@@ScottyBraun-FoulTerritory Mine too & I'm a Jays fan! Please don't let Manfred slide... HE is the one who enabled this disgrace & easily could have stopped it sigh
The Las VegA’s won’t have a home field advantage if locals don’t support because every home game in VegA’s will be a home game for whatever visiting teams fans happen to be vacationing in VegA’s at that time that will go in their visiting jerseys etc… Alot of taxi cab drivers have told me there’s not a lot of local hype whatsoever.
The A’s averaged 27k a game for 7 straight years until Fisher bought the team. If it weren’t for Mt Davis they probably would’ve had 30k+. Attendance trended downward ever since as ownership turned off the fan base.
Yup, and a new modern park with nice amenities on the same land would easily draw 30k if the team is decent. The A's said the area is unviable. I disagree. It can be cleaned up, add housing, bars, things to do after the game.
@@SuperCatacata for sure. Rams owner paid crazy money for over budgeted stadium there. Fisher is such a broke billionaire, he has to scale his stadium down to only 30k plus 3k standing room. It looks so weird with views of that fake Vegas skyline. I hate that town. Will never go back there.
I would like to thank you guys for covering this. I was raised green and gold. My grandfather and father both. For 46 years I have supported them. After this season I will walk away from baseball as a whole. Reality is that all the casual fans left long ago. Ran off by this horrifically bad ownership. All that is left is… or was… us die hards. As a person that lives in the central valley I could maybe… maybe… follow them if they stayed in Sacramento. As it is an equal distance to get there as it is to Oakland. Even though it wouldn’t feel right. LV is a bridge too far though. It all ends there. If you decimate your hard core base… the casuals won’t waste their time… in a town that is dodger country… how could you ever succeed?
It's a bad look for all of baseball. Baseball is very much a local sport and relies on connections to communities. White Sox and D-backs fans should be worried if this is how the league treats its fans.
@@ronclark9724What is this John Fisher’s burner account? In a lot of situations locals subsidize the stadiums with taxes. Besides that, no one said the locals own the team. The original comment is about the team in a new city not having a fan base & every game for the players will feel like an away game (see Chargers after moving from San Diego). In a sport that’s already struggling to combat declining viewership, how can it be a good move to show prospective fans that a franchise they get attached to might end up moving in a few years?
@@greetingsmars The chargers stadium was already being overtaken by opposing fans in San Diego. Plus Oakland is an awful city that you wouldn’t wanna take your family to.
Went to my first A’s game on Casey Stengel Day in 1968. I was sitting in the lower deck by 3rd Basw in 1991 when Rickey Henderson broke the all time stolen base record. I had season tickets in the 80’s so saw the All-Star game as well the World Series. I took my oldest son, now 29 as a new born infant on opening day 1995 that happened in June because of the strike in 1994. I went to my first MLB game at Wrigley in Chicago in 1958 , the first year the Dodgers were in Los Angeles. I have attended my last MLB game.
My grandma has been an A's fan for several times my lifespan. Will probably never watch baseball after this year. Can't imagine abandoning fans you've had for 50+ years.
Oakland should be ashamed of themselves as well stealing the A's from Kansas City. San Francisco should be ashamed of themselves too for stealing the Giants from New York City. Professional baseball IS a business, get over it... What goes around comes around... When tenants leases expire, they go shopping for a better property or a cheaper property. If a landlord desires the tenant to sign a new lease, OFFER UPGRADES, refurbish the property or build a new better property. This is Real Estate 101 folks, not rocket science...
Fisher is the worst owner in sports and the A's are the biggest disaster in American sports, but.....I just want to remind people that the Athletics would be playing in San Jose RIGHT NOW if the Giants wouldn't have blocked it. They're the bad guys here too.
Fisher is evil, but all of MLB, Manfred, the SF Giants, and the national baseball media all have blood on their hands here. A’s fans have been abandoned by everyone. As a life long A’s fan, I have walked away from baseball, as baseball has walked away from us A’s fans. The cautionary tale here is that tomorrow it can be your owner and your team…
Having a fancy new stadium on the Vegas strip will appear more impressive to his buddies. I can't think of another reason to leave other than bragging rights.
As an A's fan, he just pissed off a lot of people with that letter. All of the achievements he mentioned were not during his tenure. Also if he wished to meet with fans,then why was he never seen at fan fests? And never did any interviews in the bay area aside from the behind the camera interview? He is so pathetic.
Reminds me of when the NBA stole my SuperSonics from Seattle then said ‘we tried’ ‘no fan support’ ‘no one wants to buy the team except OKC investors’. I feel terrible for Oakland fans…the Sonics leaving is a hole that has never been refilled in my life and as much as I try to root for other NBA teams…I don’t have passion for it, they aren’t “MY team”. My team had 41 years of amazing history…and they moved it to OKC.
I feel so sorry for Oakland fans. The Raiders a couple years ago and now the Athletics. A damn shame to relocate two iconic franchises because of incompetent ownership.
Fisher shouldnt bring up none of the accomplishments of the OAKLAND A’s since he’s bought the team they did nothing and they wont do anything as long as John penny Pincher is in ownership
I'm sure Vegas sees the dumpster fire clown car show that is coming. I'm a life long A's fan. My mom was pregnant with me going to the World Series in the 70's. My first signature on my first glove was Billy Martin. Fisher has broken my baseball heart.
Thank you for clearing things up for the rest of the baseball world. We've been mistreated for too long and now we're losing our team. If you're gonna leave just F**king leave. Stop trying to make us all feel worse.
@@ronclark9724thank you I was going to ask the same thing. Some folks don’t realize you can’t rip ownership from someone simply because they don’t like him or agrees with the way he runs a franchise.
used to be a pennant race involved the players. this year its a neck and neck race between Fisher, Reinsdorf and Moreno for most slimy owner. Who would be the corporate sponsor for this new award?
Fischer somehow thought that the letter would keep fans from leaving the team behind. It wouldve been a better look if they said absolutely nothing, at least then it wouldve been honest to the fanbase.
He didn't need to. Another city will build a new stadium just to LAND a PRECIOUS MLB team. Las Vegas did, Oakland didn't... Apparenly a MLB team is NOT PRECIOUS in Oakland... ua-cam.com/video/Om8iSXUAKh0/v-deo.html
Omg this was great - eff fisher to hell. I have been bleeding 🩸 green and gold for my entire 54 years of life - I am so miserable about all this as a former season ticket holder. I said my goodbyes last year but I am still so so angry 😡
As a league that is falling in attendance and ratings, they've lost another another fan here. I'm done with MLB. Fisher and Manfred are two incompetent clowns. Hopefully, history will show that. Pissed!
No, the Ravens are not an expansion team. Just like the A's, the former Cleveland Browns franchise tried to get a new stadium built. That did not pan out over the middle years of the 1990s. So, they moved to Baltimore of whom was willing to build the stadium denied in Cleveland. I want to say the owner was a miser as well. Pulling the same shit Fisher is doing with the A's. If I'm wrong on this, then amend my comment. The current Browns team is an expansion team.
As a New Jersey Nets fan that grew up and lives 20 mins from Brendan Byrne/Continental/Izod when the Nets moved to BK I stopped being a fan altogether. I feel for the A’s fans here. Fisher did them dirty just like Ratner did us dirty.
Commissioner Mangreed does not understand that A's fans root for the A's and whoever is playing the Giants. I attended my 1st A's game in 1970. I will remain an A's fan as long as they stay in Northern California. Once the A's leave Northern California MLB is dead to me.
The only way Manfred/Fisher can save face on this if they rebrand the team once they’re in Vegas, and grant Oakland first dibs on an expansion. But they’re both dunces, so they’ll just continue to act like they are handling this well.
FJF x-times 1 million! This guy didn't need to do this to us. He cared so much about the possibility of the Giants leaving in the 90's he bought in 10% in an effort to keep them where they were. This awful selfish man will forever be on my Sh!+ list and I hate that he's done this to us when it didn't have to happen. I wish he would have tried to speak to me individually. I wold have chosen violence.
ZERO chance us REAL diehards will support the A’s after this season and will abandon altogether unless Fisher ends being forced to sell and our beloved team stays in Oakland.
Oakland got burned by the Raiders who left the City with a huge bill after they gave Al Davis millions to build Mount Davis and then the Raiders leave. Oakland had lined up millions in grant funding for infrastructure improvements around Howard Terminal for the A's. They just didn't want to give a billionaire taxpayer money after how the Raiders stiffed Oakland. John Fisher is a billionaire, why can't he build his own stadium?
Thank goodness that the city of Oakland still has the Warriors and Raiders to root for. Oh wait. Well, I'm sure that the Oakland City Council will put all of that money they've saved on not retaining their sports teams to good use.
@@ScottyBraun-FoulTerritory Prior to Fisher buying Alameda County's half of the stadium, it was partly the city's and the county's responsibility to maintain the stadium. When the A's bought the county's half they had half the responsibility to maintain the park, but I doubt they could get Oakland to spend any money on maintenance thus with only having half the control couldn't get anything done. Oakland had, and has, no money and is and has been fully leveraged on bonds because of the lawsuits they've lost for police misconduct from their policy of, in the 70s 80s and 90s, hiring cops from the south to police their city, which engaged in demonstrate ably poor and racist policing practices. Since neither party had a controlling share, neither could get anything done without both agreeing to it.
Fisher is going to lose his shirt in Sacramento losing the $70 million revenue he was getting in Oakland. He'll get half the revenue in Sac and in Vegas he'll get crumbs because of the size of the TV market. The Players and the MLBPA have said they don't want to play in Sacramento because it's facilities are minor league and they don't want to play on artificial turf. The players still have not signed off on Sacramento yet and Fisher hasn't come up with his share of the construction costs for Vegas. This mess isn't over yet and it's going get even more sideways after the World Series.
His lease expired and the city refused to either upgrade the Coliseum or build a new football stadium. All of the other NFL teams don't play in a baseball ballpark, why should the Raiders? Duh! Like any tenant anywhere, when his lease was about to expire he went shopping. Maybe Oakland won't build a new stadium, but another city will to LAND a NFL team. In this case Las Vegas did, Oakland didn't...
@@ronclark9724funny thing is Godell wanted the Raiders to stay in the Bay Area. He pleaded with Davis to share Levi’s stadium with the 49ers but Mark Davis refused.
19:03 as a giants fan I have lost interest and respect for MLB with this whole A’s situation. It’s absolutely disgusting, and for someone that lives in Sacramento I will not support this sad ass franchise.
14:00 ok so playing in a run down stadium in one of the most dangerous cities in the world in front of 300 people isn’t “embarrassing”? Swear the host of this show acts like a little girl.
My first time to the Coliseum I was eight years old and it was April of 1968, NY vs Oak. Micky Mantel homered in the first and the A's walked it off in 11. My parents were from Philly and their first date was an A's game in 1948, Rene Lachemann caught and Tony La Russa pinch ran for the A's in that game too. My brother worked for the organization at the Coliseum in the mid 80's to mid 90's. By that time I had moved to Alaska, but I always made it down to the Coliseum for World Series and Grateful Dead New Years runs. I snuck into the 89 World Series by going through the front office with my brother, shaking Sandy Alderston's hand along the way (the Haas family, now those were owners). I raised two A's fans by being thier LL & HS BB coach and taking them to a week of Spring Training games every March for a decade. A favorite memory being Mohamed Ali patting my son on the head and giving him an autograph on Barry Zito's leg on the cover of the program. I've watched damn near every A's game since streaming has been a thing, and before that we used to get the A's on TV sometimes on Sundays, the highlight being watching Dallas Braden's perfect game with my son or taking both my kids to the Bar to watch the 20th win in a row. Now all of that has to end because of one man. FJF
MLB should force Fisher to abandon the A's name and leave it with the City of Oakland for the future expansion team. Just like the NFL forced Art Modell to forfeit the Browns name when he moved to Baltimore
What a terrible letter. He blames the fans, the city everybody but himself. Basically, he said Vegas is going to give him more money than Oakland could. A sad ending and he deserves to be rebuffed by every fan in every city he tries to fleece.
Fisher raised ticket prices and everything else. He obviously never wanted to spend money for a great team. All this in order to show that he hardly had any fans. Therefore, it looked like he had fair reason to move the team. I wish he would change the team name so I don’t feel the need to kick his ass whenever I hear it.
As if ticket prices in the rest of MLB/MiLB have not gone up for everyone... I recall $10 for game parking, now it is $30 or $40 at almost every major league ballpark....It is called inflation...
@@ronclark9724 ticket prices more than tripling in 3 years is a bit more than inflation. I’ve had season tickets for 23 years. Obviously prices of everything have gone up. Find infield seats anywhere in MLB ballparks costing more than Fishers “inflation”. Tickets for third base infield level seats are over $200. Tell me where they cost more than that.
As a displaces A's fan ... the Giants are the enemy ... Its a good season when we end with a better record than the Giants. Ever since 1989 MLB has bent over backwards, to slowly push the franchise out of the Bay, to support the Giants Brand. John Fisher grew up a Giants fan, still has season the family season tickets and has operated the A's in the best interest of the Giants. I'm done with MLB!
Been a fan of the A's for 40+ years. Fisher is 100% trash. Actually a lot of trash can be recycled which in turn makes it useful. So I guess that makes him lower than trash.
This letter seems to me like Fisher has an excuse to write it in AI-Generated form. Oakland fans deserve every right to express their disdain on the worst owner in professional sports. Manfield shouldn’t blocked the relocation last year.
As a San diegan I grew up hating that stadium and the raiders. Tuesday I flew in just to catch a game and console my As friends. After losing the chargers I quit the NFL. It broke my heart. Oakland has lost 3 teams in like 5 years. No one deserves that
Haven’t the players accused the A’s in the past of wrongfully receiving revenue sharing? They called out the A’s as a franchise lying about their books. The players have been absolutely silent on this. It’s embarrassing that ALL of MLB is letting this happen.
Have been going to A's games since 1977.... the dumbest part of this whole thing is Fisher refusing offers to buy the team and keep them here...he is total SCUM
So I'm from Cleveland, and this stinks about the same as the Browns leaving, down to the county trying to help with public funding and the owner basically making a mess of things to the point it couldn't get done. I'm sorry Oakland, this sucks.
KUDOS to Scotty B. on - " Not wanting to read Fischer's letter, cuz he already showered today". LMAO
Props! I really can't get over how gross this owner is
You all are the best! Thank you from the bottom of this heartbroken Oakland fans heart.
Oakland on my mind
@@ScottyBraun-FoulTerritory Mine too & I'm a Jays fan! Please don't let Manfred slide... HE is the one who enabled this disgrace & easily could have stopped it sigh
"...beloved A's" - meantime they are now cut off from the history and fan base that is their whole identity!
The Las VegA’s won’t have a home field advantage if locals don’t support because every home game in VegA’s will be a home game for whatever visiting teams fans happen to be vacationing in VegA’s at that time that will go in their visiting jerseys etc… Alot of taxi cab drivers have told me there’s not a lot of local hype whatsoever.
Those taxi drivers really know the heart of Las Vegas! I know most nights as a Las Vegas resident I ride around in a Taxi and discuss my opinion!! 😂😂😂
The A’s averaged 27k a game for 7 straight years until Fisher bought the team. If it weren’t for Mt Davis they probably would’ve had 30k+. Attendance trended downward ever since as ownership turned off the fan base.
Yup, and a new modern park with nice amenities on the same land would easily draw 30k if the team is decent. The A's said the area is unviable. I disagree. It can be cleaned up, add housing, bars, things to do after the game.
@@oiler62 Yep, just look at what the Rams did with Inglewood in LA. If those with money are willing to invest, it can be done.
@@SuperCatacata for sure. Rams owner paid crazy money for over budgeted stadium there. Fisher is such a broke billionaire, he has to scale his stadium down to only 30k plus 3k standing room. It looks so weird with views of that fake Vegas skyline. I hate that town. Will never go back there.
@@oiler62 As a former Kansas City A's fan I never forgave Oakland for stealing the A's...
facts
I would like to thank you guys for covering this. I was raised green and gold. My grandfather and father both. For 46 years I have supported them. After this season I will walk away from baseball as a whole. Reality is that all the casual fans left long ago. Ran off by this horrifically bad ownership. All that is left is… or was… us die hards. As a person that lives in the central valley I could maybe… maybe… follow them if they stayed in Sacramento. As it is an equal distance to get there as it is to Oakland. Even though it wouldn’t feel right. LV is a bridge too far though. It all ends there. If you decimate your hard core base… the casuals won’t waste their time… in a town that is dodger country… how could you ever succeed?
we won't let this story go away. it's gross negligence
That might have been the hardest intro ever…definitely there with meek dream chasers intro😂
it had to happen. Fisher is ICK
It's a bad look for all of baseball. Baseball is very much a local sport and relies on connections to communities. White Sox and D-backs fans should be worried if this is how the league treats its fans.
Damn right I'm worried as a CWS fan this could be 6 years from now for them
No it’s a bad look for Oakland and California politics in general. Go woke go broke
Why do Major League Baseball fans think the teams belong to them, their city, and not the owners? Professional baseball IS a business, not a cult...
@@ronclark9724What is this John Fisher’s burner account? In a lot of situations locals subsidize the stadiums with taxes. Besides that, no one said the locals own the team. The original comment is about the team in a new city not having a fan base & every game for the players will feel like an away game (see Chargers after moving from San Diego). In a sport that’s already struggling to combat declining viewership, how can it be a good move to show prospective fans that a franchise they get attached to might end up moving in a few years?
@@greetingsmars The chargers stadium was already being overtaken by opposing fans in San Diego. Plus Oakland is an awful city that you wouldn’t wanna take your family to.
All Fisher cares about is money NOT the A's Fans
Yep, professional baseball IS a business, not a cult...
he doesn't care about baseball either. dude hates people
Speaking for myself, I’m done with Major League Baseball
Went to my first A’s game on Casey Stengel Day in 1968. I was sitting in the lower deck by 3rd Basw in 1991 when Rickey Henderson broke the all time stolen base record. I had season tickets in the 80’s so saw the All-Star game as well the World Series. I took my oldest son, now 29 as a new born infant on opening day 1995 that happened in June because of the strike in 1994. I went to my first MLB game at Wrigley in Chicago in 1958 , the first year the Dodgers were in Los Angeles. I have attended my last MLB game.
My grandma has been an A's fan for several times my lifespan. Will probably never watch baseball after this year.
Can't imagine abandoning fans you've had for 50+ years.
you deserve better
@@ScottyBraun-FoulTerritory you guys are correct, it’s not just an Oakland problem, how this has been handled makes it a MLB, as a business problem.
Fisher and MLB should be ashamed of themselves. Sacramento should be ashamed of themselves as well
Oakland should be ashamed of themselves as well stealing the A's from Kansas City. San Francisco should be ashamed of themselves too for stealing the Giants from New York City. Professional baseball IS a business, get over it... What goes around comes around... When tenants leases expire, they go shopping for a better property or a cheaper property. If a landlord desires the tenant to sign a new lease, OFFER UPGRADES, refurbish the property or build a new better property. This is Real Estate 101 folks, not rocket science...
Vegas is a Dodgers town too.
yup and Fisher won't change that. he'll sell eventually
SF is a dodgers town too. Dodgers outnumber giants fans when we go to dodger stadium north.
Vegas has a lot of dodgers and laker fans.
Fisher is the worst owner in sports and the A's are the biggest disaster in American sports, but.....I just want to remind people that the Athletics would be playing in San Jose RIGHT NOW if the Giants wouldn't have blocked it. They're the bad guys here too.
The Giants have blood on their hands…
Fisher is evil, but all of MLB, Manfred, the SF Giants, and the national baseball media all have blood on their hands here. A’s fans have been abandoned by everyone. As a life long A’s fan, I have walked away from baseball, as baseball has walked away from us A’s fans. The cautionary tale here is that tomorrow it can be your owner and your team…
Mark Davis of the Raiders is 5xs worse, than John Fisher.
These guys can rip the A’s situation all day long but they have been totally complicit.
Not sure how he's going to profit going from a large market to a small one. A 30,000 seat stadium is less than Fenway. Make it make sense.
He sure n’ the hell ain’t gonna profit in Sac Either…..
Meanwhile Florida still has 2 teams that no one gives a shit about .
Fisher is banking on revenues being higher in Vegas than Oakland. That's the only reason u leave to go to a smaller market. Nothing else makes sense
He's relying on out of town tourists paying big $$ for seats. No home field advantage there just like the Raiders.
Having a fancy new stadium on the Vegas strip will appear more impressive to his buddies.
I can't think of another reason to leave other than bragging rights.
As an A's fan, he just pissed off a lot of people with that letter. All of the achievements he mentioned were not during his tenure. Also if he wished to meet with fans,then why was he never seen at fan fests? And never did any interviews in the bay area aside from the behind the camera interview? He is so pathetic.
Reminds me of when the NBA stole my SuperSonics from Seattle then said ‘we tried’ ‘no fan support’ ‘no one wants to buy the team except OKC investors’. I feel terrible for Oakland fans…the Sonics leaving is a hole that has never been refilled in my life and as much as I try to root for other NBA teams…I don’t have passion for it, they aren’t “MY team”. My team had 41 years of amazing history…and they moved it to OKC.
Is the melody in the background supposed to be a reference to the evil star wars empire?
Fisher is worse than Vader
I feel so sorry for Oakland fans. The Raiders a couple years ago and now the Athletics. A damn shame to relocate two iconic franchises because of incompetent ownership.
The raiders moving to Vegas from Oakland increased their value significantly. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Fisher shouldnt bring up none of the accomplishments of the OAKLAND A’s since he’s bought the team they did nothing and they wont do anything as long as John penny Pincher is in ownership
Yup!
They’ve made the playoffs 7 times, and 4 division titles with a low payroll.
@@805fillmore Then what? Traded all the players that got them there when it was time to pay. That's not how you win.
😂He might not even write a single word for the letter lol
He's a Giants fan. I bet he doesn't know much of this storied franchise's great history.
I'm sure Vegas sees the dumpster fire clown car show that is coming. I'm a life long A's fan. My mom was pregnant with me going to the World Series in the 70's. My first signature on my first glove was Billy Martin. Fisher has broken my baseball heart.
I'm one of those people: I'm done with baseball.
it's really sad
How about the amazing A's pitcher, Vida Blue...
Thank you for clearing things up for the rest of the baseball world. We've been mistreated for too long and now we're losing our team. If you're gonna leave just F**king leave. Stop trying to make us all feel worse.
Please MLB will you force the sale of the A's to local billionaire.
Why would the MLB owners do that, Fisher has not committed any large felony?
@@ronclark9724thank you I was going to ask the same thing.
Some folks don’t realize you can’t rip ownership from someone simply because they don’t like him or agrees with the way he runs a franchise.
@@ronclark9724shit only if fisher attended one of them p diddy freakoffs
I feel sorry for the A's fans in Oakland but Trevor bauer would gladly go to Sacramento or anywhere else to play MLB again!
used to be a pennant race involved the players. this year its a neck and neck race between Fisher, Reinsdorf and Moreno for most slimy owner. Who would be the corporate sponsor for this new award?
Fischer somehow thought that the letter would keep fans from leaving the team behind. It wouldve been a better look if they said absolutely nothing, at least then it wouldve been honest to the fanbase.
Oakland lost the Seals, Raiders, Warriors and now the Athletics. The common denominator here is a city that knows exactly where the foul territory is.
I thought the Angels letter regarding Shohei Ohtani leaving the organization was pathetic.
Take your billions and build your own damn stadiums!!!
He didn't need to. Another city will build a new stadium just to LAND a PRECIOUS MLB team. Las Vegas did, Oakland didn't... Apparenly a MLB team is NOT PRECIOUS in Oakland... ua-cam.com/video/Om8iSXUAKh0/v-deo.html
yes please!
I think Rob Manfred is Bud Selig's way to make his record look better by comparison.
going to las vegas will be a disaster
Omg this was great - eff fisher to hell. I have been bleeding 🩸 green and gold for my entire 54 years of life - I am so miserable about all this as a former season ticket holder. I said my goodbyes last year but I am still so so angry 😡
I've been a diehard 54 of my 62 years. Would stay up late and listen on the radio when hardly any games were on TV.
the worst owner in sports
As a league that is falling in attendance and ratings, they've lost another another fan here. I'm done with MLB. Fisher and Manfred are two incompetent clowns. Hopefully, history will show that. Pissed!
@@ridgetop1000 I'm done too. 53 years of hardcore fandom down the toilet due to a greedy, selfish owner and complicit MLB leadership.
He does have four kids. Claire, Jill, Michael and David
John Fisher sell the team. Also Kratz Iam subscribed sir.
Yeah Oakland Colosseum is a joke by today’s standards. I am from Alabama and I would take Legion Field “the Old Gray Lady” over OakCo.
disgraceful handling of a ballpark. makes me sick
John Fisher tried as much and hard to keep the As in Oakland as he signed that letter to the fans.
No, the Ravens are not an expansion team.
Just like the A's, the former Cleveland Browns franchise tried to get a new stadium built.
That did not pan out over the middle years of the 1990s.
So, they moved to Baltimore of whom was willing to build the stadium denied in Cleveland.
I want to say the owner was a miser as well.
Pulling the same shit Fisher is doing with the A's.
If I'm wrong on this, then amend my comment.
The current Browns team is an expansion team.
As a New Jersey Nets fan that grew up and lives 20 mins from Brendan Byrne/Continental/Izod when the Nets moved to BK I stopped being a fan altogether. I feel for the A’s fans here. Fisher did them dirty just like Ratner did us dirty.
Commissioner Mangreed does not understand that A's fans root for the A's and whoever is playing the Giants. I attended my 1st A's game in 1970. I will remain an A's fan as long as they stay in Northern California. Once the A's leave Northern California MLB is dead to me.
Bye!
The only way Manfred/Fisher can save face on this if they rebrand the team once they’re in Vegas, and grant Oakland first dibs on an expansion. But they’re both dunces, so they’ll just continue to act like they are handling this well.
FJF x-times 1 million! This guy didn't need to do this to us. He cared so much about the possibility of the Giants leaving in the 90's he bought in 10% in an effort to keep them where they were. This awful selfish man will forever be on my Sh!+ list and I hate that he's done this to us when it didn't have to happen. I wish he would have tried to speak to me individually. I wold have chosen violence.
ZERO chance us REAL diehards will support the A’s after this season and will abandon altogether unless Fisher ends being forced to sell and our beloved team stays in Oakland.
The city government of Oakland did this... Not the ownership team.
Oakland got burned by the Raiders who left the City with a huge bill after they gave Al Davis millions to build Mount Davis and then the Raiders leave. Oakland had lined up millions in grant funding for infrastructure improvements around Howard Terminal for the A's. They just didn't want to give a billionaire taxpayer money after how the Raiders stiffed Oakland. John Fisher is a billionaire, why can't he build his own stadium?
@@trer24Oakland is run by dummies.
"We Tried!" Or did we?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Thank goodness that the city of Oakland still has the Warriors and Raiders to root for. Oh wait.
Well, I'm sure that the Oakland City Council will put all of that money they've saved on not retaining their sports teams to good use.
It was ai generated the A’s just got a free demo of Gemini or co pilot or they tried chat gpt!
The first guy is such a crybaby. It’s kinda sad a grown man has to act like a 14 year old pissed at his math teacher lol.
Fisher is a JOKE Manfred is even WORST
We're talkin' DISGRACEBALL!
We're talkin' Fisher, Manfred and the Wolff.
Who’s worse, John Fisher or Jerry Reinsdorf?
Fisher
Can't disagree he is a horrible owner, but the county let that stadium run down to a cesspool at best.
it was Fisher's job to take care of that stadium
@@ScottyBraun-FoulTerritorythe city owns half the team. They could fix it up too.
@@ScottyBraun-FoulTerritory Prior to Fisher buying Alameda County's half of the stadium, it was partly the city's and the county's responsibility to maintain the stadium. When the A's bought the county's half they had half the responsibility to maintain the park, but I doubt they could get Oakland to spend any money on maintenance thus with only having half the control couldn't get anything done. Oakland had, and has, no money and is and has been fully leveraged on bonds because of the lawsuits they've lost for police misconduct from their policy of, in the 70s 80s and 90s, hiring cops from the south to police their city, which engaged in demonstrate ably poor and racist policing practices. Since neither party had a controlling share, neither could get anything done without both agreeing to it.
This feels like it was written by ai 🤖
Fisher is going to lose his shirt in Sacramento losing the $70 million revenue he was getting in Oakland. He'll get half the revenue in Sac and in Vegas he'll get crumbs because of the size of the TV market. The Players and the MLBPA have said they don't want to play in Sacramento because it's facilities are minor league and they don't want to play on artificial turf. The players still have not signed off on Sacramento yet and Fisher hasn't come up with his share of the construction costs for Vegas. This mess isn't over yet and it's going get even more sideways after the World Series.
you're right. it's about to get so much worse
Why did the Raiders leave?
His lease expired and the city refused to either upgrade the Coliseum or build a new football stadium. All of the other NFL teams don't play in a baseball ballpark, why should the Raiders? Duh! Like any tenant anywhere, when his lease was about to expire he went shopping. Maybe Oakland won't build a new stadium, but another city will to LAND a NFL team. In this case Las Vegas did, Oakland didn't...
@@ronclark9724and now Vegas is one of the most valuable teams in the nfl
@@ronclark9724funny thing is Godell wanted the Raiders to stay in the Bay Area. He pleaded with Davis to share Levi’s stadium with the 49ers but Mark Davis refused.
John Fisher is a bad owner/person.
I am not a A’s fan at all
I think they are so overrated but they did not deserve this.
May he rot in hell.
Thank you for your support
Don’t put religion in this. It’s a baseball team fool.
19:03 as a giants fan I have lost interest and respect for MLB with this whole A’s situation. It’s absolutely disgusting, and for someone that lives in Sacramento I will not support this sad ass franchise.
So you’re not a giants fan anymore? The Dodgers will welcome you to come watch shohei.
14:00 ok so playing in a run down stadium in one of the most dangerous cities in the world in front of 300 people isn’t “embarrassing”? Swear the host of this show acts like a little girl.
My first time to the Coliseum I was eight years old and it was April of 1968, NY vs Oak. Micky Mantel homered in the first and the A's walked it off in 11. My parents were from Philly and their first date was an A's game in 1948, Rene Lachemann caught and Tony La Russa pinch ran for the A's in that game too. My brother worked for the organization at the Coliseum in the mid 80's to mid 90's. By that time I had moved to Alaska, but I always made it down to the Coliseum for World Series and Grateful Dead New Years runs. I snuck into the 89 World Series by going through the front office with my brother, shaking Sandy Alderston's hand along the way (the Haas family, now those were owners). I raised two A's fans by being thier LL & HS BB coach and taking them to a week of Spring Training games every March for a decade. A favorite memory being Mohamed Ali patting my son on the head and giving him an autograph on Barry Zito's leg on the cover of the program. I've watched damn near every A's game since streaming has been a thing, and before that we used to get the A's on TV sometimes on Sundays, the highlight being watching Dallas Braden's perfect game with my son or taking both my kids to the Bar to watch the 20th win in a row. Now all of that has to end because of one man. FJF
MLB should force Fisher to abandon the A's name and leave it with the City of Oakland for the future expansion team. Just like the NFL forced Art Modell to forfeit the Browns name when he moved to Baltimore
What a terrible letter. He blames the fans, the city everybody but himself. Basically, he said Vegas is going to give him more money than Oakland could. A sad ending and he deserves to be rebuffed by every fan in every city he tries to fleece.
Fisher raised ticket prices and everything else. He obviously never wanted to spend money for a great team. All this in order to show that he hardly had any fans. Therefore, it looked like he had fair reason to move the team. I wish he would change the team name so I don’t feel the need to kick his ass whenever I hear it.
As if ticket prices in the rest of MLB/MiLB have not gone up for everyone... I recall $10 for game parking, now it is $30 or $40 at almost every major league ballpark....It is called inflation...
@@ronclark9724 it’s cheaper to get tickets for Yankees games now.
dude has destroyed his fam's name and the fact that he's taking the A's name to Vegas is a scam
@@ronclark9724 ticket prices more than tripling in 3 years is a bit more than inflation. I’ve had season tickets for 23 years. Obviously prices of everything have gone up. Find infield seats anywhere in MLB ballparks costing more than Fishers “inflation”. Tickets for third base infield level seats are over $200. Tell me where they cost more than that.
As a displaces A's fan ... the Giants are the enemy ... Its a good season when we end with a better record than the Giants. Ever since 1989 MLB has bent over backwards, to slowly push the franchise out of the Bay, to support the Giants Brand. John Fisher grew up a Giants fan, still has season the family season tickets and has operated the A's in the best interest of the Giants. I'm done with MLB!
Blue fan here. This is truly sad. A's belong in Cali. I hate the idea Vegas has pro sports. They already have too many teams if you ask me
Been a fan of the A's for 40+ years. Fisher is 100% trash. Actually a lot of trash can be recycled which in turn makes it useful. So I guess that makes him lower than trash.
This letter seems to me like Fisher has an excuse to write it in AI-Generated form. Oakland fans deserve every right to express their disdain on the worst owner in professional sports. Manfield shouldn’t blocked the relocation last year.
As a San diegan I grew up hating that stadium and the raiders. Tuesday I flew in just to catch a game and console my As friends. After losing the chargers I quit the NFL. It broke my heart. Oakland has lost 3 teams in like 5 years. No one deserves that
Haven’t the players accused the A’s in the past of wrongfully receiving revenue sharing? They called out the A’s as a franchise lying about their books. The players have been absolutely silent on this. It’s embarrassing that ALL of MLB is letting this happen.
Have been going to A's games since 1977.... the dumbest part of this whole thing is Fisher refusing offers to buy the team and keep them here...he is total SCUM
Did they lead the league in attendance, no! Was Hitler a fan of the Jews? No. Sorry you guys are in the dark. Bye.
Man if I went to the last couple games at Oakland I’d start f u John chants haha
I guess the UA-cam AI voice in a British accent means "dramatic."
Fisher is everything wrong in sports
Dude use chat 4 for this 😂
Manfred to blame as well
So I'm from Cleveland, and this stinks about the same as the Browns leaving, down to the county trying to help with public funding and the owner basically making a mess of things to the point it couldn't get done. I'm sorry Oakland, this sucks.