The Oakland A's Are DEAD 

Four years ago, the A’s launched this “Rooted In Oakland” campaign which really seemed to set them up as Oakland’s Team…This was just as the Warriors were moving over to SF, and the Raiders were gearing up for their last season here. The centerpiece of this campaign was a new membership plan called “A’s Access”…You could get a ticket package starting at 10 games, plus access to any other game, if you wanted. The biggest part was you got 50% off of all concessions (including beer, wine and booze) and parking for just $10 (Normally $30)…It was great, and a lot of fans came out to the games that year when the A’s won 97 games. That membership was set for 2020, too…Until Covid hit. Then, in 2021, the team scrapped that membership plan, started jacking up ticket prices, selling/trading their best players, and entered a period of attrition with the city…Which itself acted ridiculous for years with the ballpark matter here and treated the A’s like they were an enemy and not an asset. We have been a shell of a city as a result.

It’s not crazy if you think that even Walmart and Walgreens are also debating moving out of Northern California. Or California period. It’s an absolute mess over there. Crime drugs homeless. The wokeness is what killed those city’s.

@@rexpresto there was 100% an ownership decision to move to LV at some point in 2020. Everything since then has been a near self-sabotage of the team to make the move easier to pull off

It is sad for sure but on the other end, in the span of 5-6 years Las Vegas became a great sports city with die hard fans as well

@@ConstipatedTree bro what are you talking about 😂

Owners own the clubs, they sell when they wish to sell, not when the fans wish they sell. Fans don't choose who their owners are.

Watch from 7:30 and after. I think he gives the fans the credit that he can.

Basically it's the villain's plot from Major League, but worse

It’s like Rachel Phelps in Major League

@@blacjackdaniels200 exactly lol

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

My grandfather was both a Philadelphia A’s and Philadelphia Warriors fan. Don’t feel sorry for Oakland as they didn’t deserve either franchise

Perhaps fans should vote GOP.Many are leaving Cal.

@@volodymyrzablotsky5372 Bro stfu people can have opinions you don’t have to hate places for leaving

I don’t blame A’s fans for not showing up. I do feel bad for them. The owners completely sabotaged the team. As a fan, how can you expected to show up when they raise the prices and sold the team. They intentionally put a losing product on the field.

Unfortunately, the A's had this problem since the 70's, they almost moved them to New Orleans

Their stadium always sucked it didn't start in the 2000's

I went there as a kid, either 2000 or 2001. It was a noticeable dump then.

@@theb3654 the owners didn’t want to do anything that’s the problem Wake up people

Remember, the Raiders moved out of there around 1980 when the stadium was less than 15 years old. It was already a toilet by then.

Major league, back to the minors...

Moneyball might have destroyed the franchise. I don't know how, I'll let the experts figure that out. But consistently trying to be heroes on the cheap might have something to do with it.

@@kermitfrog593 They were already cheap, at least moneyball let them be good.

@@shorewall You aren't going back far enough. When they had Canseco, McGuire, Henderson and Eckersley, they were not a bargain basement franchise.

This is the alternate storyline, where the evil owner in Major League is successful in her plan.

You can fly to Vegas in like 45 minutes

@Elijah Boyd I mean, Vegas will need A's fans to make the trip so they can profit

They're not going anywhere. Relax. Be thankful your team picked the one place that can't pick up the tab for their new ballpark. Miami promised it would never use public $ to build Marlins Park, but it happened! A's aren't going anywhere

@@theb3654 Maybe she likes the team because they play in OAKLAND? Do people really not understand that most people root for certain teams because they play in their home city? Lots of people don't want to continue rooting for a team that plays in another city other than their own

@@geoffmarshall6925 then she can root for the Giants and quit whining

The people of Oakland should blame the poeple they voted for. Shitty city policies are why it's a struggling city. Taxes are stupid so why would anyone want to set up a business there.

Nah. Not hard working. Not “hard working.” /

I've got news for you, EVERY city is now a hard-working but struggling city

California is a struggling state that is on a rapid decline every day. Change the policies and vote out the radical woke politicians or they can say good bye. Keeping their sports teams is gonna be the least of their concerns soon.

It's the local government's fault they didn't want to pay for a new stadium

Hanshin and Chunichi might be the two worst teams as far as developing major league players 😭

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Not ownership moron. City of Oakland. Who loses 3 franchises in 10 years? All power to you and your crappy city of Oakland bud. I am from east bay, I just feel sorry for the city of Oakland. All the homeless ruining NorCal and all the damn low income housing devaluing east bay.

What happened

😂😅

​@@buddyyoda7007 He is saying that the Athletics are merely a training ground for soon-to-be Braves players.

@@ChristopherX30 yea just got it a second ago after realizing Braves have Olson and Murphy

Marlins are the Yankees minor league club

It’s really stupid how greedy the owners are. I grew up in Oakland and remember going to games. Hope they will stay🙏🙏

Oakland is trash now, so you and your grandpa should move to Vegas. No state income tax, and he could enjoy the final years of his life. Oakland is out of control with crime.

@@wildfire6005 Its sad but not stupid, He is gonna make a helluva lot more in Vegas with the A's even if they are bad. Any intelligent person would make that move when you considering the cities of Oakland and Vegas

First the warriors, now As. What's going on in Oakland?

@@kermitfrog593 Taken over by thugs and gangs. Some places in Oakland, you have to pay a toll to allow the gang to let you pass through on the street or you will get shot.

no loyalty

Philadelphia should never have demolished Connie Mack stadium. Was nicer and more historic than both Fenway and Wrigley

Owners and players are only loyal to the all mighty dollar. They'd move to Antarctica if the penguins paid well enough

They were little more than a farm team for the Yankees while in Kansas City.

@@kmena05 the fans are some of the most loyal but it is a smaller market with the 49ers and Giants being the neighbors and management/owners are somewhat to blame as well. Oakland just doesn’t want to pay

Politicians... Why do you keep voting the same people into office? If you blame politicians, I have no sympathy for you because you get what you vote for! You should be HAPPY this is happening! Vote Blue, no matter who... right?

I feel genuinely bad for y’all. I’m a rays fan and have been worried about them potentially moving. Luckily we seem on a better path but seeing how they just gave up on the As and made it a bad experience for you guys is just disappointing. I wish things turned out better for y’all you guys have some dedicated passionate fans and deserved so much more.

lol. it's john fisher. it's the a's. if they want a stadium they need to pay for it.

@@LiveFromThePorcelainPalace 🤦‍♂️

@@LiveFromThePorcelainPalace Don’t blame me. I didn’t vote for any of the recent mayors here. There are too many people here who don’t really think about who they are voting for and what those people really stand for. They just let themselves fall for whoever says they “represent” them and keep marking their ballots the same way in every election.

I'm sorry that you will be losing your team. But you can stick it to John Fisher by not attending the games or buying any merchandise. That's what the fans of the Houston Oilers did after then-owner Bud Adams announced that he intended to move his team to Nashville, and he lost millions in ticket sales and merchandise.

Move to Las Vegas LOL!

Move out of Oakland.

A's are becoming the team with the most city moves. Before this they were tied with Braves and Orioles but it is over

yeah, I have been in every mlb ballpark, field, stadium, coliseum, and dome west of Toronto. now I have to go to Las Vegas (and I haven't lived this far east in 25 years). I cherish every game I saw in Oakland! I got a major league baseball my first game in Oakland! I also got a major league baseball in the last game I saw in the coliseum!! GOOD TIMES!!!

Just move to Vegas and you can watch many sports. Viva Las Vegas.

I never been to Oakland and don't know the Bay Area, so my question is, how much of a hassle is it to go to a Giants game in SF? I live in NYC, and was used to going to Shea & Yankee Stadium from Staten Island, which was about an hour by car. Is Oakland to SF worse than that?

@@RRaquello It's a reasonable commute to SF.

Yup as soon as they head to Vegas the giants will gain another fan this was such a gut punch

It really was. But I have hope they will stay.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

& Oakland went vice versa

And in 10 years, they will all be gone.

​@@dvhughesdesign just how clueless are you?

Dont forget the WNBA.

@@dvhughesdesign Raiders have a 30 year lease at Allegiant Stadium. Are you really this stupid??

The owners Tanked the team again Traded all the good players away

Thank you for the respect. Coming from oakland

This will be a big win for Oakland as attendance keeps dropping for Professional sports as the younger Millennial generations has little or no interest in sports. Let sucker city Las Vegas have it. They're famous for their White Elephants.

If I was the A's I would have left too. California is garbage.

It shouldn’t be a city’s job to keep a team. Shouldn’t be the people’s responsibility.

@@mattborman5780 When the city doesn’t want to work with the owners how is it not their fault? The A’s tried pretty damn hard to find a new home in Oakland. The port, that college campus, they got our hopes up, I just wanted them to “update” or renovate the coliseum once the Raiders left, make it a baseball only stadium, ya know? But again.. “the city” was in the way, they came out and said the coliseum site could make “more money” with something other than a baseball stadium there. 🙄

It’s the owners Put blame where it needs to be

@@frankthespank the owners did nothing For a fake There going to move out of LV In about 10 years

​@@frankthespank this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. How can you even say that

what..? no Golden Seals stories..?

The Warriors got two of the wins over the Bullets in Daly City, at the District A-1 Agricultural Association, because the Ice Follies were booked into the Coliseum.

@@gregsells8549 I don't remember the venue. I just remember the disgust in seeing the Bullets fall so hard. Thank god for 1978.

@@brianarbenz1329 The A-1 Agricultural Association is better known as the Cow Palace. It was the Warriors' first home in California, when they were the San Francisco Warriors.

@@gregsells8549 Ah, I was going to ask if that was the "Cow Palace."

Well put. Indeed a sports ghost town.

Now Oakland will only be known for homelessness, drugs, and rampant crime. Good job

The 70’s appeared to be the A’s hey day. Since they won those two titles in a row. But in all honesty, they’ve had nearly 35 years of misery since their last title in 1989.

Yep the list goes on…Stewart, Eckersley, Hendu, Steinbach, Sierra, Matt Stairs, Chapman, Olson, Canha, Manaea, TLong, Semien, Bassitt, Laser Ramon, Ben Grieve, Eric Byrnes, Hattie, Ramon Hernandez, Jermaine Dye, Johnny Damon, Brandon Miss, Cespedes, Sonny Gray, Stephen Vogt, Josh Reddick….all from memory

@@P31B Can’t forget Dallas’s perfect game or Mike Fires’ no-nos.

@@milesian1 lol somehow forgot about Fiers. Braden was great, still is.

You're young. No mention of Catfish Hunter, Reggie Jackson, Bert Campaneris, Vida Blue, Rollie Fingers, Sal Bando, Kenny Holtzman, Gene Tenace. Those are the guys who won 3 straight World Series.

Carney Lansford, Mike Gallego, Walt Weiss, Bob Welch, Mike Moore, Ron Hassey, Tony Phillips, Jim Corsi, Matt Stairs, Gerrrrronimo Berrrrrrroa!!!!

That's 8 more than in Oakland! 😂

Vegas and Reno but yes

Enough to take your team 😂

giants are also a cause of this btw the giants have some history with the land they are on and the A's

and he was a cunt so you're a little happy

I'm an A's fan and don't want to convert to the Giants once the A's leave 😂😂

@@lmaokai392 True, the Giants opposed the A’s moving to San Jose. I still think Fremont would have been an okay location for a new stadium. But that ship has sailed.

Yeah and you guys won’t give the A’s back San Jose after they gave it to you for FREE when you were struggling

The Bay Area and especially Oakland has some of the best fans. The We Believe Warriors fans were probably the best NBA fans of all time. But quite simply if the team is trying to suck ass then the fans just won’t care. It’s the same thing in Philly when the 76er’s were in the Trust The Process years as like nobody went to their games but now that they are somewhat competitive they almost fill every game. The whole situation in Oakland is unfortunate as the Warriors knew that people in San Francisco would pay more for games and they could actually host other events at their new arena and the Raiders knew the same of Vegas. Hopefully Oakland gets a team like MLS or some other sport because their fan base will be crazy.

@@G-546 The A's have fielded teams well beyond their economics for 2 decades. They were so good at it a movie was made about them. I don't think they were determined to suck. I think they were determined to move. That was the issue.

@@G-546 we have the roots and the spiders...

I went in 2010, and it was a lot of fun with what few fans showed up. As close as it got in the Majors to a Japanese game

@@G-546 Sixers got bounced in the second round (again). Doc was also fired last Tuesday

They’re cowards that’s why

​@@fernandoacosta7423 Screw it. The fans obviously don't care or they'd been at games.

@@TheSolidSnakeOil you’re completely unaware of the situation if that’s what you think is going on

@@TheSolidSnakeOil The team owner has been actively pushing fans away by not investing in the team. To put the blame on the fans is incredibly ignorant and shows your limited knowledge on this whole situation.

@@TheSolidSnakeOil lil bro have you ever been to an As game?? Nothing but passion from the fans

True

It's worse with the A's losing to the Rangers 18-3. Kotsay sounds defeated because he can't do anything with a garbage roster that Fisher put together _on purpose_ just to get the team to move.

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Facts

No... When the fans demand winners and become fair weather fans, well, you SHOULD lose your teams...

@@ronclark9724 No. when you’re a baseball owner and spend 40 million on payroll you should be forced to sell. It’d be different if they spent 200 million and were bad, but that’s not the case.

The fans deserve to be mugged in their open air prison.

Pun!

No, they aren't going to Vegas. They don't have MLB permission to move. They don't have a stadium plan, a funding plan or any of the other things they will need to move. They don't even own land there yet. This video is putting the cart waaaaay before the horse. Oakland has offered them $500m toward a new stadium. Vegas has offered them sweet FA to this point, and they have been playing footsie with Vegas for almost 2 years now.

Really sad news. Taking the Bart train over to the game was such a great time.

Get real kid

I feel you dawg Born and raised in SF gonna miss battle of the Bays

It’s the owners tradeing all the good players Stuff going up Makes fans mad He was doing this Just like the raiders did At list the basketball team went over to sf It’s still around And he wanted to buy the A the owner nope I’m going to get great money in LV When the All goes away There going to move again

@@anthonycaruso8443 Bro stfu it’s not like you’ve ever lived in Oakland you don’t have a goddam say in any of this

I hated them. They were indeed legendary.

I played on the Oakland A’s when I was in Little League… but this was in Flummerville, Arkansas, in 1967….. great memories and thank you so much for remembering and appreciating me⚾️

I don’t think that Oakland can really be blamed for the A’s leaving. The A’s intentionally didn’t invest anything into the team or stadium which is 100% the reason fans didn’t show up. And the city gave them a good location for a stadium at Howard Terminal but the A’s likely never intended on playing there despite pretending to be interested. Also the city not funding a stadium makes sense. San Francisco didn’t fund Chase Center but the Warriors raised money by creating a good team and doing small renovations to keep fans at Oracle Arena. The A’s ownership is just a complete joke

The owners fault He didn’t want to sale Or fix the park up he has the money

What are the city's issues? I know a lot of people complain about the state of affairs in California these days but the other teams seem to be fine.

@@kermitfrog593 They have one of the highest debts of an individual city in the country, and their problems didn't come overnight. Most of Cali's big issues are in Oakland but on steroids.

@@kermitfrog593 it’s not the state it’s the people that bs all the time they don’t like the political stuff but that’s every state

@@floralgem Thanks for the reply. Is there something unique about Oakland that gave debts recently? They used to have a lot of sports teams.

There's also just not much fan interest. Even when the A's were winning a ton of games their attendance was well below league average. Some cities just don't really care about sports teams.

@@brandondillman5841Because the stadium is trash

@@DMalltheway Plenty of teams have trash stadiums in professional sports and draw fans. RFK stadium was garbage, but the Redskins sold out every home game for 30 years and had a 25 year waiting list for season tickets. If the team is playing well, the fans should show up. Regardless of how shitty the stadium is.

@@brandondillman5841 Clearly you haven’t been to the coliseum or your just flat out blind.

@@brandondillman5841 the owner didn’t do anything that’s up to them not the city or the fans Raised everything so Fans stay away

Orlando. Jacksonville is likely losing their NFL team. Too small of a TV market.

Eh, still better than Mogadishu.....

Clear out the stadium in Oakland and build some much-needed housing there.

lol! just killing time between drug binges.

You do realize that attendance for Professional Sports keeps dropping as the younger Millennial generation has little or no interest in Sports. Let Las Vegas have it, and they're just stupid enough to build a new stadium for the A's. And if it fails, it falls on the taxpayers.

@@michaelellringer5600 Vegas needs to resolve that water crisis within the Colorado River

Tesla: The A's aren't 'coming here' yet. Kaval and Fisher have negotiated an option to purchase land. That's all. They have no funding, no subsidy plan and they do not have MLB approval to move. There is also the matter of compensating the (multiple) MLB teams that currently consider Vegas their shared market... like the Nats had to do with the Orioles. So, they don't have a site. They don't have any funding from the city or state. And they don't have permission to move or "free" tv rights to sell. on the other hand, they have $500m in funding on offer from Oakland. And they are going to leave a (shared) market of 10m people to move to market of 2m people? Add to that the stadium in LV will be at least $500m more expensive than one in Oakland (roof, AC system).... This video is highly speculative. Literally nothing has been decided yet. If they A's get MLB permission to move and start building a stadium, I will believe it. Right now, they have spent nothing but hot air on this project. NOTHING.

Oakland is NO longer a major league city.... I not even sure if its a minor league city...

Vegas is also a shithole, but it has pretty lights

When the fair weather fans don't attend games in the numbers suitable to support a MINOR league team, don't expect to keep a major league team...

@@ronclark9724 The ownership is basically fielding a minor league team right now and the attendance reflects that

It's gonna hurt that possum even more, bro. He's gonna be homeless.

I just took my 2 young sons to their first game this past Sunday. Immediately after this news broke. Heartbreaking.

Coliseum is outdated and in dire need of replacement. But yeah it had its run

Why should municipalities be paying for stadiums and arenas and not these wealthy owners and their entertainment companies?

@@Khaoki They wouldn't even help. I am not fan of cities paying for stadiums, but Oakland fought them every step. It was a mess.

@@MafiaGuido Again: Why should municipalities be paying for stadiums and arenas and not the wealthy owners or the teams?

@@Khaoki They shouldn't. But if they don't and some other city does, you lose the team. That's a fact you have to live with. My solution is let the team move and watch them on TV, which most fans do anyway for 99% of the games they watch. What does it matter where the team plays if you're watching from your couch? And if you want to see a game in person, go to a Little League or a High School game.

@@RRaquello for a lot of fans who grow in the same place as the teams or the fandom runs down the family, it means everything and not the same if the team is somewhere else. I’d give up on my teams if they moved even tho I have a hard time seeing it happen

It’s the owners and only the owners Raiders left so many times nothing new Keep sticking up for the owners they don’t care about you Or the players They trad the good ones away

The warriors are only over the bridge not far and it’s still Full

The mayor is right. Oakland has offered $500m to help them build. Fisher and Kaval would prefer to pay their own way in Vegas (a city with 1/6th of the population of the bay area as a whole)? Please. They have nothing in Vegas. No funding plan. Nothing.

idk he just got tired over time. he was good for literally 10 straight years so there's really no rise and fall.

Facts

The profit sharing and baseball needs retraction

@@diabolivirtusen-tavares-ea4645 I couldn’t agree more

Yet the A's were in the playoffs just a few short years ago...

​@@ronclark9724 And then the owner decided to have a fire sale.....

The As were playing to many sell outs in the late 80s and early 90s. That was a popular team.

Don’t blame the fans this on the owner only I’m lmmfao at people like you Blameing the fans The owners trading players away He tank them So MLB wont relocate the team And that’s a fact

Yeah one of the biggest losses here is the fact that the Coliseum was one of MLB weirdest stadiums for playing. Huge foul territory will be gone.

Ballparks should be symmetrical. An un-symmetrical ballpark is unfair to either right-or left-handed hitters.

@@HighpointerGeocacher life is unfair

Me to

Lol

The owner is cheap. Why should a city have to make up for that?

@@franklindcottrell The city were the landlords... Their stadium sucks... The worst in MLB... And its not like they didn't have any time either...

@@franklindcottrell The Coliseum is owned by the city of Oakland. The A's had no obligation to remain in Oakland for as long as they did if it weren't for the fan attendance and little TV revenue they could muster with a competing San Francisco. Throughout the 80s, when the Raiders were in LA, that was a perfect opportunity to give the A's a new ballpark... what did Oakland do?... Build "Mount Davis" to lure the gypsy Raiders back to town only for them uproot again. Now that the A's are [now "were"] the last team, Oakland finally paid attention. The writing was on the wall for 40 years -- outside of Jon Fisher

Imagine the kinky sh*t that's gonna happen there

The owners tanked the team

It’s on the owner And only on the owner F him He could of sold the team But nope

Fans in Las Vegas must be feeling great as they won the jackpot... Sorry Oakland fans, you lose...

@@metsandjetsfan5174 wrong The owners Did this He didn’t want to pay to fix up the place It’s going to be the same in LV The team can move now F the owner

You mean all the jock straps?😂😂😂😂😂

Not the teams fault. The owner has sabotaged them at every turn so that he can move the team.

Also, I think too it's because the city is so much disarray.

@@mordsythe oh I’m not blaming the team. I’m blaming the owners for playing “moneyball” and the city for forcing their hands

@@nowtheworld138 well the city played fair. The owner was doing everything in his power to move the team. He wasn’t negotiating in good faith like Oakland was.

Oakland a long time ago has a NHL team too... Raise your total to 4...

Vegas gets all excited when it comes to building White Elephants!

I’d go further and say it’s been difficult for nearly 35 years, since their last championship was 1989.

this guy gets it, be seeing you in those stands,. cant wait!

$400.00 to watch a baseball game .??? I used to watch the Cubs in the bleachers for $1.00 in the early 1970s. And Black Hawks games in the second balcony at Chicago Stadium for $4.00.

Who the fuck cares about meth heads that live in the middle of nowhere and whether or not they’ll go to an MLB game? We’re talking about fifty years of history in Oakland.

I can park in the street, bring $1.50 Costco hotdogs in, and sit in the front row down the left field line for $22 on a getaway day. Add a beer and I’m under 40 bucks. Add a decent hotel in Emeryville if need be and you’re in at less than $200.

@@milesian1 That proves my point exactly. Hotels in Vegas are under $100, plane tickets 2 weeks from now are $50 to Vegas compared to $163 to Oakland, etc. Food and tickets are roughly the same, but Oakland, and just about every other stadium cost about double for out of towners to travel. If you live in the area it sucks for you they are relocating, but there's still at least Giants games to go to, and it allows so many more people to attend baseball games in Vegas, so while it might seem like they are taking baseball away from you, they are actually allowing hundreds of thousands to travel to Vegas for cheaper to attend games, probably even millions will travel there in 2027 to watch games, which if I had to guess is more than Oakland will ever have in the future.