City of Oakland lost the big 4. NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL (Golden Seals).

Sacramento is going to outbid Vegas in the end

Damon~ outstanding done-have a good day~

Thanks, DA & Scott! Great job exposing Mr. Fraudster. #SellTheTeamDoofus

where can i get athlete posters like the ones behind you

Hey D.A do you think fisher will sell the team to his buddy in Sacramento and they’ll just build there?!?!

10:20 well well well…welcome Vegas to how we have been treated in Oakland for years…astute and accurate assessment sir!

MLB is a disgrace for allowing this 🤡show to happen.

Stop the shitshow!

You know Damon...a few years ago I was listening to Ray Ratto on 95.7. Ray was fired up and in great form ...he spoke about the size of the wallets of various MLB owners and said the A's owners wallet was actually pretty thin . Ratto noted this years ago .

Damon I've been an Oakland Athletics fanatic since I saw Catfish Hunter throw the first no-no at the Coliseum back in '68..his later reaction to a question"Well,the sun don't shine on the same dogs ass everyday ." cemented tghat fanaticism. And now that club is being torn from my heart ?? Hurts Damon really hurts bad .

The media there in neon city has been so..The A's can do no wrong ...since this entire fiasco began.

When I started following baseball in 1989 the Oakland Coliseum was a considered a premier baseball facility being at least the equivalent of a Dodger Stadium. A renovated Oakland Coliseum would be considered Fenway Park in 2060... that is if this actually happens and they rip out Mt Davis.

Rooted in TBD

They're not not coming to Vegas. The Tropicana didn't get torn down for $**ts and giggles. Anyone who tells you otherwise is coping.

It was very hard for us employees at Tropicana to lose our jobs for something EVERYONE knew was BS from the start.

Great stuff

Scott Roeben is great! I've just started following him a couple years ago, but he is fantastic and I hope he is right about this situation.

The bottom line: Why would ANY city want to welcome a team that has been the worst team in baseball for decades? Does anyone really believe that Fisher is going to make the moves to improve the A’s fortunes? Back to the current issue, Fisher will not be able to raise the money to build this eyesore. The location is awful, its lot size unrealistic, no parking near it. Look for the league to push/force Fisher into selling the team to the Millers, and the team will play in Salt Lake City.

Vegas thinks that the A's coming to LV is going to be a money maker for the city. They don't give a rat's ass about whether or not there will be a fan base for the team as long as visiting fans come in and spend money. Doubt that is going to happen but that is the thought process.

Raj Mathai's "interview" with John Fisher was a total joke. Raj has no shame as a journalist. He should have quit his job at KNTV and go work as Fisher's PR man.

Another great video. Thanks for all you are doing in shining the light on John The Con!

VIVA Las Vegas Baby,,,,,,

Im so glad to see people are finally seeing fisher for what he is and actually doing their homework on him and his history instead of taking him and his lies at face value. Nothin in his history should indicate even a little bit that he has good intentions or keeps his word. He will screw vegas over jus like hes been doing to oakland and As players and staff for years.

They are staying in sacramento. and they can kick rocks over there

And I hate that his dumpster fire franchise is landing in my hometown of Sacramento for three years. Not all of us want them there! Some of us think this team is awful and some of us are Giants fans!

❤ let's go!!!!!!!!!! oakland athletics forever!!!!!

Thanks for speaking and exposing how much of a piece of you know what fisher is. Respect ✊

The A's should buy out tracks of low income homes in Downtown to build their stadium.

Damon I just love how you pound the truth zone again and again. Solid stuff. Respect.

Everyone has to keep in mind, Scott Roeben, AKA Vital Vegas is paid by casinos to promote them on social media. He’s a paid shill for Circa.

They're not staying in Oakland. Please stop giving these fans hope, it's cruel.

Thanks again for all your coverage and your trip to Oakland this year!

There have been some folks suggesting that there is no way Fisher would sell the team, and maybe he wouldn’t willingly. That said, there is precedent to make him sell. Here is a partial list of teams that were sold under pressure from their respective leagues: NHL: Arizona; NBA: LA Clippers, Phoenix Suns; NFL: Carolina Panthers (and it may happen to them again), Washington; MLB Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers. If the league gets tired of this circus, they can decide to force Fisher out, keep the A’s in Northern California, and grant Vegas a team in the next round of expansion.

Appreciate you DA.

Thanks, Damon! I gave this a full watch. Love the cynicism from Scott, much needed cynicism. Was really interesting to learn just how "clueless" Vegas is to pro sports teams, and not necessarily the fault of the Vegas "brokers." Or, how they cannot admit failure.

No secret, A’s have the worst owner, I blame MLB as much or more! Are they going to get stuck and play 5 plus years in a minor league park?! They should be forced to sell, new park in Oakland, and Vegas gets an expansion team.

Thank you again DA for exposing this scam! As a lifelong Oakland A's fan from Oakland this makes me sick to my stomach! F Fisher F Kaval F Manfraud!!

STOP! DA, stop giving me hope that this will fall thru with your faithful coverage!! This interview was awesome! Thank you. SELL THE TEAM.

Vegas is on track and a done deal. The financing is in place and the shovels hit the ground in 2025.

So says the man who said the A's were never leaving Oakland. How did that prediction work out for you?

I genuinely appreciate that you are one of the extremely rare national voices who is reporting on this honestly. This needs to be a much bigger story, right down to the 💩way the A’s notified employees that their employment is over on 10/31. Fisher, Kaval, and MLB should be utterly embarrassed.

The A's are going to Vegas!!! It sucks on ice!!! John Fisher get lost!!!

Excellent job from both sides. I hope Las Vegas and MLB wake up and John The Con Fisher has to SELL!

Scott doesn't know CRAP about sports. He hates all sports. JUST ASK HIM. He said the Golden Knights would fail. Its on his own website from 10 years ago. How did that work out? This guy makes a living getting paid from Casino's. He'd do anything for publicity. The more publicity, the more eyeballs he gets and the more $$$ he makes. If you were honest, you would report this. He's shaking down the A"s for money. If they sent him some cash, the A's would be as well like with him as Video Poker.

Well done.

Let's say that LV falls through, and Fisher has to sell. What I don't get from the idea of staying in Sac is they'd have to start from square one and go through all the progress they've already made in Oakland. The NHL just forced the Coyotes to move because they played 2 seasons in a 5,000 seat college arena with nothing on the horizon. They couldn't do that any longer. Would MLB allow the A's to keep playing at Sutter Health with that shared arrangement and the artificial turf indefinitely while they're trying to figure out the stadium? At least Oakland had all the progress before Fisher backed out and a stadium to use in the meantime that's Major League ready albeit an old one. Would the Seminole money make the whole situation turnkey? I don't know. Bottom line is this whole mess really didn't have to happen. MLB could've forced Fisher's hand to sell by either making him pay for relocation or saying he didn't have a binding enough agreement to meet the Jan 2024 deadline for revenue sharing. One would think either of these things is a reasonable requirement. Instead, they just kept lowering the bar for him, and we're stuck with this mess, while the people who suffer the consequences are the fans, players, and the team and stadium employees.

This is a perpetual tragicomedy of two failing, scamming entities trying to scam each other - Ballys and the A's...Scott is correct. Ballys will be laid to rest in Chicago, where they screwed up a pretty huge casino project at the 78...I think the "these aren't serious people" comment - if I remember correctly - came from Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman herself. The City wants nothing to do with the A's. The people getting hoodwinked are the Clark County Board of Commissioners and Nevada Legislature. The city could have given Cashman Field to the A's. It was already earmarked for improvements and had renewal grants lined up. Downtown. Easier traffic setup. And I highly suspect overtures were made at some point, but apparently that wasn't glitzy enough or close enough to dark elements of The Strip for Fisher + Kaval...Howard Stutz and the staff at the Nevada Independent have been all over this, but you can't follow this story by making phone calls. This needs forensic accountants to ply through the 10k's of Fisher and Ballys, through the legislative documents to cite "specific language", vet realistic construction figures - in other words, whether or not Ballys will actually be able to fund the infrastructure at the former Trop, and...do a realistic valuation of Gap stock (GPS), which has porpoised between $7.48 a share and $29 since May 2023. Is it a dead cat bounce? Is it a "recovery"? Is it a Wall Street Bets play? What we do know is that the price of a thing rarely correlates to its actual value in today's marketplace...Scott is also correct in that for MGM, for who there is an 80% probability that they will end up with the Trop property after a prolonged bankruptcy, land use of that property is a nonstarter as a baseball stadium. The AVERAGE revenue per square foot for a Strip casino is over $2,000/sq. ft - per day! (Review-Journal, Feb. 2024) Ain't no damn way a baseball stadium - without betting terminals at the seats, which is what I think Fisher (and by extension, Manfred and MLB) are aiming for, will make anywhere close to that kind of money...

Hey John Fisher are you listening? Vegas considers you the laughing stock! You're leaving a die hard loyal fan base for this?? MLB wake up!!

Over 100 degrees in sac when the A’s were playing in Oakland. Nobody is gonna sit in that heat to watch the A’s.