The Best of MLB's WORST - The Oakland Athletics 

It's so tough to swallow this situation. I can remember a full stadium for Raiders games, and the concourse where everybody would be yelling "Raaaaaiders". There was a time the A's games were absolutely packed. You could barely walk down the concourse without having to dodge mobs of fans. This is literally the plot of "Major League" in real life. 😢

I’m A’s fan who saw Mickey Mantle play at the Coliseum as a kid. My parents first date was an A’s game at Shibe in 48. I haven’t been to the Coliseum since 95 cause I’ve lived 3000 miles away. But I’m going back for the homestand the first week of May to say goodbye to the Coliseum the place I grew up in and consider home. Thanks for taking me to one of my favorite places on earth.

Oakland Coliseum is the only MLB stadium I've ever been to where I got yelled at by a staff member for sitting in a significantly worse seat than my ticketed one.

Last summer me and my cousin would just go to random A's games because they were so cheap. All tickets were like $10-$15 and I remember the food costing more than the seats. It was actually nice despite the stadium being deserted. Weirdest experience at a stadium

John Fisher did to the A's what Eddie Lampert did to Sears: Took a valuable and popular brand and drove it into the ground. As a Mariners fan, it's sad to see what happened to the A's. Yes, the M's will pad their record against the A's this year, but it's just sad, man.

I live in East Bay, get to a few A’s games each year. Love the old beater stadium, it’s so bad, it’s actually good. Sad to see the team go, even if they aspire to be awful.

I was in Oakland on work-related visit in August 2022, getting around on the BART. When the train pulled up by the Coliseum, I saw how run down and sad the stadium appeared. I grew up in DC in the 60s/70s, and we had the hapless Washington Senators play at RFK Stadium. This video reminds me of the Senators' final seasons in DC, near-empty stands, closed concessions, and a team that seemed to have no hope.

As someone that lives in SF, I still try to go to Oakland games as much as possible. Always a blast with the fans.

the writing and editing in this video is fantastic. great video

I've seen a few of your videos before this one and really enjoy you're filmmaking style. Also, really great titles and thumbnails! Keep up the good work, Adam.

Excellent video. Loved it man. Greetings from Toronto, Ontario

Awesome video my man. Fellow yanks fan here, would love to see you tour all the stadiums! I’ll miss the Oakland As!

I'm flying down from Canada in September to experience this myself. Thanks for the content!

Great video ! Greetings from Tennessee and a Yankees fan for life. Sad to see the stadium situation in Oakland. Mt. Davis is the worst.

this is a great video. love the trail of wire and overall explore vibe. excited to see more from you

HEY, Wrigley still has the pee trough! lol

It's truly sad what this owner has done to our once great franchise. An absolute joke! Will definitely not support them in any way once they leave. And Manfred should be ashamed of himself for letting this happen.

In the shot of the footbridge at 0:03 if you look all the way to the right and zoom in, you’ll see a blue W and a W on top and C on bottom. That’s my job! Cool to spot in a video

I have to go catch a string of games this year. I’m gonna regret it if I don’t. I grew up going to A’s games couple times a year with my pops. You captured what it’s like to see a game so well. Just took a trip and caught a couple giants games against the padres. Watching this made we wish I’d had gone to Oakland instead. Completely forgot about the troths 🤣 Good video dude.

I’m an A’s fan who lives in Oakland. It’s so crazy because I remember the stadium used to have tons of people who would go on a daily basis. I am really hoping everything falls through for Fisher, and the A’s stay in Oakland. I’ll be going to every single game I can this season. It’s so heartbreaking because MLB Baseball was my first love to the Sports world. There are tons of people here in Oakland and the East Bay who wants to keep going to A’s games but doesn’t want to support this ownership anymore. MLB needs to do the right thing

The John Fisher baseball team

I’m just getting into baseball. Found a love within mlb the show now I know where to watch some nice cheap games! Thanks

great video - need more As game as the season goes on please

Makes complete sense, I always ride the subway to Yankee games and that thought came to mind watching u walk to the A's game

Nice video! Love the editing style

Adam, dude, you should put "Oakland A's" in your title. It's the hottest topic nationally, right now! I will share this on some FB pages, who need to see this. RIP Oakland A's. BTW, as a Sacramento area resident, and A's fan, I am really, really conflicted about them moving here. 🤔

Was fortunate enough to be in the San Fran/Oakland area last April for work and was able to catch an A’s game. While it’s a shame where things are at with the franchise I’m still insanely thankful I was able to see the stadium and take in some of the history from my childhood.

As a royals fan I honestly feel bad for Oakland they played worse than us last season and there leaving Oakland so we’ll see what happens next if it gets better or worse

Expecting to hear Bruce Springsteen sing "Glory Days". I am old enough to remember when the A's were successful. But I also remember the Oakland Raiders.

Growing up in St. Louis, it's weird to see a baseball stadium that empty...

It is crazy that the ushers take their job seriously. Not being acceptable to move closer when the stadium is less than 10% capacity is astonishing. I’ve been asked to sit down with not a single soul behind me. I’m talking 25 rows.

Have to correct one thing, Miami and the white Sox are worse

The fan that found the paper was will macneil. He goes to every home game and is known as right field will. Awesome dude if you wanna know more bout the coli or a's. Youll see em out in right field bleachers section 149

Great video. What’s up with the view count? Anyway, the most expensive part of going to an A’s game seems to be the catalytic converter you’ll have to buy after the game

I was such a huge A's fan as a kid. One of the best days of my childhood was at the Coliseum in the 80s 😢

Wow. This reminds of going to games in the waning years of milwaukee county stadium. Especially in mid- late September when it was often cold, windy and drizzling. Brewers would often be battling for last place and weeknight games were averaging 5-7k attendance. But hey $5 bleachers on thursday and being broke, bored teens, it was still a good time

Great video. Sad to see a historic franchise in such sorry shape. Surprised mlb lets this embarrassment continue.

Man I remember going to A's games on Tuesdays and getting dollar hot dogs and enjoying the vibes this looks like a graveyard lol I live in Vegas now nice to know they are going to be here in a few years!

I've lived in the Bay Area my entire life save for college, been to many an A's game for the good vibes at the worst stadium in sports. The A's deserve better. As another commenter said, we're seeing the movie Major League in real life.

sick a nice concise video. thank you for not making this 37 minutes like most content creators would do

I went and peed in a trough a couple of years ago. It reminded me of the 80s. Also killed some time in a park a 1/4 mile away from the stadium and was told I shouldn't be taking a walk in tnat part of town. Fond memories.

This a genuinely great video

The Coliseum was always too big imo. I went back in the Jose Canseco days and the place was packed. But even then it felt empty for some weird reason. I think it’s just way too expansive.

Extremely underrated 🔥🔥

As a life long East Bay resident it sickens me what happened to my A's. I refuse to be a fan of a Las Vegas team.

The fact that I lived in Oakland all my life, (im 26) born and raised, yet the only time I ever went to an A’s game was a field trip my school took us too in middle school after that, ive never went back, or honestly even hear of them, being from the “ghetto” of Oakland, you honestly never hear the A’s being mentioned or seen anywhere in billboards maybe just graffiti here and there haha

Lifelong As fan and former season ticket holder here - great video - I said my goodbyes to the team and stadium last season - everything that’s happening is so freaking depressing - SUBBED!

damnnn this video is great, super underrated

Great video, but it’s a terrible stadium mixed with a poorly run city.

I feel your pain. I grew up in the Midwest and I’m a huge Cubs fan, but I’ve lived in Central Florida for the last 26 years. So the Trop in St. Pete is my only realistic place to see MLB games. And I suppose it’s better than if I lived in say Montana or the Dakotas, and had no option at all for a pro ballpark. But…it’s pretty bad just the same. Always listed with the Coliseum as the two worst. I get to a few games there a year (to see other teams play, not the Rays) and the place is always pretty empty. Even when the Rays are doing well. Their fans frankly don’t even deserve the team. One game I was at, the Rays were up several runs by the 7th. A few Rays fans were shouting “Hurry up! We want to go home!” Can you imagine that at some other clubs’ parks?? I’d stay at Wrigley all day if I could. Or even my secondary AL teams’ parks. Many of the Trop’s food stands are typically closed up too when I’ve been there, and certain whole sections for food on upper levels look like ghost towns or abandoned malls. The drive getting there is THE biggest pain in the ass too. The ONLY good thing I can say of it, is with the hot, humid, rainy weather in Florida in the summer months, it is nice to have a roof over your head and slightly cooler conditions to sit in. I don’t even know if a new ballpark, like it looks like will happen now, will solve it either, given some of the fans lackluster attitudes about their own team. As a passionate baseball fan, it’s beyond me. Oh, as those troughs go, I can remember when Wrigley had those. 😂 And they were double that size and stainless steel. They looked like feed bins for cattle. Pretty disgusting. But it used to just be part of the grittiness of that park, and you knew it. They’re gone now, and personally I say good riddance. I think it’s gorgeous what they’ve done with that park the past 10 years. Gentrification? Hey, looks beautiful to me over what it was. Preserving the past, but looking to the future.

dude...funny and informative ....solid writing/editing.

I grew up going to games here, and seeing what fisher has done to this team throughout them has made me so angry, this place when full is the most electric and passionate place to watch a sports game, I was there in 2019 when they broke the attendance record, it’s honestly so sad seeing our team stolen from us by this asshole who doesn’t give a shit about baseball, I wish you could’ve seen this place when it was packed because man it’s truly something special. Thank you for this video we need the world to know, fisher is the problem, always has been and always will be

Great video thanks from a brand new sub 🎉

Imagine taking a job so serious that you're basically out of a job the next day

I'm in no way defending A's ownership, but that employee notebook letter is actually a positive one, I'd say. It's quite obvious why the "Rooted in Oakland" stuff needs to be taken down, can you imagine the shit they would catch if that stuff was still for sale? It'd be a even more of a slap in the face

My favorite part is the cobwebs in the seats in the upper deck. They aren't even pretending that people are going to sit up there.

Awesome video!

Damn shame. I was 10 yrs old in '69 and the Raiders were in the midst of being the Great Raiders and The A's were just coming to be known as THE A's w/ outlandish Uni's/Players/Owner and NICKNAMES. Soon there will be no Oakland NFL/MLB Team and for those fans my heart goes out to you. Even though I'm a New Yorker and Yankees/Giants fan, I'll always have great memories of those Oakland teams and how great they were.

As someone who grew up in the east bay going to As games and raider games it makes me really sad to see the colosseum like this

There's urinal troughs in the left outfield of Wrigley Field. I went there for a Dead show, and using a trough in that context is horrible. Shoulder to shoulder, head full of LSD. It's not pleasant.

The thing is, the bare concrete look could’ve worked. Look at the Rogers Centre. This just looks like brutalist hell.

A's are leaving due to skyrocketing crime and a collapsing economy in Oakland...no owner would ever build a new stadium there...same reason the Raiders left.....no mystery here...

Who in the hell would want to stay in Oakland.

Daytona International Speedway has metal troughs in all the inside the track bathrooms too 😂

Sad to see this. Interesting to think that 4 major teams (A's, Raiders, Warriors, and Golden Seals) playing at the complex at one point. Wish this story had a better ending. Surreal to see an empty stadium 😔

You can’t blame the owner, the Warriors and Raiders left for a reason and it’s because the city of Oakland is ran terribly

I always remember about 15 years ago. I went to an A’s game and it was kind of like the same way It is now… there was nobody ever in there. And then to top it off whenever I tried to get closer with better seats day straight up told me let me see your ticket and told me to go back to my seat. There was nobody in the stadium lol. I’m sure times have changed.

One of the best tended fields in the majors. I live in Oakland and love going to the games.

This was a great video essay. If you never said you werent a fan of the team then I would swear that you are a huge fan of this team.

Went to a game back in September of ‘23 and had a blast. I personally enjoyed it more than the Giants’ game I attended earlier that week. Of course SF was a way nicer stadium, but the game lacked the atmosphere the Oakland had. There was something about the dilapidated stadium that made it fun. I feel bad for the fans, they didn’t ask for any of this.

Could def see u at a half mil subs within a year

Just as a fan of the game this whole situation sucks. In a perfect world, everyone has huge, passionate fan bases, successful management, and at the very least can compete to some degree. This is one of the worst professional sports situations I can recall in my entire lifetime.

great video

I’m from the UK. Every football (soccer) stadium has troughs.

Phillies fan here. A lot of fans get upset about the prices of tickets and how much food and drinks are at citizen bank park, but I would take that over this any day. This is upsetting. I love baseball and going to Phillies games for the last 22 years have been one of the greatest things I get to experience. I feel bad for As fans. This is just disgusting.

Can’t wait for them to come to Vegas we are going to pack the house. It might have more fans of the opposing team, but still going to pack the stadium.. 😂

so sad..and the A's have the most passionate , loyal , and crazy fans (in a fun way) in baseball.

Oakland A's Forever!!!!

Football, basketball, now baseball.. it's much more of a reflection of the city

during my visit the roof was leaking water and they had to gather it in trash cans. at least i got a sweet black panther funko figure from the whole ordeal

I remember the days of Charlie O . And the stadium would be packed. Guess those days are gone forever

2:41 "don't put your hand on the handrail"

I've been to that S hole several times and each time it's a blast. Yes, it's a pile but the few fans are some of the best is baseball. I also sat in the front row behind the visitors dugout tunnel for $46, for a double header. Where else can you sit that close for 23 bucks a game? No Where.

I gotta make it out here before they shut this place down

Even playing MLB The Show, getting drafted by the A's comes with a dread I didn't know from any video game.

This was depressing. Makes me thankful Comerica Park is my home park

Fisher does not invest in free agents, player development, adequate training facilities, scouting, or a decent farm system. The lie is that he'll start doing that as soon as the team moves. They will be the worst team in baseball years after they move to Las Vegas, if Nevada doesn't get wise to the con and reject the move. There is zero interest in fielding a competitive team, and the Dodgers and Yankees of the world should be pissed that they have to share their profits, with a team that does less than the minimum work on the group project. Want to see the future: Marlins got a new stadium and it sits empty most of the year.

Went to the last opening day at Oakland Coliseum, lowest level lines were insane compared to the attendance. Great video though. Sac Athletics all the way

They should be in San Jose like the 49ers. I think the Giants blocked it

Nice video guy ❤❤ do the Reds. I'll host you ;)

Cant believe they kick u outnof better seats that are empty i attend blue jays games and never pay more than 20bucks for a ticket then move down to front' ish row no one bats and eye the onpy place u cant go is directly behing the plate

I went to an Oakland/Giants game in 2019. Total dump! Awesome fans! They deserve better! I was able to sit wherever I wanted

And they wonder why baseball is dying. Lets worry about shit like base size and pitch clock when we have franchises doing shit like this...

wrigley still has the trough and its electriic

I honestly see a similar fate to what the Expos got happening to the A's.

Not an A’s fan, but might catch a game just to experience the coliseum one last time.

I'm kind of sad that I won't get a chance to see it before it goes. I grew up in Baltimore, and that stadium reminds me of Memorial Stadium. The embarrassment of an owner who constantly threatens to move the team even reminds me of the old Baltimore Colts. I feel sorry for the kids who will soon not have any pro team in their city at all. Seems like they had 3 just yesterday

used to go to A's games a lot in the 90s and 00s when i lived in SF and it was fucking great. the A's and the Raiders and the Warriors have all stabbed Oakland in the back, and i hope all of them go bankrupt. really sickening.

John Fisher legit looks like the Edgar Suit from Men In Black.

I remember going to games there 30 years ago and thinking even then the place was a dump