Why Almost NOBODY Shows Up to Oakland A’s Games 

Actually in 1979 (43 years ago) the A's home attendance was a paltry 306.763. The actual playing field at the Coliseum is nice. Especially since the Raiders no longer play there. The biggest issue is a billionaire owner who refuses to spend any money.

I'd also mention the A's have terrible player retention. Outside of the most dedicated fans, it's very hard to keep up with the revolving door policy of the A's. We only have something like 9 returning players.

It’s all Fisher’s fault; every problem with the A’s stems from him

Oakland is also wild wild WILD west after dark.

WHEN YOU GOT CHEAP OWNERS THATS WHAT YOU GET.

What isn't being discussed much is why should Oakland invest alot of time and money when the ownership has gone out of its way to alienate the fan base

Such a shame, I loved that park when I was a kid. The stands always used to be filled

I still show up, love my A’s but the ownership is god awful.

I'm an A's die-hard, and the owner is cheap. Any good player gets traded.

For years, the A’s have always trade away their players. I can’t even remember the last time they offered a contract extension or sign somebody long term. Plain and simple, this organization sucks! They’re not even worth following or being a fan of this pathetic team.

I used to be an Expos fan.......this is just too familiar

It's owners fault. Get a deal on a ballpark done and stop fire selling every single time we have a good team.

Just went to a game today Blue jays vs As (2-1) Had fun

This is a great summary of the issues. Bad ownership. a city that has been burned by the Raiders, burned by the Warriors, and won't play their game anymore. Last week, the A's bought the land to build in Las Vegas. After Davis Mountain, which ruined the view before the Raiders left the colisseum, the city won't subsidize Joe Fisher. This is an MLB greed proplem, contributed to by the NBA and NFL and Davis family. How many times do you get screwed before you stop paying for the privelege?

The owner/team doesn't want to spend money 💲💲 for good players or retain them

Time to send in Brad Pitt.. again.

You’re awesome, keep it going

The Owner is purposefully tanking the team to relocate, just like “Major League” and “Any Given Sunday”

My first baseball game was Boston at Oakland in 1981. Go A's!

An a hardcore A's fan for years, I will point out what makes me reluctant to attend some games. 1) the ownership doesn't care. They will ship away good players just to shed the payroll. 2) ticket prices. ticket prices have gone up ehile playing quality has gone down. 3) consession stand prices are also ridiculous. 4) the area. We know East Oakland is a rough area, but less and less people go, so when you go to the Coliseum on bart or uber, you dropped off at lonely and sketchy areas.

I think you have the prices mixed up on your price increase break down. Section 119 is a lower level seating as compared to 225 which is second deck sitting with the general public. I think the number for those two sections need to be flipped. Section 119 should be the highest priced ticket since it is closer to the field and is field level. Just my input as an A’s fan that’s purchased those tickets in those sections before.

They also traded away some of their best player to save on money. Is like the owner of the franchise doesnt even cared about the fanbase or doesnt cared about winning at all.Only cared about building new stadium either in Oakland or Las Vegas.

Incredible if they can beat the Marlins 10K/game in 2018 & 2019

I thought they were going to move to East LA and become the East Al Eh, Ehs 👍🏽👍🏽(in Fonzie's voice) LMFAO

The law of unintended consequences...after a couple of years telling everyone how bad the Coliseum is, in order to justify a new shiny ballpark, the fans quit coming. Sad...obviously a rebuild doesn't help.

A's need to Stay in Oakland

i live in oakland and i think our city government should seriously consider funding the HT ballpark because the A’s need a better place to play than OakCo and we as a city need more public housing and public parks space. it’s a win-win.

i like the coliseum and didnt even grow up in oakland or in the bay area …… cant all be bells and whistles. coliseum has a unique charm and feels classic with less focus on all the spoils because there are less spoils. i also like giants games at oracle. it would be a shame if the bay area didnt have two teams… these two teams.

I don't buy the business regarding the condition of the venue....He did not state any problem that affects fans. If there is, please enumerate below. No. It is competition for folks' time, prices of tickets, prices of food/drink and crummy teams. A lot of this is caused by greed. Owner greed and player greed.

Is the A's moving to Vegas?

Just for a minute I thought it was your brother's voice 🤣🤣

The A's would ve been a juggernaut if they kept their top farm players in the past 10 years

The reason why bc the a’s are terrible The stadium is run down and the food is expensive

Philly is calling you back home. A's vs. Phils.....unbelievable! It's time Johnny. It's time.

The umpires club house is upstairs so water doesn’t flow up

If they lowered ticket prices commensurate with their payroll they would have a lot higher attendance

Oakland A's is the farm system for other teams..They groom great players, only to let them go via trade, free agency

Oakland stadium is definitely needed to be relocated to a better downtown location! Oakland Chinatown is needed to be rebuilt it too!

Oakland is not in a small market. The Giants, Warriors, 49ers, and Sharks all have money and spend it. The Bay Area is the fifth largest market in the US. The “small market” is an excuse for the owners to be cheap. One thing the A’s have going for their culture is they are a blue collar team, while the giants are more white collar. Meaning they attract the more gritty fans while the giants are more of the business type. That alone provides the A’s for a large fan base, particularly in the east bay. Oakland, San Leandro, Hayward, Fremont, Richmond, Pittsburg are very blue collar type cities and if the A’s ownership would just spend some damn money it would pay dividends for them. Billy Beane can find talent. Imagine if he could also pay them.

They dump all their players, frankly the only reason I would go is to see the other team

Fast forward to April 2023, the A’s are moving to Las Vegas!

Mainly because the owners keep getting rid of the A’s best players. The owners do not care about the team

Off to Las Vegas 😂🎉

It’s simple they suck and ownership refuses to spend even a little bit of money so they lose almost every decent player they develop which causes fans to not care considering ownership doesn’t care

CNN of baseball! It’s not the stadium, it’s the neighborhood!

The SF 49ers had the same problem with no fans showing up during the 2-14 years! Makes one wonder where was the so called “faithful” BangBangNinerGang??

have you seen an A's game live recently? 8,000???? no way brother. i'd be surprised if they're in actuality hosting 3,000 fans per game. 8,000 is tickets sold maybe, but not gate count.

It’s Oakland. The money, the attractions, the vitality is all on the other side of the bay in SF.

660,000?! That's as bad as the N.Y. Giants in 1955-57.

The A's have made me hate baseball as a sport. That's how bad they are.

Annoy the Giants!!! Keep the A's!!!

They had the lowest in history 2,000 n sum change.. I been a die hard Orioles fan my whole life and yeah were on a tear this year we were not good for a while but I would still go to games Our stadium is awesome so I can’t relate to that but I’m sure u heard of the Family Feud goin on with the mother n brother vs the other Angelo’s brother they were talkin about moving the Os to Tennessee! We’re lighting the league up now but the colts snuck out in the middle of the night , ol Mayflower truck

It doesn't help selling your good players

I have watched 1 second of this video as a diehard A's fan for 21 years. If this video isn't about 1 thing I swear I'll go on a rant and tell you why the A's attendance actually sucks. After Further Review: You did hit a lot of the points on why the attendance is low.... so i won't go to bad on you. However, you mentioned the big issue, but also didn't. The Big issue is Kaval and Fischer alienating the fanbase as much as possible over especially the past decade plus, to the point where this is a literal fan boycott of the team. Like you mentioned, Oakland Coliseum is not nice, and it's Fischer's job to upkeep the stadium, city of Oakland has publicly funded renovations before (Mt.Davis, the stands above center that are always tarped off the city payed for to entice the Raiders into coming back to Oakland in the 90's..... I think). . Also with the raising of ticket prices, and the selling of Fan favorite like Chapman, Olson, Bassit, Manaea, and what will ultimately be Ramon, Frankie, and Murphy (Langliers is ready, murphy is gonna be gone) Fischer and Kaval have cut the necks of A's fans everywhere. On top of all this, Oakland went back on the revenue sharing program this year, which is supposed to put more money into owners pockets to improve your team on the field, Instead of paying players Fischer had a firesale of the team., selling off top stars like Olson who signed for 170 million the day he got traded, and chapman who is a multi time platinum glove winner, for pennies on a dollar (besides the oly trade, Pache and Langliers are both going to be good.)

MLB should work on revoking the club’s franchise, or force the current owner to sell.

Thats not the reason. people are broke & cutting out things they dont need in their life

It's not Stadium... It is Brain dead Ownership. If Fischer still owner then, Let them Go.

Owner ship!!!!

you fail to mention that they moved to Vegas already!

Because the owner is doing a dirty deal to build condominiums and office buildings on the stadium’s land when they’re gone.

They'll need to build a new stadium in Vegas by 2025

They need to have an amusement park themed stadium where you can see a roller coaster 🎢 from home plate looking out the ballpark toward centerfield. Bring back the 1969 and 1970 yellow vest top uniforms with the numbers not only on the back but on the side lower front jersey and on the pants. This made the A's look very interesting. I'm a lifelong lifetime New York Yankees fan but remember that uniform from the 1969 and 1970 season. The roller coaster amusement park theme would appeal to kids and make it fun. If an A's player hits a home run the roller coaster cart could ride by with a clown and artificial screaming noises and cotton candy neon lights from the scoreboard. That sounds like fun to me and would liven up the place. Plus you need photos inside the stadium of past Oakland A's greats. I'm a Yankees fan and love the photos of the old players at Yankee Stadium. The A's have an advantage over boring expansion teams which have no history at all. Amusement parks themed stadium is the way to go as they can call it the Oakland Amusement fan's Funhouse.

Did he day the new Oakland project would be privately financed? If that's the case, what's the problem?

I grew up as an A’s fan in the late 80’s. I’ve been a fan for over 30 years but I think I speak for most A’s fans and say I’m tired of the direction the franchise has taken over the last 20+ years. It doesn’t have much to do with the stadium actually. I’ve been to many A’s games and while I liked the Coliseum better before the Raiders came back, it’s not all that bad even now. Moneyball, bad trades, and extremely cheap ownership. The A’s haven’t broken any attendance records but they have drawn over 2 million fans several times within the last 20 years which ranked them in the top half of the league at the time. I think most of us A’s fans at this point realize there is absolutely no hope for this franchise the way it’s constructed so why bother?

Their rude employees and security doesnt help either security needs to make it more fan friendly and not yell at people who just want to check out the different sections of the stadium

If the current owner doesn't sell then let it move.

Because owners keep trading their up and coming players

I would love no one to show up to games so I could catch 1 million balls a game

Has nothing to do with this stadium. Stop blaming the stadium. The A’s suck no one wants to watch team that keep sucking and trading there good players.

I just did a video showing the state of how little of no one there is there.

Move em to Memphis,TN..... yeah I said Memphis.

Because poor owners shouldn’t be allowed to own teams. Oakland has always had poor/cheap owners. That means losing, coupled with a dangerous high-crime city. The coliseum is a fine park

its because they probably know they are heading to vegas...nothing can stop that now

Move them to Birmingham

It's a boring sport and there are other things to do in the Bay Area. Oakland is dangerous and a terrible place for professional sports franchises, which is why the Raiders, the Warriors and eventually the A's, will have relocated to more desirable and prosperous locations. The newer venues like Levi's Stadium and Chase Arena are basically corporate poster boards where people take selfies.

Too dangerous to go down there and oakland economy is crumbling. Warriors moved, raiders moved, and athletics will go next. Ownership has been wanting to move for awhile that's why they don't spend anything. They just buying their time.

Bring them to jersey sell out every game

Why would I support a team that's is leaving I wouldn't go either

You gotta be outta your goddamn mind if you think Im paying 6500 for a baseball game I can get a better view of online.

I blame the Warriors moving as a start of this downfall. We A's fans are dedicated and love our team, but not in love with the way GS and the Raiders have left rural California fanbases high and dry.

You think attendance was bad last year....you ain't seen nothing yet.

Poor athletics suffering 😶

Because the A’s gave up.

Billy Beane ruined the A's.

John fishers fault not the fans

#TheTeamNeedsASeriousOverhaulStat!

Leaving Oakland is the best long term business decision.

They should have stayed in Kansas CIty.

Alot of Oaklander's 🌴 are underemployed. Bay AREA 🎃

It's owners fault don't blame fans they protesting owner

Oakland dropped the Ball with the Raiders, trust me they will do the same thing with the A's. Can you say Las Vegas A's? We shall see. Stay Tuned.

I know this guy thinks he knows everything but that’s not the only reason why the As have low attendance. Let’s talk about how 80 percent of their fan base was pushed out by big tech and forced to move east like Stockton Modesto sac etc so it’s almost impossible to make it to a game. And all the tech /liberals only go to games in SF cause it’s looks prettier for their IG story.

My first time at a ball game is this weekend... I'm doing my homework.

Who's going to win the tug of war contest between Oakland and Las Vegas??????????

Don't most MLB stadiums have low attendance numbers, compared to other sports like the NBA and the NFL ?

The A’s are a disgrace to professional baseball. They need to be kicked out of Major League baseball.

Oakland will never have professional teams again until the entire city is gentrified. It has been a dangerous toilet since the 80’s.

If the people about them would have wanted a baseball team they would have thought forward a long time ago. Off to Vegas baby 🏆💪🇺🇸💯💚

Forget Vegas! San Antonio, Texas!

Owners blow, business model of dumping best players for prospects not exactly the way to appease the fans, just move or sell. Go Giants…