Sacramento is the front runner to host the A's from 2025-27

[MMC]

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[KevFu]

Interesting. Does that mean the River Cats and A's share a stadium, or would the River Cats play in Oakland or what?

 

[GKJ]

Does Sacramento want to be in the expansion game?

 

[PCSPounder]

I had a brief vision about a modular stadium put up next to the old Arco/Sleep Train Arena site where a stadium base was built more than 30 years ago. Mind you, visible even with Google Earth, it looks more like a resort lining a pond with the kind of overgrowth that makes for a good “abandoned lakeside resort 30 years on from the zombie apocalypse” set. That might take too much time to clean up.

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

Does Sacramento want to be in the expansion game?

Sacramento is in my very-long-term 48 team MLB alignment. This is because I want MLB to eventually have a team in every city that was part of the heyday of the Pacific Coast League - including a new team in Oakland plus one in Portland.

 

[GKJ]

Sacramento is in my very-long-term 48 team MLB alignment. This is because I want MLB to eventually have a team in every city that was part of the heyday of the Pacific Coast League - including a new team in Oakland plus one in Portland.

If my city is hosting a team with no intention of remaining in the market, I’d want to be considered in the process.

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

Likewise I want MLB to expand to Buffalo in the future, as they are the last city from the proposed Continental League of the 20th century still without an MLB team.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Seems akin to the Houston Oilers playing in Memphis for a year before moving to Nashville permanently, only to backfire tremendously. They want a team, they don't want to be a placeholder for another city's team.

 

[HisIceness]

Sacramento is in my very-long-term 48 team MLB alignment. This is because I want MLB to eventually have a team in every city that was part of the heyday of the Pacific Coast League - including a new team in Oakland plus one in Portland.

48 teams? Good lord man there's not that much talent to go around.

 

[HisIceness]

I had a brief vision about a modular stadium put up next to the old Arco/Sleep Train Arena site where a stadium base was built more than 30 years ago. Mind you, visible even with Google Earth, it looks more like a resort lining a pond with the kind of overgrowth that makes for a good “abandoned lakeside resort 30 years on from the zombie apocalypse” set. That might take too much time to clean up.

It was supposed to be NFL friendly too. Sacramento tried to court Al Davis in 1990 or so but it didn't gain traction. From what I remember reading, the project had no more money after the As/Raiders thing failed.

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

48 teams? Good lord man there's not that much talent to go around.

Not currently but there will be in 2089

 

[KevFu]

I mentioned it in the other A's thread.

Expansion to Sacramento becomes a viable option AFTER the A's have left Oakland for another state. The Sacramento A's are "too close for a honeymoon, too far from home." It's just trading the accessibility of a split SF/OAK fan base in the East Bay for one 80 miles North. You'll lose more fans than you gain.

But if the A's leave, and THEN Sacramento is like "hey, what about us! We'll build a stadium" then a 2.6 million market that the Giants can't fight, where a newly rebranded team via expansion, which redraws the TV map COULD win the fandom of the whole market going forward.

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

San Diego has co-existed with 2 LA teams since 1969 so I think Sacramento can co-exist with 2 Bay Area teams.

 

[LadyStanley]

https://www.si.com/mlb/athletics/news/as-claim-sacramento-is-frontrunner-for-temporary-home

SI story

 

[KevFu]

San Diego has co-existed with 2 LA teams since 1969 so I think Sacramento can co-exist with 2 Bay Area teams.

Yeah, but SD got in before cable TV. Fans in SD didn't have a visual connection to the LA teams -- which BTW, were 11 and 9 years old when the Padres joined MLB.

Whereas, Sacramento has had the Giants and A's on their TVs for 40 years.