The irony is the fact that the Raiders moved to LV due to the A’s. The Raiders wanted to redevelop the Coliseum Site, but were basically blocked by the A’s when Oakland decided to extend their lease and make them the primary Tennant of the Coliseum under the agreement that the team would stay In Oakland. The A’s squatted on the lease which basically kept the Raiders from redeveloping the site ultimately frustrated with the situation the Raiders relocated to LV. Now the A’s when the City and county were ready to hash out the final details on the Howard Terminal site ( literally a week away from the negotiations summit) A’s ownership pulled out, blind siding the city and announced they are planning on moving to LV down the street from the Raiders. Now the city is not without fault the politics in California are lined with red tape, but every ask the A’s had the City met. The cost of the Howard Terminal deal kept rising because the A’s wanted to build commercial, residential and retail space around the site (like the Braves). Oakland has stated if the A’s just wanted a stadium, shovels would already be in the ground. I still don’t get how all the sticking points in Oakland magically don’t matter in LV. Ultimately it comes down to cheap ownership. The Warriors, Rams and now clippers had no issues building new stadiums in California. I’m still holding out and hoping the LV deal falls through and the team is sold to Joe Lacob. I still think a team in LV would be great but rather an expansion team rather than rewarding a cheap owner that purposely drove a franchise into the ground.
The Braves done a incredible job with their new park . The battery is absolutely awesome. Smart move getting out of the downtown Atlanta area. Braves new stadium is in Cobb county much closer to Marietta. Best ballpark just overall experience I have ever had at any college or pro sporting event. If u get chance go to a Braves game at the battery you will not regret it . Hard to explain something u got c experience for yourself.
I had season tickets for the raiders man that stadium was old but man it had that old school style that no one has anymore!!! Going to miss the stadium when the lights go out 😢
As a former season ticket holder for the Niners, I feel your pain. Candlestick was an old and outdated stadium, but it had character, something that Levi's Stadium lacks. While it is a nice stadium, the design of Levi's is just too sterile for my taste. I surely do miss all of the little quirks of The Stick.
As a kid who grew up in Minnesota, The Coliseum holds a special place in my heart. Going to indoor baseball my early years, then having my dad take me to Oakland on a business trip and my first experience in an outdoor park was magical. I feel bad for Athletics fans.
I think it is more on the owner than the city. The owner is a billionaire and won’t put up his own money to help build a new ballpark, but would buy land in Vegas to build a stadium there. I still don’t get why the owner of the A’s would not fund more of a new stadium in Oakland. They could be good in Vegas, but not sure if Vegas will be a MLB hotspot.
As a San Diego fan and native, I feel your pain Oakland. No fan deserves to lose their team. Chargers/Raiders rivalry will also never be the same. ❤😢😞🙏
@@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536I agree the Clippers should have moved to San Diego and the Chargers should have stayed in San Diego. L.A really has a appetite for just Lakers, Dodgers and Rams...maybe Angels at times
I’m doing a job in Stockton in 2023 and have been going to A’s game once a week tickets are usually 10-15$ I ride the Bart in from Dublin. Bart ticket and food cost more than ticket. But the enjoyment of a baseball game even if the team sucks is worth it
Once upon a time the sports fan was the cornerstone of the sports world. Now team owners and even players treat fans like something stuck on their shoe. I feel for A's fans. Only one of my teams ever moved(Arizona Cardinals) but I never lived in St. Louis so it made no never mind to me. But if the Phillies, Flyers, or Sixers ever moved I'd feel like Julius Caesar on the Ides of March. I'd probably give up on sports at that point.
It's weird how professional sports teams in the US just up and move cities. That sort of thing is unheard of in other countries where teams are closely associated with towns and cities. Manchester United, for example, would never, ever, move to London or Liverpool. It would be the end of the franchise.
I was in Oakland in 1988 to watch my Blue Jays play the A's, it was a great walk from the Holiday Inn on Hegenberger to the Stadium this was before the Seat expansion, and yes it was a beautiful view from inside and out, and Attendance for all 4 games we saw was over 30,000 each game, had a great time, Thank you Oakland!
Going to the coliseum was WILd! Fights everywhere, parked cars being broke into. But man, was that place rocking for playoff baseball with the redsoxs, ohh the memories
Years ago Oakland was such a beautiful city where middle class families were flocking in. As time went on, many middle class families left Oakland and the poor class moved in. As a result, many homeless encampments set up recently and the morale of Oakland went down
There are somethings that were missed (of course it’s a short video on RU-vid ) but Howard Terminal was rejected by Lew Wolf & MLB for years and considered impossible by Wolf and was more focused on SJ. Jerry Brown & Jean Quan tried for years for them to build a stadium in Brooklyn Basin (which was close to the Laney site). And Mark Davis said Fisher was the reason why he couldn’t do anything at the Coliseum because he didn’t want to chip in with a few different developers who wanted to redo the area for three teams
Take down Mt. Davis at the Coliseum and you'll have what it looked like for 2 decades with them mountains in the background. Simple solution but no one thought of that.
When the Coliseum and arena was planned and built, it was cutting edge and Oakland seemed to have a bright future. It’s probably not a coincidence that that was also the last time Republicans were running the city and Alameda county. Since the early 70’s it’s been a slow decline, to what is now the worst run city in America. In addition to losing all their sports teams, Oakland probably also has the distinction of being the only place where an In & Out Burger has been forced to close.
When Space Force archaeoligists dig up ruins of the Oakland Coliseum in the year 20,024, they are going to be confused as to how the Romans were able to build the same exact stadium on two different Continents.
I know the arena's footprint isn't as big as the coliseum, but would razzing that and building a new stadium next door be an option? Certainly wouldn't be the first time a team did that...
This so sad, I watch them since i was in elementary school. They should've done something longggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg ago and fire the GM. Hope they find success. I'M SO TIRED OF SEEING THEM LOSE EVERY YEARS. I will still represent the A's no matter where they go!!!
@@osaji922 If Congress passes a law forbidding taxpayer funding for stadiums, teams would stay put. "He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want" (Proverbs 30:6, KJV).
Oddly, the reason Bill Bidwell moved the Cardinals is because Busch Stadium seated only 53,000 and he wanted a bigger capacity. But under his ownership the Gridbirds didn't sell out all that much anyway.
Even if it means the Coliseum has to undergo a renovation similar to what was done to Yankee Stadium in the 1970s and the As temporary playing in the Giants' stadium for a few years
@@Matthew6248 if the A’s do end up leaving, there’s talks they might play in Vegas at the minor league aviators field. Or lease the coliseum for the remaining years but they wouldn’t renovate it
@@marioscardina-hs7ys Lookup the A's moving to Fremont after buying land there too. John Fisher is incompetent and a move to Vegas is far far from a done deal.
Oh but now the Raider claim they would've stayed if they knew the A's were going to move eventually. The coliseum doesn't seem so bad all of the sudden
San Francisco has been used by "Oakland" and "San Jose" teams whenever convenient. Raiders played their first two seasons at Kezar Stadium and Candlestick Park, 1960 &1961. San Jose Sharks played their first year at the Cow Palace, and I don't care if it is just inside the city limits of Daly City, it's in San Francisco for crissakes, and the parking lot is in San Francisco. But it's been OK for Oakland to steal teams, from San Francisco (Pacific Coast League hockey Seals who went into the NHL), Warriors, or As from Kansas City. Karma sucks.
Nostalgic emotions are real, but Oakland got the A's bc at one time it was an attractive destination. Not anymore. Businesses don't want to jump through 1,000 hoops in order to do business. The "downtown" model is dead when your city does not control crime & actually appeases the criminals. LV will control crime near the strip because they know people need to feel safe.
it will be 3 stadiums within walking distance.. in Vegas. That will give vegas 4 pro teams and 2 minors plus a free tram from downtown to the strip to all stadiums.
@@4theloveoflife you mention minors…. Chances are the LV minor league team will be relocating… MLB doesnt like having ML and AAA right next to each other…. AA maybe
Well you can just change the definition of crime and it goes away. Oakland decriminalization drugs, Nevada decriminalization prostitution. No sanctioned drug trucks cruising the Oakland downtown streets though, unlike the Strip's trucks for the girls.
Oakland once had these major league teams-the A's,Raiders,the Golden State Warriors and the California Golden Seals. With the Warriors returning back to San Francisco, the Raiders in Las Vegas and the A's likely joining them, Oakland could become the first city in California to have all its team relocated. (P.S. In 1967, when the NHL came to the Bay Area, there was a team called the Oakland Seals. In 1970, A's owner Charlie Finley bought the Seals and renamed them the California Golden Seals. He unsuccessfully wanted the players to wear white skates. The Seals suffered in the box office in the Oakland Coliseum and on the ice. After eight unsuccessful seasons, the Seals moved to Cleveland and were rebranded as the Barons. The franchise died in 1977.)
No, there was a Pacific Hockey League team called the San Francisco Seals, who played at the Cow Palace, in the late 1950s to late 60s that, when invited to the NHL, moved to Oakalnd. Even the Raiders played their first two seasons in San Francisco, at Kezar Stadium and Candlestick Park well before it was expanded. And the Warriors played in San Francisco from the time it left Philadelphia in 1962 until 1971, when ownership, who had for five seasons played in both towns, decided just to play in Oakland.
I’m a giants fan, sf born and raised. But I want to go to one last A’s game before they leave. The bay bridge series is a staple of our teams, and it won’t feel right without our neighbors across the bat
@@armorybrunotjr.3204 I could see Philly supporting a second MLB team! The logistics of it all would be tough though and the A's would definitely need their own stadium somewhere away from the Phillies.
Down arrow and no, I will not subscribe. You passed totally over the debacle of Golden Seals hockey team. The team was poorly supported by the fans, was eventually taken over by the league when the owner walked out and had similar site ( arena) issues to the As today that led it to being sold and moved to another city. There is also no mention of all the political roadblocks the team has faced in its dealings with city politicians that finally led the team to buy the land in Las Vegas so it can move.
The city of Oakland is a absolute joke. How many tourist come to Oakland every year? The middle of a donut. 0. All three teams have left , they know better.
i’m a marlins fan from oakland but have been going a’s games since i was a kid. when they move it will truly be a sad day. i’m sorry to the a’s fans, this shit sucks
I still wonder why the ufl doesn't move one of their teams to oakland, ca 🤔🤔?!?! They could tear down & renovate or just build a smaller 38,000-55,000 seat stafium for the ufl team. I think that would work. And the ufl needs to get their teams located in nfl cities out of those cities!! Ufl teams will work better in big cities with no nfl teams, like birmingham, al & saint louis, mo.
I'm surprised he didn't mentioned anything about the seals moving to cleveland, then merged with minnesota. The usfl or xfl can expand to oakland and play there for awhile.
@@billyrichards8834 I know. He was mentioning about the raiders moving to las vegas, and the warriors to sf. so, he was talking about their future, or just leaving the seals out?
@@jwbogacki The Golden Seals are long gone from the NHL. They began life as the Oakland Seals in 1967. However, in 1970, when A's owner Charlie Finley bought the team and renamed them the California Golden Seals. They almost resembled the Los Angeles Kings sweaters, but they had not a jeweled crown, but the with the word "Seals" and were gold. The Seals suffered big time on the ice and at the box office. After eight unsuccessful seasons (1967-75), the Seals became the Cleveland Barons. In 1977, the franchise did not technically disband, but the then-Minnesota North Stars absorbed the defunct Seals-Barons franchise and its players.
Man I grew up in San Jose and always thought of Oakland as trash. That city has way bigger problems than sports teams. As far as the A's are concerned. The Giants are to blame. F the Giants. If the Giants didn't cry territorial rights, then the A's would already be playing in Downtown San Jose.
A's ownership drove the team into the ground and took the fans, employees, the city, and the football team with him on that journey. Must be a real nut job.
Hope so... Although I still prefer them to move though, but to Sac, SLC, or Austin/SA instead... In fact, I don't even see Vegas ready for an MLB team, not even the expansion... If not for MLB is salivating their sports gambling money, none of the Big 4 (or 5) would make a team there... 🤔🤔🤔
@@chriseasterly5142 yet baseball wants the rays in Tampa? They make less the A's do hell Pittsburgh Cleveland Kansas and ciniy all make way less then Oakland has ever made why dose baseball keep them there?
@@dantehaskell5688 the Marlins are under contract until 2047 so they can’t relocate. If they could they probably would move cause that market sucks. The other teams actually have fans show up to games and they have baseball only parks and not the football/baseball combo that was built in the 60’s.
Why does San Francisco/Oakland get to be _Thee_ Bay Area? What about Tampa Bay or Green Bay or Chesapeake Bay? Californians with their inflated state pride.
