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

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:scust: at admitting you want other team’s best players to hit HRs against you

Oakland needs to sue the fukk out of this guy and his team like St. Louis did with how the rams left. Openly running his franchise into the ground and openly not caring about winning in direct violation of the entire premise of sports while sabotaging the team from a business standpoint too. Don’t settle either. The city needs to go full scorched earth if needed. If he gets away with this shyt then the next owner who tries will have that much easier a time doing it too.
 

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They still haven't figured out how they're gonna pay for their Vegas stadium but burned every bridge they have in Oakland.

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i still can't believe they're gonna put that fukkin thing right on the strip :snoop:

the Raiders stadium is perfect, it's tucked like a mile away. the traffic ON the strip is gonna be obscene
 

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Ice road Truckers make 12.5 mil a year? :gladbron:

only players who get paid less than A's players are anyone who negotiated an extension with the Braves smh

that was uncalled for mayne :mjcry:

:stopitslime: There are literally only 5 dudes on the whole squad making "millions" this year breh

Or should I say creh, the way you pocket watching and defending ownership :mjpls:
Wasn’t their 2023 opening day payroll $31 million for the full 25 man roster?
 

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I think SLC is the favorite and is Sacramento’s competition for an expansion team in the western part of the US. While one of Montreal, Nashville or Charlotte/Raleigh gets a team out East.

Sacramento has die hard fans but once the novelty wears out not sure you’ll see fans in droves watching a 10-40 A’s team in the middle of the summer in hot Sacramento. That shyt might work against Sacramento in terms of getting a team long term tbh
Idk 14 thousand seats in a town where they’ve never had a second professional team and there really isn’t that much to do. I think they’re going to sell out all the time . Sac has a lot of baseball fans that will want to see other teams too
 

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Colorado river and Lake Tahoe are drying up. If I’m not mistaken those are the major water sources for Vegas. How could further expansion be possible under those circumstances?

Why I'm responding 2 years later who tf knows.
But we have 10 years of water stored in both wells as well as being feed by 3 aquifers. Lake Mead has seen a rise but last year was an outlier for rain and mountain snow so who knows.

Las Vegas has becoming a model city on a global scale for water conservation. If anything, it's Utah's wasteful bullshyt (which the feds will starting coming down hard on) and Southern California draining Lake Mead. But yeah I get it, the economy is propped up by folks coming in and spending money, so anything that impedes that puts the LVV in a huge bind. Other than being a rich man's playground and a backup plan for economically displaced Californians , we really don't offer the world anything good. By existing, Las Vegas leave the world in a worse place. Population will continue to grow until we become completely landlocked and the population will settle.

But sports attendance isn't an issue. NHL in the fukking desert draws standing room only crowds nightly. The A's or whatever they'll be branded as will do well.
 
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Elaborate.

Henderson got hit with the brunt of taxes for the Death Star?

Also late reply lol but this is from some years ago, it's actually worse than suspected. West Hendo is not a large place, bear in mind. That plus the residents going half on 84 million for the VGK minor fukking league arena/enhancements to the Henderson Pavillion, something literally nobody asked for.


 
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