Why are the Oakland A's trying to relocate from Oakland? This video-blog post tells the story. But it also says the A's were always with one-foot out of the door. How can you trust a business that does that? Wow. https://oaklandnewsnow.com/the-oakland-as-never-rooted-in-oakland-las-vegas-mayor-says-relocation-talk-2-years-old/92758/?swcfpc=1
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shareEvery sports team pulls this bullshit sooner or later, they try to squeeze new stadiums and other concessions out of city governments by threatening to leave and find some other city that'll build them a new, larger, more profitable statium.
shareThose days might be over. A lot of cities, particularly the tax payers, have discovered that it isn't always worth it.
shareWatched the Reds Oakland series a couple years back.
Pretty cool, oldest stadium in MLB, wasn't over commercialized, had a plastic drum posse in the bleachers. It was kinda like a Friday night high school football game.
Hope it stays as is.... different.
"oldest stadium in MLB,"
Except of course for Fenway Park where the Boston Red Sox play and Wrigley Field where the Chicago Cubs play.
What you should have said was, stadium in the worst condition in MLB.
Now that would have been entirely accurate.
As blue1981 states below, the deplorable condition of the Oakland Coliseum is why the Athletics are threatening to leave.
It is also why the NFL's Oakland Raiders left two years ago and moved to Las Vegas.
If Oakland doesn't remedy this situation, there's an excellent chance that the Athletics will also leave.
Don't forget, there's a lesson to be learned from Cleveland, Ohio.
The NFL Cleveland Browns left their ageing stadium, moved to Baltimore, Md. and became the Ravens.
So Cleveland took the bull by the horns and built two new stadiums, one for MLB's Cleveland Indians and one for a new NFL expansion team that is the current Cleveland Browns.
The danger is if they jazz it up too much and the stadium becomes over commercialized like most other ballparks, the team will lose it's blue collar working man underdog thing they have goin...
"Plastic drum posse"???
Tell me more!
A bunch if hippie type guys in the outfield bleachers banging on plastic drums for the entire game, every pitch.
You think it would be annoying but it is so far out that it's somewhat muffeled...most ballparks would kill that...but again it made it seem like a high school football game.
Every park has a unique vibe, Oakland is anti-Yankee, anti-commercialism.
IN MY HOUSE THE TEAM IS REFERRED TO AS THE OAKLAND ASSHOLES...I DONT KNOW WHY...WE DONT EVEN WATCH BASEBALL.🤔
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