ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Brewing Uncertainty Over A’s Move to Las Vegas | The Rich Eisen Show 

Utah is looking for an MLB team too now that they have their NHL team. That could be next if Vegas falls thru and Sacramento doesn’t really work long-term.

He's an heiress, inherited his money from his family who owned GAP.

You've already given handouts to the Knights and Raiders, why stop now?

Agree with everything but the A’s are a storied team, not garbage.

@@MaxM26 oh no no no no we're not talking about historically. We're just talking about right now. Treating their fans like crap the garbage right now

Well you don't need t worry because no tax money is going to the stadium of the A's. its a bond, and its paid back with interest. There is no free lunch. Mr. Fisher has to spend his $1.1B first before any money from the State is given to the project. Mr. Fisher does not OWN the stadium. In fact after 30 years he can purchase it. And he will never own the land underneath it.

Oh please, the residents of Vegas had no problems doing it for the Raiders or Golden Knights.

How? When have the Rockies ever threatened to move because they need a new stadium?

@@stevencramsie9172 a poorly run franchise where the Monfort’s know they will make money no matter how uncompetitive the product is. It’s like going to see a movie you know is bad. 4-16.

Since 2012 the A’s have made the playoffs 6 times and won their division 3 times. Having made the playoffs more than any other AL team in that time frame besides the Yankees and Astros. Sounds like a shitty fanbase

@@tylerbennett5282Not a shitty fanbase. We just get tired of losing our best players every year. It’s deliberate trying to make the fans check out.

It's an utterly ridiculous location for baseball.

AND this is another reason for the project. Because traffic management will be addressed in the area, including repurposing Reno Ave for better traffic flow at that intersection. So, rejoice.

@user-pw3ji3rn3s that intersection is bad. Now add 30,000 or for them 3,000 folks lol. I do hope they do well. I just think vegas deserves there own team not a team with a bad owner.

@@Afrocentricpoet Do you understand the meaning of "traffic engineering"?

@user-pw3ji3rn3s I understand that the team has a bad owner an yes I understand about traffic but do you really think a stadium at that intersection is a good idea. Especially a team with a owner thar doesn't care about the loyal fans in Oakland

Every other sports commissioner has done this. David Stern with the Seattle Sonics. Goodell and how he let THREE NFL clubs screw over St Louis, San Diego and Oakland within a year's time. Bettman's actually found a way to make the reverse look terrible, having to be dragged kicking and screaming into letting the Coyotes leave Arizona and STILL wants to put another team there along with Atlanta while leaving Quebec City high and dry.

Not Portland

I’ve seen a few sources allege Fisher is attempting to craft a bidding war between Vegas, Sac, SLC, and the Bay Area.

Quebec City. 🥐

@@PapaT79 Joe Lacob is waiting patiently for Fisher to lose his grip on the team. Oakland has a site ready to go with billions of private equity dollars to build a beautiful bay side stadium.

Salt Lake City

He's the worst, and the league should have forced him out by now. Sell the team, keep them in Oakland.

To make your point about John Fisher & his inability to market the Earthquakes even more valid, Bay FC (the Bay Area's women's soccer team who are in their first season in the NWSL who also share the same stadium as the Earthquakes) have outdrawn them in terms of attendance at every home match so far this season. This is because unlike John Fisher, the owners of Bay FC made a strong effort to market the team from the moment they were announced as a franchise. Then on top of this, Bay FC also collects 100% of the revenue that is generated from home games even though they play in a John Fisher built stadium. John Fisher does not get any of those profits. In addition to Bay FC, more soccer fans in the Bay Area are also supporting the Oakland Roots of USL which are a fan owned club. Until John Fisher sells the Earthquakes, they will continue to be a distant third in popularity in the eyes of Bay Area soccer fans behind Bay FC & the Oakland Roots & be the worst run team in MLS.

Good thing the other owners ... ... unanimously approved the move to Vegas, without uttering a single word of dissent or concern. 🙄

and sell the team to whom? What new owner doesn't move the team from Oakland?

@@kevintheomanharris Joe Lacob has expressed interest - said that Fisher told him that the team's not for sale. Lacob keeps them in the Bay. Vivek Ranadive keeps them in Northern CA, and possibly Oakland if Sacramento doesn't get a stadium. There may be more. The Bay Area is not short on billionaires. We don't know who might be interested because Fisher has given no indication that he's selling.

You’ve got that right nerd!

Sacramento doesn’t have the money and the public won’t support a bond for another sports venue.

@@Rez-tq6dw Don't be so sure. It's one of the smaller cities that would like another major sports team to go with the Kings. If not they'll probably move to Salt Lake City

Vivek is not as savvy as he thinks he is. Joe Lacob has been waiting for many years with more private equity dollars to build a bay side stadium.

@@djbttncrt Lacob has publicly said that he would buy the A's and keep them in Oakland, but Fisher doesn't want to sell, and I doubt Manfred wants a team in Oakland due to all the bad blood between him & Oak.

Seems like everyone hates Oakland give that the other two major sports teams left.

@@johnhenryNC The main problem in all of baseball starts and ends with Manfred. From the A's debacle to the uniforms... Manfred need to go.

@@rowdycmoore I feel sorry for Oakland. Pretty much their whole identity was wrapped up with the Raiders & the A's. Now, the Raiders are forever gone and soon will be the A's. It's funny in that even though the Warriors played in Oakland, I've never really associated them with Oakland. When I think of Oakland, I think of the Raiders & A's.

He doesn’t want to sell. There are rich folks lined up ready to buy including the warriors Lacob but unless other owners force him out it’s not going to happen.

Isn’t Phoenix, Houston and Dallas?

@@stevencramsie9172 yeah. Kinda stupid. I guess the players just stand around waiting for something to happen. It's not like its soccer

@@nochepatadayou mean in that Americans actually want to watch it? Soccer is so bottom tier here LOL

@@ChocolateMilk1978 I never suggested that. Are you dealing with some issues?

This is literally the real life reboot of "Major League" except 'Wild Thing' Vaughn isn't coming out of the bullpen to close...

Giants blocked anything outside of Oakland which they have the rights. They are the bigger team with the bigger fan base. Oakland has something with the site next to Jack London Square that is viable WITH the right ownership group.

Please. Vacaville or solano county have the money? Def not.

@@Rez-tq6dw the ownership group does.

Judge Landis would be appalled that black people get to play in MLB.

@@rowdycmoore i was gonna post the same thing!

And be perennial bottom feeders like the kings , no thank you!

The A's have not been perennial bottom feeders. Hard to believe it right now, and with Fisher in charge, but they have been a successful franchise.

Sacramento doesn’t want them. Wants its own team. Keep that Fisher junk in Oakland.

Only because Alex Meruelo was forced to sell the NHL's Coyotes, but Bettman wants to give him another team in Arizona, so get ready to hold that beer.

Nashville is on the top of the list for expansion. If it happens, it'll be the Nashville Sounds. Naming rights will be negotiated.

Yeah because the Titans and Preds have such an amazing history of winning LOL

Ask Andrew Tate! Wake up brokies

Kaval is a liar!!!!!!!

👍👍👍 but not Vivek

They’re one team. The Giants are doing just fine in San Francisco

@@stevencramsie9172 haha nice try, did y'all pitch that one to Judge too?

@@Nic-kh9krwho says “y’all”? I mean really LOL nice one

@@ChocolateMilk1978 people who understand the English language use it 98.7% of the 365 days of each year.

@@ChocolateMilk1978 you know.. because why make a different word for it? Lol

Agree. Was expecting so much more from a Eisen/ Passan interview.

Just bummed because one of the most informed voices in baseball also thinks this is a joke?

@@cg5968 No. I'm bummed that people are dumb enough to believe this stuff.

I don't think the insult is to Sactown fans... it's to baseball who allowed an MLB team to move into a minor league park for an owner who can't name a player on his team for fans to get excited about.

Nobody cares about Sacramento except people in Sacramento. It’s a lower level city. Strictly 2nd tier status to LA, San Diego and San Fran. Sacratomato is the home of that Kings squad that could never get past the Lakers LOL

I mean the Raiders and Golden Knights do just fine. You just need to have a well run organization and fans will be there.

​@@KevinQ25 Having "a well run organization" is going to be a problem, because the organization is going to be run by the same cheap, cowardly, and disgraceful POS who is running them now. I'm also not sure that the success of the Golden Knights and Raiders says anything about the potential success of the A's. First, the Golden Knights play 1/2 the number of games and their arena is less than 2/3 the size of the proposed baseball stadium - which will be the smallest in baseball. (I think Tampa's capacity is technically smaller, but that's because of tarps they put on most of the time. They could take those tarps off and have a capacity over 42,000.) The Golden Knights were also the first pro sports team in town, so they caught fans that way. They originated in Vegas - a source of local pride. And then they went to the Stanley Cup Finals in their first season. That's a lot of momentum. The Raiders play the country's most popular sport (by far) and they only have 8 or 9 home games. Almost all of those are on Sundays. Real easy for a lot of the country to make a weekend out of their team's visit to Vegas. And while the Raiders also came from Oakland, and also haven't been good for a long time, they do have a national following. The Raiders are iconic in a way the A's just aren't. So the A's will be the third team in (making Vegas the smallest market in the country with three teams), their arrival will be shrouded in controversy, and their current "brand" is total incompetence. The A's may well succeed down there. But there are reasons to expect it's going to be rougher for them than it was for the hockey or football teams.

@@camicawber Exactly, but the OP said that Vegas isn’t a stable fan base. They could be if the A’s get new ownership, if not, their not gonna have a fan base anywhere

​@@KevinQ25 Well, at some point there is a limit to how many teams a city can support, and Vegas would be the smallest media market to try and hold three. Not saying it can't happen - just that they'd be the smallest media market to try. Anyway, the A's do have a fan base. In the East Bay. In Northern California. They've been driven away by shameful ownership, but the fans do exist.

He's winning defamation lawsuits?

Not if it’s true.

I love how you tell Passan, "you lost serious credibility with me" in your other comment, then come up with his (ahem) gem of a comment. Oh the irony lol.

I don't think he ever suggested that either would really happen. The reference to that minor league team he covered and to the A's staying in a AAA stadium were comments on the how poorly the A's have been run. Didn't seem to be any kind of actual prediction or even a suggestion of what might happen to the team going forward.

​@@camicawber OP just heard what he wanted to hear. Your comment summarizes exactly what Passan said. Smdh at people these days

He didn’t say he would consider it at all. Listen instead of just hearing.