The fiasco which is the former Oakland Athletics and their quest for a Las Vegas stadium




I'm a Vegas local and have not heard much about this. It would not surprise me if it were true however.
 

I have no dog in this hunt and if they end up in Vegas that's great.

But always seemed like Portland would be a natural place. SEA-POR rivalry strong in other sports (notably MLB, and guessing NBA again once SuperSonics are reborn), so baseball would seem another opportunity.
 


WHOA! Spoiler alert!

I actually considered putting a "Spoiler Alert" warning, but landed on since what I described is also outlined in the first 5 minutes of the film, decided to forgo the disclaimer. :cool:
 

I'm a Vegas local and have not heard much about this. It would not surprise me if it were true however.

This has been an absolute shitshow since they first started talking about the A's coming here, what seems like a decade or more ago.

I'm a big believer and market saturation when it comes to sports. I think MSP having the Twins, Vikings, Gophers, Wolves, Wild, and whatever soccer team they have, all hurt each other in terms of revenue. People only have a finite amount of resources, and sports interest really.

I knew the first professional franchise, whatever it would be, was going to crush it in Las Vegas. The people were hungry, and at the end of the day, it's a destination city where visiting fans are always going to want to go. And they have absolutely crushed it since Day One.

Same for the Raiders; I speculated a year before they played a game that I would be able to get at least double face value for my tickets for at least the first three years. And those numbers were conservative it turns out, often I've dumped them for 3X face value or more.

Hard core fans of both teams often bitch about how many visiting fans are in their arena/stadium but they should embrace it, I know I do; those people are bringing their money and leaving it here and filling the stadium. It's a beautiful thing.

But for those reasons, I would hate to see an NBA franchise come here (saturation, and other factors), and I'm really indifferent on the A's coming here. What a complete unmitigated dumpster fire though. Wowzers.... They had to leave Oakland though. Oakland is a cesspool of epic proportions, a financial death sentence for professional sports teams. I'm glad the Raiders and A's both left.
 





Ogie, how far off the strip is this? Obviously I can see the strip in the background, but hard to tell distance. Is it walkable? Any other development happening around it?

Win Twins!!
Right on the Strip in the old Tropicana location. East of Excalibur, South of MGM, NY NY is kiddie corner.
 

Ogie, how far off the strip is this? Obviously I can see the strip in the background, but hard to tell distance. Is it walkable? Any other development happening around it?

Win Twins!!
Right on the Strip in the old Tropicana location. East of Excalibur, South of MGM, NY NY is kiddie corner.

Yup. Stupid location, in my opinion but the casinos and the LVCVA (LV Convention & Visitors Authority) have way, way too much pull. They won't stand for having any stadium more towards the edge of town where they probably SHOULD be.

But I have to admit, at least as far as the Raiders stadium, when I saw their ideas/proposals for parking that went out to season ticket holders before they even played a game, I flat out told them in the surveys that they were f'ng nuts, they would have serious problems with any of the plans they had. I was dead wrong. I can't believe how easy it is to get out of there after a game.
 

This has been an absolute shitshow since they first started talking about the A's coming here, what seems like a decade or more ago.

I'm a big believer and market saturation when it comes to sports. I think MSP having the Twins, Vikings, Gophers, Wolves, Wild, and whatever soccer team they have, all hurt each other in terms of revenue. People only have a finite amount of resources, and sports interest really.

I knew the first professional franchise, whatever it would be, was going to crush it in Las Vegas. The people were hungry, and at the end of the day, it's a destination city where visiting fans are always going to want to go. And they have absolutely crushed it since Day One.

Same for the Raiders; I speculated a year before they played a game that I would be able to get at least double face value for my tickets for at least the first three years. And those numbers were conservative it turns out, often I've dumped them for 3X face value or more.

Hard core fans of both teams often bitch about how many visiting fans are in their arena/stadium but they should embrace it, I know I do; those people are bringing their money and leaving it here and filling the stadium. It's a beautiful thing.

But for those reasons, I would hate to see an NBA franchise come here (saturation, and other factors), and I'm really indifferent on the A's coming here. What a complete unmitigated dumpster fire though. Wowzers.... They had to leave Oakland though. Oakland is a cesspool of epic proportions, a financial death sentence for professional sports teams. I'm glad the Raiders and A's both left.

While the Raiders and VGK have reaped the rewards of fans from the opposing teams filling up their Stadium/Arena respectively, I find it hard to believe the Athletics will garner a similar benefit.

Just from my own experience, I have been to LV over a couple of dozen times now. All but 2 were between November and March. The weather is great there and it sucks in Minnesota at that time of year.

The other two times I was there was Labor Day Weekend in 1996 and Memorial Weekend in 2018 (saw G2 Stanley Cup vs the Caps). Both of those trips it was well over 100. I think the daytime high on the '96 trip was 112. Golf was unthinkable for me.

Even with a dome, their is a zero chance of me heading to Vegas during the summer months for a Twins game. It would probably have to be a series in April for me to even consider such a trip.
 




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