This unofficial scorer rules Reverse Boycott Night a hit. Great turnout. Huge embarrassment for MLB, 30 team owners, Rob Manfred, Las Vegas rubes. Town stands tall.
Based on the 4th rendering, either A's games will be played at sunrise, or A's will arrange for the sun to set in the East. Either way, a break from tradition.
Fed up with our snarky bullshit, the A’s have released these AI renderings of a fantastical opera house wherein baseball could also be played if there were any financing. Behold, the definitely happening Debacle Stadium!™️
Vegas doesn't tolerate losing & the pressure to invest in a winning team will be immense, in addition to the obvious upsides that winning brings in terms of attendance and loyalty. See: VGK. (Go ahead and bookmark this tweet to throw back in my face if I am wrong about that.)
If he is too broke to build a $1 billion ballpark at Howard Terminal, how can he build a $1.1 billion ballpark in Vegas? He never asked Oakland for ballpark-only.
Seems pretty likely John Fisher is too broke to do this and that's why they changed course to a cheaper alternative in Las Vegas.
Does MLB want to continue placating a broke owner?
Here's one reason Mark Davis doesn't want to play at Levi's:
@Raiders
fans will go there, realize, Hey, this ain't bad. Davis could have done this INSTEAD of Vegas! And saved $2 billion! And been true to we loyal Oakland fans!
If your beliefs are that some people should be hated, feared, shunned, humiliated, mocked, and discriminated against because of the way they are wired sexually, then no, I must NOT tolerate you.
In trying to cancel
@TonyDungy
are y’all saying Christians, Muslims & Jews who hold to the historic, orthodox beliefs of their faith are no longer welcome in mainstream society? If we can tolerate working with & respecting those w/different beliefs, then u must tolerate us!
Hey, Giants. Just admit your mistake and bring Renel back, pay her a salary representative of her standing AND MAKE THE FANS HAPPY. So simple. Forget this rotating PA nonsense. That’s just another bad coat of paint over your blunder.
Kevin Durant: "It was just great basketball out there. ... The way both teams are playing with such aggression and intensity, we look forward to playing Game 5."
MLB taking a Totalitarian state approach to removing criticism of owners is very 'on-brand' of them.
Remember fans: when your owner threatens to take your team away and tears down the roster whilst raising ticket prices, you're supposed to just sit quietly and say thank you ...
In a bad look for baseball, the A's returned to Oakland for the first time since an announced land deal in Las Vegas has everyone asking whether anyone should help owner John Fisher build a new stadium.
Oh, no! The man fought to overcome some serious personal demons, was a really smart and good guy. I loved his way of defining everything: "Good for ball, or bad for ball." Mychael was good for ball.
Oh man. I’m really sad to hear that Mychael Urban — former Oakland A’s beat writer and NBC Sports Bay Area insider — passed away yesterday on his 55th birthday, according to his brother Dan on Facebook. I enjoyed chatting with him last year on
@RizzoCast
. RIP, Mychael.
Steve, don't worry about it! If there's anything John Fisher can withstand, it's the pressure to invest in a winning team. Some guys are bad losers, Fisher is a great loser. Smiles all the way to the bank. He thanks you for your support, sir!
Vegas doesn't tolerate losing & the pressure to invest in a winning team will be immense, in addition to the obvious upsides that winning brings in terms of attendance and loyalty. See: VGK. (Go ahead and bookmark this tweet to throw back in my face if I am wrong about that.)
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It's fine and proper to blame the Giants for blocking Santa Clara, but the A's could have built at the Coliseum 5 years ago, super easy, and instead opted to try to jack Oakland for a massive Fisher development deal. Greed, not the Giants, uprooted the A's.
Not ironic. Calculated. The Giants have been playing the long game, working MLB politics masterfully to keep the A's out of San Jose & Santa Clara County, figuring that Oakland and Alameda couldn't produce an A's ballpark agreement. Champagne corks likely popping in SF today.
Of course he can't afford the entire project he proposed at HT. Point is: If Fisher can afford $1.1 bil in Vegas, why can't he afford $1.1 bil ballpark-only in Oakland? AT THE WATERFRONT.
@scottostler
Reports are that he is seeking financing for the $1B. I don't think he can procure funding for the entire HT project (retail/commercial/live-work-play area) after the tanking of GAP stocks.
So no group of investors stepped up to save the A’s for Oakland like the investors who stepped up and saved the Giants for SF? Why is that? No investors stepped up & no support and outrage from Bay Area, state, and national politicians. No help at all for Oakland. Shameful!
Read this before you believe one word of the A's-Vegas hype about how the A's will benefit the workers. You want hot air, you've come to the right place.
I spoke to Chayasura Walker this week before the
#SuperBowl
. She works in Allegiant Stadium pouring beers in Section 143. She works 3 jobs & still qualifies for Medicaid.
Shame on
#deadspin
for braying that
#Warriors
beat reporters covered for Mark Stevens. Whoever wrote that was ignorant of the business. Nobody knew who Stevens was. We all would haved killed to break that story.
If this were the
@dallasnews
instead of a liberal biased paper like
@sfchronicle
@SportingGreenSF
headline would read: Patriot of the week Aubrey Huff.
Funny how you wrote “you were disgusted when I paraded around in a thong.” I heard you like scantily dresses men
@scottostler
?
Still no lease extension for the A's at the Oakland Coliseum. The A's met with city and county today, but no agreement was hammered out. They agreed to meet again, soon.
The A's most certainly are not losing $40 million. They get $53 million/year on their local TV contract plus something like $60 million/year on the national TV deal. Their payroll is $58 million this year. They would have to be spending at least $100 million/year on other stuff.
No power at home, but I found this super-cool place to set up shop. it's like a big Starbucks, with coffee and internet, but with all kinds of books! Sign says "Library," but don't ask me how to pronounce it.
It would be a HUGE disappointment if the City/County caved and extended the A’s lease without a guarantee for expansion.
The A’s should sell their half either way if they have no intention of supporting development. Otherwise, the County must start eminent domain process.
People across the globe are dying. Economy is tanking. Basketball is by far the least of our concerns.
Steph didn't have to do this, certainly easier to post naked workouts but it turns out being the most selfless superstar since Tim Duncan also extends off the court. Wow.
So apparently John Fisher guaranteed in writing that his payroll would be at a competitive level. He didn't? He just said he wants to have a good team? My, apparently business in Vegas is done on the honor system.
I heard the concerns about the ownership group and their unwillingness to spend in Oakland. I believe that will be different in Las Vegas. There will be additional accountability to the Stadium Authority Board and we will have the best community benefits agreement in the country.
Heart out to Monterey Park. I grew up there, bought all my baseball cards at a drug store a few doors down from that dance studio. So sad. Maybe there's a way to stop this shit? I'm sure the NRA has some thoughts.
Together with
@BIG_Architects
and
@HNTBCorp
, we have unveiled the design for our new ballpark project in Las Vegas on the Tropicana site. BIG will serve as the design lead and HNTB as the sports/hospitality designer and architect of record.
Images by Negativ
If Bonds is rejected today, and the no votes come from the retired players and executives, can we finally put to death the idiotic, moronic, wrongheaded, ignorant notion that writers rejected Bonds because he was mean to them? It’s such bullshit.
A's come back to beat Astros 6-4, take series at Houston three games to one. Oakland is a season-high 12 games over .500, team's best record since the end of the 2014 season, and A's 19-5 record over the past 24 games is the best in the majors in that span.
That's the pattern: Donate to lunatics and racists, get busted in the media, say you didn't realize where the money was going, ask for it back. Rinse, lather, repeat.
Giants owner Charles B. Johnson, criticized by many fans for supporting Rep. Lauren Boebert, said tonight he asked for his donations to be returned, reports
@JohnSheaHey