Posted on 11/16/2023 12:13:30 PM PST by DallasBiff
The Oakland Athletics are one step closer to leaving their hometown for the past 56 years and relocating to Las Vegas.
Per ESPN's Jeff Passan, MLB owners unanimously voted Thursday to approve the A's move amid season-long fan protests in Oakland and ongoing legal issues regarding the site of a new stadium in Vegas.
A's owner John Fisher spoke about the team's impending move to Las Vegas after the relocation vote went his way
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Vegas ain’t much better.
Las Vegas summer heat is murder. 115 in the shade. Gonna be a lot of night games.
This is real bad, half the city of Oakland depends on unsuspecting baseball fans to get their stuff.
The plan is to build a domed stadium, but it’s not built yet.
The Athletics will be in Oakland for 2024, as their stadium lease extends through 2024. Where they play after that is up in the air, because the new Las Vegas stadium won’t be ready for the 2025 season.
Another empty stadium for the homeless?
Good luck selling tickets and getting sponsorships, for the lame duck 2024 season.
And the Vegas stadium won’t be ready till at least 2027, from what they have reported.
“Fans?”
If they had fans they wouldn’t be moving.
Oakland will get an expansion team in a few years and the local taxpayer suckers will be building them a new ballpark in a soon to be slum somewhere.
Expect the fans to tear out the seats after the last game.
My heart breaks for the Oakland fans.
Fans? Well there’s the guy that bangs the drum. Wonder if he’ll move to LV.
Will the Giants allow that?
Oakland and Montreal.
Just over 10k a game?
The median was 31k a game.
SF Giants would likely object to a new team coming in.
If there is expansion, I would not expect Oakland to be one of the teams.
Probably 2028. The lease at the Coliseum expires after the 2024 season. Where they’ll be playing in 2025-27, nobody knows.
The Mayor of Oakland has put some major conditions on a temporary lease extension at the Coliseum.
They could share Oracle Park with the Giants, but that would be rough on the field. Would the Giants allow it?
They could play at the home park of their AAA affiliate, the Las Vegas Aviators, but while Vegas ha one of the best minor-league ballparks, it’s still a minor-league park.
The Giants’ AAA park in Sacramento has been mentioned.
I think baseball has some rules about territorial rights, and locating new teams in areas which already have teams. So the Giants might have to sign off on an expansion team in Oakland.
I don’t recall details, but there were some similar issues of territorial rights and broadcasting rights in areas, when the Montreal Expos moved to Washington, and the Baltimore Orioles claimed that moving the team infringed on their territory.
“And the Vegas stadium won’t be ready till at least 2027, from what they have reported.”
Virtually certain that the A’s won’t be playing in Las Vegas until the new domed stadium is built. While there is a minor league stadium in Vegas, the Aviators play six night games during the week and take Sundays off. That way no games are played in the daytime.
It won’t be possible for the A’s to do the same.
The A’s owner, John Fisher, is the living incarnation of Rachel Phelps from Major League, except she’s prettier. He’s Jeffrey Loria (Expos), Bob Short (Senators), an owner who bought a team to destroy it so he could move it.
I hope they draw 3 million next year and win the Western Division. Unlikely, but one can hope.
Yes, that’s why MASN exists. It’s primarily owned by the Orioles, with the Nats as minority partners, and the Nationals’ TV rights are essentially locked in there. (If there were a credible way out, they’d be on Monumental Sports.)
Currently, the Nationals and Orioles are locked in a dispute about the rights fees for Nats games.
Also, that’s why the A’s deal in San Jose collapsed. The Giants killed it.
Could we start a rumor that the 2025 games will be in Havana?
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