Here's How the A's Could Stay in Oakland! - Quick Thoughts #52

[@bigreddylan26]

As an A’s fan who is dialed in on all of this info, thank you for your accuracy and research on all of this! Means a lot when a fan of another team actually researches and doesn’t just spew out what headlines and media tell them. Also a unique perspective with you being a Bay Area Yankee fan 🫡

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

I’m in the weeds because it means a lot to me as a Bay Area kid! I appreciate the kind words and support. 🙏

[@Macktastic415]

As a Giants fan....i would like to see Howard Terminal get built for the A's and i would like to see LasVegas get the expansion team thats home grown.

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

100%. Keep the battle of the bay in tact.

[@smokey5100]

The ideal situation would be to find a way for the A's to build their waterfront stadium which would preserve the Bay bridge series and grant LV a bonifide expansion team that they can really get behind on their own terms. Manfred was complicit in interfering with Oakland's negotiations by prematurely suggesting that he would waive the relocation fee which put the city at a disadvantage. MLB needs to fix this because there will be damaging repercussions in regards to fans in the East Bay & Northern California. Keep the faith and keep fighting (Oakland) A's fans!

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

Couldn’t have said this better myself! 👏

[@MA_808]

No businesses want to buy the suites required to help underwrite the new stadium you are discussing. Its over with

[@smokey5100]

@@lotsofthoughtssports Thank you & us Oakland fans really appreciate your video.

[@tubasungod]

They were only $80 million apart on Howard Tetminal and they could have had shovels in ground already. There was plenty of money put up by the city and state. Give Brodie Brazil a watch.

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

💯

[@creeperpumkinopexplosion4883]

MLB approved this without ANY plans put together whatsoever, financial or architectural. And Rob Manfred's hostililty and disregard for the Oakland fanbase should disgust all baseball fans. The Yankees ownership could have used their weight and swayed 7 no votes, and probably force John Fisher to sell the team to a competent owner, ridding the game of this parasite

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

100% agree through and through. The other owners (and Rob Manfred) are totally complicit as well.

[@justinmorado9525]

Well said.

[@Kevin-yn7ju]

The cleveland browns situation is the dream scenario for us A's fans right now.

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

That’s a great comparison! I should have thought of that.

[@Kevin-yn7ju]

@@lotsofthoughtssports except for the part where the ravens win 2 superbowls and the browns only make the playoffs a couple times in 25 years, we can leave that out.

[@atommy4625]

You did your research on this topic. Kudos!

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

Appreciate it. 🙏

[@halomo81]

Actually no he didn’t

[@selw0nk]

I would definitely want a expansion team in the Bay Area.

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

Yeah that would be nice for real!

[@iplayfhorn]

I think if they move anywhere, it will be SLC. They've already said that they want the A's, and I think they would make it worth the A's while to move there temporarily -- or longer. It's fairly obvious that Vegas is "meh" about the A's and might not put up such a fight if SLC started "puttin' on the moves" for the A's.

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

I could see it honestly. Plus, SLC is much less likely than Vegas to get an expansion team so they may be willing to put up with Fisher and his crap.

[@steelyblues]

Giants don’t have a retractable roof right across the Bay. Fisher is full of BS to say a retractable roof at HT was a dealbreaker.

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

100% agree

[@halomo81]

Fisher never EVER wanted a retractable roof in Oakland where are you fools coming up with these folktales

[@rainbowmade1880]

Retractable roof was never an issue at Howard Terminal. Weather is either very nice or a little chilly. Makes the stadium less expensive. Fisher is the biggest cheapskate in pro sports. Should be forced to sell to an owner that will keep the A’s in Oakland.

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

100% agree.

[@gladiator_games]

Commissioner manfred is forcing this garbage down our throats. John Fisher is the worst MLB owner. Also John Fisher forced the Raiders out of Oakland because Fisher didn’t want to share the land with the Raiders to build there new stadium on the Oakland Coliseum land. Thank you for your content on this topic 👍🏼💯

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

100% agree. Appreciate the support. 🙏

[@EastOaklandZay]

A’s need to buy the Golden Gate fields site when it closes and build there Joe Lacob would of had a new stadium by now

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

They tried. Woulda been a great site for sure as well.

[@bullwinkle2380]

The Golden Gate Fields site!!! Reckon it would work okay???

[@craigtrent2410]

LV should really break up with the A’s and Fisher… he’s a scumbag! it’s a huge mistake and really since most people who live in vegas are not native to LV they already have allegiances to other teams… it’ll be a great place for visiting team fans to go watch their team, but that will wear out really fast, just as it will with the raiders!! furthermore ask anyone who lives in LV if they’re gonna really wanna go to the strip for a baseball game!

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

Exactly, and with baseball being every day, it doesn’t work nearly as well for visiting fans.

[@bullwinkle2380]

What if the dome disintegrates???

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

True. These are the things people should think about.

[@josephthanos-rings1315]

Yo boy Fisher said that Ballys will let the A's have that view

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

Don’t buy it.

[@timotheeblonskovatrenka3087]

Oakland doesn't even need a retractable roof.

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

That’s what I’m saying.

[@SalLopez-l7v]

There is literally no chance that the A’s stay in Oakland. It’s just a dishonest way to get views

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

You can follow all my personal socials, I think there’s like a 10% chance like I said in the video.

[@MA_808]

The As need to just go. This has been going on for far too long. Complaints about the stadium have been going around since the 1970s which is why people did not even fill the stands during the World Series run. Let 'em go and move to Vegas if you all love them so much.

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

Or, ya know, fix the actual issues so the fans who have been mistreated for decades are given a good organization to root for.

[@matthewgreen8628]

Fisher stands to Double is valuation with the Vegas move. really?

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

What? What do I care about Fisher’s net worth?

[@matthewgreen8628]

@@lotsofthoughtssports Because he is the guy who would decide to stay or go

[@johnmarshall4399]

Name and team colors will stay

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

Colors will. Idk about the name.

[@halomo81]

None of it stays geniuses

[@xjr.0]

Why would you need a retractable roof in Oakland?

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

Ask John Fisher.

[@xjr.0]

@@lotsofthoughtssports I know he wanted a retractable roof. It's so you can claim you tried to get a stadium deal done, when he really planned on going too Vegas all along. By asking for 21 acres, a gondola for fans to get to the games, a retractable roof, and lots of free government money, Fisher was able to ensure that a deal didn't happen. Manfred pulled the puppet strings. They had built in excuses for why they had to leave.

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

@@xjr.0 Exactly.

[@togoandmoss]

It is astronomically unlikely that MLB will ever return to Oakland….the city is dying….. Walgreens and CVS are pulling out of Oakland.

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

The city is statistically not dying and you could make the argument about a dozen other MLB cities whose teams are never moving.

[@msn64man1]

It’s a john fisher scam guaranteed

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

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[@matthewgreen8628]

Come on dude. As a fan you don't want baseball on the strip but a city where In'-And out burger and Denny's is leaving. What's wrong with you

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

I never said I don’t want baseball on the strip or in Vegas. I said an expansion team should go there. Watch the video. Also, who gives a crap about where Denny’s is leaving or staying? It’s a dying brand anyway.

[@msn64man1]

MLB team Las Vegas coyotes

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

Not a bad name

[@bullwinkle2380]

It's a done deal!!! The shovels are in the ground!!! Don't worry, Vegas still sucks!!!

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

It’s by no means a done deal and shovels are not in the ground lol

[@markperreira5889]

So much wrong with this "analysis" it is hard to know where to start, so I am not going to. Regardless of what you think, the A's are leaving Oakland and going to Las Vegas. Oakland is a city on decline as is much of California and Las Vegas is on the rise as is most of Nevada.

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

“Decline” has no statistical backing and is just media rhetoric, but go off.

[@sirchi8731]

⚾️⚾️🤔 listen.. these team owners dont play about their stadiums. Oakland/East Bay had 20 years to provide a public funding plan to build a ballpark for the A's....they dragged their feet until A's found another partner...public funding is not going away...we all pay taxes let just do the best we can

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

But they had every right to drag their feet when it’s not a good financial decision.

[@sirchi8731]

@@lotsofthoughtssports then u lose your team....simple as that. I do wish it came to a vote because being anti business doesn't benefit a city in the long run🤔

[@sirchi8731]

@@lotsofthoughtssports so let me get this straight. U want a billionaire to take all the risks in a market that trolls him and the commissioner of baseball?? 🤔 even Joe Lacob would insist on Oakland to provide public money for a new ballpark. Maybe this area gotten to liberal and D.E.I for sports. Gonna take a more business friendly environment for sports to come back to this region. Viva Las Vegas A's

[@lotsofthoughtssports]

@@sirchi8731 you're just spewing politicized rhetoric that has nothing to do with the subject at hand. The market didn't benefit the A's because they failed to invest in their team. Decades of lack of spending and poor management, followed by a complete tear down that has netted no real assets left fans rightfully frustrated. Then blaming the fans is at best ignorance, at worst evil.

[@sirchi8731]

@@lotsofthoughtssports 🤔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.