MLB commish confirms Oakland A’s will be moving to Las Vegas (Update: $1.5B park on Vegas strip on the way)

[Captain Crunch]

Brodie Brazil is punching air right now as we speak


Oakland brehs and brehettes - how do you cope with losing 3 pro franchises in 5 years?

The A's will most likely be in Vegas, but the financing for the stadium isn't secured. Also according to David Samson(former president of Miami Marlins), the stadium cost will go up if they plan to open in 2028(24 hour construction), and Fisher is already having issues covering his end of financing a $1.7B project.

 

[the cool]

The Raiders have the highest ticket price in the NFL because las Vegas is a tourist destination and folks plan their vacation around watching their team and getting a Vegas vacation at the same damn time

The new MLB stadium has half the seats of allegiant stadium and those PSL'S willl sold out within the first week

Its gonna work





.....its an investment at this point

This guy gets it. The stadium and team is made for the opposing teams fans. I’ll go to a raiders game if the cowboys are playing there for sure

 

[wire28]

Our resident Vegas cacs gonna be acting a fool

@the cac mamba @VegasCAC

 

[mson]

I'm a crane operator in Vegas
...I did a bunch of demo work on that site... that building is going up real quick

What's the pay for a crane operator in vegas?

 

[Captain Crunch]

This guy gets it. The stadium and team is made for the opposing teams fans. I’ll go to a raiders game if the cowboys are playing there for sure

Baseball are football are totally different sports. It’s much easier for a Cowboys or Packers fan to visit Vegas, when the games are typically played on Sunday; it’s basically every 4-10 years(sans AFC West teams) so it’s rare, and NFL fans are known to travel.

Sure baseball is played in the summer, but walking on the strip for a 1pm July game is rough(105 degrees); most team’s fan bases aren’t flying across the country to Vegas, baseball is played everyday and not everyone can take 2-3 days off in the work week to visit Vegas.

 

[William Heavy]

I've read Fisher wants to sell a majority stake in the Earthquakes. What a scum bag. Imagine you are a majority co-owner who owns 51% and actually wants to win and invest in the club, and fail son Fisher doesn't invest jack shyt into the club but wants to kick back and reap the rewards of a successful team. Hopefully the new owner can convince him to sell 100% and rid him of the Bay Area for good.

 

[pete clemenza]

Not sure the NBA goes to Vegas if the A's actually move there. Oversaturation in a dwindling local economy. Plus you need a lot of monied up suburbs/extended metro region to support four pro sports franchises. Imo

 

[Reality Check]

Not sure the NBA goes to Vegas if the A's actually move there. Oversaturation in a dwindling local economy. Plus you need a lot of monied up suburbs/extended metro region to support four pro sports franchises. Imo

Here's why they're going to Vegas:

The stadium and team is made for the opposing teams fans. I’ll go to a raiders game if the cowboys are playing there for sure

Basically another thing for tourists to do mid-week in Vegas

 

[pete clemenza]

Here's why they're going to Vegas:



Basically another thing for tourists to do mid-week in Vegas

I get it, but I can't see people coming to Vegas for a baseball game. Dodger, Mets, Yanks, etc fans travel well and will come out, plus the ones that lives in Vegas, but these smaller clubs don't even pack their ballparks at home. Opposing NFL fans coming to Vegas to see their team play the Raiders on a Sunday afternoon once a year is easy as 1,2,3. You can't compare baseball to that. Maybe I'm wrong tho

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

I get it, but I can't see people coming to Vegas for a baseball game. Dodger, Mets, Yanks, etc fans travel well and will come out, plus the ones that lives in Vegas, but these smaller clubs don't even pack their ballparks at home. Opposing fans coming to Vegas to see their team play the Raiders on a Sunday afternoon once a year is easy as 1,2,3. You can't compare baseball to that. Maybe I'm wrong tho

Baseball isn’t like that. The teams that are draws will sell, but good luck selling tickets when the mariners, angels, rangers, jays, rays, orioles, twins, white Sox, guardians, nationals, marlins, or Rockies to name few come to town . When you get into the dog days of summer and they still have the lowest payroll in baseball and their season has been over for 8-9 weeks already, that place would be a ghost town. Manfred and selig ( )before him were so bent on destroying baseball in Oakland that they never sat down and considered that baseball can’t be promoted or sold the way football can.

 

[focusloco]

What's the pay for a crane operator in vegas

depends on tenure....but 6 figures is normal with OT...it gets slow sometimes tho

 

[focusloco]

I get it, but I can't see people coming to Vegas for a baseball game. Dodger, Mets, Yanks, etc fans travel well and will come out, plus the ones that lives in Vegas, but these smaller clubs don't even pack their ballparks at home. Opposing NFL fans coming to Vegas to see their team play the Raiders on a Sunday afternoon once a year is easy as 1,2,3. You can't compare baseball to that. Maybe I'm wrong tho

Vegas will have the smallest ballpark in MLB by a wide margin...I'm not saying every home game will be a sellout but Friday Saturday Sunday games will be sold out...then add in weekday games against top tier teams and you see where this is going ..Marlins and Pirates games will prolly have a few empty seats

Las Vegas AAA team sells 10k seats on the regular and that stadium is out in Summerlin

 

[Harry B]

So this dude started all this shyt before he had secured funding?

Often you forget that half of these trust fund kids are really just morons kept on a leash and given fake jobs by their parents. Dude had all the chances in the world to do stuff and he didn't do anything at all but buy a baseball team and become one of the worst owners in sports history.

Even his MLS team has the smallest stadium in the MLS and one if not the smallest payrolls and are completely trash

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

I don't understand the allure for sports in Vegas other than boxing or some type of a race.

They're going to find out that a majority of Las Vegas is low-income and destitute with the higher median represented by those employed by the casinos

They can use a benefits package for the workers to keep the stadiums full or they can keep prices low eventually ... or maybe tourists will actually fill the stands

there'll be money in the stadium though, they'll be able to do events in it all year

 

[Captain Crunch]

Vegas will have the smallest ballpark in MLB by a wide margin...I'm not saying every home game will be a sellout but Friday Saturday Sunday games will be sold out...then add in weekday games against top tier teams and you see where this is going ..Marlins and Pirates games will prolly have a few empty seats

Las Vegas AAA team sells 10k seats on the regular and that stadium is out in Summerlin

You live in Vegas, you of all people know the strip is for tourists. The AAA stadium is away from the madness in the burbs, and is much easier for locals(especially families) to go to.

Why would a family of 4 wanna venture to the Strip in the hot ass summer, just to get killed with traffic; and taxed for parking? Now the first year, tix should be sold out, as new stadiums do well the first year(see Marlins Park). But what happens in year 2, when the novelty wears off? The A’s in Sacramento have yet to have a sell out, and they play in a 10k stadium.