WATCH: Sights and sounds from A's last game in Oakland
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Here's a final look at the emotional and memorable day -- as the Athletics played their final game at the Oakland Coliseum. abc7ne.ws/3zM0aG2
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I'm not even an A's fan, but this broke my heart. How could John Fisher do this to these people that have supported the Athletics for 50+ years and look himself in the mirror? And the messed-up part is he's from the Bay- what a traitor!! And yes, tbe city of Oakland officials have to be held accountable as well. But at least they speak out in public, unlike Fisher. Oakland fans, my heart goes out to you.
MLB did nothing to prevent this, either - a franchise with five championships should have had some effort to preserve its history and place in the league, but no, the billionaires need a few dollars more
baby gap destroy this beloved team, hopes he sell it for good...
Might happen to the Diamondbacks as well.
Lol when your city turns to a s-hole it’s easy
You can't operate a business that is bleeding oceans of losses every game. Oakland, the city, did this to every professional sports franchise, if anything, Fisher held out WAY LONGER than anyone else, hoping they would stop electing Marxist activists into power there. He tried harder than any other major team owner.
As an Astros fan , I can honestly say I felt the heartbreak here
When I worked in downtown SF in the 90s I was a huge baseball fan and I would often go to A's games. What was crazy is that the Coliseum was closer to downtown SF than Candlestick. I worked in finance so work ended by 3 usually, so I could beat the traffic and skip over and watch the Yankees, Sox, Blue Jays. Watching an A's game before Mount Davis was always a wonderful evening, unlike games at the Stick.
My father took me to my first world series game in 1973 the A's were playing the New York Mets. We went on to win 3 consecutive world series championships!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much Oakland A's for all the great memories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As for the owner I pray you get what you truthfully deserve in life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im from Germany,and when I was a teenager,we barely could watch any baseball here. Just a recorded game once in a while. So my first games were the Oakland A‘s with the Bash Brothers,and they became my team. I’m sorry that you lose the A‘s,I never thought this would be possible. MLB should have forced Fisher to sell,and owners should be responsible for building their stadiums as well. They are billionaires,and want to make money. Well,invest! I hope,someday you get a new team,and they have to be called the A‘s again!
Dear Oakland, Montréal feels you!
Yeah, you guys also got hosed.
@@Silence_Duder_Gooder Yep! 20 years ago this year...
@@majoriedc, sorry buddy.
I remember your great teams and players.
I feel bad for you lot. Hopefully you guys get your team back if the MLB does another expansion
Montreal ??? Yeah...no one showed up after the strike, I understand. But low attendance low ticket sales, what you expect?
I could never imagine losing my favorite team, I feel for all those guys. You could tell some of them were shook up
Kudos to the news photographer that put this together. This is great work. Thank you.
Greetings to Oakland from Germany. Sad to see this. Maybe a miracle will happen. I wish it for all A's fans. Greetings from a german A
As a Yankees fan, I am big on our beautiful game's tradition.
To me, the A's & Oakland have always gone hand in hand.
My heart goes out to the ppl of Oakland, Ca.
The fans deserved so much better, long live the OAKLAND A’s
As a Mets fan, Sad for me to see the A’s last games in the coliseum. That was my first World Series, watching in 1973. & seeing my Mets lose in game 7 at Oakland. I was still 7 (not 8 until that November) but I remember that series. Especially the last game.
I'm a lifelong Cincinnati Reds fan but my heart breaks for Oakland, I remember all the great players they had over the years and of course who can forget the 1990 World Series Oakland had so much talent on that team, I couldn't imagine losing my home team like that I would honestly be devastated.....when I collected baseball cards in the 80's I always liked the A's cards cause the uniforms were cool and I loved pulling a Mcguire, Henderson or Caneseco card...
It wild being the fact that the city of Oakland lost all three of there professional sports teams in under a 5-7 year span that’s absolutely nuts. It’s wild to imagine Oakland had more teams than San Francisco and now they have absolutely nothing. As a sports fan, this is very sad to see.
I've heard Oakland isn't a safe city, and is overall considered a dump ; hence why the teams left and the poor attendance / failure to get a new stadium.
How could Fisher live with himself? Look at all of these fans man. They were always there in spirit, just not in the seats during the recent seasons because that would mean paying money to an owner that never cared about them. We deserve better. They took what was a precious tradition with my father and myself and said too bad so sad. Anger and sadness💔😡
Where were they all season before the game today?
@@Dman425Fisher did everything he could to alienate the fan base for years. He’s not the good guy here.
@@MichaelJW72 I feel your pain. The Sonics owner did the same thing after buying them before he moved them
@@MichaelJW72he will have his karma and wonder why he’s been hit with it. Well fella you’re a nasty person it seems like and you probably look down on others who aren’t a rich old snob like you
@@Dman425 before today? How about the last 10 years. Don't know if they rank lowest in attendance, but as a Red Sox fan watching Sox road games there it seems like maybe 1/3 of the seats are filled and the upper decks haven't had bodies in them for several seaons.
Love form Illinois ❤😢
Let’s go Oakland 👏👏👏👏👏
Fond memories of the Red Sox - A's rivalry (one-sided) in the late 80's, early 90's. The stadium looked enormous on TV back then.
I would have skipped work, school, wedding, funeral, important job interview, child birth to attend the final A's game.
You're one heck of a fan.
Blue Jays fan gone but never forgotten! We will always remember!
What a damn shame and I’m a Dodger fan.
OAKLAND ATHLETICS FOREVER.
A's fan since day one. From Sacramento but rooted for the A's since I was a kid. It will not be the same with the A's not being in Oakland. Sad day
I Felt From St Louis, Its Heartbreaking
Bills and Sabres fan here. I cannot imagine the pain of losing your team. We came close to it multiple times, for sure. I remember the fear and trepidation. I wish A's fans well and that one day you'll get your team back. Nobody deserves this. Just so incredibly shitty.
As a O’s fan feel for you guys not Right! Oakland doesn’t deserve this!!☹️
Padres fan here , i feel really bad for all the fans in Oakland you deserve better.
I just found out about this - From a Mets Fan I feel for Oakland right now.
It is sad. I'm still mourning the loss of Candlestick Park. Nothing ever stays the same and history is often lost.
Candlestick was a dump... Are you smoking crack
Yeah I agree and we say the past was better. If you really think about it most things are better today. Other than location and name, Levi Stadium is better than Candlestick Park and I have never been to Levi Stadium.
@@Atilla-m9i Maybe you remember the Candlestick Park cookies they sold for a brief period? My son did a commercial for them in Candlestick Park when it was closed so there were just a few camera people in there with us. We were out in the stands and if we were quiet, we could hear tones and sounds of games still circulating around us in the wind. Like history trapped inside. Awesome and eerie. And generations of my family went there together for games and events, adding to our family history. I met and saw some great Giants players for the time. Magic lived in Candlestick Park for us, for sure.
Yankee fan here. That owner is done. Too many people hurt by this. Oakland A's are such a big part of baseball. The next 4 years are going to be hell. Who the hell is going to travel to Sacramento, and why would Sacramento care about them when they are only there temporarily? Owner messed up. Next year, I can see the ball park being completely empty. Not a single fan. Sell the team is gonna start spreading around the country.
It is sad the Oakland - Yankees games are done. The Yankees fans always packed that stadium. As for Sac though, that is A's territory. They will sell out every game. In fact, I predict they will do so well, that the A's find a way to stay there and build a small 30K stadium like Wrigley.
I live in Sacramento and we do care about baseball and sports in general. We tried really hard to get a MLS team and had it in our grasps! But the main guy behind getting a team left and now we won’t get a soccer team. We are just happy to watch a major league sports team even if it’s temporary. I’m a Yankees fan and hope to watch them play the A’s. Did you know Judge was born in Sacramento? West Sacramento is much safer than Oakland, so it’s good for the team to leave the unsafe and dangerous Oakland area
Sacramento fans are excited. And it gives them a chance to show out and prove that Sacramento wants a MLB team.
Can someone answer some questions i was curious about... what happens to the players contracts when a team leaves a city? do they still follow the details like trade options? does the athletics have a stadium yet?
When sports franchises move, the operations portion just follows them to the new city they are going. So since the A's are playing in Sacramento for the next three years, their operations will just transfer to that city, since the ownership is still the same, nothing really changes there and then will transfer to Las Vegas permanently in 2028.
Now on the contrary when the Arizona Coyotes were sold to a new owner after the NHL season last year, their Hockey Operations, players, their contracts, hockey operations staff, draft picks etc..., were sold to the new owner that bought the team.
It doesn't so much matter about the city, but rather it's the owner of that franchise that bears the liability and responsibility of players, operations, and their contracts. So as I said John Fisher is still the owner of the A's, so regardless of what city they are in, he still bears responsibility for all of that if he had sold them to a different owner, then that owner or ownership group becomes responsible for that.
@@PENS68 thanks for the details. That answered a lot. I kinda liked the A’s Closer who threw 104 last April (cant remember the name) and was hoping he joins the Dodgers 🤭
If business is separated from game, such sad days will not be seen.
sad day for baseball and baseball lovers 😟
Only saw baseball there once, but many concerts back in the day... walking through that bridge with the chain link cover thing.....
Hated the A’s in the 80’s and early 90’s because they always seemed to have my beloved Blue Jays number. Especially in the 1989 ALCS, but I can’t help but feel sadness and pity for those A’s fans. You all deserve so much better.😢
As a' rival' Angels fan... I feel for these fans and it was hard to watch their emotions come out after the game was over. Damn you John Fisher for robbing these fans of their team!
Greedy owners knows the loyalty fans showed over years 1968-2024.Oakland A's has some iconic moments in baseball history
I’m not a athletics fan but I feel for the city of Oakland man as a raiders fan I felt that pain when they left Oakland ow the athletics man I can’t imagine that was all yall had and now it’s gone the memories people had there that will last a lifetime now those experiences will never be lived but now that the Oakland ballers are there I hope the at can at least fill that void in Oakland I know they are not a major league team but it’s better than nothing I’m hoping the xfl brings a football team to Oakland since the raiders are no longer there to fill that void that desperately needed in Oakland.
Tears in Oakland
Despite being a Giants Fan, I stand in solidarity with A’s fans as I know that this is truly a sad day for you all. However, if the City of Oakland had better leadership and the A’s owners including the owners of the other two teams that left weren’t too stubborn, the Coliseum City Proposal which involved redeveloping the entire area into a mixed-use neighborhood which would have included a new stadium should have been built instead considering the fact that the site is well served by transit including easy freeway access should have been approved and built. I do also believe that the A’s departure is likely going to increase the support to recall the Mayor of Oakland, and I won’t be that surprised if it does in fact happen.
I visited Coliseum once in 2014 for Red Sox @ A's. Sad for the fans and unbelievable how the owner John Fisher did for all.
😢 After this weekend, the Oakland A's are "no more". Yet the Tampa Bay Rays who field a good, competitive team every year can't " draw flies" to their home games. And they stay in business! Go figure.
1:33
Tampa averages 5,000 more per game than Oakland
2:15 That sight makes a grown man weep. Packed stands.🥺
A's fans deserve better.
Another one bites the dust..Greed has ruined sports
This time the City ruined it
I visited San Francisco earlier this month, and when I went to the As game, it was like being at a mortuary.
The Oakland A's Stadium, Was Old, But What Old Stadium Was So Fun Like This Stadium, IT WAS SO FUN😅😅😅😅
Where were they during the season, though?
This 👆
Damn Oakland don’t have no more teams that’s crazy
Oakland is a dump. And you wonder why nobody wants to be there.
I made the news!!!!!!!
I was there for the last game of 2023, saw Shohei pitch..Might be the last game he ever pitches
Oakland- Sacramento- las Vegas 🥎⚾️
If I was an A’s fan I would not have given Fisher a single dollar on the last day. History be dam, the only way these owners will understand anything is by hitting them in their pocket. Stop holding cities and the fan base hostage to your well intentioned mediocre sport teams which is build year in and year out. Fans of sports teams should stop supporting teams that do nothing to make their teams champions. All they do is make them competitive so you the fan can continue to hope and keep the owners happy by making them two or three times a billionaire.
Pirates fan here much rather see the Oakland A's at the coliseum than anywhere else and this is coming from Pittsburgh I hope something happens to keep that baseball team there because if it could happen to Oakland it can happen to Pittsburgh as well
Rip Oakland A’s ✊🏾
Sad to see this happening
I'm an A's fan but I went to many a game in the past 10 years and the fans barely show up. How can you say you loved them when barely went to games? This is one reason the are leaving and yes the ownership isn't the best. Fun fact Reggie Jackson was supposed to buy A's before Lou Wolfe and Bud Selig block it😢 Let's Go A's
Y'all better go to every game in Sacramento next year!
Wish this had been a night game with fireworks afterwards, the A’s only had to travel to Seattle for tomorrows game
this is terribly saddening.
I guess the Oakland fans now know how the people in KC and Philadelphia felt when the A's left those cities.
Vegas trips!
Why the hell didn't the Expos have a sellout like this when they had their final home game? (I was quite young back then, but I've heard the stories were similar ; poor attendance, mostly losing records, failure to get a new stadium etc.)
OFFO
Oakland forever forever Oakland
thanks ⚫ for scaring everything good away
We're with you A's fans.
All 6 of you.
😝😝😝
That's just cold blooded, yet I can't stop laughing, nonetheless.
In reality, there are few MLB teams today that aren’t the result of a franchise moving to the current city.
Another kick in the gut for the entire Bay Area. I’m an American Leaguer
We will miss you Oakland A's 4EVER 4LIFE BOYEEE
Between the raiders and now the A’s That City is Empty!…. Absolutely Sad!
Probably first full house in years Charlie Finley would never allowed this pretty sad for the people and players
Raiders, Warriors now the Amazing A's. What does the city of Oakland have left for the people??
why do they only fill the stadium on the last day like they even care...
As a Sacramento Kings fan, I’m conflicted. Most fans in Sacramento are excited to have MLB here for the next few seasons but they also remember how we almost lost the Kings. Unfortunately the game is set up that you have to pay to play. These billionaires can essentially hold these cities hostage.
i wanted to see "regina athletics" instead of sacramento.
Fuckin sad man shit is a bummer from a Philly fan
😢
As a season-ticket holder in Oakland for the Raiders,
I just wanted to say
THANKS FOR NOTHING CITY OF OAKLAND !!!
Thank you for just outright letting first the Raiders, and then the A’s leave
OAKLAND HAS BECOME WOKELAND !!!
You conservatives are looney 😂
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Transgender day on Easter
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GET HELP !!!!!!
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The city of Oakland didnt deserve this. Shame on the owner!
I hope this doesnt turn kids tp trouble. Some kids need sports to keep them entertained ans united with their families.
How can two historically important franchises have to leave a city. I know its all about the money, but nothing could have been figured out
Does that mean that billy bean has to Vineway real out a resume .?
Folks, professional sports is a business. The fans are the consumers.
Just as you would not care if Amazon broke up and disappeared, you should not care if a baseball team moves.
They don't owe you anything beyond the game you went to and paid for.
Then fans shouldn't make the deep emotional investment in the team in the first place. Come to think of it, what's the point in becoming a fan then?
Professional sports is a different animal from other businesses. It requires a level of generating fanaticism in order to be profitable. To achieve that, ownership needs to invest in the team and in the community. This didn't happen with the A's.
It's a sad day. You gotta know banks and billionaires are running a mirage in the US that they care about customers. If you look at a filthy, rotten sole of an owner who has never built or creates anything ever in his life, you know he just cares about milking markets for cash. My guess is that owner has never built a thing in his life. He probably got a Wall Street bond for his birthday at 4 years old and was like, oh, I can just make cash but sitting home eating pudding. Hope Oakland gets a new team in 2-3 years.
No they aren't. The city is a disaster. They don't have enough money for schools much less a professional baseball team. Damn In and Out had to close down because it was dangerous to go there and eat. And you wonder why they left?
@@milt6208 there is no money for schools in NY, but they just taxed the people $950 million in education tax to pay for the Buffalo Bills stadium. See how you can tax people even when there is no money and people can't afford food?
@@imsnowedn New York is one of the richest cities in the world wtf you on?
@@warlordop713 your literally illiterate. You lived in NY? Highest taxes, highest rents in the country next to California. Yeah, probably you read nothing. You just remember when Donald Trump was King of New York in 1989, and based on that you decided everyone in New York was born rich. Uhhhh. Average pay in NY is $17/hour, average rent $1600, beef jerky $9.00 an ounce. Go figure. Also, New York is a State, with high State Taxes. It's not a city, unless you live in the .1% of the square mileage that is Manhattan, then you are in NYC
@@warlordop713and the Silicon Valley isn’t?
360p video in todays age? Oakland really is falling apart.
No fan of the A’s but dam this is painful to watch for these fans, FUXK Fisher, lying con
25839 Corkery Road
Damn I’m freakin old,,,, I’m just gonna kiss my son while he is sleeping and go to bed….
Man that’s sad
I don’t blame these teams for wanting to leave the Bay Area. It’s turned into a $hithole
You ain't lying 🤥 the bay area from San Jose to Berkeley and all the cities in between are SH*T holes
Yeah, especially Oakland cuz its a MESS!!!!!
Eric the actor would have been very sad.
Blame it to the city management of Oakland
Just a matter of time for them to leave. Oakland is a hot mess with leaderless politicians.
Name one
@@AllMagasGoToGitmooakland'll have 3 more teams before you get an answer here
Jeanie Center
Waters Springs
Too bad the communities didn't think they the team was worthy enough to keep them 😅
anyone else notice the lack of blacks in the crowd?
Weirdo
Where have all these “fans” been the past two decades? There’s a reason the team is moving: the fanbase just sucks
And As fans attended this game why? Shouldn’t have given Fisher one cent.
360p in 2024 is wild..
Buckridge Corners
Alisha Springs
Oakland has lost three teams in 5 years. Unbelievable.