Boycott yields smallest A's Opening Crowd in Oakland History (NBC Bay Area)
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If only people could come together to protest their elected officials and their policies that actually led to the Exodus of businesses and sports teams from Oakland.....nah
That’s fool’s gold.
In the late 1980s, the White Sox were threatening to move to Tampa Bay.
A Republican governor gave Jerry Reinsdorf a free baseball stadium, the design of which Reinsdorf himself approved. Corporate welfare on steroids.
A year after the Sox new stadium opened, the Baltimore Orioles opened Camden Yards and Reinsdorf started planning his next “act.”
Now, Reinsdorf is threatening on leaving a perfectly functional, FREE baseball stadium for any other big city. Nashville said “Thanks, but no thanks.” Now Reinsdorf wants the state to build him another stadium in Chicago.
In the years since he got his FREE new stadium, Reinsdorf continued to run the White Sox on the cheap. The Sox fans, in the meantime, have continued to fill the stadium.
The point is, no amount of government largesse will change the willingness of owners to put the fans and the sport over their own pocketbooks.
As a baseball and White Sox fan, I would have loved to see Reinsdorf stuck in Tropicana Field with his woeful teams. Somethings are more important than sports.
You don't know sports, do you? Even if everything was perfect with the local government, ownership would still be looking for greener pastures...
@@scottl.1568 Actually not sure what the surprise is. It’s CA, there’s an exodus on evey level. There’s no denying that.
Spoken like someone who never goes or has been to Oakland
Fisher spent $100 million of his own $ to get a stadium deal done in Oakland during the last ~20 years.
I can't believe anyone here in Oakland still shows up. The team really has committed to leaving. This is like showing up to the home of a woman who left you for another man.
No nobody even gets to smash for ol times sake 😅
Exactly, time to move on. Stop giving the owner your money.
They want the land to house immigrants
@@joelopez40oz23 I agree not to spend money but protesting the ownership I do agree with
This is what I’ve said exactly about the Raiders. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
The franchise needs support from the City of Oakland. The city barely cares to help keep it's infrastructure like police, fire, emergency services running, let alone businesses and sports franchises. It's ashamed what Oakland has become.
If Oakland can’t keep essential services running, the last thing they need to support is a baseball team.
Why should Oakland taxpayers pay for a privately owned sports team?
@@user-ip5dm6jf8k they shouldn't, which is one of the reasons why fingers should be pointed at the city for this outcome.
For example, the Vegas taxpayers aren't funding the Raiders new stadium. Why? Because the state of Nevada was competent enough to come up with a deal where local hotels could add a couple dollars to room rates for funding of the stadium. Is that technically a tax?, yes, but it's a voluntary one, which makes it fair and consensual... It's also likely to be paid by people visiting Vegas to attend something being hosted at the stadium. That's about as self-sustaining of a funding solution as you're going to get.
Oakland could have easily done something like that given the enormous amount generated from business professionals traveling to the bay area for work tech work in particular... Those professionals routinely charge their hotel stays to their company via expense reporting.... I've done it extensively myself traveling to the bay area for business.
Add to that the crime problem and I think it's safe to say that the city officials don't care if the team stays... so, it's not staying.
@user-ip5dm6jf8k they shouldn't, which is one of the reasons why fingers should be pointed at the city for this outcome.
For example, the Vegas taxpayers aren't funding the Raiders new stadium. Why? Because the state of Nevada was competent enough to come up with a deal where local hotels could add a couple dollars to room rates for funding of the stadium. Is that technically a tax?, yes, but it's a voluntary one, which makes it fair and a choice for the person paying... It's also likely to be paid by people visiting Vegas to attend something being hosted at the stadium. That's about as self-sustaining of a funding solution as you're going to get.
Oakland could have easily done something like that given the enormous amount generated from business professionals traveling to the bay area for work tech work in particular... Those professionals routinely charge their hotel stays to their company via expense reporting.... I've done it extensively myself traveling to the bay area for business.
Add to that the crime problem and I think it's safe to say that the city officials don't care if the team stays... so, it's not staying.
Both can happen. City admins lack the competency and/or drive to do it.
You know it’s bad when a team factors in the cost of an ambulance ride in the ticket price
I wanted to see an inside shot of the attendance to support the "Opening Day Boycott'. Too much to ask for I guess!
thank you I left at 1:09
Same here, but I heard it was about 3,800 fans in attendance, yikes!
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@@mitchellvang2691 Ouch!
Interesting that the "stated attendance" is 13, 522! I guess an former Enron accountant did the math.
Yet even at 13,522, for opening day that is really really bad. My daughters college basketball team draws more than that in a mid season game.
“Smallest Opening Day crowd”, it says
Ken lay is gone so he could not change the audit !
@@baileym4708 he's lucky it was that many! There are repercussions when you do not reinvest in your business. The highest contract given to a player was BEFORE he bought the team. His television revenue is $67 million per season!
@@Dman425 a person further in the comments has the 1972 opening day attendance at under 10,000.
It boggles my mind that more people don't realize that sports teams are 100% businesses and truly DGAF about hometown loyalty, etc. They make their profits by appealing to people's emotions and projecting to rep the hometown.
It's literally JUST. A. BUSINESS.
It might as well be Twitter or Uber.
THIS
Every business is leaving Oakland. Must be really bad.
It is😂
Another one bites the dust
Go away bot.
@@brockroberts4258 Facts bother you that much?
All FACTS Matter, brock.
Cleveland fan here. It's a shame what is happening to the fans in Oakland. One of my first sports memories is the Browns being stolen away to Baltimore; it was brutal. This is essentially the same thing, just in an extended fashion.
warriors raiders and a's😔
The Bay Area has rarely supported the As with attendance
It a shame crappy cities force teams to flee.
And now the “guardians”…. wtf
Get a life
The city of Oakland administration has pushed all these teams out with their mishandling of the city and the fans blame the team.
What are you going to do when you also need to leave? Boycott yourself?
The real problem isn't going to get fixed and these teams have enough experience working with the city to know it.
Nonsense, the team was trying to stay in the Bay Area (San Jose and Fremont) and just so you know, all those city officials are as liberal as Oaklands. The two guys who left are Mark Davis and John Fisher. Those two owners are also looked at as clowns to the rest of their respective leagues. So whatever, call it what you want you just don’t have the facts for this one.
@@gsisemoreNonsense those cities don't have rampant crime and a diminishing taxe base.
Exactly
@@gsisemore you don't need to teach me about these teams, I probably know more about them than you. I have been a closely following A's and Raider fan since 1986/87 respectively, and I have watched the city of Oakland's slow descent into it's current state of madness since around the same time. The past few years though, well they've really been something special in terms of degradation.
Vegas offers these teams prosperity in general, safety, freedom, cost savings and a predictable form of upward valuation potential. Oakland, and CA in general, offer them the opposite... If it were a job opportunity for you, and you are smart, you would do the same thing.
Of course they're going to ~say~ they're trying to stay... That's just PR... And if the circumstances in reality don't change, as they aren't , then it kind of makes the decision for them (as it has for literally millions of individual Californians as they leave the state).
I haven't looked up the exact number lately, but the Raiders team valuation last I checked had experienced about a 4x increase since they were in Oakland... Not too shabby.
He may be excentric, but if Mark Davis is a clown, he's a clown that achieved a very successful move to Vegas that many nfl owners envy and few people thought was possible at the time, for a team that spent around forty years searching in vain for a new venue that CA spent as long giving his father the runaround on.
It's ok to admit that maybe some of your voting habits have led to your beloved teams getting pushed out of town... Try to look at it as part of the healing process. I for one am happy to see them have a real opportunity at doing well again.
@@SeventhSonofASeventhSon77 I’ve never lived in the town and I’m not even an A’s or Raiders fan. This is an outsider’s perspective.
It is for the best to move. Who wants to watch a ballgame located in a cesspool. Crime affects all businesses. Even a hospital in Oakland encourages their employees not to go out on lunch break for their own personal safety. It is the fault of city officials and those who voted for them.
We want them to stay
Funny, how when a city that is run by insane, pro criminal ,anti business idiots, the businesses decide to leave and the fans are upset with the business.
Maybe if the Oakland Raiders moving to Las Vegas turned out to be worse that staying in the toilet called Oakland. Oh wait, they’re doing great.
I play for the Athletics and I wanna move to Vegas baby
Has nothing to do with this. Did you not see all the fans having a massive tailgate party in the parking lot?
If you wanna gripe about politics, you’d best go elsewhere
@@coyotelong4349 power lies in numbers. You're less likely to be attacked when you're in a large group of people that might collectively act in defense.
I live on Sacramento and when the kings were planning on leaving, the Sacramento community got together and after every game was over they would chant here we stay very loud and thousands of fans stayed to chant here we stay. I really hope the A’s can stay in Oakland
Those chants didn’t help fella.
Way above that dream and thought of yours…..millions of dollars worth of
Matt Chapman, Trevor Simian, Matt Olsen, and Sean Murphy should’ve all took the field this opening day, a year away from the Howard terminal site for its grand opening. This year should’ve been the farewell to the Coliseum, like the farewell to Candlestick. But no, this is what we got. Baseball is a ruined sport for me because of this. Enabling people like John Fischer will be it’s downfall. What a sick joke.
Fix Oakland instead of your stupid sports team.
@@Boyo-xe5fp While the A’s should shoulder a lot of blame for this, this is the THIRD professional sports team that is leaving Oakland after the Raiders and the Warriors in just the past few years. This is the direct result of the mismanagement of the city/county by the politicians. Politicians want the creation of jobs, national exposure, taxes, etc…that these teams generate, but they make it difficult for them to do business. On top of that the A’s have terrible ownership.
@@Boyo-xe5fpThe A’s are one of the many things Oakland should have fixed besides the problems it already has. But yeah the politicians won’t do shit for anything. Poor Oakland.
this breaks my heart not only as a baseball fan but as a sports fan and a bay area native i grew up watching baseball i remember back in 1989 my giants and the A's playing in the world series a game that saved thousands of lives during the 89 earthquake the bay bridge series will not be the same without the A's
It’s sad that the Oakland A’s are leaving the city, but it’s happened before. Originally this team was the Philadelphia Athletics. A team that had a rich history and tradition. But then ownership threw all that history away by first moving the team to Kansas City (1955) and then to Oakland in 1968.
Sports fans have been bamboozled for years. It’s all about the money there’s no loyalty to the city they play in. The taxpayers continuously get soaked for the billionaires and millionaires to play on the teams. We’ve all been played for Fools. No more of my money will ever be spent on professional sports…..They already get my tax dollars
Go do this outside Fishers house.
Fisher may be the worst owner since Jeff Loria.
@@JakeNaughtFromStateFarm guy should not be in sports
@@Erlov71 That’s putting it politely.
I’m just inspired by all these people that were brave enough to actually travel through Oakland streets.
Sad, but it happens. I’m an old guy, so don’t be surprised when I tell you that I still have a cap from the Kansas City A’s. So I know the feeling.
I am proud of all these fans, taking a stand and not going inside🦾🤠🤑
Proud? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣the only stand being taken is the fans are horrible and don't deserve the team
@@bradkappler6615 not only that, but they paid parking to be there.
They’re still paying for parking to perform their “protest”. Who do you think gets the proceeds from stadium parking? A much stronger message would have been to just stay home and have empty parking lots.
@@TXnine7nine I think they wanted to tailgate and party 🎉 also
From a Las Vegas resident I just want to thank the state of California and the city of Oakland for making our city grow and thrive by allowing businesses to relocate to our business friendly state and city! Keep up your attacks on individual freedoms and please keep being unfriendly to businesses! Thanks again!!!
@RickFlanaganhasn’t affected me one bit!
13,522 was the "announced" attendence at tonights game. I'd be willing bet that the actual attendance was more like 10k. Anyone have any idea how many attended the protest?
I never believe official attendance numbers,they will announce 25K for a game showed up but then they'll show the bleachers, and it's 2/3 empty.
Arthur Anderson did the numbers
I love Oakland, but these politicians are ruining this town and pushing away our teams!
Big business controls politics through bribery that they refer to as "lobbying" and "donations".
Solve that problem and you've solved the problem.
Oakland, SF and LA, just to name a few are being gentrified because other business owners want to take over the areas.
These teams know it and they're bolting.
Correction - VOTERS are ruining the city. The politicians don’t materialize out of the ether and start enacting policy; they get voted in by the citizens.
smallest Oakland home opener crowd was 1972 when they only drew 9.912 fans
So once they won World Series then “fans” started appearing 😂
That was after a 13 day strike that delayed the season
That was actual people in the park. The A's announced 13,522 last night but it was actually around 5000.
Not even ten?
Who was the 0.912 fan? Little person? 🤔
God bless those fans.
Spending money for parking at the stadium two boycott the team🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔. Makes perfect sense.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah these people aren't the brightest bulbs on the tree.
Exactly
Last opportunity to watch a game inside the stadium and they sit OUTSIDE of it 💀💀💀
I mean they’re not buying a ticket to the game but don’t they also get a cut of the parking proceeds?
Different company
Mad respect to all the A's fans out there...
Sad thing is the owners and many national pundits will just look at attendance and assume that is proof there just wasn't any demand for the A's to stay in Oakland.
Not disagreeing with this though. Giving Fisher and MLB our dollars will just end up supporting the move financially.
That’s ok, we know there is a bigger story and it’s a story and a reality that you can’t sweep under the rug. If attendance was under 10,000 on opening day in 1972, then look what happened after that 😮
Didn’t they pay to park in the tailgate area? Who gets those funds? The team? The league?
The Braves and Phillies boycotted their home opener last night 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I had to go in incase it was the last opening day but went to the boycott party. Was fun.
Just to see a normal ass whoopin? Should have stayed strong and in the parking lot
More power to you Oakland ! From a Yankee fan you make me proud ! 😎
F New York and the stankies
Boycotting the team is definitely going to make them stay in Oakland.
It’s funny that they’re leaving this fan base which is so loyal and committed for a city that really won’t care that much for them.
@@Napoleon-xp3smit’s ownership
It's oakland, they shouldn't expect to have nice things
Just like Montreal Expos “fans.” They blame ownership & the commissioner for their teams moving, even as they never supported their “beloved” teams for more than a decade.
They're not as deranged and brainwashed as the Oakland fans yet
This is simply amazing and unprecedented. If any fan base deserves a new park and decent ownership, it's Oakland A's fans. I've been a fan since 1971 but haven't seen a game in 2 years due to the last fire sale and now Vegas move.
As a Las Vegas local, it’s hard to see the love for a team that is committed to leave where it’s been rooted for so long. I feel we will hopefully make a good place for the A’s should they still decide to move, but it is still sad to see the sadness of the fans and their resilience to keep them home. Regardless of what happens I hope the Oakland fans still connect to their team.
I'm in Vegas, and we don't want the A's due to the owner, but we'll take Billy Beane. By the way, the tailgaters were better off in the parking lot than watching what went on inside the stadium.
If you don’t stand for what you love will you ever stand for anything?
Been a fan of the Oakland Athletics since the day i was born 1982 you broke my heart owners damn u
SELL THE TEAM
they did. To Vegas
@@blutomindpretzel1735Thats not what that means🤣
SELL THIS F-- TEAM. There is no A’s fans anymore 😂
To who exactly? I don't see any potential buyers lining up to buy the A's.
@@dflf Joe Lacob and other VC’s have literally said they want to buy the A’s. There’s literally dozens of billionaires that want to buy them lmao
And guess what? John Fisher and what's his name could care less. Sad but true, I believe.
I remember when the Giants were on the verge of moving to Florida when they were kept by an eleventh hour save. I hope that happens here too, but I don’t think it will unfortunately.
The worst part of this is those people live In Oakland. That are risking their lives by just going there. I don’t know why they are complaining, they don’t support their teams worth a f!
From a outsiders perspective, Its Naive to think these professional sports "franchises" represent your community, your better directing your emotional currency elsewhere outside of professional sports.Billionaire owners do not care for you , and nor should you care for thier sporting teams. take your team leaving your city as a opportunity to disconnect.
Hey, Fisher, how many people showed up for the welcome rally in Las Vegas?
Are we alive out there???
As an Expos fan I can tell you, they don’t care and it does not matter. They will be made profitable by the casinos.
To express my sentiment, I think Rebecca’s speech at the super league meeting on Ted Lasso can convey it better than any words I could ever come up with.
Speaking as a Vegas local, a lot of people here do NOT want the A’s. We want an MLB team, yes, but we’d rather get a new one and let Oakland keep their trash franchise.
Unfortunately it's the Las Vegas A's!!! It's a done deal!!! The shovels are in the ground!!! John Fisher sucks on ice!!!@@aaronreeve1414
riddle me this...if you don't go in the stadium but buy parking is that money (parking) going to the team?
This will be the team's fourth home city. So sad because they were the most successful playing in Oakland.
As a Jays and baseball fan Rickey Hemderson is one of my fav players. Stay in Oakland!
But they all paid their $30 for parking.. somebody still benefitted from all this. This wasn’t the way…
The plan was for people to walk there, to not pay for parking. I’m sure some still paid but those fully in the know didn’t
@@P31Bwalk from where??
@@DanielLopez_17 It’s likely many walked in from the Coliseum BART Station.
So how many people attended the smallest opening day crowd? Hello?
Good for the A's fans, well done!! The City of Oakland already let your NFL team walk. Oakland A's fans have been so loyal and so passionate for decades and they deserve better. As a passionate Boston Red Sox fan for more decades than I want to admit, I would love to see our fans have the ⚾⚾ to do something similar to protest our team owner's deceitful and shameful remaking of the Red Sox into a shell of its former competitive self. Good luck A's fans!!!
They only average 10K/game. Last in the league by 4K.
But why
@@brodiebrazil I don't know.
They should've just called it a "'BLOCK' party"
The fact that the A’s STILL have no home next season should tell everyone how incompetent John Fisher and Dave Kaval really are.
A couple years with no stadium bills to speak of is schrewd business actually.
They'll rent smaller venues for a year or two and have extra cash starting off in a new city where they will have a boom of new support to go along with the old support that they will retain.
Hate to see them go, but the city really didn't leave them much of a choice at the end of the day.
A couple years with no stadium bills to speak of is schrewd business actually.
They'll rent smaller venues for a year or two and have extra cash starting off in a new city where they will have a boom of new support to go along with the old support that they will retain.
Hate to see them go, but the city really didn't leave them much of a choice.
A couple years with no stadium bills to speak of is schrewd business actually.
They'll rent smaller venues for a year or two and have extra cash starting off in a new city where they will have a boom of new support to go along with the old support that they will retain.
Hate to see them go, but the city really didn't leave them much of a choice.
Nope. The Fact that the city of Oakland has now lost THREE major sports teams, football, basketball and now baseball should tell EVERYONE how incompetent the city of Oakland is.
@@SL-ls9ck SF isn't far behind either. They technically lost the Niners to Santa Clara. (I feel like the SF taxpayers should demand a team name change, but that's a different topic)... I think the Giants would've also been out if they hadn't completed their new stadium before the city degradation began really ramping up.
Not wanting to give the owners and the league money by buying a ticket but are willing to pay for tailgate parking to perform their “protest? Who gets the proceeds of stadium parking? The owners? The league?
I can't wait to go to an A's game in Vegas. Makes it easier to just walk over to the MGM and collect my winnings 😂😂
Somehow, I don’t think the owners care. This will only validate them leaving. Plus Oakland is dangerous and falling apart.
Coming to Coors Field someday soon.
I went to my first Giants game because they moving to Vegas. I won't ever root for the A's again.
For the 1st in 10 years I saw billboard for the yankee games in my town
1) I am appx 50 miles away in NJ
2) never seen Mets signage but the jets do promo here and Giants only once
Maybe tickets are down across the league?
Can’t blame the As for getting out of there.
no july games this year? it was my family's tradition to go to every July 4th fireworks game and have some SF/Berkeley fun the next day 😢 it makes sense for them to move but I'm gonna miss that 😢
I want em back here in Philly, along with the warriors 😮 Y'all still got MC Hammer 🤷🏻
Microcosm of the bay area. The empty stadium is the hole in the donut. Both downtowns are a freaking nightmare.
Sad the fans lost the Raiders and now the baseball team. But the stadium is a dump.
The city is a dump
The city of Oakland & the county didn’t get off the butts until the fisher made the deal with Vegas. Can’t give him all the blame the coliseum is an open sewer & many fans won’t go to games because they don’t feel safe no matter how much the city’s mayor gaslights & says everything is just fine. Time for the team to move on .
The Athletics. Now there's a franchise that has moved around more times than I care to want to acknowledge. Originally from Philadelphia, then moved to Kansas City, and finally, Oakland. Where could they possibly go now?
Not surprised that place is a dump I went to a game last yr and it was a ghost town
Im from LasVegas. I wish they would stay in Oakland. Not because I dont enjoy baseball but. For the reason the As are Oaklands team. And for the reason its getting really crowded here. I would also love to send the Raiders back there to.
This happened to us in San Diego with the Chargers. Tons of fans burned their gear afterwards since they were sellouts and cared nothing for the town they came from.
Yeah that was one move that didn't make much sense to me... The city was fine, the fan support was heavy, but they wouldn't buy Spanos a new stadium, so bye bye... Kind of a dick move really.
LA isn't really that far away though.... So I think most true fans stuck with them, just don't really go to the games, which is something that was already questionable in SD... I remember living down there when they had Rivers and Tomlinson in their prime and still more than half of the stadium would be Raider fans when the Chargers hosted the Raiders, and that was circa 2006 when the Raiders were at their lowest.
A guy I used to work with down there would get so pissed about that... Went so far as to start a petition to try getting Raiders fans barred from Chargers home games. Ah, good times.
And they still suck
It made absolutely no sense. Spanos would rather pay the NFL 500 million to relocate, but not spend a comparable amount on a new stadium?
At least we ,I can remember the Jack Murphy stadium rockin with air Coryell, Fouts,Kellen, big hands, Hank, and all those memories..... those were the best days ! Always loved SAN DIEGO Super CHARGERS! Aloha from Hawaii MK attended USD late 70, to early 80s!
As a KC Royals fan and the '73 Mets fan, i have never rooted for the A's, but I'm rooting for the A's fans and will until they get justice
Didn’t think 13,000 people would even leave their safe homes in Oakland….risking life for a baseball game….crazy
Several thousand empty seats on a regular basis is basically boycotting
Yes, that's exactly it, we've been boycotting
You can thank your mayor and governor for the state of your situation
Zero
All businesses need to think about leaving Oakland. That city is NOT safe.
Dallas Cowboys fans should take note.
I've seen smaller crowds at Tropicana Field during a pennant race.
No you haven’t
Every person that went in should be ashamed of themselves!!
Every penny given to Fisher goes towards the relocation to Vegas or ... wherever.
To those in the parking lot, hats off to you, much respect.
Oakland A's fan from mid 70's to a couple of years ago !!
I can't imagine these protests will go on for long. The reality will finally set in.
Hey all you guys that Boycott & protested & wore your "SELL " t-shirts...you WON! You got rid of the A's!
Time to "celebrate good times"...remember that song at end of A's win of a game. You WON! They're gone!
It's about time the Oakland A's are leaving. As a born and raised San Josean, I can honestly say that the A's tried their best to stay. However, they were hamstrung by incompetent Oakland City and Alameda County politicians who gave away the store to the "Oakland" Raiders organization and the Golden State Warriors who promptly bailed out on the coliseum complex for a fatter payday with LV and SF. Shout out to Bill Graham Presents! Day on the Green concerts! This writer used to work at the GM factory store on Hegenberger Rd., left of the coliseum entrance, way back when Nellie was Warriors head coach; they sucked then, but the fans always sold out the house, always ruckus! Now, Oakland is just an empty shell and San Francisco is a literal toilet bowl. It was fun while it lasted. London Breed is ghetto trash and Sheng Thao is on borrowed time...
Vegas is like the 43rd largest TV market and has an NHL and NFL team already. A third team in that small of a market?
The Bay Area is top 10 TV market and fan support is great when the team wins and makes an attempt. This ownership group is awful.
MONEY TALKS
I see the person who posted this note has the Carolina Hurricanes logo. Perhaps the A's should consider moving to North Carolina. Combining North and South Carolina, the two states have 16 million people yet no MLB team. The Charlotte metro area is larger in population than several MLB markets that have had teams for over 50 or 100 years, like Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Kansas City.
Oakland is really a city in great decline. Sometimes it is necessary for teams to move. Other than by expansion, how do faster-growing areas gain a team when they surpass other areas that are declining or stagnant in population growth?
Boycotting the team is sending the wrong message
They drew about 10,000 or so in the 1979 home opener, and eventually they only drew about 306,763 fans in total.
That year was sad, this may be sadder. The next year they had Billy Ball and more than doubled that.. The following year, the Haas family bought the team, made the playoffs and averaged over 25k a game, a then bay area record. The Giants best was around 22k till then and also had a few bad years of 6k to 7k a game.
To be fair, Libby Shaft caused this. Don't people realize that she ran both the Warriors and Raiders out. Why would the A's want to stay in hell?
😂 to be fair!
the raiders and niners had to move because of the violence, the warriors and A's are moving because Oakland has no money, what does politics have to do anything, yougin
To be fair, no company or team wants to stay in Oakland.
.... last business to leave Oakland, turn off the flickering light.
If the A’s (Fischer) did it all with private capital I wouldn’t care as much, but that leech taking tax payer money for a team no one wants, he can go to hell.
Spend that energy fixing your God forsaken city
People who complain about what's going on within the city of Oakland dont realize that this Ball Club has nothing to do with crime or environment. The owner is leaving because he wants to.increase the value of the team like Mark Davis did. And he wants to profit at the expense of A's fans plain and simple. The location itself is pristine, just the buildings and the facilities need to be rebuilt .
i gave up on them shortly after billy ball was abolished.
it cost &100.USD for just me sitting in the bleachers.
parking prices were stupid high.
entry cost were sky high,
food/drink, who could afford them.
😂
Just another day at the park in the hood
First I watched my once Oakland Raiders move out of Oakland for a new stadium, and now years later I am watching the A's do the same. These owners don't care about the fans that made them all of that money over the years, and if the Oakland A's move to Las Vegas we should all ban all sports games until the owners start respecting their fans. As for as myself, if it happens I will not spend another cent on the A's.
Im not a MLB fan but i am a lifelong NFL fan. The A's belong in one city, Oakland. The Raiders belong in one city, Oakland. The franchise can leave, but the A's and the Raiders name stay with Oakland. Cleveland let the Browns move to Baltimore but the Browns name stayed with Cleveland. Can you imagine the Steelers being anywhere else but Pittsburg? I get it, Oakland has some issues right now (namely being in California), but these issues will be resolved in time and when that time is right another team will want to call Oakland home. Both MLB and NFL. Hang in there Oakland.
Tell that to the Kansas City A's and then the Philadelphia A's.
@@WillMuny wow, you must really be old. The A's and Raiders have been in Oakland longer than I've been alive. Well, other than the 'LA Raiders and now LV Raiders.
Or you're better on your team history than I am. The Lakers made sense when they were in the land of 10,000 lakes. Now I'm gonna have to brush up on my MLB, NBA and NFL history again. That's OK, its been awhile.
Instead of blaming the A's organization blame democrats and their policies that are destroying Oakland and causing the Raiders, A's and businesses to leave. in other words blame yourself for voting democrat because thats where it falls.
Reminds me of what Brooklyn went through with the Dodgers.
only 3500 showed up for game 2!
Oakland is such a disaster that even their ball team wants out!! Maybe Gavin can throw more cameras at the problem. Keep voting dem. 😂😂😂😂
SELL THE TEAM!!
People’s can come together for sports but nothing else
it is a crap hole like everything else in Oakland who in the hell wants to hang out at a crap hole.
These idiots....
Dung beetles.
These fools.
STAY IN OAKLAND!!!
13,522 in attendance for opening night!!! Stick it to Fisher!!!
As others have said here, it’s really not about the Athletics (poor team that they are), it’s about Oakland and why no one seems to know how to keep it from dying. Frisco isn’t doing well either.
I just think no one is trying hard enough and there is no incentive to do so.