STATE OF OAKLAND SPORTS with Mayor Sheng Thao 

Great work as always Casey! I'm so glad you have the mayor's attention.

I really do not like Sheng Thao (she was my former city councilwoman) but I have to give credit where it's due. She is doing a really great job with trying to keep the A's here in Oakland. I love that she is playing hardball but she is also keeping it real about this circus that John Fisher is having. Thank you Casey for this interview

Never underestimate a mayor with a hand truck full of documents!!! Go Sheng!!! GO!!! LET'S GO OAKLAND!!!!

thanks for keeping us updated

Go Sheng! Go A’s! Let’s Gooooo Oakland!👊🏼🤘🏼❤️

Thank you for this

This push by the City of Oakland sounds much like their last ditch effort to show that they did everything to keep our A's .

Let’s go!!!

For baseball to stay vibrant into the future, the MLB needs to bring it back to the grassroots. They need to honor their regional followings, especially fans that have become multigenerational. Its a damn shame that these franchises are playing hardball with American municipalities when it should be concerned about developing expansions in parts of the world that want to be "Major League", like the DR, or Puerto Rico or Mexico City or Japan. Except, now their focused on building more expensive options for fans during a time when viewership is at a decline and Soccer is becoming more of an attainable sport for the next generation..

Mayor Thao took over a mess left by prior mayors. A new stadium should’ve been built in 2002 at downtown Oakland Uptown site but former A’s owner Steve Schott showed no interest in it so he was no help along with former Mayor Jerry Brown. That would’ve saved the Raiders and maybe Warriors

I heard Andy Dolich wrote a letter to all baseball owners?

Playing politics right to the end. The real question.. Will Oakland build a stadium after the A's relocate.

Mayor actually thinks MLB will call her lol.

Relocate the Team Management to Vegas but keep the Name & Colors in Oakland

Yeah we can all clearly see that that fat raise you demand it is really making a difference there in Oakland gag me

Here's the rub, John Fisher's lawyers have told him that his team worth will gain why more in Las Vegas than in Oakland. This is why the A's and John Fisher picked Las Vegas over Oakland. It doesn't matter that the city of Oakland propbably had a better Stadium deal set to go over Las Vegas. Net worth. Valuation. This deal is all about total valuation. Plus the fans of the Oakland A's don't want John Fisher back. A's fan will not take John Fisher back!

you should build it then get an expansion team , show mlb that you have a brand new stadium.

Why did NFL, NBA leave Oakland after a decade of trying to get a deal done and now MLB is on their way out? Mayor Thao wants everyone to believe it's the A's fault for leaving. If MLB thought Oakland was giving the A's a competitive deal then they wouldn't be waiving relocation fees and the other owners wouldn't support the move. The path of least resistance is for the A's to stay and an expansion team to go to Las Vegas but Oakland hasn't shown an effort until Las Vegas approved a deal. A's are spending a fortune making Las Vegas possible and now Oakland is taking the move seriously. Too little too late.

Said good bye to Oakland athletics they moving to Vegas for good 😅

I wish she was the mayor when the Raiders were here. Maybe the outcome would’ve been different

Re-Brand the Team

She says a lot but look at her actions. She's failing the people of Oakland with her politics.

By the way, why does Bobby Fisher and the A's own half of the Coliseum if they're moving to Vegas??????????

I wonder what that "Ace up the sleeve" is?

My question still remains the same, Fisher comes back to the table and Howard Terminal is built, are the fans showing up or not? I think Fisher isn't selling, but right now I can't see relocation happening without a solid plan, and A's have absolutely nothing but theoretical renderings and not even a solid plot of land. I would love Fisher to do the right thing and keep the team in Oakland, but if he does, are the fans coming out?

Some of these comments are so unnecessary and clearly they have no idea how these relocations work and all the politics, twists, and turns and how the owner vote doesn’t solidify anything. It’s like if you want to be a debbie downer, just keep it to yourself. The rest of us will fight until the very end…many times, it turns out that the team stays

It over ok the owners are going to apron the relocation Oakland athletics to Vegas for good!

Unfortunately the A’s will play the last MLB home game in Oakland…. I don’t see an expansion team being awarded to Oakland in the foreseeable future.

Meanwhile Casey's car is being broken into this very moment

20 years of failure now wrapped up into one pathetic cover your backside city resolution.

Yap, one last whorah for 2024

The A’s are gone! Time to live with it.

The mayor is overseeing a rat infested dump of a city. Restaurants and businesses are leaving in droves. Soon the A’dwill be saying sayanora as .well.

The state of Oakland sports. LOL.

This should have been done back in May, in the middle of the season before things escalated in LV. This seams like a CYA for the city when the team ultimately leaves “oh look we did everything we could to keep the team” Why didn’t they have this stadium proposal ready to present months ago? I’m still holding out hope…but this just seams like too little, too late. I hope I’m wrong.

Seems like the A's are dead set on building themselves a coffin at the Tropicana Hotel, and MLB is totally onboard with it. Not that Fisher is some kind of Svengali - hell the man hardly has a personality at all. It just seems to be some kind of weird, paraphysical call to some sort of lemming activity on Baseball's part. You'd think they'd have much bigger issues to deal with (like TV ratings for the most recent World Series bordering on irrelevance) than to waste time picking on Oakland fans. Yes. Mayor Thao and the Council are right to package this up with a resolution, put it in a box, put a bow on it, and send it to MLB. Problem is, Baseball has crossed the Rubicon on this travesty, and they know it. Manfred has blown all of his credibility on this, and his ego won't let him back out. Fisher is wistfully dreaming of hotdogs at Candlestick Park, while Kaval is standing in front of a mirror somewhere trying to figure out how to close his eyes. And the other owners? Crickets. Where I would have expected a maelstrom of dissent before, especially from the Steinbrenners and Henrys who have been getting fleeced by Fisher over the years, I hear nothing. Oooh, "They're playing their cards close to their chests". Uh, yeah. They're in a quandry and they don't have a clue what to do, so they do nothing. They'll take a vote. They'll sprinkle holy water on Fisher. What Oakland needs to do is to start building a legal tort case, and start planning how to spend the proceeds, and focusing on what to do with these two huge, very urbanized swaths of land at the Coliseum and Howard Terminal. Airport and waterfront! Ferry and mass transit connections! My gosh! Other cities would kill for just one of these opportunities! If the A's don't want to be a part of it, tell 'em don't let the door hit them in the ass...And what about the fans? Well, it's out of our control, isn't it? At least until somebody comes along with a new league with a community-based corporate ownership (think Packers) that will destroy the horseracing model that Baseball has clung to for over a century now. (Even when the ante is way higher than all but a very few (mostly unsavory) individuals can afford.)...Meanwhile, Oakland can go on to pioneer e-sports with holographic gaming facilites and other pasttimes that appeal more to younger generations...So the question is still, what happens to the Oakland fans? Some of us become Giants fans, yeah. But many of us just stop caring. And that, MLB, is the sucking of the water off of the beach ahead of your demise...

Blame this DemocRAT for losing the last team in Oakland.

I’m not a fan of Oakland Politicians but if A’s really wanted to stay it would’ve happened. If Oakland couldn’t get anything done, the Giants territory rights to San Jose should’ve been overturned by the owners. Expos were allowed to move to Washington DC which was Orioles territory. Very hypocritical

Sorry to say Casey, but sheng is all talk talk talk. If they actually passed legislation (having teeth) I may have hope but sadly I’ve moved on from hope. Hope to god I’m wrong though

Political cover.

It's a done deal!!! The A's are going to Vegas!!! It really does suck on ice!!! Bobby Fisher's got rocks in his head big time!!!

democrats

She tried to play hardball with MLB and lost. She is just trying to save face and people are eating it up.