reason for commenting: 3. BUTT OUT OF VEGAS’ BUSINESS, STARTING WITH THE “SCHOOLS OVER STADIUMS” MATTER!!! I don’t care how much you want to keep your team (and that’s not what any non-Californian questions, for your support of A’s *baseball* all this time besides all the nonsense going on for decades regarding making an appropriate facility and keeping the team there has nevertheless been obvious (and this is what the mayor of Las Vegas PROPER (which is only a third of the valley land area and population and not even over the area where any of the potential ballpark sites are) meant when she thinks it would be best if a solution could be found there)), but supporting that organization is going way too far, so SHAME ON YOU! That is for Nevadans to decide and support or not in the meantime as WE see fit!!!
Cowboys fans want to send Jerry back to Arkansas and take the team with him.
Vegas will treat the As better, not the bay
Fisher is still the owner. You are delusional if you think Fisher cares about fielding a winning team
I paused the video and counted exactly 59,000 people outside the coliseum! 😂😂😂
Its sickening that these people continue to diss the players on the field trying to win for real fans.
"If only the A's would pay for better players all the problems would go away". If I'm a player on the field, I'm telling you were to stuff it.
They just lost 0-8.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Not only was I there (I just got home 10 mins ago), I was in this video (but won't say which). You have absolutely no concept of what's going on. Yes, the city of Oakland IS a problem, no doubt. But there's more to it than that. There are plenty of investors who want this team, in this place, and want to do right by this community. This isn't some meaningless franchise - do you have any idea the history of this team? Do you know that the As had a world series roster just 2 years ago - with the lowest payroll in sports?
Yes, it's a downtrodden city , no doubt. But Vegas deserves it's own team - this helps no one.
Fisher makes money from the TV deal - he takes a profit every year (20M + in pure profit alone for doing nothing), and chooses not to spend on roster. Those who don't live here have no idea how he abuses us. WE DONT HAVE CHEAP TICKETS. We pay some of the higher prices in the league. We don't have $5 night. We have $320 tickets. They are purposely keeping us out, to justify a move. Don't you get it?
The movie "Major League" is a reality in Oakland. The owner wants to keep us out, everything is expensive and difficult, while putting on cheapest payroll.
WE LOVE THE PLAYERS. WE LOVE THE PLAYER. WE LOVE THE PLAYERS.
But what do we do? I'm not here saying it's not a challenge in Oakland - but you have absolutely no concept of what this means to the city. No other city has ever lost 3 teams in a row. It's absolutely devastating. Yes, the city deserves tons of fault.
@@junkerjorg2 nice speech but at the end of the day it's been 20 years and the city government is not getting a fully private funded ballpark from this of any A's ownership. So pony up the subsidies like Vegas did in order to stop the relocation...anything less then is failure. I understand yall don't like to give hand outs go billionaires but your not winning that fight. Pay to play or let the A's find a new community in another city
Fisher bot or just stupid.
I grew up an A's fan in San Jose. I could never get on board with Billy Beane's approach. The bay area does not want the A's.
Hell no. The city has north of a billion dollars in unfunded pension liabilities - Oakland is the municipal equivalent of Donald Trump. We're only going to be able to afford to buy the team if we can find wealthy donors...and, uh, I think even the great Cheeto would have trouble pulling that con off.
Two minutes in the penalty box for an unnecessary political post.
@@ec1628
Because I invoked he-who-must-not-be-named?
If so, grow up.
He's famous outside of the political context as someone who was thin on liquidity, thick on debt, and high on histrionics. If there's a celebrity who is a better anthropomorphization of Oakland than him, name 'em.
If not, and you think that: 1) the city's current fiscal picture is fine, or 2) that it's political to invoke finances when the topic is whether "Oakland" wants to keep the A's:
1) The city really does have ~$2 Billion in "unfunded liabilities," which is the polite term for bills a government isn't quite sure how its going to pay just yet. You can go to google, type in "city of oakland unfunded liabilities", and see FY'22 as the top result on OpenGov.
2) If the city council thinks they'll get a win out of keeping the A's, they'll do it. Nevermind that is exactly what the owner wants. Nevermind the talk of selling to local co-op or some other scheme like that - the city will end up directly footing the bill while saying they aren't. Nevermind that city coffers are flush with IOU's and little cash or future earnings. The people we elected to serve will transfer our taxes into the pocket of a guy who owns an MLB team, and countless developers & speculators of the area around a new stadium.
Your call is overruled. You spend two minutes in the penalty box.
@@ec1628
Because I invoked he-who-must-not-be-named?
If so, grow up.
He's famous outside of the political context as someone who was thin on liquidity, thick on debt, and high on histrionics. If there's a celebrity who is a better anthropomorphization of Oakland than him, name 'em.
If not, and you think that: 1) the city's current fiscal picture is fine, or 2) that it's political to invoke finances when the topic is whether "Oakland" wants to keep the A's:
1) The city really does have ~$2 Billion in "unfunded liabilities," which is the polite term for bills a government isn't quite sure how its going to pay just yet. You can go to google, type in "city of oakland unfunded liabilities", and see FY'22 as the top result on OpenGov.
2) If the city council thinks they'll get a win out of keeping the A's, they'll do it. Nevermind that is exactly what the owner wants. Nevermind the talk of selling to local co-op or some other scheme like that - the city will end up directly footing the bill while saying they aren't. Nevermind that city coffers are flush with IOU's and little cash or future earnings. The people we elected to serve will transfer our taxes into the pocket of a guy who owns an MLB team, and countless developers & speculators of the area around a new stadium.
Your call is overruled. You spend two minutes in the penalty box.
@@ec1628Because I invoked he-who-must-not-be-named?
If so, grow up.
He's famous outside of the political context as someone who was thin on liquidity, thick on debt, and high on histrionics. If there's a celebrity who is a better personification of Oakland than him, name 'em.
@@ec1628
If not, and you think that: 1) the city's current fiscal picture is fine, or 2) that it's political to invoke finances when the topic is whether "Oakland" wants to keep the A's:
1) The city really does have ~$2 Billion in "unfunded liabilities," which is the polite term for bills a government isn't quite sure how its going to pay just yet. You can go to google, type in "city of oakland unfunded liabilities", and see FY'22 as the top result on OpenGov.
2) If the city council thinks they'll get a win out of keeping the A's, they'll do it. Nevermind that is exactly what the owner wants. Nevermind the talk of selling to local co-op or some other scheme like that - the city will end up directly footing the bill while saying they aren't. Nevermind that city coffers are flush with IOU's and little cash or future earnings. The people we elected to serve will transfer our taxes into the pocket of a guy who owns an MLB team, and countless developers & speculators of the area around a new stadium.
Put a fork in the A’s.
We want a WNBA team!!!
A WNBA team would be perfect for Oakland… they are used to playing in front of tiny crowds.
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