A's to Sacramento, then maybe Vegas?

[CubinNY]

3 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I lived in Utah and SoCal for about half my life. I had family in Vegas for a decade.

I think Vegas is going to be a pretty bad baseball town after a few years. It's not that big, there are a ton of transplants, a billion things to do, and filling a stadium 81 times a year will be a challenge.

I still don't understand why teams aren't aggressively pursuing the Carolinas. The population is massive, it's rapidly growing, and there aren't any baseball teams that are particularly close.

Agree on all accounts. However, the AAA team draws pretty well.

[bukie]

2 hours ago, stitchface said:

thread titles have taken a massive turn for the boring recently.

"Guess what a terrible baseball owner did this time"

[fromthestretch]

8 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

Agree on all accounts. However, the AAA team draws pretty well.

That new stadium they have is great. The old one was a dump, but they did an amazing job on the new one.

[Brock Beauchamp]

55 minutes ago, bukie said:

"Guess what a terrible baseball owner did this time"

Too vague and frequent to be useful as a topic title.

[squally1313]

Yeah Brock is trying to get rid of megathreads, starting one with that subject would quickly become the most posted in topic on the site. 

[UMFan83]

19 minutes ago, squally1313 said:

Yeah Brock is trying to get rid of megathreads, starting one with that subject would quickly become the most posted in topic on the site. 

Just for fun I went and searched and found that we have 58 different topics on this forum that start with "Guess what a"

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Guess what a bored Michigan fan did this time

[UMFan83]

13 minutes ago, Ding Dong Johnson said:

Guess what a bored Michigan fan did this time

I hope my boss isnt on NSBB

[Banedon]

6 hours ago, stitchface said:

thread titles have taken a massive turn for the boring recently.

Hey, my thread titles have always been boring.  This is not new for me.

[stitchface]

1 minute ago, Banedon said:

Hey, my thread titles have always been boring.  This is not new for me.

hahaha . . . I never track people's thread titles! Just feels a bit like there are so many bland threads these days . . . like wading through 25 topics and 24 seem very dull . . . maybe it's a reflection of the team?

 

[Rob]

Signing a contract to buy some land isn't some insurmountable obstacle to keeping the A's in Oakland, as they can always resell the land. But it's still a rather significant step in that direction.

I'm going to be incredibly sad if this goes through. When I think about the baseball teams of my youth, the A's were always my favorite AL team. Rickey Henderson, Mark McGwire, and Jose Canseco were electric.

And when my interest in baseball had waned, it was Moneyball and its focus on the A's that brought me back just before the Cubs amazing (and then terrible) run in 2003.

I'm not going to lie. Seeing them leave Oakland would feel like losing (yet another) piece of my youth.

[soccer10k]

12 hours ago, stitchface said:

I said a pain in the ass not hard . . .  lol. It takes forever and its a walk from BART after the game with the trolleys absolutely packed. BART also doesn't run super late so you risk missing the last train if the game goes extra innings.

I've never minded going in for a game. 75-80 minute drive from Sac, 40 minute train ride, 1 mile walk to the stadium. Going home I'd usually stop at a bar nearby the stadium so the train wasn't super packed. Last train comes around 1230. Game would have to go pretty long to miss that.

I'm ticked because right when the Cubs start coming to Oakland every other year rather than once every 6 years (at most), they're going to leave for Vegas. Sure, would be great if Oakland had a cool stadium and not some run down dump. But it was also nice to be able to buy very affordable lower bowl tickets, which is impossible for Giants-Cubs in SF. In 2016 I went to two games in Oakland. Sat lower bowl, right on third base about 15-20 rows up and paid less per ticket than upper deck behind home plate in SF for Giants-Cubs the same year.

[Proven Veteran]

14 hours ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Oracle Park is hard to get to?  Isn't it right downtown and right next multiple train lines?  I guess it's a bit of a walk from the BART but still within a mile.  I've never been but I always thought of it as among the more accessible MLB parks.

My town has their own ferry directly to Giants games, it's pretty sweet.

[Banedon]

 

[sweetpeteman]

30000? that would be the smallest* capacity in the MLB by about 5000.

 

*The Trop is restricted to 25000, but without the tarps it's 42000.

[CubinNY]

16 hours ago, sweetpeteman said:

30000? that would be the smallest* capacity in the MLB by about 5000.

 

*The Trop is restricted to 25000, but without the tarps it's 42000.

I read somewhere that it was 35,000 seats. 

Edited May 16, 2023 by CubinNY

[Banedon]

 

[JHBulls]

How to confirm you’re an horsefeathers in only one sentence. 

Edited November 16, 2023 by JHBulls

[minnesotacubsfan]

On 4/20/2023 at 8:22 AM, Brian707 said:

Hockey works in Vegas, NFL works. I agree baseball will be tougher with 81 games and a stadium of 40K to fill

maybe not if they ac the stadium when its hitting 120 everyday

 

also, re: water rights in LV, athletic fields are exempt from water restrictions, including golf courses. Not that this is in anyway a good idea.

[Sammy Sofa]

3 minutes ago, minnesotacubsfan said:

maybe not if they ac the stadium when its hitting 120 everyday

 

also, re: water rights in LV, athletic fields are exempt from water restrictions, including golf courses. Not that this is in anyway a good idea.

Vegas is right up there with Dubai where horsefeathers like this is just the epitome of fiddling while everything burns to the ground. So horsefeathers stupid.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

11 minutes ago, Sammy Sofa said:

Vegas is right up there with Dubai where horsefeathers like this is just the epitome of fiddling while everything burns to the ground. So horsefeathers stupid.

[Brian707]

I am going to Vegas in January.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I've never been. And I'm ok with that.

[Proven Veteran]

I wish we could get an expansion team here with Joe Lacob as owner.

[CubinNY]

19 hours ago, Ding Dong Johnson said:

I've never been. And I'm ok with that.

I've been to Vegas once for a conference. it's one of the most depressing places I've ever visited. At least for me. As soon as I stepped off the plane and passed my gate at the airport I immediately saw a bunch of geriatrics sitting at slot machines inside the airport mindlessly pulling the lever. It reminded me of a rat lab at college. Then on the taxi ride seeing the fakeness of everything on whatever street the strip is on and adjacent to made my stomach turn.  

I know some people love to gamble and go to shows and whatnot, but that place gives me the creeps. I'm not a gambler and the fakeness of everything is off-putting.