Dude gets free land, $300M from tax payers, a waived relocation fee and he still can't fund a ballpark

If the MLB had a real commissioner this would have been resolved ages ago.

The universe has been telling them not to move to Vegas the entire time.

MLB needs a new commissioner. Stadium renovation and club expansion and relocation mismanagement is out of control.

When the A’s moved its radio broadcast off of regular radio to Tune in you know the owners were a joke.

Fisher has become the antagonist of all of baseball

As a Vegas resident, I don't know of anyone that wants this team. We would rather get an expansion team we can root for. Just as we did for the Knights.

Here’s a novel idea: STAY IN OAKLAND and actually work with us. Also, SELL THE TEAM!!!! #Goas

THANK YOU. As a Vegas local, I would love a baseball team, just not the A’s or John Fisher. And maybe not put the ballpark on the strip too. Have it be off strip for local fans

The Oakland ballpark was beautiful. They were only $100 million apart. MLB should contract the A’s and sell the rights to a new owner who would put resources into the club.

Mlb in Vegas would be better off with an expansion franchise , This A's move is very shady and forced...

We don’t need the A’s in Vegas stay in freaking Oakland!!!!!

No shit. You thought taxpayers will get towed over

Everyone forgot how terrible the Giants attendance was while they were at Candlestick

Keep up the pressure As fans... Keep that boycott going!

This whole A's to Vegas saga is really a huge mess!!!

MLB needs to Frank McCourt him.

The easy and obvious solution to this situation is to force John Fisher to sell the team, but they won't do it because it sets a precedent.

I'm not sure where the A's will be playing in 5 years. But I'm 100% sure that it won't be a John Fisher team playing in Las Vegas! In Vegas, you can build whatever you can dream of...if you have brains and money. John Fisher, an embarrassment to his family, has neither.

Both John fisher and rob Manfred out

Expansion of baseball.is a ridiculous pipe dream.

Looks like it might be Sacramento

A'S. situation was/is suspicious mlb being sneaky

Citizens here in KC Mo. are fed up with taxes. Property tax up 238% in some areas of voters. Insurance follows County to break it off even further. $500. to $750 a month increase. Not mansions while Co. Exec. asseor, mayor taxes stay down while neighbors either side raised to high heaven. Now we voted down the new stadiums. Mo law states after vote cannot be brought again 1yr. Unscruplos Rep. trying to bring it back in 5mos. Not legal and Jackson Co. going to See Mo. AG in court June to find how and why they broke law. KS. wants 6.5% tax to pay for Chiefs things will not be voted on by citizens STAR Bond. Go for it there is never enough $$ for the millonaires.

"The interior looks a little clownish." John Fisher: "perfect!"

The A's are the Coyotes of baseball.

The economy isn t gonna do this dream much good. I also think the peeps of LV don t wanna be on the hook for this monster as everybody knows this will go over budget.

In terms of the locals being on board, the Las Vegas Aviators are VERY popular, and those Aviators players will be Las Vegas A's players in 2028

I could be wrong but with Fisher and Kaval I don’t even see them moving to Sacramento Rumors here now is that the team could be up for sale before season’s end

It's a done deal!!! The A's are moving to Vegas!!! It sucks!!! John Greedy Fisher, get lost!!!

Couldn’t happen to a better owner.

A’S TAKE #2 IN THE AL WEST QUALIFY FOR PLAYOFFS FISHER DIES OF SHOCK HOWARD TERMINAL BUILT

Does anyone actually think Fisher is going to change his stripes once he gets to LV? I don't see him all of the sudden spending money on FA's or even investing in the team for that matter.

Going from one bad owner to another like Vivek 😵‍💫 just sell to Lacob

City of Oakland is particularly the problem as well. No reason Howard Terminal could not become a reality.

Put the A’s up for sell leave them in Sacramento or move to Salt Lake City and expand to Las Vegas, San Antonio or Salt Lake City. Also move either Miami or Tampa to Nashville

If A's do actually relocate, I say relocate to Salt lake City. They actually want the Athletics. I know it's not that easy or simple but just move there and call it a day

Fisher showed one more time he was in trouble when with two weeks to go before he has to submit his financing plan to the LV Stadium Authority for review, he hired an outside firm to obtain $500 million. Why he 'waited' until a week ago is beyond me...

The Tropicana Hotel has been sacrificed for nothing.

Let’s go A’s, Salt Lake City will build you a new stadium with the Rocky Mountains in the outfield!

Being from Vegas, I love that we are finally getting professional teams. We just hate getting Oakland's leftovers. The Knights are the only vegas team. the Raiders aren't ours, the A's won't be ours, and a relocated NBA team won't be ours either.

we've had one team move in the last 50 years. what's the point of a relocation fee if it's going to waived when a team finally moves?

If the A’s go for sale, Ranadive of the Kings won’t outbid Bay Area investors. Joe Lacob of the Warriors is ready to buy, and said he would build at Howard Terminal in Oakland with only private money. I commented here months ago that this was gonna play out. Another issue, Sacramento has a deficit of over $60 million in this fiscal year. If the city faces deficits in the coming years, they won’t be able to provide funding to the A’s. Buckle up folks.

Six straight for the A's....But the Twins have won 12 straight! And the AL Central was supposed to be bad, 4 of 5 teams over .500 - it's the AL West that kinda sux so far....And I agree with you, Vega$ and "cheap" don't work there....

In terms of the team being at .500 right now, as a lifelong A's fan, this is the normal cycle, the past 20 or 30 years. Every time they've had a competitive team, it's always been this big shock to the world. A new ballpark means we can finally stop doing a rebuild every decade.

It's pretty obvious at this point that he negotiated in bad faith with the city of Oakland. Even though we would have been given more "free money" with the Howard Terminal deal, there's no way we could have covered his portion of the larger project. That's why he cut off negations all of the sudden. To make sure that Oakland could make a final proposal that he couldn't afford, but was too good for the league to let him leave.

John Fisher broke off negotiations with Oakland when they were close to a deal because they said it would take too long for the process to finish. Now he’s in darn near the exact same situation. Even if they try to stay in Sacramento now you have to get the funding all over again and figure all that out, and it’s a lot harder to get free tax money in California that it is in Nevada.

They just need to leave Oakland. Get a new owner and pick a new city.

I wonder if theres a possibility they end up staying in sac.. sacramento famously has the best fanbase in NBA who saved the Kings from leaving 10 years ago

I would totally support the A’s here in Sacramento

NHL gave Vegas an expansion team and they have been a contender ever since. Now MLB wants to send the worthless A's to Vegas?!?!? We CAN ALL see how bad they're treating their fans. No thank you! I can watch the Avaiators( minor league baseball team) in Summerlin ( beautiful Vegas Suburb) and not deal with any of that traffic to watch a team that alienated their fan base and won't invest in players. HELL NO!!! Stay in Oakland!!!

This is what happens when one man turns his back on his fans and community for financial gain. It's a gamble period. Such a horrible thing to do to encourage the relocation of a team that's so woven into the community of Oakland and the East Bay, putting people's jobs and livelihood at risk for greed and uncertainty especially when they we're only $97 million apart from making the waterfront ballpark in Oakland a reality. Fisher wasn't open to investors then but suddenly in Vegas he is?? Manfred and the owners have their fair share of blame in all of this too.

Ding ding. Fisher has been a steaming pile of a dumpster fire since day one wanting to relocate. Vegas take notice!

Nothing I would love better than if fisher sold the A’s and they moved to San Jose as a big fuck you to the giants who blocked the A’s from moving there years ago saying it’s territorial rights

Well if this truly fails and they get new ownership but if MLB still wants the A’s out of Oakland, they should look into the Golden Gate Fields Horse Track since they’ll be out of business this year and Albany and Berkeley do not know what to do with this land.

The elevation in SLC is almost as high as in Denver and mich higher than Phoenix. That will be an issue. MLB probably wouldn't work

Why is John Fisher still an owner?

A’s fans have been warning us of J Fisher’s shortcomings. This will be a fiasco for MLB.

I agree with others if MLB had a better Commissioner, the new Commissioner would've gotten the owner out of there, and they could've just gotten the A's to stay in Oakland with a cheaper new ballpark.

All I need is about 20 to 25,000 seats should be able to afford that

Oakland is a headache. Vegas is a headache. Sacramento has a bigger TV market and is still NorCal with built in A's fans.

We do NOT want Fisher in Las Vegas. Give us an expansion team.

I would keep this whole situation simple and just move the A's permanently to Sacramento and if Las Vegas would still like a team, then maybe they could get an expansion team in the future.

Many Athletics fans in or around the SF Bay Area actually live closer to Sacramento than San Jose. I see Sacramento as a lifeline that could keep lifelong A's fans able to go to games.

Just sale the damn team to an owner that really care and have the money to put a good product on the field , this is getting embarrassing for MLB.

If they're going to leave the Bay, just build a legit ball park in Sacramento.

Yeah, wait for an expansion team. Vegas already has to contend with the Raiders and the various criminal pathologies afflicting their "fans" visiting from California

please dont come to vegas, taxpayers should not pay for a billionares stadiums.

Born in Raised in Oakland California The As Suck and The City of Oakland sucks even harder

The Angels should be moving to Vegas, Arty spends, obviously bad contracts, but at least he tries

Fisher will sell a portion to one of the local oligarchs here and everything will be fine.

Schools Over Stadiums!

Move the Oakland A's to Paducah Kentucky build a 20,000 seat stadium and that'll be good enough

Keep the A's in Oakland.

There's not a "ton" of support in Vegas? I doubt there's even a few pounds of support.

A’s should go public and sell stock shares to generate cash.

The roof of the proposed Vegas stadium looks to be about only 47 meters high which would mean the balls would hit the roof, the A's would move to Vegas, based on history they will tell Fisher either move to Charles Schwab stadium in Omaha Nebraska which is already holds 24,000 seats and can be expanded to 35,000 seats or sell the team and depending on who the new owner is would build a new stadium in Oakland or move to Portland which would make perfect sense.

Nothing is surprising about this, he dnt have the money in Oakland which by the way is a bigger tv market, why would anyone think he would have the money in Vegas

In terms of Major League Baseball I see Vegas as a tiny market full of transplants (transplants have hurt Arizona and Florida franchises). Sacramento is a much stronger market if Athletics can/will embrace fans from San Francisco Bay Area.

The Sofi Model. As a San Francisco fan. We would like to have something to say about that. We were the first privately funded stadium. Especially for baseball.

Fix MLB: A's >> Sacramento/San Jose Marlins >> Nashville Rays >> Orlando Vegas >> Expansion SLC >> Expansion White Sox, Angels, DBacks, Cardinals can figure it out

Vivek Ranadive owner of Kings & A’s ‘????

Uhhhhhhh, too late now. They already Destroyed the Casino.

I think those renderings of the Vegas ballpark are awesome.

“ This is when the Fun Begins 🔥🤣 ⚾️ “

Remember the MLB unanimously voted to approve the relocation. I'm sure the Athletics must have a fully detailed, bulletproof plan to relocate the team that somehow must have included using a MiLB stadium in West Sacramento temporarily. This whole thing has been a $#!* show, almost like a low-speed train wreck.

I don't think the ship has completely sailed on an Oakland deal in the scenario that Fisher sells. 1. Yes attendance has been bad for a while, but then again the ownership has been bad for a while too. It's really a chicken or the egg question at this point, but it's hard to blame fans when ownership literally never tries to retain talent, the team rebuilds every 4 years, and meanwhile the stadium has been outdated for decades and is in an underdeveloped part of town. 2. Yes it got ugly between Fisher/MLB and Oakland, but Oakland has already said they will embrace a new ownership group. Fisher was unsurprisingly difficult to work with and did everything he could to burn that relationship to the ground. It wouldn't be the same with a new owner. 3. It's not completely about attendance, market size is a big reason to look at keeping the team in the Bay Area. Pretty much the only reason why there were those late lease extension talks at the Coliseum despite ALL the bad blood was because of the lucrative TV contract. There aren't many markets that bring in as much as the Bay Area does, certainly not in the case of expansion markets. Sac is only happening in fact because they are keeping most of the value of that contract. 4. Oakland does have a leg up on most other prospective cities in terms of willpower to get a deal done as well as having plans in place. If MLB wants to get a new stadium built fast, building at Howard Terminal with a new owner could be one of the simplest and fastest ways. Every other city needs time to pick a site, work on the EIP, fight lawsuits, figure out infrastructure, etc. Oakland already has all that figured out. 5. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. They could either try building a fanbase from scratch and risk another Marlins or Rays situation in a new city, or they can re-commit to a fanbase that has shown to have a lot of diehards but have been punished and worn down by cheap owners for decades. I honestly think there's wisdom in re-committing to Oakland rather than abandoning that fanbase forever.

if the a's were sold to randadive in sacramento, there would be a shovel ready stadium site in the railyards

Sacramento is a baseball town and will prove it in the next 3-4 years with the attendance at A’s games. There are so many MLB players from this area like Steve Sax, Dusty Baker, Greg Vaughn, Rhys Hoskins, and Logan Webb, just to name a few. Sacramento is the highest market with only 1 major sports league and deserves another one. Especially baseball.

Can’t wait for the A’s to leave Oakland and see the B’s

Every city feels entitled to an expansion team. MLB should not expand. Sacramento will do very nicely.

Fisher should just sell the team if he can’t get a stadium built in LV. I rather see the Angels come to LV

As a Canadian I hope and pray the Rays move to Montreal and revive the Expos especially with how the owners have flirted with Montreal for the past decade BUT they must be the opposite of Fisher and realize we'd welcome them BUT Quebec is unable to pay the lion's share of a new stadium and need the team to pitch in and have the money I know it's privately funded but Vegas DOESN'T need to spend ten billion on an NBA arena when they can use T-Mobile Arena where the Golden Knights play as well as the Las Vegas Aces. If that happens I'll roll my eyes as it seems a waste like Intuit Dome in LA for the Clippers Also it's not the So-Fi model it's the California model as Chase Arena in San Francisco was fully privately funded as well as maybe the Intuit Dome

Just build a normal shape park for half the cost.

Sacramento, the capital city of California. Their population is around 530,000 people. That's not enough population to sustain 82 games for a baseball season. Plus the TV revenue is going to shrink and stink. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think Sacramento is a smaller TV market then Las Vegas. Nobody from the bay area is going to want to drive up to Sacramento to watch a game when they can just go to san francisco. Oh, and did you forget about the heat in sacramento. It's going to be very difficult for the A's. To play in sacramento. It's like the texas rangers ballpark The heat is unbearable in the summertime. They're going to have to build a dome. If the A's were to build a ballpark in Sacramento.

If Vegas doesn't want them send them to Portland. They have been trying to get a team for years. Then figure out the rays and if relocation is happening. After that the league can expand and add a team in Vegas and either Nashville or Charlotte. Id say the rays move to one of those as well.

Joe Lacob, the owner of the Warriors, tried to purchase the team. If someone were to buy the team now the smart move would be to go back to Oakland, or at least somewhere in the East Bay. The problem isn't the town, the fans, or the local leadership. The problem is that ownership doesn't have deep enough pockets to make it work there. Mark Davis was the poorest owner in the NFL. If Fisher has money he's not willing to invest it in the team. The Bay Area is a very large, and more importantly, very wealthy market. If someone were to build the A's a new stadium in Oakland they could be a very successful franchise.

Let's be real here, they're going to stay in Sac

The Las Vegas Scorpions. Perfect name.

With the lift they’ve gotten from Mason Miller I do not see them tailing off. The team itself is for real. Ruiz, Stripling,Langaliers, Rooker…they have some Dudes.