The Oakland A's are moving to Vegas

[1SycFan]

Hmmm... imagine that, A's ownership finding new city leaders to ignore and piss off and...

Keeping the tradition alive!

 

[SycamoreinTexas]

All great points - at the end of the day, the A's will likely land in Vegas

This point was rarely made in other articles that i've tracked...

"The reality is the A’s ownership had insisted on a multibillion dollar, 55-acre project that included a ballpark residential, commercial and retail space. In Las Vegas, for whatever reason, they seem satisfied with a nine-acre leased ballpark on leased land,” Thao’s spokeswoman said. “If they had proposed a similar project in Oakland, we feel confident a new ballpark would already be under construction. Oakland showed its commitment to the A’s, and that is why the A’s belong in Oakland.” For years, the A’s and the city of Oakland explored a plan to put a ballpark at Howard Terminal, a process that went so far as to garner a page on the Port of Oakland’s website that includes a timeline of the project’s progress and detailed renderings. The A’s had not, however, secured the level of public funding from Oakland that they did from Las Vegas. That, the city argues, is because the Athletics were not willing to scale down their requests.

IMO, most of this is driven by the A's landing in the lap of Lew Wolff and John Fisher; IIRC, when the Schott & Hofmann partnership put the A's up for sale and the leading candidate didn't get the team but rather Wolff and Fisher; globally-recognized Prick of Pricks Bud Selig orchestrated a bit of that sale as he and Wolff were ass-paddling Pi Lam "brothers".

I'm blanking on the leading candidate and google hasn't told me - yet.

IMO, this is another example of out of touch owners, out of touch MLB wanting everything and unwilling to spend their money but rather demanding the fans and non-baseball fans/voting citizens pay for the stadium

The Chargers are in LA and not San Diego as much because those fans refused to fund a new stadium but also because the NFL really put the screws to the Spanos family to leave, essentially telling them if you DON'T leave; we (NFL) will NEVER be able to squeeze another city to put up a new stadium (for 8 days of use a year).

Will baseball be BETTER because of this move? No, will baseball be worse because of it? maybe but I doubt it. Will baseball THRIVE in Vegas? TBD - but you won't find me at an A's game between June - September the next time I'm in Vegas -- too friggin' hot. Just like in PHO, ARL, ATL, MIA, etc, etc, etc

3 of those teams you just mentioned have a retractable roof. I dk sitting in AC watching baseball while eating some nachos/drinking a beer is pretty relaxing

 

[Jason Svoboda]

I discovered that the last time I was out there. I guess it's in a designated census area called "Paradise" similar to say "North Terre Haute".

Paradise is just one area. There are several different names used by the various area as most of the land is actually in unincorporated.

 

[IndyTreeFan]

I saw a Janet flight last time I was in Vegas. More exciting than anything else I did there!!!

 

[4Q_iu]

3 of those teams you just mentioned have a retractable roof. I dk sitting in AC watching baseball while eating some nachos/drinking a beer is pretty relaxing

I can do that at home too - beer is colder and cheaper

do you enjoy football on plastic grass?