Lifelong A's Fan here - almost 40 years. This here is the reality of the situation. I have said the same things - you make the all star team - you get traded. and they blow up on other teams. The art of Winning is ignored by the art of cash hoarding. When a team that gets $60 Million dollars just by existing - still have the lowest payroll in all of sports. Raising season ticket prices unjustly. Raising parking prices. Unjustly. How is that on the fans? To fight through and leave dinner off the table at home - in favor of some $17 helmet nacho bowl? Naw man. You nailed it here. Athletics fans aren't foolish. But the general public thinks we are. Hell - they raised ticket prices for the 2nd boycott game - they even censored the audio and signs and yet the fans are the problem? When's the last time you heard any team ever do that? Sad times all around. We are losing our team to an unproven, unpolished - waste of time.

Finally someone saying what real fans have been saying since 1999. If you have been dialed in like I have you know the real story. At one point I was going to 35 games year.

People seam to forget the Bay Area market prior to PacBell Park. It the 32 years that the A’s and Giants shared the market prior to the Giants opening a new park the A’s outdrew the Giants 17 times. I remember going to games at candlestick with only 9K in the stands. MLB/Fans outside the Bay Area like to spout how this has been going on for 20 years. The issue is not black and white. Since Fisher/Wolff purchased the A’s they have tried to relocate the team. Ownership spent over decade trying to move to Fremont which was voted down and to San Jose which was ultimately blocked by the Giants/ MLB. Now the city isn’t blameless but in the early 2010’s the city proposed 3 sites the A’s rejected because they were so focused on moving to San Jose. It wasn’t until 2016/2017 that the A’s returned to negotiate with Oakland and originally picked a site that was no available in Laney College (both the college district & city weren’t told about this until the school board rejected the A’s) basically wasted a year with that plan. Then the A’s finally selected the Howard Terminal Site on the water and the A’s insisted on a 55 acre baseball district with commercial, residential and retail space which only drove up the cost. Even then the city pushed the project forward only for the A’s to pull out the week before they were scheduled to meet with Oakland for final negotiations in april and now the A’s are content with a 9-acre leased ballpark. The cherry on top is both Don Knauss (Clorox CEO) and Joe Lacob have stated they would like to purchase the A’s and keep them in the Bay Area. And before people start going on about it’s hard to build in California. The warriors, rams and now clippers didn’t have any issues building new stadiums in California. During the Haas era the A’s were one of the flagship franchises in the American League.

This was a show of force by MLB and John Fisher to show everyone that the fans don't matter and that the owners can and will do whatever they please wrong or right. It's heartbreaking to lose our team like this ESPECIALLY when we have the will and a way to build a new waterfront stadium at Howard Terminal. Las Vegas should have been given an expansion team and the A's should've stayed HOME. MLB is going to lose a LOT of fans behind this & it's all their fault.

The Spanos family did the same thing to Charger fans by taking them up to L.A. because of the projected jump in team value by having them be up the 5 freeway. And things really haven't gone anywhere near good for the team save for Justin Herbert, who follows in a long line of great team QBs. The Chargers belong in San Diego and the A's belong in Oakland.

The cycle in Oakland is exactly the same as Tampa, which is part of why they have horrible attendance, too.

this Oakland A’s relocation to Vegas story is going to haunt people that love their pro sports teams and make them feel worried that they’ll lose theirs from their city.

The market is actually one of the biggest markets split the Bay Area and add in the Central Valley Sac, Stockton, Modesto area also add in where they used to historically draw from the Nor cal audience north of the bay. It’s a massive market there is no excuse.

It is not a kick in the ass, it is a kick in the balls. I am from the bay Oakland and The A’s ownership have equal blame

Most of us in Vegas don't want the Oakland As, we wanted an expansion team like the Knights or Aces, both champions by the way.

Thank you for the shout out

The colosseum is a dump and no one ever did a thing about it. The team deserves a way better owner, their business model was an insult to A’s fans, getting rid of players as they enter their prime, it was like a minor league team for the teams that spend. I’m a Giants fan and I watched the A’s rot away wonder how could they do that.

Of course Oakland is not NY or LA, but it's the closest you're going to get lol. It's actually a big market and the East Bay is larger that SF's western peninsula. Only larger spot is the South Bay in SJ. If Oakland had a waterfront ballpark it would suck some of that SJ fanbase backup to Oak and wouldn't let SF monopolize it as it's doing. PLUS the larger population in the North Bay has easier access to get to Oak than SF. They could even ferry from Vallejo's terminals straight to Howard Terminal. You also have the bleed over market of Sacramento which naturally was more pro Oakland than SF for decades. The central valley can shoot straight into the East Bay with Oakland. Oakland just has very cheap owners with Fisher and previously with Davis. It's not that Oakland is not viable, it's the owners who are not viable for the market they're in. They can't afford it or simply refuse to pay.

The owner gets public funding to build his stadium in LV. Same happened to the chargers. So why would he stay in oakland where they have highest crime rate just like san fran? Businesses are leaving cities like that and moving out. Easy decision.

St. Louisan here. Lost my football team to Stan Kroenke and his greed. It really fucking sucks, but those type of moves always come back to bite the team in the ass; the Rams and Chargers both have shit attendance nowadays, with more away fans than home fans at any game. That, my friends, is called karma.

you guys need to see this from the outside, as someone who don't live there and never been to oakland from what I see Oakland is a dump I seen video of someone driving around Oakland ballpark and I can see anyone who wanting to invest money in that City, Warriors out, Raiders out, A's out

Las Vegas is clearly the better city for the A's. Oakland in the 60s was the better choice, not anymore.

Please research the A's attendance in the 70's and 80's. Its always been a poor market. The excuse about chucking players after a certain period of time is feeble.

How are the Giants a big market team and they are on the other side of the bridge.

A possible goof at the 4:58 mark: That's Fay Vincent, who was the Commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1989-1992 in that photo, not Walter Haas.

It’s real easy to dump on fisher but there’s plenty of blame to go around. The city of Oakland ,the other owners & especially rob manfred . This deal was rubber stamped by MLB a long time ago & the city only got religion at the end when it was too late.

I live in Kansas watching those great A’s teams playing in a beautiful stadium in the 70’s now is it Billy Bean poor ownership or lack of support from fans . What the hell happened ? Fisher will never win with the A’s he will never put up his own money after all he is a billionaire he wants to spend public money that’s what they do. To whom much is given much is expected. Fisher falls short of that standard. Oakland deserves better!

Oakland is a S-Show. Oakland has deteriorated into a hell hole. That is why several companies have left from the US NAVY to IN-N-OUT. How far do you have to drive just to get medication. That was not because the company wanted to leave. That was because they were being robbed into bankruptcy. The city instead of making laws that stop crime. Make laws that promote crime. Why would any team want to stay in the worst city in California. The Raiders and the Warriors both left. Now the last pro team left in Oakland is finally leaving. They know that the city will continually. Just kick the can down the road and do no nothing.

Read Cot's Contracts. I can tell you who is trade bait by their relative position in the seniority list. Those players who are close to free agency are more likely to be traded. And if the A's give away a bobblehead, jersey or t-shirt, then your chances go up. But if you get both a bobblehead and a jersey or t-shirt then you are damn sure that you will be gone next year.

"On any given Sunday" what this term means(yes I'm aware the saying comes from football but it applies) is why the moneyball system could never work. You can't accurately account for determination or attitude. Because on any given Sunday, even chumps can be champs. And if you got a team of solid mid level players, sure you do well during regular season play, but you don't have anyone that is likely to take a lot of chances(players like that get used to doing a little more than enough to keep their jobs) and you fall behind because every other playoff team steps it up and your guys plateaued in August.

What did Oakland do? They had years and decades to fix their bullshit stadium situation. The city is to blame just as much.

6:14 - i know FOR SURE barry zito was mentioned in “moneyball”

Pain and Suffering

Fisher has got to be stopped! This is Diagnosis: Baseball Murder!

That was a pic of Faye Vincent

Facts are facts. A's belong to oakland HOWEVER on a money aspect to faten pockets they will move to vegas.. i truely believe if raiders and knights weremt succesful this move wouldnt of happened

Remember, baseball doesn't think it's under the same rules as other businesses, rule number one, blame the customer

I get it. We all get it. But it's a done deal, and I am convinced that ML baseball (the commissioner and owners) colluded with Fisher to rip the A's out of Oakland, regardless of how big an asshole the A's owner is. And the city of Oakland isn't blameless here. They could have gotten their act together years earlier and come up with a doable proposal to keep their last major league team in the city. Either that, or John Fisher was blowing smoke out of his ass all along and NO proposal would have been good enough. What do you think???

If it's not too late, somebody go online or in person to the U.S patent office and register "Las Vegas A's" or "Las Vegas Athletics" and register the domain name as well. Get it before Fisher does.

The Oakland F's for fail

3:44 since 2005… what happened in 2005… hmmm 🤔 oh yeah, john fisher bought the team! Makes you think don’t it

Does the stadium make the payroll low?

Question is.. will they spend once in the new vegas ballpark?

Nice work Gomer

It hella Oakland have you seen the area around the ball park .. $20 plus to park .. RVs burnt out cars homeless camps .. you have a minor league team on the field and once star they trade them ..plus keep the money in your pocket and ugliness stadium in baseball.. this is like the first Oakland owner the second Mule or Jack ass Charlie O he had three champions and sold his stars and did not pay his players and so cheap F up and forgot to pay Catfish Hunter his bonus and like a house of cards Reggie and the stars left

As a kansas city royals fan. I feel bad for oakland. Hopefully the ballers will help them

The detroit lions been cheap roster It

Fisher owns half of the stadium and doesn’t want to pay for upgrades. Lol he stopped Mark Davis from upgrading for years and stopped them from building new stadiums for both teams. Broke 🤡

They only won 2 series 1991 to the present day if you throw the 2006 sweep of the Twins and the failures of the 2000’s into it No pitching in the 90’s, then cheap ownership beyond are the culprits

Class Action lawsuit?

The copium is real

Oakland is a joke .

There's a reason Oakland lost all of their pro teams

I don’t care the Yankees being owing the Al for centuries who cares .

A’s and their management moving to Nevada finally means the house will consistently lose in Vegas.

Get over it. This is a business. They are free to relocate to where they can make money.

John Fisher is a real life Rachel Phelps.

I see where you're coming from, but at the same time, the City of Oakland wasn't really helping the situation either. Former mayor Libby Shaff (spelling?) was instrumental in making the A's staying there almost untenable. Requiring them to build a stadium, and also help finance low-cost housing to appease the city agenda, was a bunch of bull. A baseball club shouldn't be held accountable to solve the socio-economic problems of the world. That's the city's job, yet Shaff was trying to pass the political football onto them. If they wanted a stadium, they were going to have to pull all the city's strings first. Screw the city of Oakland I say. Let a baseball club worry about baseball, and nothing else. I believe Las Vegas will give them that chance without any special "social consciousness" strings attached.

Y’all (2500) per game can start Bitching at the B’s games here shortly 😂😂😂

John fisher 💩

I know where there’s a ton of land right on the strip to build! That huge cancelled billions of dollars project that was cancelled and Steve Wynn bought the land. Sorry Oakland, your owner is so douchey for doing this. Since 2000 the A’s have the 6th most WINS!

Went to city college sf for 5 yrs Graduate of 2013 Went to 30 plus came a yr every yr then F fisher and kavel Go to hell 🤮💔🤬🤬🤬💔💔💔💔💔🤮🤮🤮🤮

Oakland is a dump, they are better off in Las Vegas.

They leave for vegASS f the mlb F manfred F kaval F really f fisher

I feel bad for John Fisher and the A's. They are the last one to leave and are getting way more heat than Raiders or Warriors.