It’s Official: Oakland A’s Are Moving To Las Vegas

[Dogbreath90]

The rumors are starting to fly, about who is teaming with who, to try to purchase the A’s, and keep them in Oakland.   I’ve heard that a couple celebrities, and a tech mogul, might advancing a bid?

We should hear more in a week or so, if true?

[Lester_in_reno]

the current A's owner is a total farking A-hole... and I agree with the post that said   he will sell out once  the new  place is built. He doesn't care.

 

[Slapdad]

On 6/20/2023 at 4:36 AM, RebelRobert said:

It was always going to be Football and Baseball that needed help financially to build their expensive stadiums. Las Vegas has now wrapped that up and the complaining can end. NBA will be able to move to Las Vegas with little or no public help.

The mechanisms are in place now to pay for both NFL and MLB stadiums and their replacement stadiums in 30 years. Both of these stadiums will bring in visitors to Las Vegas and host multiple SuperBowls and World Series!

Hopefully NFR will be able to move to this new MLB Stadium or the NBA Arena that will be coming right behind it. Las Vegas Thunder has a nice ring to it. 

I can’t wait to watch the Cubs, Dodgers, Yankees, and Red Sox take on our Las Vegas A’s as headliners on the Las Vegas Sttip.

Las Vegas is going to submit a bid to host the World Series, are they? 

[Spot50B]

On 6/20/2023 at 5:36 AM, RebelRobert said:

The mechanisms are in place now to pay for both NFL and MLB stadiums and their replacement stadiums in 30 years. Both of these stadiums will bring in visitors to Las Vegas and host multiple SuperBowls and World Series!

You mean the All Star Game right? The As aren't going to the World Series with their current owner.

[toonkee]

On 6/23/2023 at 10:42 AM, Slapdad said:

Las Vegas is going to submit a bid to host the World Series, are they? 

Bubble series for next pandemic.

[masterfrog]

On 6/24/2023 at 3:44 PM, Spot50B said:

You mean the All Star Game right? The As aren't going to the World Series with their current owner.

There has been some talk in the last few years about having the World Series at a neutral site.  I hope we don't see it, but money talks.

[Did I hear a WOOSH?]

On 6/20/2023 at 10:33 AM, RSF said:

Somewhat related, The Athletic polled 100 current MLB players on their choice for the next expansion city.
 

 

Didn’t even realize Austin, Vancouver, and SLC were being looked at.  Always heard Nash vs Charlotte vs Portland with Mexico City an emerging dark horse.

[utenation]

On 6/25/2023 at 9:27 PM, Did I hear a WOOSH? said:

Didn’t even realize Austin, Vancouver, and SLC were being looked at.  Always heard Nash vs Charlotte vs Portland with Mexico City an emerging dark horse.

For a moron that claims to know everything, you sure are dumb. 

[UNLV2001]

https://www.8newsnow.com/sports/local-sports/las-vegas-as/oakland-athletics-start-process-of-applying-to-mlb-for-move-to-las-vegas/

SEATTLE (AP) — The Oakland Athletics have started the process of applying to Major League Baseball to move to Las Vegas.

MLB last month established a relocation committee to evaluate the move, a group headed by Milwaukee Brewers chairman Mark Attanasio. Philadelphia Phillies CEO John Middleton and Kansas City Royals CEO John Sherman were also on the committee.

“They have begun to submit information related to their relocation application,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred told the Baseball Writers’ Association of America on Tuesday. “It’s not complete at this point.”

Nevada’s Legislature approved providing $380 million in public financing for a proposed $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat ballpark with a retractable roof on the Tropicana hotel site of the Las Vegas Strip. The new venue would be close to Allegiant Stadium, where the NFL’s Oakland Raiders moved to in 2020, and T-Mobile Arena, where the current Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights started play in 2017 as an expansion team.

A move would have to be approved in a vote by at least 75% of the 30 major league teams.

Las Vegas would become the fourth home for a franchise that started in Philadelphia from 1901-54, moved to Kansas City for 13 seasons and arrived in Oakland for 1968.

At 25-67, the A’s have the worst record in the major leagues and are on pace to finish 44-118, the worst record since the 2003 Detroit Tigers lost 119 games.

Oakland, with a major league-low $57.8 million opening-day payroll, is averaging a major league-low 10,089 average attendance through 44 home games, up from 8,410 at a similar point last year. The A’s have had 26 home games drawing under 10,000, including a low of 2,064 against Arizona on May 15.

Oakland’s lease at the Coliseum expires after the 2024 season.

Since the Washington Senators became the Texas Rangers for 1972, the only team to relocate has been the Montreal Expos, who became the Washington Nationals in 2005.

Manfred said MLB will consider expansion only after the A’s and Tampa Bay Rays obtain new ballparks. The Rays have discussed a new stadium in St. Petersburg.

“I hope pretty shortly thereafter we would put together an expansion committee and start talking about this issues associated with expansion,” he said.

Division realignment and the impact on central revenue would be among the issues.

 

 

[dudleyDgroot]

Soon UNLV will be in almost the same boat as San Jose State.......The Spartans currently have to compete with the 49ers, Giants, A's, Warriors, Sharks, Earthquakes, San Jose Giants, Stanford, Cal, and to a lesser extent USF, Santa Clara and St. Mary's.....

UNLV, once the only game in town, will now have to compete with the Raiders, Golden Knights, A's, Aces and soon to be an NBA franchise.....Good luck maintaining your fan base......

[masterfrog]

On 7/11/2023 at 3:31 PM, dudleyDgroot said:

Soon UNLV will be in almost the same boat as San Jose State.......The Spartans currently have to compete with the 49ers, Giants, A's, Warriors, Sharks, Earthquakes, San Jose Giants, Stanford, Cal, and to a lesser extent USF, Santa Clara and St. Mary's.....

UNLV, once the only game in town, will now have to compete with the Raiders, Golden Knights, A's, Aces and soon to be an NBA franchise.....Good luck maintaining your fan base......

As of today, even without the A’s, maintaining won’t be enough. The Rebels need to grow a fan base for their sports. 

[UNLV2001]

[TGIFaanes]

On 7/12/2023 at 10:54 AM, UNLV2001 said:

"The Battle for Vegas host by Reilly Smith" That's gonna be bitter sweet since he just got traded.

[UNLV2001]

On 7/12/2023 at 10:21 AM, TGIFaanes said:

"The Battle for Vegas host by Reilly Smith" That's gonna be bitter sweet since he just got traded.

Yeah, people were wondering if he would still be involved.........but some former VGK players still attend like Ryan Reeves, but he also lives here now 

Biggest news is the A's becoming a main sponsor..........first move into the market by the A's 

[UNLV2001]

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2023/aug/21/athletics-select-construction-team-for-las-vegas-s/

Athletics select construction team for Las Vegas stadium

The Athletics have retained a pair of industry-leading construction firms to lead the development of the team’s proposed $1.5 billion baseball stadium on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Mortenson | McCarthy Joint Venture — the same partnership that built Allegiant Stadium — will be responsible for “overseeing all construction-related activities,” the A’s announced today.

That includes preconstruction estimations, scheduling and logistics planning, bidding, coordination and management of the project’s labor and community engagement.

The hiring of Mortenson | McCarthy is contingent upon approval by the Las Vegas Stadium Authority.

[SharkTanked]

 

[dudleyDgroot]

Dave Kaval is a POS......