Oakland getting an expansion team is like asking your ex-wife on a date

I've seen 100's of games there going back to the early 70s. It's not the prettiest and the area around it has gone downhill, but I've still enjoyed going there and have great memories of A's games, the Raiders and tons of great concerts.

That's home. 😢😢😢. I've cleaned that stadium 🏟 from top to bottom. Parking lot included. ❤❤

The area around the Coliseum/Oracle arena is not safe. When I attended a game there a few years ago, it was advised to go in groups, leave in larger groups, and get on the BART ASAP and leave the area. If they want to attract a new MLB team the stadium must be in another safer area (and there are very few safer areas in Oakland these days)

Knock it all you want but I saw a lot of great games in that stadium, football and baseball.

I went there to see a game before the move. Drove in parked in the first row and walked in the stadium. It was a perfectly fine place to see a baseball game. I didn't go to hang out at a rooftop terrace or play in an arcade or make sure my phone had wifi. I went to see a baseball game and it was perfectly fine for that.

Sacramento has a better chance of getting an expansion team or keeping the A's.. Oakland is not getting any team.

Oakland is so cheap this stadium will still be standing 10 years from now guaranteed

My people. I have it on good authority that the River Cats and the A’s will be sharing Sutter Health Park. The River Cats will not be playing in Oakland or SF.

One of the problems with the Howard Terminal renderings that no one talks about is that home plate is on the northern part of the site. The idea of batters looking into the sun is absurd.

To keep the Coliseum in use, it is expected that the Oakland Roots USL soccer team will move there, and maybe the other minor league soccer team, Project 51O. But it is most important that the stadium also gets mass renovated so it is no longer outdated, and so the city can get its NFL and MLB teams back in expansion, but that's the difficult part

The stadium will be turned into a wildlife sanctuary for all the critters that already live there

I think the Coliseum is turned half into other buildings (like housing) and half into a smaller USL sized soccer stadium for the Oakland Roots

And when they knock it down they will still be paying for Mt Davis and will be for the next 10 years at least.

Oakland's a hell hole. You'd have to be crazy to put a new team there.

Oakland/East Bay missed their opportunity in the 90's. Should have built a ballpark next to the Coliseum. Oakland went cheap and now has lost all 3 teams. Public funding is never going away

I'd bet a AAA would draw about as much as the As will this summer.... the prices will likely be lower, and maybe they would be willing to stay longer!

My views, after having lived in the SF Bay Area for some 50 years: 1) The Coliseum was built INTO the ground with the idea of having a relatively low profile and not block off so many views, etc. This seemed like a great idea at the time, but soon they realized that having the field level so close to the Bay's elevation meant they were going to have major drainage problems, including players slipping a lot on the damp field... and PLUMBING issues. Water does NOT go UP very well. Clubhouses and dugouts got flooded with sewage more than a few times over the years. No room to raise the field level up, either; it would be too high for first-row fans to see the game well. 2) Because of the things mentioned in Point 1, the best thing to do is BRING OUT THE BULLDOZERS and WRECKING BALLS as soon as the season is over. Rip the thing down before the rainy season starts! 3) If the Rivercats are displaced for a few games here and there, play their games at Oracle. Make 'em weekend twi-night double headers if the Giants are in town, would be a great draw!. They're the Giants' minor-league team, after all... 4) If things in Vegas fall through for the A's, tough. They made their bed, go lie in it. Or go find another city/victim, anyway...

How about doing a video on the chances that Sacramento can build a major league ball park in the Sacramento Railyards?

If you tear it down to one infield deck and make it a community stadium there are three local JuCos and multiple high schools that would line up to play games even before renovations. It would be the East Bay version of Kezar.

the A's told local news that they hope to play a few home series games in Las Vegas starting next year... maybe that will help with the conflict with the Rivercats?

If Oakland is smart, which they are not, they would turn the coliseum area into housing. That land is pretty valuable and could host a lot of new homes which are badly needed in the Bay Area.

“Affordable housing” 🤣 That was a good one Ginger

The Oakland Coliseum does not need to be demolished. It needs to be a football stadium. Like it was meant to be in the first place we've got the UFL. A new football team can be put in the Oakland Coliseum. Which is why it needs to be renovated.

Oakland has lots of issues businesses can’t leave fast enough I don’t think a baseball team is going to Oakland in the foreseeable future

It was great to see Campy Campaneris and Rick Monday play there - also Ben Davidson, George Blanda, Warren Wells. Great stadium.

The A's have been trying to purchase a 50% share of the Coliseum, and a local business group has been going after the other 50%. It would be between them when a demolition happens and the type of construction that goes in.

A little sad how the Oakland Athletics and the stadium isn't having a kinda renovation or getting bigger.

Were you gonna make a video about Connecticut wanting an NBA team? The New England Founders is what they want to call it

They should get an expansion team and call them the Bees!

it will end up just being a abandoned building for the next 5-10 years

Maybe they can turn it into a giant homeless encampment?

Might get USL soccer there next season. Roots and Soul are working to play home games at the coliseum next season

I’ve heard they might turn the coliseum into a soccer stadium for the USL Oakland team

They will replace it with a store that sells spray paint.

nothing a translucent retractable roof and a couple beer gardens can't fix.

Maybe the Giants will move their top AAA minor league to Oakland in a brand new 8000 capacity new ball park and call them the Oakland 💩 holes

As a Giants fan originally from the Bay Area, I hope John Fisher sells the team and the A's stay in Sacramento so we can still have both MLB teams in Nor Cal! Vegas should just get an expansion team. If the A's do move to Vegas, Oakland needs to sue to keep the Athletics name and force the Vegas team to have a different name!

UFL should expand to Oakland and the west coast

They're planning pro soccer games at Coliseum for a couple of years

0:14 "....where the stadium is right now...." It's in the Toilet....💩🤣

A's fan for life. Remember the 70's dynasty. Remember the 80's. Remember RICKEY !! With that said, I don't care where they play. With that said, I believe they will be in Vegas. Here's what I think has already happened. I believe Fisher's family has told him to do, "His due diligence," and the family will do the rest. That's why it doesn't look like there is money right now. Because there isn't any.

My prediction will be that it stays as is, at least until the ownership of the property reverts to one entity. I dont see anything happening with the A's owning half the property.

As move back to KC and the Royals move to Las Vegas?

"Could you imagine how dead the Coliseum would be if a AAA team were playing there?" The Yankees AAA team has been playing there since the 90s!

The Tampa Bay Rays might move to Las Vegas.

Massive outdoor Methlabs and homeless camps. Power to the people.

Oakland Beez Expansion team. Dark Blue, and gold. Primary Hat logo is "B's" Secondary would be a bat swinging bee.

They could house a million people on all that land

Why the hell would Oakland want the Rivercats to play there after Fisher took the team to Sac? The Giants can host their little minor league team in their own stadium if they want.

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Do guaranteed rate next lol

The Oakland Roots will be playing there. The Arena isn't going anywhere they make more money now w concerts than when the Warriors play there

It''s going to be a Parking lot in the long run.

Too much crime in Oakland. A lot of the tax base, businesses and corporations have already left the city. Oakland is your typical failed left coast city.

When I think about how closed leagues and ownership works in the major leagues (all sports), it is the most glaring example of the weakness in capitalism or the unwillingness of the federal government to regulate monopolies. Underperforming firms are incentivized to continue to underperform because there is no competition. Absentee owners deserve to get relegated instead of preserving value by generating scarcity.

I think the Oakland Roots plan on playing there in 2025

nice parking lot.

Aren't the Oakland Roots and Oakland Soul soccer teams supposed to play in the Oakland Coliseum in the 2025/2026 season? If the A's had stayed instead of going to Sacramento wasn't part of the cost reconfiguring the field back and forth between baseball and soccer?

It will eventually be the largest outdoor market in the bay area. A place to buy stolen property and any drugs.

They should tear it down and build more housing like this country needs.

A homeless encampment

Oakland’s broke, the state of California is over $700 billion in debt. That boondoggle Speed Train and a new Oakland Stadium being built? Not a chance...

It looks like moving to Las Vegas won't work either. Nobody there cares. My thought was to move them to Oklahoma City. It's a big city and the people there would actually like baseball.

4th in team HRs, pretty good for a weak offense. The fans are here, just need a new owner and ballpark.

Leave the Oakland Coliseum and Mt Davis exactly the way it is as a symbol to all the bullshit that goes on in the world!!!

Yeah, this isn’t like the Coyotes, where they’d get an expansion team back.

This site will be getting rebuilt , to what , I am unsure . The city got grants to rebuild . Most likely housing and mixed business .

The message in the thumbnail for that video does not happen to be the truth. /

I could see like a 12,000 seat soccer stadium and a lot of housing. There is no way in hell Oakland gets an MLB expansion team - hell, there's no way ANYBODY is getting an expansion team in this economy. The only way into the MLB or NFL right now is dead man's boots.

When are they planning the next boycott? Definitely want to attend that one

UFL team and maybe soccer

Move the Oakland ballers into the colosseum if not river cats

Are the Oakand Ballers going to charge people to watch their games? lmao.

Convert it into a prison for the citizens of Oakland.

It’s gonna be demolished. Huge plot of land in a prime spot

Probably turn into a soccer stadium on Saturdays and a swap-meet on Sundays. Oh and don't forget some taco stands out front with some counterfeit items.

They’re totally not (A’s) going to Las Vegas. John Fisher is going to screw this up somehow plus the city would rather have an expansion team anyway. Look how wonderful the Golden Knights have done in the NHL so far. Strategically the most sensible decision should be to ditch John Fisher and get a new Stadium deal in Oakland; even if they still have to be in Sacramento for the next 3 seasons since John Fisher already agreed to it!

I know people from the area are not going to like this but Oakland doesn't deserve any pro sports teams. The city is the real problem here. No professional franchise wants any association with the city of Oakland. It has become a third world city. You could transplant the city to Argentina or Venezuela and it would fit right in and Oakland's voters have only themselves to blame.

In 2025, the Coliseum will be Soccer Specific, no baseball team would be playing there.

I think some minor league soccer teams are going to be playing at Coliseum next year

I had to laugh when you said the Arena saw a "ton of winning" with the Warriors. People forget that for the 20 years before that they were probably the most dysfunctional team in professional sports, when their highlight reel consisted of players choking coaches.

I don't care if they move or even go out of business. This is stupid.

I know you’re very young but seriously…California has red tape. These stadiums rot for years and years of disuse before they get knocked down.

They will bring in an WNBA team that nobody watches anyway.

Just remodel it. Gut it to nothing and rebuild it

It will be demolished in about two or three years.

Have to mention that Oakland is a city in great distress. Losing businesses due to high crime due to progressive leadership. The city is done.

It's going to end up a homeless camp.

John Fisher will not sell the team unless he can build a stadium in Las Vegas. MLB needs to force this Billionaire grifter out.

I used to feel bad for Oakland because they are losing their teams, but then I remember they voted for wacko liberals who allowed the city to go to shit.

I’d be livid if Sacramento gets to keep the A’s. If they do, what was the point of this entire stand off. Unbelievable. I hope it fails is Sacramento and fails in Vegas.

Turn it into a homeless tent city