What Happens in Vegas: A’s in Vegas

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Post by Marshmallowmilkshake » Mon Sep 23, 2024 5:28 pm

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Mon Sep 23, 2024 5:10 pm I think it was nice too. I hope it was sincere. I just didn't like the part where he said that he hopes the Oakland fans continue to root for the Las Vegas version of the team. I'm sure some will, but many won't. And the statement may come across as insensitive.
The part recapping the failed deals to get the stadium is unnecessary, too. "Hey, we tried! It's not our fault" is how that comes off.
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Post by Edgy MD » Mon Sep 23, 2024 10:07 pm

Ouch. I haven't seen that sort of heat from Trevor May since 2019.
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Post by G-Fafif » Tue Sep 24, 2024 4:41 am

Hope for the best. Expect the Mets.
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Post by metirish » Tue Sep 24, 2024 8:19 am

Wow
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Post by MFS62 » Tue Sep 24, 2024 8:39 am

So, Larry, tell us how you really feel.
An honest, fact filled sports report.
That guy would never make it on ESPN.
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Post by Fman99 » Tue Sep 24, 2024 9:56 am

Clearly it sucks to be an A's fan but that guy also sucks. I couldn't even stomach four minutes of that.
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Post by Edgy MD » Tue Sep 24, 2024 10:04 am

I have to say that I was surprised and impressed with the number green-and-gold-clad fans with SELL signs when the Athletics came to New York.

I don't know if that reporter is bluffing about having a line to a handful of billionaires who he could call who'd be happy to take over the team, but if I was in charge of that news broadcast, interviewing some of those alleged would-be buyers would be his next assignment.
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Post by Johnny Lunchbucket » Tue Sep 24, 2024 10:08 am

His best point was calling out Fisher for refusing interviews for years then issuing a statement regretting an inability to communicate with fans on his way out the door
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Post by Frayed Knot » Tue Sep 24, 2024 10:15 am

Yeah, that doesn't help the credibility of the letter writers.

As far as the piece itself, I'm not up enough of Oakland politics and all to take a side as to how much this is the owners' fault and how much the city's.
I do know there was a ton of NIMBY-ism at each and every location that was suggested for a potential stadium. The ranter/reporter there puts all of
it on ownership, even while (briefly) allowing that local conditions contained lots of roadblocks, but doesn't back up how. Maybe he can and didn't do
so here out of time constraints, but I'm not willing to merely take his word for it.
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Post by Edgy MD » Tue Sep 24, 2024 10:28 am

I tend to wonder if — with the shakedown racket of publicly financed sports stadiums exposed for what it is — we'll get more large, established cities calling owners bluffs, rejecting deals that growing, ambitious, moneyed, smaller cities will jump at. And fewer championship matchups will be New York-vs.-LA and instead be Raleigh-Durham-vs.-Austin, or Norfolk-vs.-Talahassee.
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Post by Benjamin Grimm » Tue Sep 24, 2024 10:33 am

I suppose a test of that will be if the next expansion team goes to Nashville or to one of its suburbs.
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Post by G-Fafif » Sun Sep 29, 2024 3:24 pm

Mariners make a classy move for the last game the Oakland A’s are slated to play.

Hope for the best. Expect the Mets.
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Post by Edgy MD » Thu Nov 07, 2024 9:49 am

I'm having a lot of trouble mentally granting to them an exception to the rule that three-letter scoreboard abbreviations reference a team's official geographical home base.
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Post by Frayed Knot » Thu Nov 07, 2024 9:53 am

My abbreviation is going to be SAC for Sacramento Athletic Club (see, it works twice) until such time as they alight in Sin City at which point I switch to LVA
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Post by Fman99 » Thu Nov 07, 2024 10:12 am

Frayed Knot wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 9:53 am My abbreviation is going to be SAC for Sacramento Athletic Club (see, it works twice) until such time as they alight in Sin City at which point I switch to LVA
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Post by bmfc1 » Thu Nov 07, 2024 5:44 pm

The abbreviation should be “POS” for their owner, the way they treated the fans in OAK, and the fact they MLB has allowed them to play in a minor league ballpark for 3 years.
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Post by Edgy MD » Sat Nov 30, 2024 10:42 am

It's going to be weird for players called "up" from Las Vegas to Sacramento, getting promoted to a smaller, far quieter city.
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Post by MFS62 » Sat Nov 30, 2024 12:42 pm

And I'll guess the Baseball Annies aren't as hot, either.
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Post by Benjamin Grimm » Sat Nov 30, 2024 2:14 pm

Maybe I missed it, but did they consider having the A's play in the minor league stadium in Vegas and let the AAA team play in Sacramento?
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Post by Frayed Knot » Sat Nov 30, 2024 4:52 pm

I suspect major league players have a better shot at pulling rank and saying 'I ain't playin' in an outdoor stadium in that fuckin' heat!' than do minor league players.
Not that Sacramento isn't capable of running off impressive stretches of triple digits summer days (and nights) themselves.
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Post by Edgy MD » Sun Dec 22, 2024 2:19 pm

Greatest Philadelphia Athletic: Eddie Plank

Greatest Kansas City Athletic: Ed Charles

Greatest Oakland Athletic: Rickey

Greatest Sacramento Athletic: Luis Severino or Lawrence Butler or JJ Bleday or maybe Shea Langoliers

Greatest Las Vegas Athletic: Alonso Espinet, currently a frosh at Manhattanville.
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