A's headed to Las Vegas

[MooseDog]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

The only thing that I partially disagree on is that I believe the City of Oakland has dragged their feet for to long and could have done more both sooner(as short term bandaid like helping improve the stadium) while they figured out the long term solution of a new stadium.

There is truth to that but don't forget that Oakland got royally screwed by Al Davis and the Raiders (twice) and I think they had no choice but to proceed carefully.

As for improvements to the stadium, it's the lipstick on a pig argument. No lie it's a dump...but it is OUR dump! Best option on the table was probably to rebuild on the spot but the Giants were unwilling to share their ballpark while that was being done.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by MooseDog

There is truth to that but don't forget that Oakland got royally screwed by Al Davis and the Raiders (twice) and I think they had no choice but to proceed carefully.

As for improvements to the stadium, it's the lipstick on a pig argument. No lie it's a dump...but it is OUR dump! Best option on the table was probably to rebuild on the spot but the Giants were unwilling to share their ballpark while that was being done.

They could easily do renovations during the offseason if they really wanted to. Fenway gets renovated pretty often, always during the off season.

Apparently the As publicly funded stadium was slow getting anywhere so now they're getting Ballys to build them one.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by MooseDog

There is truth to that but don't forget that Oakland got royally screwed by Al Davis and the Raiders (twice) and I think they had no choice but to proceed carefully.

As for improvements to the stadium, it's the lipstick on a pig argument. No lie it's a dump...but it is OUR dump! Best option on the table was probably to rebuild on the spot but the Giants were unwilling to share their ballpark while that was being done.

not disagreeing but the As Owners cannot worry about what the raiders did and they have to as a business think about making money and in that dump of a coliseum does not help.
The City and the Owners both played games and sadly the few A's fans that are left suffer for it