Remarkableriots Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 Oakland A's looking at Rio property for possible ballpark site WWW.GOOGLE.COM Team still considering move to Las Vegas while Dreamscape raises more money to renovate the Rio hotel and casino. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggie Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 Might? If not Vegas they are gonna move somewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 Might as well get the Warriors to move to complete the Oakland-to-Vegas pipeline. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 1 hour ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Might as well get the Warriors to move to complete the Oakland-to-Vegas pipeline. warriors moved across the bay to san francisco in 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 also, this team is dead to me if they move to vegas. fisher is the worst owner in pro sports. fuck that piece of shit. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 14 hours ago, johnny said: warriors moved across the bay to san francisco in 2019 Same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 They should move the Kings to Las Vegas instead. Lebron already said they should. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted July 13, 2023 Author Share Posted July 13, 2023 Oakland Athletics Start Process Of Applying To MLB For Move To Las Vegas KSLSPORTS.COM The Oakland Athletics have started the process of applying to Major League Baseball to move the franchise to Las Vegas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 22 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said: Oakland Athletics Start Process Of Applying To MLB For Move To Las Vegas KSLSPORTS.COM The Oakland Athletics have started the process of applying to Major League Baseball to move the franchise to Las Vegas. fuck you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggie Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 It’s all about money. Oakland has none. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted July 13, 2023 Author Share Posted July 13, 2023 Quote “My single biggest disappointment is because of the kind of political process in Oakland, we didn’t find a solution to keep the A’s in Oakland,” Manfred said. “That’s number one on the disappointment list.” Oaklands fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 54 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said: Oaklands fault. if you spent any amount of time learning about this you would know this wasn’t true and manfred is a piece of shit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 1 hour ago, Remarkableriots said: Oaklands fault. Manfred is the worst commissioner in American sports and if you believe the bs story that he is spinning than I’ve got some beach-front property you might be interested in purchasing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 19 minutes ago, johnny said: if you spent any amount of time learning about this you would know this wasn’t true and manfred is a piece of shit 6 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said: Manfred is the worst commissioner in American sports and if you believe the bs story that he is spinning than I’ve got some beach-front property you might be interested in purchasing. I actually haven't been following this. I'm lazy and don't wanna read a bunch. What's the cliff's notes version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 14 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: I actually haven't been following this. I'm lazy and don't wanna read a bunch. What's the cliff's notes version? - when fisher bought the team (in 04 i think) he spent about a decade trying to build a stadium in nearby cities like fremont and san jose. those didn’t work out. he also didn’t put any money into the team and constantly traded away good young players. how would most of you feel if every time you had a good young player your team traded them away for prospects that may or may not be good? - when they decided to look at oakland in like 2014 fisher was focused on rebuilding at the current coliseum site but he ended up not wanting to do that (raiders btw wanted to build here with the a’s and the a’s saying no is one of the reasons the raiders left) - like 5 years ago the a’s and the city started focusing on Howard Terminal as the new site. a waterfront ballpark! - a’s asked for 360 million to help develop the site. the city of oakland has been able to secure 425 million in funding through things like state grants. oakland did not want to use oakland taxpayer money for this bc they’ve had money issues for a long time and they are still paying for mount davis (that monstrosity in center field) -oakland completed a lot of environmental impact stuff and even stomped out a lawsuit or two to clear the way for building the stadium. covid definitely slowed this stuff down but i don’t think there’s anything they could have done to go faster with the state of the world at the time. - at some point in the last year and a half talks with the a’s slowed down and the city was trying to get a deal done with them but in april the a’s said they were bouncing to vegas when things in oakland were really close to getting done. and then the city and fans get blamed by assholes like manfred. could things have been easier if oakland just threw a bunch of money at them immediately and raised tf out of taxes screwing over their citizens? yes, but fuck that. oakland’s mayor even flew to seattle to meet with manfred. the city of oakland wants to keep the a’s, but fisher is only interested in bending over a city in the process. Oakland mayor takes big swing to keep A's, meets with MLB commissioner in Seattle ABC7NEWS.COM Equipped with a small pulley cart loaded with 31 thick documents, Mayor Thao wheeled Oakland's plans to keep the A's into a private meeting room and proceeded to clear the air with MLB's... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggie Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 Sounds like excuses. You can’t get a stadium deal done in a decade? I think all parties are to blame but like I said it mostly comes down to money. The city of Oakland has none. Every sports franchise has left not just the A’s. The city didn’t want to throw money at them and raise taxes? Look around that’s how stadiums deals get done. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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