Revealing Tweets from Nevada Assembly Speaker (A's, Las Vegas Ballpark) 

It will pass in the assembly Monday. I am a sad older person who has followed the team since 1968 and was hoping to have a retirement gig at Howard Terminal. Ballpark. I have 10 passes to use at the Tree House to drown my sorrows.

They are trying to back door this bs deal fast on a fast one Don’t do it Lv Nv Will not go well Wait it out for your own special team You deserve that

The A's ballpark should be paid for in the same way that Allegiant Stadium and the West Hall of the Convention Center were, with a small increase in the tax on hotel rooms. This way tourists will be paying for the stadium, not the average resident of Southern Nevada. Also, tax dollars created by the stadium and the A's will go to Clark County rather than going to the debt payments on the stadium bonds.

I make it through to the end of most of these videos. This is way more interesting than how my Cubs are playing right now.

Nevada legislature is very different than California. I commend the legislators in NV for their dedication to what they do regardless of what political affiliation they have. The special session had a lot of special interest, unions pushing for the jobs aspect. Here is the thing,. The owner met with Lombardo based on reports but could not be bothered with getting grilled by the legislators to ANSWER very legitimate question about this deal. The ARROGANCE that he can't be bother to humble himself while asking for this very huge handout at the expense of funding for other much needed programs. MLB wants to give VEGAS a team for expansion. This is NOT the right team under this ownership. They will be much better off with an Expansion team and follow the model of the Knights. The jobs WILL come and not at the expense of tax payers. As a union member myself, you should fight for jobs BUT NOT at the expense of those workers hard earned tax dollars. Their lives will be impacted daily in SO MANY ways from Traffic congestion and ability to get to work, school etc. The A's current ownership DOES NOT get the struggles of everyday tax payers and people living paycheck to paycheck. VEGAS deserves BETTER. As an Oakland lifelong fan, I would not wish this ownership team and the games they play with on fans, the city, their employees or anyone. VEGAS can get a clean fresh NO TAX EXPENSE team under Expansion. Manfred WANTS this market.

I think protesting in every stadium will help too! That way fans can pressure their teams owner to block the move or make Fisher sell the A’s

Excellent job. I've been working behind the scenes and would love to converse with you.

I absolutely understand why he would be frustrated from out of state comment, and yes Californians should respect that boundary. At the same time this issue does not only effect Nevada, it also effects Oakland greatly. It will impact our economy too if he chooses to support Fisher’s A’s relocation bid. And maybe he should reach out to his constituents if so few have made their voices heard. A lot of people do not follow politics, even local stuff, unless it’s something big like a presidential election. Too often politicians only listen to those with deep pockets (who also don’t happen to be constituents).

It is too bad Oakland officials didn't feel enough pressure over the twenty years of the A's requesting a new ballpark to make it happen.

Thank you for all the 411 Brodie! You're awesome!

We don't want THEM OR WHERE They Want Their Stadium

The Nevada Legislature should relocate itself to Las Vegas and leave the A's where they're at. P.S. - I'm old enough to remember when Steve Yeager's other job was catching for the Dodgers. #7

Having only 12 constituents contacting the senator isn’t surprising. Most people don’t know what’s being passed , don’t care or if they do know it won’t matter. Famously, a study on public opinion influencing policy showed that public support is nearly meaningless in determining whether legislation is passed.

If you can make it on June 13th, to the old lady’s house, Please Do. Show the ❤ !!! “We are Oakland”

Anyone could’ve participated in the “poll” (including out of state disgruntled Oakland fans.) Yeager is smart to block out the noise. My guess is SB 1 passes.

This going to end badly for the A’s I think one of two things is going to happen, they will move to Albuquerque or Fisher will sell the team. They A’s are totally screwed

I live in Vegas . This stadium will not be built for locals . I’m not spending 50 bucks to park . If the team really wanted locals on board , Howard Hughes would have given them land in summerlin by the other ballpark . Golden Knights and Raiders are outta my price range so I don’t support them .

Thank you Brodie...you are a gifted communicator

I'm an East Bay resident working in Las Vegas for the summer. I've been talking to lot of sports fans who live here, and it's just about a 50/50 split on whether locals want the A's. Many of the cons don't like the Tropicana site, as they avoid the Strip as much as possible. But there doesn't seem to be a consensus either way.

Keep Oakland a baseball only town!

This is getting real interesting. Good work.

Lombardo is actually extorting the legislators. He won’t pass the budget without taking the A’s. Something really wrong here.

Sounds like it would save about $200k a day per special session to move the capital to Vegas.

If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen. No sympathy for politicians.

MLB may be reluctant to move on this if it means losing its antitrust exemption. There is now animosity toward MLB from both parties (See: MLB pulls All Star Game from Georgia). Could be bipartisan support to dump MLB's idiotic exemption.

It doesn’t seem like it was that long ago that there was consensus that Vegas would never get a pro sports team because of concerns about gambling. Now they could have 3 teams. Was there something specific that happened that kind of flipped the narrative on this?

My question is have any of the Las Vegas millionaires or billionaires expressed interest in owning an MLB baseball franchise in Las Vegas? It seems to me if there is a local Vegas group who is interested in ownership of a baseball team, that the Nevada legislature would want to be loyal to them over an owner like Fisher who is coming with a horrendous reputation as a team owner.

He’s already playing defense for going up on the bill. This thing is PASSING, y’all.

Steve Yeager, the 70’s Dodger’s catcher. He was famous for having a cracked bat that injured his neck. He developed the hanging appendage that catchers used to wear to protect their neck area.

There is alot of chances the A’s will be SOLD! Keep faith my fellow baseball fans In Oakland! Cheers from NY

The Culinary Union backs the stadium. Enough said. 😑

Its clear that the governor wants to get this done, everyone knows the casinos runs Vegas, MGM is fully onboard as well as various unions and the chance to get another pro team is to hard not to pass through,I guess we will wait and see

Juiced in is typical Vegas term from the mob days , As for less than a dozen that typical us we will get excited when it gets passed , built and they actually have the first pitch Till then Go Knights , and go Rebels thats us . All the noise is everyone from the BayArea crying about losing a team that they never cared about when they were a winning organization Again you had since 1996 to rebuilt that sports complex but nothing got done , so this is on the Bayarea not us

MLB has a big, big problem in the A’s. They have burned bridges in two markets, their current one and the one they are asking to move to in another. Las Vegas is losing interest in the A’s. Oakland is hurt, and MLB cannot grow the leagues unless this is settled.

I think Governor Joe Lombardo is on the take.

To think about that last tweet from Steve Yeager I got to say that he may be getting a lot of noise from this and that's understandable he does have to answer to the people in his district I really don't think he is speaking for every member of the legislative body because they're going to have their own opinions about this bill and as far as people threatening to basically unseed him and all that if this bill passes and all that I have to say that those are just empty threats coming from people who are probably not living in Carson City which rightfully sold That's what they're probably coming from but at the same time Steve Yeager doesn't speak for everybody in the legislative body but he does have to answer to his core constituents in his district

Brodie Brazil might be the worst smart person at trying to play “objectively dumb” that I’ve ever heard or seen in my life.

My opinion on what Yeager said is that he should’ve just been honest and said publicly “we’re passing it regardless of what you think” People already want him and other Vegas lawmakers voted out so why not do what’s in your best interests?

I would like to know why Governor Lombardo is so adamant about having this decided so quickly. Like Steve Yeager said, why not give it more time for refinement. I'm compelled to think the Governor has some personal financial interest in this, and that makes me very uncomfortable.

I have the feeling that the Governor of Nevada is gonna keep calling special sessions UNTIL the state legislature caves.

Brodie, is this Steve Yeager the former LA Dodger?

BigWigs to Nevada legislature: PASS SB509 AND SB1 OR ELSE!!!

Barbara Lee

Does he acknowledge that still majority of people in Nevada say NO?

Where is Yeager's district? 75,000 constituents doesn't sound like the Vegas part of Clark County, more like Mesquite or Winnemucca.🤣

Public schmublic. It’ll pass just like Cop City in the ATL

if you're not talking about Corporate Feudalism, you're not talking about America in 2023

Intriguing. So different from California.

For the record “Brodie Brazil” Couldn’t resist. Great reporting Brodie!!!

fisher 😡 kaval 🤬

So basically the Las Vegas A's would become MLB's version of the Los Angeles Chargers, with an alienated old fan base and an indifferent-at-best new fanbase, but the owner decides he doesn't care.

Glad somebody tried to stop this. It sounds like the new governor is thirsty for this to be approved. If history repeats itself it will be approved which is sad. Clark county won’t support the A’s at this point, it makes no sense to approve this. Hopefully Oakland is still an option and Vegas gets an expansion.

Don’t you work for the A’s

If they don’t like being legislators, don’t apply for the job… Oh they have to vote to enhance laws for their private practice…

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I think the noise he's hearing from is Oakland, and less than a dozen from his area mean's he's not to concerned by the negative comments because there from Oakland and not from Nevada.

Oh, whoop dee do.. Give Brodie Brazil a medal. Smh. Las Vegas A's in 2025.

I think this means that most legislators are not getting direct feedback from constituents either way on the issue. In that case, the fact that both labor (outside of one teachers union, which does not represent Clark County) and the gaming and resort industry are behind it, mean it should pass on Monday. Those are the two largest contributors to legislative campaigns in the state.

There are many people in this world who work incredibly long and hard hours and who do incredibly difficult or dangerous jobs. We have military members who are apart from their families for close to a year at a time. These people CHOSE to run for office in the Nevada Legislature. There are literally thousands of other people who would like to get their foot on the political rung of the Nevada Legislature who would be more than happy to fulfill their duties under the Nevada Constitution, even if it meant being away from their families for a few extra days. That is how politics works at every level above city councils or school boards. Shuffling papers around, grandstanding with pointed questions in public hearings, and taking votes is not something that I would consider to be too draining. And for the record, my vacation house in Las Vegas is not in Assembly District 9, so I am not one of Steve Yeager's constituents. Hell, because my main residence is in the Bay Area, I can't even vote in Nevada.

You dived into Twitter so I don't have to. I am very grateful, Brodie! "air service ... has been atrocious this session, with constant delays / cancellations" It's called A CLIMATE CRISIS for a reason, dude. Don't try to blame record amounts of rain and snow in the West on flight attendants and service employees 😡

And he’s liberal. And yes Mr. Yeager contrary to your disingenuous statements to the press, approve this over the wishes of the majority or the public wishes and I would vote against you, but then again I would vote against you anyway because you’re a liberal.

I wish you would quit rambling and just get to the point. It was painful sitting through all that until we finally got to the point of what he was trying to say.

Dude, that guy sounds mad at this process being foisted on them at the 11th hour. Maybe the A's should look for a larger city. Austin is rich. San Antonio is big. Personally I think it would be cool to have the A's geographically between the Rangers and the Astros, those teams have a long rivalry with the A's as it stands. Wouldn't be surprised if the vote is 'no' for Vegas.

Nevada should go to 90 day session(odd year) and 60 day(even year). The odd year they do the 2 year budget. It is the 21st century, Also this should cut down on special sessions. BTW If the budget bills are done first then calling a special session would be less likely.