Oakland Athletics relocation to Las Vegas thread: Move to Vegas approved by MLB owners - Will play in Sacramento for 3-4 years

[Voight]

I moved to the Bay Area in '77 and I became an A's fan right away. Once we got to be 15 and 16, my friends and I would drive from Walnut Creek to the Coliseum BART station, park in the parking lot for free and walk across the bridge with $10 in our pockets for a bleacher seat/nachos/large coke.

We'd get there early for batting practice, Dave Kingman was the great BP hitter ever. I can still hear the sound his bat made in an empty stadium. We'd always sit in LF and then in the 80's and the Bash Brothers got there, things got crowded quickly

Goddamn that was great.

Thansk for sharing - I love stories like this.

 

[Voight]

the rams have always been an LA team and should've never left to begin with. they were there 48 years before moving to STL. heck, i've met some old diehard rams fans who considered the move to anaheim in the late 70s as a relocation

what the NFL should've done was award an expansion franchise to STL instead of to jacksonville

& they were basically relocated because Georgia Frontiere wanted a team in her hometown. Thats why I laugh when STL fans complain about the NFL shunning them for LA. Rams shouldnt of been there to begin with.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Thansk for sharing - I love stories like this.

Here's the other bleacher story I have. For some reason, the one player our group of A's fans disliked was Carney Lansford. He was the king hitting singles with 2 out and nobody on base, or it seemed that way to us. Looking back, he did have 2000 hits, but he never ever walked and just was 'that guy' for us.

But he did hit the ball hard, he hit a lot of line drives. One day in batting practice, he pulled one down the third base line foul, and it clocked a dude reading the sport page not paying attention straight in the head on the fly and the sound that made was frightening. Knocked him out cold. He came to after a short time, but that sound stuck with me.

 

[EpochLink]

I moved to the Bay Area in '77 and I became an A's fan right away. Once we got to be 15 and 16, my friends and I would drive from Walnut Creek to the Coliseum BART station, park in the parking lot for free and walk across the bridge with $10 in our pockets for a bleacher seat/nachos/large coke.

We'd get there early for batting practice, Dave Kingman was the great BP hitter ever. I can still hear the sound his bat made in an empty stadium. We'd always sit in LF and then in the 80's and the Bash Brothers got there, things got crowded quickly

Goddamn that was great.

Oakland is an underrated sports city, from 1972 to 1976 they won 5 sports championships ( 3 straight by the A's, 1975 Warriors, 1976 Raiders). The Raiders won in 1980, the A's won in 1989 and the Warriors won 3 NBA Titles out of 4 years in the 2010's.

 

[Terry Yake]

might be more people in the coliseum parking lot for the boycott than inside the stadium tonight

 

[Vamos Rafa]

I absolutely HATE basketball even though I grew up in an area where college basketball is huge.

It’s one thing to not like a sport, but to hate? Like how?

Hoping there’s no racial undertone here.

 

[GKJ]

might be more people in the coliseum parking lot for the boycott than inside the stadium tonight

13,000 announced attendance for the game.

 

[John Price]

 

[TheGreenTBer]

It’s one thing to not like a sport, but to hate? Like how?

I should clarify: I can tolerate NCAA basketball for the most part. It's the NBA that I truly despise.
I hate the constant stoppages of play, I hate the endless points, I hate the overreliance on the 3-point shot, I hate the lack of defense, I hate the way only a very small number of teams ever have the slightest chance in hell of winning anything...it's just not a game for me. I don't enjoy it.

Hoping there’s no racial undertone here.

f*** right off with that bullshit.

I love football and I like baseball and soccer, I must have missed when those sports became sponsored by the goddamn KKK.

 

[EpochLink]

f*** John Fisher, sad state of affairs for the Oakland A’s fans.

 

[Terry Yake]

13,000 announced attendance for the game.

and there were nowhere near 13k people inside the stadium. probably counting all the STH who were in the parking lot or who just didn't show up

 

[Vamos Rafa]

I should clarify: I can tolerate NCAA basketball for the most part. It's the NBA that I truly despise.
I hate the constant stoppages of play, I hate the endless points, I hate the overreliance on the 3-point shot, I hate the lack of defense, I hate the way only a very small number of teams ever have the slightest chance in hell of winning anything...it's just not a game for me. I don't enjoy it.

f*** right off with that bullshit.

I love football and I like baseball and soccer, I must have missed when those sports became sponsored by the goddamn KKK.

Okay cool

 

[LightningStorm]

Doubt Fisher spends that much more on the team in Vegas. He knows he'll make tons of money off of visiting fans who can have fun in Vegas in addition to seeing their team play, so what's the motive for a cheapskate like him to spend the extra money needed to make the team better?

 

[Terry Yake]

Doubt Fisher spends that much more on the team in Vegas. He knows he'll make tons of money off of visiting fans who can have fun in Vegas in addition to seeing their team play, so what's the motive for a cheapskate like him to spend the extra money needed to make the team better?

he'll sell the first chance he gets if/when they move to vegas since it'll up the value of the team. that's the main reason he wants to move in the first place

 

[SoupNazi]

Oakland crafts 5-year lease extension for Athletics

Oakland will present Athletics owners with an offer to extend the team's lease that includes a five-year contract with an opt-out after three, as well as a requirement the A's pay a $97 million "extension fee," ESPN and KGO in San Francisco have learned.

www.espn.com

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

The entire A's organization is absolute joke this point, truly a blackeye for baseball (And LOL at them limiting replies)

 

[PanthersPens62]

The entire A's organization is absolute joke this point, truly a blackeye for baseball (And LOL at them limiting replies)

Don't blame Kotsay for this.....he is just doing what he is told to do by his bosses. The same shit happens with the Marlins, trust me on this.

 

[John Price]

 

[Unholy Diver]

Don't blame Kotsay for this.....he is just doing what he is told to do by his bosses. The same shit happens with the Marlins, trust me on this.

I can't believe he is only 48, I mean I know he is a recent player so that doesn't surprise me, but he looks closer to 68 in that picture, managing the A's must age you like being the POTUS

 

[Terry Yake]

MLB sat back and watched fisher blatantly sabotage the team these last few years in order to justify the move to vegas. just f***ing despicable shit and they never even tried to hide it

 

[BiolaRunner]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Try not to highlight product that focuses on the name Oakland” <br><br>It looks like Fisher can’t wait to get to Vegas (<a href="https://twitter.com/RFWill149?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">@RFWill149</a>)<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MLB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#MLB</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Oakland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#Oakland</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Athletics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#Athletics</a> <a href="https://t.co/j2G8QgZsIu">pic.twitter.com/j2G8QgZsIu</a></p>&mdash; Rampant (@RampantSport) <a href="">April 3, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Terry Yake]

 

[John Price]

Athletics appear close to Sacramento stopover

The A's appear close to severing ties with Oakland and making a minor league ballpark their interim home before the expected move to Las Vegas.

www.espn.com

 

[TheGreenTBer]

f***ing scumbags.

f***ing. scumbags.

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]