Oakland A's headed to Las Vegas

Exactly. With the Raiders gone, a retrofitted Coliseum was always the best choice, cost- and convenience-wise. They could have played elsewhere for a year while the project was being completed. But ownership is greedy and wants ancillary income and even more profits, and MLB is too spineless to make him sell, even though it would be in the best interests of baseball and certainly the best interest of Oakland's fans.

 

But get off the field.

 

Why is it the shittiest relative that always wants to speak at the funeral?

 

Dear John,

Fuck you.

Signed, every A's fan in America.

 

Larry Biel of KGO-TV (and a WWL survivor) ain't messing around. Or as the late Bill King would say, Holy Toledo!

 

This. Yeah, the area on the east side of the BART station is one of the worst neighborhoods in Oakland, which is what everyone seems to concentrate on.

But on the other side of 880, there are now Lexus and Acura dealerships (and the Oakland City corporation yard that I used to guard!). It's an area of town that's heavily industrial ... but given the amount of property upon which the stadium, arena and parking lots sit, there's no reason why the Coliseum site couldn't be made into a restaurant/micro brewery/shopping mall/hotel complex similiar to Atlanta's Truist Park that just happens to contain an intimate 30,000-seat baseball stadium with seats closer to the field than the freeway.

California had this obsession with putting stadiums in the middle of huge parking lots in the 1960s -- Dodger, Angel, Candlestick, Jack Murphy and the Mausoleum -- but that's a complete waste of valuable land. The Coliseum site is going to make more tax money for the city-county after they tear everything down than what the A's, Raiders and Warriors ever contributed. If I was the mayor, I'd have wrecking balls and dump trucks lined up next Monday to start demolition, just to make certain Fisher's stench is completely and permanently removed.

It's obvious the ownership of the A's had no interest in remaining in Oakland if they couldn't get a sweetheart deal. And with the Giants building such a marvelous park ON THEIR OWN DIME, Fisher had one foot already out the door. And with a willing patsy in Manfred, he decided to FAFO. They may eventually wind up in Las Vegas but I'd bet money that never happens.

I hope he chokes on that silver spoon of his.

 

I almost think Billy Beane seemed to give the ownership cover. It wasn't a big leap from finding value in affordable players, to just dismissing the "value" part of it and just going cheap. The A's have developed plenty of strong MLB players and let them go elsewhere, but opposing teams know that they won't demand their best prospects in return. You would think with the number of prospects they've received in trades, more than a few of them would have blossomed. But the last 10 years have been pretty bad.

 

Just tuned in the funeral. All three decks full, but Mt. Davis tapped, of course. Feels surreal.

 

One-half inning left, if the A's can keep the Rangers off the board. Do the fans emulate the 1969 Mets fans, storm the field and tear it to smithereens?

 

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