Grew up in the Rio Vista, Fairfield area. Went to my first A's game in 68. Their first year in Oakland. Have been an avid A's fan ever sense. Can't help but think that they have been the west coast Yankees farm club at times. The A's deserve better!! Come on Oakland!
As a boy my favorite team was the A's even tho I'm in Seattle. I love how the A's have the lowest payroll but still field a very good team year after year. They are a team of young rookies who are always the under dog yet play like champions....Year after year....
It is insane how this video still holds up to this day my lord. But the difference this time is that the ballpark saga is heading for a definite end. Whether it be Oakland or Las Vegas.
stay in oakland please, I've been watching A's games at the coliseum once i got into baseball. so what if Oakland isn't the best place in the world, its the home of the oakland A's. I would be so upset if they moved out of Oakland. I don't know how I would get to the A's games in San Jose without the help of bart. StAy in Oakland!
Andres Jimenez The A's need a new ballpark (Oakland or San Jose)somewhere in the bay area. I admit I don't the full details of this topic but my 2 cents as an outsider. I only visited the Bay area 1x but a compromise site as a MLB (Yankee lol)fan is this. IMO build a 40,000-seat somewhere near the Jack London Downtown Oakland Bart station. It could become like a west coast version of Camden Yards. The A's (and Raiders too) both need new separate homes. I believe it's true about horrible plumbing problems, lack of equipment etc. With That said, hopefully Mr. Wolfe and some new partners would pay almost all of the costs of a new ballpark somewhere in the Bay area costing at least close to $1 Billion. Just my takes.
Glad that this whole issue is finally coming to an end. Lew Wolff is gone and soon the Athletics will annouce a new site for new ballpark IN Oakland for the A's. Thank god. #RootedInOakland
The Oakland Alameda Co. coliseum is home to 4 A's pennants and at least three Raiders championships. It is hallowed ground, despite it's technical shortcomings. The A's are the most successful A.L. franchise (In terms of World championships) West of NYC. It's difficult to understand why they should move.
I've always wondered what's up with those two concrete stairways just beyond both foul poles in Right & Left field? No one is ever on them, and it appears they aren't accessible from either side. They would be good baseball seats of they would put seats in there.
+Christopher Socha True Maybe During The A's 2 or 3 Final Years At The Coliseum Then Their New Stadium Could Be Built By That Time But in San Jose Which is Giants Fanbase BTW!
bob snufflebag The Giants don't have public domain fuckhead. Only government and municipalities have public domain. The SF Giants own the territorial rights to San Jose.
Also it’s on the other side of the water. In San Fransisco they don’t have as many poverty problems as Oakland so they can afford that on that side of the Bay.
The owners really. The A's are about to build a new ballpark with private financing, thus Dave Kaval as president and in charge of those operations now. They still can't afford a massive epic 1bil type plan though. Raiders have cheap ass Mark Davis who didn't want to build in Oakland or the Bay Area for that matter anyways, thus his lack of trying and good faith negotiations. Warriors are building with their own money similar to what the A's are about to do, plus the owners are wealthy to the teeth. The A's rushing of late is probably more to do with the league policy of revenue sharing that is about to change. Adapting for the future I suppose. Edit: Scratch that! A's are going all out with an epic billion ballpark it seems lol. Since everyone else bailed, the A's are going to take control of both Howard Terminal and the Coliseum site to redevelop which is going to pay for the epic ass ballpark at the water.
The A’s have moved across the country from Philadelphia, a stop in Kansas City and eventually the Bay Area. There stadium was a dump twenty years ago (the last time I was there) and apparently it hasn’t improved. Maybe old Cleveland stadium was worse, maybe Tiger stadium was worse... but eventually they were replaced. None had raw sewage floating around it them. Time had come.
I miss Tiger Stadium. 84 World Series game 5 in particular. I don't think Tiger Stadium was ever in the condition the Oakland Coliseum is in, when the Tigers were calling the old ballpark home. And keep in mind, if it were still in use, it would be days older than Fenway. No lead was ever safe in this ballpark.
My grandfather went to a's games as a teen, my dad has been going all his life, and our dad been taking my brother and i for years now please don't move to san jose!!! #KeepA'sinOakland
The Giants are blocking the A's from moving to San Jose because of "territorial rights." The Giants have claimed SJ since 1958 when they moved from New York. If somehow, MLB allowed the A's to go to SJ, the Giants would move their minor league franchise.
I've been a fan of Baseball since the mid-70's. I'd hate to see the A's leave Oakland. But I would'nt blame them for leaving if there was no way for the A's to have their own Camden Yards type of ballpark.
Here'a a thought. Convert the Coliseum into a baseball only facility ala what was done in Atlanta after the '96 Summer Olympics. While the conversion is taking place, the As' could share Pac Bell Ballpark w/ the Giants for say two years as with what took place with the Yanks sharing Shea Stadium w/ the Mets from '74-'75.
+Vince Niederman I'm sure the ownership of the A's would for pay rent on the shared use of Pac Bell park. I myself would hate to see them move anywhere.
If Oakland wants to keep it's team then the fans need to show up to the games. They rank at the bottom every year in attendance. They don't deserve a baseball team with those numbers.
I live in Stockton. I'll go to Oakland or San Jose. the one certainity and constant though is O.Co is structurally bad for the fans as well as any baseball team playing there. the single good thing I can say is 1. they have cupholders while candlestick didn't. But now that's a non-issue. 2. BART is right there with a bridge to the stadium. But, Bart and public transit is in San Jose too.
+Hugo Vasquez Except for the fact that California has 38 million people, which is 12 million more than Texas. Also, you're not the biggest state, the biggest state geographically is Alaska.
Either rebuild the stadium or move. I'm from Fremont but I don't mind the drive to Oakland. But the point is the stadium. It's not like they want to move they want a better stadium for the players and the fans. People might argue that they can't leave cause there is so much history there, but look at the Yankees. The house that Ruth built gone. I care about the A's. They deserve better. So either renovate or move out of Oakland.
Agreed. That stadium was built at the end of the "cookie-cutter" stadium era (1989),so,by 1992,when the Orioles opened Camden Yards, Rogers Centre was already outdated. Toronto and Tampa Bay both need new stadiums
At least they aren’t supposing the team to move to another city in general like Vancouver or Portland. Honestly keep them in the Bay Area but A’s fans, notice how lucky you are that they are at least staying in the Bay Area and no elsewhere.
Today is July 21st 2024 the A’s currently have 33 Games left before they move to Sacramento for a projected 3 years until 2028 when Las Vegas prepares a Stadium 🏟️ this video is very disheartening and Oakland will forever be the home of the Athletics 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘
Why is the City of Oakland and Alameda County trying to run a Sports Facility? Sell the property to the Raiders or A's and let them build whatever type of stadium they want with private money.
They'll never be in San Jose and they're not staying in Oakland. Unless the owner starts to seriously consider Sacramento, which he will not, the A's won't even stay in California. The owner won't be alive in 10-15 years, I don't understand why he's concerned with money at his age. Just build a damn stadium. If Sacramento can build the Kings a new arena and save their team, why can't the A's owner do it with the kind of revenue market in the Bay area? You pull in revenue from the MLB and lease it to the Raiders for even more. It CAN be done.
He sounds like the diehards in Montreal before the Expos moved to DC. They have great fans, just not enough of them. And all these decades where the seats in the lower bowl are a mile from the field, and they never once reconfigured the damn thing. This has been going on for 30+ years, I’m from DC and it was always the A’s threatening to move there, or St. Petersburg since the ‘80’s. Hell, Charlie Finley wanted to move them in the late ‘70’s when he figured out he couldn’t make payroll there. That’s FORTY YEARS OF SELLING OFF PLAYERS. They should make a statue of Billy Beane, if it weren’t for his genius, they would have been gone. All Wolff has to do is figure out which city will get the most transplants fleeing California because it’s a staging area for the UN dystopian vision, and he has his answer. You’ve got Boise, Salt Lake City, Vegas, Portland. Just get it over with and move to Las Vegas, and MLB can scheme to funnel the 40 million tourists to the ballpark all season. Put the Park right off the strip just like the football stadium that’s being built. It’s just another hotel tax. It really is that easy. Thousands of fans came from other cities to see hockey games this year, and had a little 2-3 day vacation at the same time. It’s all here in Vegas, the code has been broken.
I've been to all the baseball stadiums in California this year and Oakland is by far the worst. i got mad respect for the team and their fans though. I would like to see them get a new stadium in Oakland.
they need to use money for players. last season the A's had a winning team, they need to get wins to get a better fan base. More fans means more revenue being made. But instead we let so many players go
With the warriors gone and raiders are moving to los Vegas if they leave the Oakland Colosseum will be a straight ghost town I hope they can work it out but u have to what’s best for the organization
WHY can't this stadium be re-built into a good stadium like Dodger Stadium and countless others? Seems like simpletons with a simple idea: Tear it down and build a new plastic facade of a stadium that will skyrocket ticket prices. Just ask honest Giants fans... The Bay Area already has an expensive baseball team. The Oakland A's is a blue (green) collar team for real people.
Now, the A's are considering of looking elsewhere. Vancouver, Portland, or joining the Raiders in Vegas. If the A's are going to move, retire the name, colors, and team history in Oakland.
rebuilt oakland a's Coliseum i don't what oakland a's go to san diego it will be more people come to the Coliseum they have 1 million fan all the world
Move the A’s up to Portland! Reinvigorate the rival with the Mariners! The A’s already wear two of the three Portland city colors. Easy script change on the uniforms (OAK to PORT). 654k people in the city with 3.4 million in the region. Portland’s a very popular destination for those leaving Silicon Valley. Bring the team to PDX!
As someone who use to live in the Bay Area I can say A's fans (as well as Giants fans) ARE bandwagon fans. That stupid A's/Giants split hat is all you need as proof
Manuel Diaz, Jr. How are A's fans bandwagons? Even when they are losing, the fans will always be with them. Giants fans have only been fans since 2010.
Todays sports fan need to learn that baseball is a business as well as a sport...the Oakland Coliseum had its "great days"...I know I used to live in the Bay Area (Hayward)..loved those monster teams of the early 70s..the Swingin A's..but the Coliseum is a total dump and Oakland has proven that sports franchises are not on their priority list...the Las Vegas Raiders?..that sounds so minor league..AAA if you will....best scenario would be bulldozing the Coliseum and build a new park..but the chances of that...slim & none
Joke-land "...luckiest city since Hiroshima..." - Missouri Senator Stuart Symington. So many other cities have made new mallparks happen (mostly on the backs of taxpayers) but after decades of self-delusion that it's "big league" nothing has materialized - no surprise. A'z are Lew's business - all MLB franchises are businesses no matter how badly run they may be and are entitled to operate it at a profit. If the "we"s" don't like this, don't spend on them. He can "take" it wherever the owners see fit. The microscopic customer base spending on tix etc. isn't enough for the modern-day big-time sports industry, the Gi-ants realized this and monopolized the high end spenders in what really is less than a 2 MLB franchise market - unlike NY, LA or Chi.. A'z customers use the mausoleum as an excuse to not spend, basically they're cheap. A few years ago, A'z had reduced tix prices for selected openings and the el-cheapo outfield seats were almost full and the regularly priced seating was almost empty. "Updating" the mausoleum would be like putting lipstick on a pig, the round multi's were not good for baseball or football. KC realized this in the mid 60's and if Charlie O. had any patience the A'z could have had a baseball only facility there instead of the mausoleum. Instead, his lust for "new" - no matter how bad the layout was - led him to Joke-land. @ 3:06 the fantasy that the A'z "...somehow...they'd have the same revenue base that the Gi-ants have..." is just an east bay'er showing the inferiority complex so common there. Same @ 3:12, blimp TV shots of run down neighborhoods surrounded by freeways aren't interesting. No different than Newark (the Joke-land of the east) being near NYC. Small crowds being loud doesn't pay the bills in the big-time sports industry these days. BTW - almost all pro franchises when scheduled to play in Joke-land stay in 'Frisco hotels, been that way for 40+ years. Gi-ants cultivated the deep corporate pockets on the peninsula down to SJ, those companies aren't interested in the A'z partly because of their long term deals (sponsorships, advertising, tix etc.) tying them financially to SF. Far fewer potential big dollar partners in the east bay. Neither the franchise or the customers "deserve" anything unless you are willing to pay up to get what the Gi-ants have done, but as stated before the "we's" and the owners want it on the CHEAP (fully taxpayer funded). Gi-ants owners realized in the early 90's that they would have to raise their own capital to make their franchise work, A'z owners should have had the same foresight then but they sat on their hands. @ 7:17 this is just self-serving bs by a low-talking local pol. MLB can't and won't "do something" (forcing) the Gi-ants to give up on potential future revenues in and around SC county/San Who-say without being compensated by the A'z - who want SJ on the cheap. @ 7:44 Lew's thrashing about finding ANYONE to blame, his owner group bought a pig-in-a-poke and wont admit it. He knows that there isn't a better market elsewhere to use as a threat to move so he's stuck having to blame others. As long as there's types like these involved there will not be a resolution. Before you get San Fran-whacky on me, I'm not a Gi-ants fan but I "lived" in the area long enough (and thankfully away from there also) to be able to see this mess clearly without the fog of self-serving false pride. Oh, and enjoy the big one too!
I would like to see LA to have three MLB teams. Los Angeles Dodgers is in the National League in the West Division, Los Angeles Angels is in the American League in the West Division.
David Tosh The Angels is totally not Los Angeles! Artie Moreno took the LA part because it's more marketable than Anaheim. Two different cities and two different counties.
Hey talk about ignorance, Alameda County tax payers built both facilities and we still have debts for the Raiders and Warriors improvements were paying off on our current tax bill!!
Oakland Lost So Much Years Ago ,Yet Kept its Escalating Crime Rate And People Wonder Why Teams Leave it's not All Money it's people Dont Also Like To Go Into Oakland ,,Its A Rat Hole Now Most of it Is Changing but It Will Take More Than New Buildings to Get People to Want To Go There Esp Serious Investment Money I Hope A,a Stay in Oakland but In New Stadium ,The Bay Area is Also Not Anywhere Close to The Place it Once Was So Many Moved Away since 84 Mostly Transplants There Now That Know Nothing About Bay Area Sports and Could Care Less ,Just Like Fremont Losing Bay Lands Raceway in 88 ,Its Never Going to Be What Was Once A Great Bay Area Those Days Are LONG GONE
This is not the 70s anymore wolf is gone ,, Oakland as city always was always will be RAT HOLE ,,that will never change ,, stadium was Lost and Left behind along time ago ,,mount Davis Dead no planning for what was needed first Plumbing odvious ,,Bay area started dieing 84 on To many transplants to much wanna be fans in sports I saw the best of what was now whole area kept sinking in a sesspool it's over stop hoping for better times in bay area and Oakland and stadium it's dead this is not the 70 s anymore last great era in bay area sports and when can do people actually lived there
You can't blame blimp camera showing views of San Fran in the background of the stadium instead of Oakland. It wouldn't look as appealing to see a guy getting mugged and a drug deal going down on a broadcast....
AT&T Park was privately financed. The City of Oakland shouldn't pay one rotten cent for a new stadium. If that means the A's leave then oh well. Go watch the Giants. As least they've won this decade.
Grew up in the Rio Vista, Fairfield area. Went to my first A's game in 68. Their first year in Oakland. Have been an avid A's fan ever sense. Can't help but think that they have been the west coast Yankees farm club at times. The A's deserve better!! Come on Oakland!
As a boy my favorite team was the A's even tho I'm in Seattle. I love how the A's have the lowest payroll but still field a very good team year after year. They are a team of young rookies who are always the under dog yet play like champions....Year after year....
Will always root for the A's! Let's Go Oakland!!!!
Shout out to all the elderly oaklandians and Philadelphians who have been with the a's since the start
you left out k.c,
Been a athletic fan since 89 love my team win. Or lose let’s go Oakland
It is insane how this video still holds up to this day my lord. But the difference this time is that the ballpark saga is heading for a definite end. Whether it be Oakland or Las Vegas.
Mets fan here and I’m glad they’re staying in Oakland
A's are great. 30 year World Series Championship Anniversary. 1989-2019
stay in oakland please, I've been watching A's games at the coliseum once i got into baseball. so what if Oakland isn't the best place in the world, its the home of the oakland A's. I would be so upset if they moved out of Oakland. I don't know how I would get to the A's games in San Jose without the help of bart. StAy in Oakland!
Andres Jimenez The A's need a new ballpark (Oakland or San Jose)somewhere in the bay area. I admit I don't the full details of this topic but my 2 cents as an outsider. I only visited the Bay area 1x but a compromise site as a MLB (Yankee lol)fan is this. IMO build a 40,000-seat somewhere near the Jack London Downtown Oakland Bart station. It could become like a west coast version of Camden Yards. The A's (and Raiders too) both need new separate homes. I believe it's true about horrible plumbing problems, lack of equipment etc. With That said, hopefully Mr. Wolfe and some new partners would pay almost all of the costs of a new ballpark somewhere in the Bay area costing at least close to $1 Billion. Just my takes.
My cousin Diego Segui was on the 1st team back in 1968.💪⚾️
Glad that this whole issue is finally coming to an end. Lew Wolff is gone and soon the Athletics will annouce a new site for new ballpark IN Oakland for the A's. Thank god. #RootedInOakland
This aged well .
The Oakland Alameda Co. coliseum is home to 4 A's pennants and at least three Raiders championships. It is hallowed ground, despite it's technical shortcomings. The A's are the most successful A.L. franchise (In terms of World championships) West of NYC. It's difficult to understand why they should move.
LarryRickenbacker and they won the other 5 in Philadelphia
Lmfao "west of ny"? Just say ur 2nd to the Yankees....
The Boston Red Sox have the best winning percentage of any team that has played in at least 10 World Series
I've always wondered what's up with those two concrete stairways just beyond both foul poles in Right & Left field?
No one is ever on them, and it appears they aren't accessible from either side.
They would be good baseball seats of they would put seats in there.
They were for football games, back in the day with the makeshift bleacher stands, it was for fans to get down to the field to enter in those seats.
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Thank you Martin!
Cool to finally know!
(I had forgotten about the temporary football seats). 👍👍
@@daleh7733 no problem just look at the Raiders coliseum setup between 1966 to 1981 to better understand what I’m talking about
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Will do 👍👍
This must have been produced right before the A's signed a 10 year lease at the Coliseum!
+Christopher Socha True Maybe During The A's 2 or 3 Final Years At The Coliseum Then Their New Stadium Could Be Built By That Time But in San Jose Which is Giants Fanbase BTW!
Might as well do a remake to this one.
that guy who goes to the giants games because the stadium is nicer sucks at life. OAKTOWN OR NO TOWN
Everyone acts like San Jose is inaccessible. We go to Oakland to see the A's in 40 minutes, you can come here in 40 minutes. What's the problem???
Gavin O'Brien I know i live in SJ and they need money and they will make a statuim next to the sharks aka a hockey team
bob snufflebag The Giants don't have public domain fuckhead. Only government and municipalities have public domain. The SF Giants own the territorial rights to San Jose.
Fuck San Jose
Bruh how do the Warriors get a new arena but not the A's and Raiders
Vinay Kumar I mean golden state is more successful then the A's and raiders
Also it’s on the other side of the water. In San Fransisco they don’t have as many poverty problems as Oakland so they can afford that on that side of the Bay.
Because the Warriors are ......wait for it... BUILDING IT WITH THEIR OWN MONEY!!!
Tiffany W You obviously haven’t been to San Francisco lately to make this comment
The owners really. The A's are about to build a new ballpark with private financing, thus Dave Kaval as president and in charge of those operations now. They still can't afford a massive epic 1bil type plan though. Raiders have cheap ass Mark Davis who didn't want to build in Oakland or the Bay Area for that matter anyways, thus his lack of trying and good faith negotiations. Warriors are building with their own money similar to what the A's are about to do, plus the owners are wealthy to the teeth. The A's rushing of late is probably more to do with the league policy of revenue sharing that is about to change. Adapting for the future I suppose.
Edit: Scratch that! A's are going all out with an epic billion ballpark it seems lol. Since everyone else bailed, the A's are going to take control of both Howard Terminal and the Coliseum site to redevelop which is going to pay for the epic ass ballpark at the water.
Great video
Oakland A's fan 4 LiFe
Arnulfo Moran yas
The A’s have moved across the country from Philadelphia, a stop in Kansas City and eventually the Bay Area. There stadium was a dump twenty years ago (the last time I was there) and apparently it hasn’t improved. Maybe old Cleveland stadium was worse, maybe Tiger stadium was worse... but eventually they were replaced. None had raw sewage floating around it them. Time had come.
I miss Tiger Stadium. 84 World Series game 5 in particular.
I don't think Tiger Stadium was ever in the condition the Oakland Coliseum is in, when the Tigers were calling the old ballpark home. And keep in mind, if it were still in use, it would be days older than Fenway. No lead was ever safe in this ballpark.
the race to Montreal is on!
A quote from author Gertrude Stein whose hometown was Oakland.”There is no there there.”
My grandfather went to a's games as a teen, my dad has been going all his life, and our dad been taking my brother and i for years now please don't move to san jose!!! #KeepA'sinOakland
San Jose has the Giants high a team the San Jose Giants so it wouldn't make any sense for the a's to move to San Jose
The Giants are blocking the A's from moving to San Jose because of "territorial rights." The Giants have claimed SJ since 1958 when they moved from New York. If somehow, MLB allowed the A's to go to SJ, the Giants would move their minor league franchise.
I went to a game in 1979 and there were 900 fans
I've been a fan of Baseball since the mid-70's. I'd hate to see the A's leave Oakland. But I would'nt blame them for leaving if there was no way for the A's to have their own Camden Yards type of ballpark.
Truly liked the video.
Time for pt2.
San Jose Athletics???
baldie better shut up. the OAKLAND A´s are rolling this season
Move to San Jose!!! I’m an A’s Fan!!
Probably they can just get a temporary home, it can be another city, and when the new stadium is finished, they move back.
Here'a a thought. Convert the Coliseum into a baseball only facility ala what was done in Atlanta after the '96 Summer Olympics. While the conversion is taking place, the As' could share Pac Bell Ballpark w/ the Giants for say two years as with what took place with the Yanks sharing Shea Stadium w/ the Mets from '74-'75.
+alonenjersey Why Would The A's Share a Stadium With The Giants For 2 Years? I Disagree On That!
+Vince Niederman I'm sure the ownership of the A's would for pay rent on the shared use of Pac Bell park. I myself would hate to see them move anywhere.
alonenjersey We'll See What Happens!
+Vince Niederman As my beloved Mother used to say: "We shall see what we shall see."
alonenjersey Nice and I Agree!
If Oakland wants to keep it's team then the fans need to show up to the games. They rank at the bottom every year in attendance. They don't deserve a baseball team with those numbers.
Selling off their best players every year won't help attendance no matter where they play
I live in Stockton. I'll go to Oakland or San Jose. the one certainity and constant though is O.Co is structurally bad for the fans as well as any baseball team playing there. the single good thing I can say is 1. they have cupholders while candlestick didn't. But now that's a non-issue. 2. BART is right there with a bridge to the stadium. But, Bart and public transit is in San Jose too.
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Damn California being a small state haves 5 mlb baseball teams and Texas bieng the biggest state only haves 2 baseball teams
+Hugo Vasquez Except for the fact that California has 38 million people, which is 12 million more than Texas. Also, you're not the biggest state, the biggest state geographically is Alaska.
How is California small lmao
Either rebuild the stadium or move. I'm from Fremont but I don't mind the drive to Oakland. But the point is the stadium. It's not like they want to move they want a better stadium for the players and the fans. People might argue that they can't leave cause there is so much history there, but look at the Yankees. The house that Ruth built gone. I care about the A's. They deserve better. So either renovate or move out of Oakland.
Sorry baldy I have no problem going to the coliseum.
Let’s Go Oakland
The A’s deserve a better Ball Park!
What’s crazy, is that I thought this a recent video until I was 5minutes in…. Oakland can’t get they shit together.
Stay in Oakland. But wouldn't a move to Sacramento make more sense?
Charles Mottern then no one will go there it is too far
Why?
I fell the same way about Rogers Centre
Agreed. That stadium was built at the end of the "cookie-cutter" stadium era (1989),so,by 1992,when the Orioles opened Camden Yards, Rogers Centre was already outdated. Toronto and Tampa Bay both need new stadiums
well A's can always move to LA...lot of room
Hell naw we have the dodgers and angels
Yeaaaaa Lew Wolff is stepping down! !!!!!! see ya sucka
At least they aren’t supposing the team to move to another city in general like Vancouver or Portland. Honestly keep them in the Bay Area but A’s fans, notice how lucky you are that they are at least staying in the Bay Area and no elsewhere.
Move the A’s back to the east coast, where they came from. “Carolina A’s” 😀
Actually, Philly would be the spot....alter all, they were there before 1955, and yes, Philly is the original home of the A's.
Today is July 21st 2024 the A’s currently have 33 Games left before they move to Sacramento for a projected 3 years until 2028 when Las Vegas prepares a Stadium 🏟️ this video is very disheartening and Oakland will forever be the home of the Athletics 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘
Lew wolf is Mike brown 2.0
The Bald man is beating around the bush to say the a’s playing in the hood
Why is the City of Oakland and Alameda County trying to run a Sports Facility? Sell the property to the Raiders or A's and let them build whatever type of stadium they want with private money.
Give another city a chance. How about the Albuquerque A’s? or the Vancouver BC A’s? Salt Lake City A’s?
My favorite statdium
Hey Mr Clean ! Go put your Giants Jersey on and stop pretending to be an A's Fan
They'll never be in San Jose and they're not staying in Oakland. Unless the owner starts to seriously consider Sacramento, which he will not, the A's won't even stay in California. The owner won't be alive in 10-15 years, I don't understand why he's concerned with money at his age. Just build a damn stadium. If Sacramento can build the Kings a new arena and save their team, why can't the A's owner do it with the kind of revenue market in the Bay area? You pull in revenue from the MLB and lease it to the Raiders for even more. It CAN be done.
+TumonniTV It's not a 2 franchise market as NY, Chi and LA are, no matter how the San Who-Say types
try to spin it.
the raiders were the original tenants before the A's ever came here!
TumonniTV true i live in SJ and SJ really needs one more sport and baseball is the best place for baseball
He sounds like the diehards in Montreal before the Expos moved to DC. They have great fans, just not enough of them. And all these decades where the seats in the lower bowl are a mile from the field, and they never once reconfigured the damn thing. This has been going on for 30+ years, I’m from DC and it was always the A’s threatening to move there, or St. Petersburg since the ‘80’s. Hell, Charlie Finley wanted to move them in the late ‘70’s when he figured out he couldn’t make payroll there. That’s FORTY YEARS OF SELLING OFF PLAYERS. They should make a statue of Billy Beane, if it weren’t for his genius, they would have been gone. All Wolff has to do is figure out which city will get the most transplants fleeing California because it’s a staging area for the UN dystopian vision, and he has his answer. You’ve got Boise, Salt Lake City, Vegas, Portland. Just get it over with and move to Las Vegas, and MLB can scheme to funnel the 40 million tourists to the ballpark all season. Put the Park right off the strip just like the football stadium that’s being built. It’s just another hotel tax. It really is that easy. Thousands of fans came from other cities to see hockey games this year, and had a little 2-3 day vacation at the same time. It’s all here in Vegas, the code has been broken.
I've been to all the baseball stadiums in California this year and Oakland is by far the worst. i got mad respect for the team and their fans though. I would like to see them get a new stadium in Oakland.
they need to use money for players. last season the A's had a winning team, they need to get wins to get a better fan base. More fans means more revenue being made. But instead we let so many players go
Oakland blew it.
Maybe if the owners paid players fans would show up
still haven't moved out lol
With the warriors gone and raiders are moving to los Vegas if they leave the Oakland Colosseum will be a straight ghost town I hope they can work it out but u have to what’s best for the organization
WHY can't this stadium be re-built into a good stadium like Dodger Stadium and countless others? Seems like simpletons with a simple idea: Tear it down and build a new plastic facade of a stadium that will skyrocket ticket prices. Just ask honest Giants fans...
The Bay Area already has an expensive baseball team. The Oakland A's is a blue (green) collar team for real people.
Update: it's true now more than ever.
Now, the A's are considering of looking elsewhere. Vancouver, Portland, or joining the Raiders in Vegas. If the A's are going to move, retire the name, colors, and team history in Oakland.
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build them a replica of Shibe Park, their historic home from 1909 to 1954
rebuilt oakland a's Coliseum i don't what oakland a's go to san diego it will be more people come to the Coliseum they have 1 million fan all the world
Maybe the A's should move back to Philadelphia.
Move the A’s up to Portland! Reinvigorate the rival with the Mariners! The A’s already wear two of the three Portland city colors. Easy script change on the uniforms (OAK to PORT). 654k people in the city with 3.4 million in the region. Portland’s a very popular destination for those leaving Silicon Valley. Bring the team to PDX!
Gotta get a new stadium. The coliseum is a dump.
I Agree With That As a Phillies Fan!
As someone who use to live in the Bay Area I can say A's fans (as well as Giants fans) ARE bandwagon fans. That stupid A's/Giants split hat is all you need as proof
Manuel Diaz, Jr. How are A's fans bandwagons? Even when they are losing, the fans will always be with them. Giants fans have only been fans since 2010.
You don't know what you're talking about
Todays sports fan need to learn that baseball is a business as well as a sport...the Oakland Coliseum had its "great days"...I know I used to live in the Bay Area (Hayward)..loved those monster teams of the early 70s..the Swingin A's..but the Coliseum is a total dump and Oakland has proven that sports franchises are not on their priority list...the Las Vegas Raiders?..that sounds so minor league..AAA if you will....best scenario would be bulldozing the Coliseum and build a new park..but the chances of that...slim & none
Joke-land "...luckiest city since Hiroshima..." - Missouri Senator Stuart Symington.
So many other cities have made new mallparks happen (mostly on the backs of taxpayers) but after
decades of self-delusion that it's "big league" nothing has materialized - no surprise.
A'z are Lew's business - all MLB franchises are businesses no matter how badly run they may be and
are entitled to operate it at a profit. If the "we"s" don't like this, don't spend on them.
He can "take" it wherever the owners see fit. The microscopic customer base spending on tix etc. isn't
enough for the modern-day big-time sports industry, the Gi-ants realized this and monopolized the high
end spenders in what really is less than a 2 MLB franchise market - unlike NY, LA or Chi..
A'z customers use the mausoleum as an excuse to not spend, basically they're cheap.
A few years ago, A'z had reduced tix prices for selected openings and the el-cheapo outfield seats were almost
full and the regularly priced seating was almost empty.
"Updating" the mausoleum would be like putting lipstick on a pig, the round multi's were not good for baseball
or football. KC realized this in the mid 60's and if Charlie O. had any patience the A'z could have had a baseball
only facility there instead of the mausoleum. Instead, his lust for "new" - no matter how bad the layout was -
led him to Joke-land.
@ 3:06 the fantasy that the A'z "...somehow...they'd have the same revenue base that the Gi-ants have..."
is just an east bay'er showing the inferiority complex so common there. Same @ 3:12, blimp TV shots of run down
neighborhoods surrounded by freeways aren't interesting. No different than Newark (the Joke-land of the east)
being near NYC.
Small crowds being loud doesn't pay the bills in the big-time sports industry these days.
BTW - almost all pro franchises when scheduled to play in Joke-land stay in 'Frisco hotels, been that way for 40+ years.
Gi-ants cultivated the deep corporate pockets on the peninsula down to SJ, those companies aren't interested in
the A'z partly because of their long term deals (sponsorships, advertising, tix etc.) tying them financially to SF.
Far fewer potential big dollar partners in the east bay.
Neither the franchise or the customers "deserve" anything unless you are willing to pay up to get what the Gi-ants
have done, but as stated before the "we's" and the owners want it on the CHEAP (fully taxpayer funded). Gi-ants owners
realized in the early 90's that they would have to raise their own capital to make their franchise work, A'z owners
should have had the same foresight then but they sat on their hands.
@ 7:17 this is just self-serving bs by a low-talking local pol. MLB can't and won't "do something" (forcing) the Gi-ants
to give up on potential future revenues in and around SC county/San Who-say without being compensated by the A'z -
who want SJ on the cheap.
@ 7:44 Lew's thrashing about finding ANYONE to blame, his owner group bought a pig-in-a-poke and wont admit it.
He knows that there isn't a better market elsewhere to use as a threat to move so he's stuck having to blame others.
As long as there's types like these involved there will not be a resolution.
Before you get San Fran-whacky on me, I'm not a Gi-ants fan but I "lived" in the area long enough (and thankfully away
from there also) to be able to see this mess clearly without the fog of self-serving false pride.
Oh, and enjoy the big one too!
I would like to see LA to have three MLB teams. Los Angeles Dodgers is in the National League in the West Division, Los Angeles Angels is in the American League in the West Division.
David Tosh the angels are not in LA. The angels are just fucking around with their name. They play in Anaheim not los angeles.
David Tosh The Angels is totally not Los Angeles! Artie Moreno took the LA part because it's more marketable than Anaheim. Two different cities and two different counties.
Wolf and fischer were terrible! And both killed this franchise
Hey talk about ignorance, Alameda County tax payers built both facilities and we still have debts for the Raiders and Warriors improvements were paying off on our current tax bill!!
And now this is a joke
At least if you live in Oakland the warriors are never going considering moving
Warriors are building a new Arena in SF near AT&T Park
KumartheGuru it's not like they are relocating to another state
They are moving
First of all change the name of the stadium back to Oakland Alameda County Stadium. O.co has to be the most idiotic name for a stadium in baseball.
It has returned to that name. The naming rights deal with O.co has ended.
So true
Robert Wayne lew wolff is stepping down.!!!! Hell YEAAAAA
All.i hear is a bunch of complaining, enjoy the now, enjoy the coliseum, enjoy the tailgate, enjoy the experience, 2023 2024
Oakland Lost So Much Years Ago ,Yet Kept its Escalating Crime Rate And People Wonder Why Teams Leave it's not All Money it's people Dont Also Like To Go Into Oakland ,,Its A Rat Hole Now Most of it Is Changing but It Will Take More Than New Buildings to Get People to Want To Go There Esp Serious Investment Money I Hope A,a Stay in Oakland but In New Stadium ,The Bay Area is Also Not Anywhere Close to The Place it Once Was So Many Moved Away since 84 Mostly Transplants There Now That Know Nothing About Bay Area Sports and Could Care Less ,Just Like Fremont Losing Bay Lands Raceway in 88 ,Its Never Going to Be What Was Once A Great Bay Area Those Days Are LONG GONE
Lew Wolff isn't as bad as you really think you view him.
John Fisher is the guy that needs to go.
I say its billy beans and that stupid front office
WCT lew wolff stepping down.yeeeaa fuck wolff
Gladiator Spear That's 1 bad seed gone.
Most of ownership needs to go. They are killing the whole team.
This is not the 70s anymore wolf is gone ,, Oakland as city always was always will be RAT HOLE ,,that will never change ,, stadium was Lost and Left behind along time ago ,,mount Davis Dead no planning for what was needed first Plumbing odvious ,,Bay area started dieing 84 on To many transplants to much wanna be fans in sports I saw the best of what was now whole area kept sinking in a sesspool it's over stop hoping for better times in bay area and Oakland and stadium it's dead this is not the 70 s anymore last great era in bay area sports and when can do people actually lived there
You can't blame blimp camera showing views of San Fran in the background of the stadium instead of Oakland. It wouldn't look as appealing to see a guy getting mugged and a drug deal going down on a broadcast....
AT&T Park was privately financed. The City of Oakland shouldn't pay one rotten cent for a new stadium. If that means the A's leave then oh well. Go watch the Giants. As least they've won this decade.