What led to Oakland A's temporary move to Sacramento? 

Not really. His team is worth $1.2 billion dollars.

@@Dweller415 If you only see baseball ⚾️ through dollars and cents, then decide not to have a fan fest since 2020 and counting that makes you a loser

​@@Dweller415When Forbes did that math, 3/4 of the $1.2 billion was due to the market and MLB.

Haha exactly, you don't have to worry about stepping over bums & needles walking to the park. Also there's an IN N OUT open in West Sac

In and out, Starbucks, Dennys, they'll all be in Sacramento!

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Why, blame the owner it’s not the fans fault that the front office doesn’t spend money on players…. It’s pretty sad when the players have to eat sandwiches where other organization has chefs….

@@-raistThe city of Oakland is a dump, that’s why they’re moving.

Do you think the city would've sold the arena to Lacob?

@@HHSGDFootballJPD somehow they needed to make it work. A great place for a new stadium would’ve been the abandoned Alameda naval air station overlooking the bay.

@@robertwalegir8677 I think there are only so many things to be done to make it work...if Lacob wanted to play in SF just to say he's playing in SF, is Oakland going to have SF annex a small piece of the city to make it work?

John Fisher saved the A’s. Oakland is a dump fix your city dude. Stop voting for Democrats.

Congrats to Oakland on its entry into the post-apocalypse.

"Oaklanders will still be able to reasonably drive....." If you consider driving the exact same lengths that Philadelphia Flyers and Eagles fans as well as New Jersey Devils and New York Giants fans drive to potentially see road games in each other's towns during head-to-head games in both directions along the New Jersey Turnpike (at least 85 miles in each direction), then yes, they'll still be able to reasonably drive to see the Athletics, lol?

@gregpaspatis9425 Oaklanders must be very thankful to Fischer and ownership for making this a possibility for them so they can continue to cheer for their team! Then, when the team is in Vegas, they should show A's games on the jumbotron in the Coliseum!

​@@pydiboyIf the Coliseum is still around in 2028 or 2029

and bring their violence lol

How has the city of Oakland been for business owners these days? Has Oakland's quality of life been conducive to running a business successfully, especially in a business that depends on the stadium's attendance in order to put a good product on the field? A team's payroll mainly depends on proceeds and profits generated at the stadium, along with city incentives and major sponsors. A good team that can nearly sell out home games and road games will bring in more money by bringing in more fans, more sponsors, more city incentives as a good team is good for local businesses and local economy. I truly doubt the owner would harm his own product, as you said. He was just in a very tough business situation for many years.

the team will not be sold. Get over it. The value of the team since he bought it went up 400million and if he moved to Vegas and waited 5 years would then be able to sell for multiple billions of dollars. This is how baseball economics works. Thinking otherwise or believing that not attending games or protesting at this point will change anything is just living in denial.

raiders left because Fisher owns half of the colisium site , and wouldn't negotiate . Fisher used this purchase as a hostage situation. Marc Davis took that free money and ran when it became clear Fisher wasn't compromising . The city of Oakland through grants and other investment only needed about 80 million to fund the 8 billion dollar project, the A's left that on the table last minute for Vegas . If it was just a stadium project, it would be being built now , instead, we got to see how corrupt MLB really is , every owner voted for the move . Oakland got about 100 million more in grants , there is money for rebuilding the colisium site regardless .

That's the biggest problem. There's 5 million people within a 50 mile radius and yet they'll have 5000 people show up at the Coliseum. There was a time I'd go to games but Oakland is just too ghetto now. The Warriors, Raiders, Walmart, Dennys, StarBucks, In & Out etc etc they all left Oakland for a reason.

I wouldnt leave my house if I lived in Oakland. Your car would get instantly broken into, and you would witness four robberies on your way home.

wrong. The economics for an expansion team in the East Bay is simply not there. The Giants have 80% of the territorial rights-basically surrounding Oakland. Small market teams like Oakland are unable to financially compete and field teams with talent that are competitive based on the current economics of baseball. Moreover, the city and county of Oakland and Alameda-despite public comments are hostile to professional sports in their policies and economic incentives. Utah, Sacramento, etc are far more likely to get an expansion team for the polar opposite reasons that Oakland can’t..

Oakland is a crap hole dude.