let the owners pay for new stadiums. tear down the old rotten ones and put up affordable housing

The Raiders and Warriors too. I dunno East Bay.

You're not looking good.

City offered the A’s what they wanted, water-front stadium with attached housing and retail. The A’s chose the Strip instead.

City has said they’d be willing to renegotiate if the Vegas deal collapses.

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/after-five-years-as-rejected-a-12b-waterfront-ballpark-site-in-oakland-for-9-acres-on-the-strip

The A's are going to Sacramento now. There are two minor league stadiums in Vegas, but nothing worthy of a Major League team.

It might take years to get one built.

And Oakland is in no GD position to gift arguably one of the richest owners in baseball billions.

The stadium has just been sold by the county to a private owner. That could reset things later, or not.

There are billionaires who could buy the team and undo Fisher's destruction of a world class team when it was under the Hass family ownership, a team he took down the drain. He gets welfare from MLB, called the competitive balance tax (CBT) on other teams, but NO AMOUNT OF WELFARE IS ENOUGH for this billionaire robber baron.

He pays players the least +/- of any team and trades players when their dirt cheap rookie contracts expire. They are all-stars throughout the league. Elsewhere.

Someone could buy the team, as Lacob and Guber did to revive the Warriors, but a move to SF was always in their plans.

And you can't force someone to sell something.

Sacramento has a minor league park unsuitable for major league play. But that's OK with Fisher. Oakland isn't, and will LasVegas sink MORE billions of taxpayer (not gambling) money into a summer sport that plays in 110 degree weather?

It's up to billionaires, not taxpayers, to pay the freight.

as there are two minor league parks in Vegas but neither is suitable for a major league team.

Similar situation in Sacramento. It could take years to get a stadium buillt there or in Vegas, as the Raiders are certainly not going share their new digs which would reqire puttng in a baseball, dirt infield, like they used to do back in the day with thos combo stadiums...none still exist btw.

It's just too bad. The A's could be in an inadequate minor league park for years.

Ellison? Maybe
Musk? No
Zuck? No idea.

There are others.

Clorox has HQ in Oakland, IIRC.
They could "clean up" with a well-paid team. Oakland had Matt Chapman, Sean Murphy, Matt Olson, Jonah Heim, Marcus Semien, Sonny Gray, Sean Manaea, Chris Bassitt, Jesús Luzardo, Frankie Montas, AND Stephen Vogt, who manages Cleveland, which I recall, is leading their division.

Who's going to make Fisher an offer he can't refuse?

Especially considering the excessive heat in Sacramento.

It will be a dome.

Fuck John Fisher

All those municipalities have had a front row seat to the Oakland-Alameda experience, and the Santa Clara experience, and have decided that even partial public funding of stadiums or bending over backwards to accommodate stadium construction is a boondoggle.

He backed Fisher 100%. There was no deal the city or county could have offered that would have kept the team in Oakland. Manfred wanted baseball in a new market. If not Las Vegas it would have been Nashville or Mexico City.

The Giants have that really nice park to play baseball in, and TBH how many God-awful baseball teams does one area need? The Cubs at least have the grace to not suck all the time.