(Travis Sawchik) Nous avons tous vu à quel point il est difficile de créer des bases de fans organiques de la MLB à Tampa et à Miami, donc jeter 57 ans de fandom et recommencer dans un endroit éphémère comme Las Vegas est certainement un choix.
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Par f0urxio
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I feel like this should have been blatantly obvious with the whole, « we’ll play 3 years in a minor league park » fiasco, but Fisher isn’t thinking long term. He wants to artificially increase the team’s value and cash out ASAP.
It’s about luxury boxes.
All the points have been beaten like a dead horse, but the most important thing about this to me has always been *Las Vegas residents DO NOT WANT the Oakland A’s to move there*. They *DO NOT WANT John Fisher as the owner of their MLB team*.
Many locals do want a franchise, but even those that do want an expansion team who wants to invest in the team’s success and would rather not have to pay tax money for the worst owner in all of baseball.
We’ve also seen how hard it is to build a fan base in Oakland. Even after 57 years.
Is it just me or were all these media voices who are upset about the move now not nearly as vocal for the past several years as this clearly took shape? It would have been nice to have this kind of focus on the failure of Fisher and MLB much earlier in the process when it might have had a sliver of a chance to change anything
Believing they care about locals buying tickets is certainly a choice.
*Roses are red*
*Prostitutes turn tricks*
*John Fisher’s a certified*
*Muffin-brained thumbdick*
I think we can say that the team should’ve stayed in Oakland without resorting to pre-2017 ideas of what Las Vegas is like. Saying Las Vegas has a hard time supporting a sports team is demonstrably untrue.
[This was the scene outside the hockey arena when the NHL team won the Stanley Cup in 2023.](https://youtu.be/fbnNvH5V9mo?si=Y5ALSGNCiv4Vwu24) This wasn’t the parade, this was just the crowd to watch the game outside the arena. No one in Vegas knew anything about ice hockey six years before this
That doesn’t mean the A’s will succeed. The Golden Knights are one of the most ruthlessly effective organizations in sports, which has helped them tremendously. If the A’s are as poorly run as they were in Oakland, and they probably will be, then they’ll have trouble anywhere. But we can have this discussion without lying about Vegas
I live in Vegas and I can guarantee that nobody will switch allegiances to support the A’s. The only team the city had embraced are the Golden Knights. Ask the Raiders if they’ve developed more fans? The same will happen to the A’s. Home games will often feel like away games. Especially against popular teams with big fan bases. Not to mention that there’s a ton of LA transplants like myself that will take over the stadium when the dodgers come to town.