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Wedding allegedly orchestrated the shipment of tons of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico, the U.S. and Canada — and he’s accused of ordering multiple killings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cei/ryan-james-wedding\">FBI says Wedding\u003c/a>, 43, is a fugitive and may be in Mexico. A federal arrest warrant was issued for him one month ago in the U.S. Central District Court in Los Angeles. He’s been working with the notorious Sinaloa Cartel, the U.S. Attorney’s Office tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A grand jury indictment was first filed in June, charging Wedding with numerous felonies. He is the lead defendant in a superseding indictment that was unsealed this week, naming 16 people in all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have triggered an avalanche of violent crimes, including brutal murders,” Matthew Allen, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Los Angeles division, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/16-defendants-charged-superseding-indictment-alleging-bulk-shipments-cocaine-canada\">said in a statement\u003c/a>. “Wedding, the Olympian snowboarder, went from navigating slopes to contouring a life of incessant crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1630x1082+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fe7%2Fd5%2F71c8f3374c038c933a2127ba90be%2Fscreenshot-2024-10-18-at-9-18-50-am.png\" alt=\"Ryan Wedding appears on an FBI wanted poster. The U.S. says Wedding, 43, is a fugitive and may be in Mexico.\">\u003cfigcaption>Ryan Wedding appears on an FBI wanted poster. The U.S. says Wedding, 43, is a fugitive and may be in Mexico. \u003ccite> (FBI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Authorities allege that the drug conspiracy operated on a large scale, listing locations from Colombia and Mexico to three California counties — Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino — and Miami-Dade County, Fla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents were able to monitor the group’s actions earlier this year thanks to a mole who relayed coded messages about alleged drug shipments sent on the encrypted messaging application Threema, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment describes an elaborate system in which transportation dispatchers based in Canada allegedly used dollar-bill serial numbers as “tokens” to verify co-conspirators’ identities as they arranged for semi-trucks to carry tons of cocaine from Southern California into Canada. The alleged leaders of the enterprise’s transportation arm agreed to a flat fee of $220,000 Canadian for each load, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the federal investigation — dubbed Operation Giant Slalom, echoing an Olympic event Wedding once competed in — law enforcement agents caught defendants with a total of some 1,800 kilograms (1.8 metric tons) of cocaine, according to the Justice Department. They also seized guns, $255,400 in cash, and more than $3.2 million in cryptocurrency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Operation Giant Slalom’s reach extended to an elite enclave in Aventura, Florida. The FBI raided \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3914-Island-Estates-Dr-Aventura-FL-33160/44060368_zpid/\">a mansion\u003c/a> worth millions of dollars that a defendant, Miami Beach music executive and restaurateur Nahim Jorge Bonilla, \u003ca href=\"https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/aventura/article294122259.html\">had reportedly bought\u003c/a> from music star DJ Khaled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedding had sent Bonilla 12 kilograms of cocaine, according to the indictment — 7 that were paid for and 5 on consignment. In June, Wedding threatened to kill Bonilla’s mother if the remaining debt wasn’t settled within three days, court papers say. Within a week, Bonilla allegedly paid Wedding for 2 kilograms of cocaine and sent 20 kilograms of methamphetamine to Montreal, Canada, to settle the rest of the debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/2028x1178+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F04%2Ffa%2F5ca0d8634c44a77aa45a4a683aef%2Fscreenshot-2024-10-18-at-9-40-42-am.png\" alt=\"Stacks of cocaine are seen in a Justice Department image from Aug. 1, when some 201 kgs of cocaine were seized in Riverside County, Calif., as part of an investigation into an international trafficking ring.\">\u003cfigcaption>Stacks of cocaine are seen in a Justice Department image from Aug. 1, when some 201 kgs of cocaine were seized in Riverside County, California, as part of an investigation into an international trafficking ring. \u003ccite> (U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In other cases, murders were allegedly carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wedding and Clark allegedly directed the Nov. 20, 2023, murders of two members of a family in Ontario, Canada, in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office says. The agency says another person was killed in May over an unpaid debt, allegedly on Wedding and Clark’s orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve of the 16 defendants have been arrested. They include four Canadians arrested in Ontario this week and three Canadians arrested in the U.S., according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2024/significant-transnational-organized-crime-group-disrupted-rcmp-fbi-and-police-canada-and\">Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\u003c/a> But Wedding and several others remain at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If convicted, Wedding and several co-defendants “would face a mandatory minimum penalty of life in federal prison on the murder and attempted murder charges,” according to the Justice Department. Other charges in the case also carry similarly stiff penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the second time U.S. authorities have leveled serious drug charges against Wedding: In 2009, he was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and served more than a year in prison. Canadian authorities had also previously investigated him as part of drug inquests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Salt Lake City Games in 2002, Wedding placed 24th in the parallel giant slalom, according to his \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/athletes/ryan-wedding\">Olympic bio page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Ryan Wedding was once an Olympic snowboarder. But now he faces federal charges of operating a sprawling cocaine trafficking ring — and ordering several murders.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1729286210,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":803},"headData":{"title":"Former Olympian Accused of Orchestrating Drug Ring Partially Operated in California | KQED","description":"Ryan Wedding was once an Olympic snowboarder. But now he faces federal charges of operating a sprawling cocaine trafficking ring — and ordering several murders.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Former Olympian Accused of Orchestrating Drug Ring Partially Operated in California","datePublished":"2024-10-18T15:30:51-07:00","dateModified":"2024-10-18T14:16:50-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Bill Chappell, NPR","nprStoryId":"g-s1-28859","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2024/10/18/g-s1-28859/canadian-olympic-snowboarder-wanted-drug-trafficking","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"2024-10-18T05:21:12.55-04:00","nprStoryDate":"2024-10-18T05:21:12.55-04:00","nprLastModifiedDate":"2024-10-18T14:12:24.397-04:00","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12010071/former-olympian-accused-of-orchestrating-drug-ring-partially-operated-in-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ryan Wedding, who represented Canada in snowboarding at the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002, is now a fugitive from the U.S. justice system, accused of leading a violent international drug trafficking ring. Wedding allegedly orchestrated the shipment of tons of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico, the U.S. and Canada — and he’s accused of ordering multiple killings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cei/ryan-james-wedding\">FBI says Wedding\u003c/a>, 43, is a fugitive and may be in Mexico. A federal arrest warrant was issued for him one month ago in the U.S. Central District Court in Los Angeles. He’s been working with the notorious Sinaloa Cartel, the U.S. Attorney’s Office tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A grand jury indictment was first filed in June, charging Wedding with numerous felonies. He is the lead defendant in a superseding indictment that was unsealed this week, naming 16 people in all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have triggered an avalanche of violent crimes, including brutal murders,” Matthew Allen, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Los Angeles division, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/16-defendants-charged-superseding-indictment-alleging-bulk-shipments-cocaine-canada\">said in a statement\u003c/a>. “Wedding, the Olympian snowboarder, went from navigating slopes to contouring a life of incessant crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1630x1082+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fe7%2Fd5%2F71c8f3374c038c933a2127ba90be%2Fscreenshot-2024-10-18-at-9-18-50-am.png\" alt=\"Ryan Wedding appears on an FBI wanted poster. The U.S. says Wedding, 43, is a fugitive and may be in Mexico.\">\u003cfigcaption>Ryan Wedding appears on an FBI wanted poster. The U.S. says Wedding, 43, is a fugitive and may be in Mexico. \u003ccite> (FBI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Authorities allege that the drug conspiracy operated on a large scale, listing locations from Colombia and Mexico to three California counties — Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino — and Miami-Dade County, Fla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents were able to monitor the group’s actions earlier this year thanks to a mole who relayed coded messages about alleged drug shipments sent on the encrypted messaging application Threema, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment describes an elaborate system in which transportation dispatchers based in Canada allegedly used dollar-bill serial numbers as “tokens” to verify co-conspirators’ identities as they arranged for semi-trucks to carry tons of cocaine from Southern California into Canada. The alleged leaders of the enterprise’s transportation arm agreed to a flat fee of $220,000 Canadian for each load, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the federal investigation — dubbed Operation Giant Slalom, echoing an Olympic event Wedding once competed in — law enforcement agents caught defendants with a total of some 1,800 kilograms (1.8 metric tons) of cocaine, according to the Justice Department. They also seized guns, $255,400 in cash, and more than $3.2 million in cryptocurrency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Operation Giant Slalom’s reach extended to an elite enclave in Aventura, Florida. The FBI raided \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3914-Island-Estates-Dr-Aventura-FL-33160/44060368_zpid/\">a mansion\u003c/a> worth millions of dollars that a defendant, Miami Beach music executive and restaurateur Nahim Jorge Bonilla, \u003ca href=\"https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/aventura/article294122259.html\">had reportedly bought\u003c/a> from music star DJ Khaled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedding had sent Bonilla 12 kilograms of cocaine, according to the indictment — 7 that were paid for and 5 on consignment. In June, Wedding threatened to kill Bonilla’s mother if the remaining debt wasn’t settled within three days, court papers say. Within a week, Bonilla allegedly paid Wedding for 2 kilograms of cocaine and sent 20 kilograms of methamphetamine to Montreal, Canada, to settle the rest of the debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/2028x1178+0+0/resize/1200/quality/75/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F04%2Ffa%2F5ca0d8634c44a77aa45a4a683aef%2Fscreenshot-2024-10-18-at-9-40-42-am.png\" alt=\"Stacks of cocaine are seen in a Justice Department image from Aug. 1, when some 201 kgs of cocaine were seized in Riverside County, Calif., as part of an investigation into an international trafficking ring.\">\u003cfigcaption>Stacks of cocaine are seen in a Justice Department image from Aug. 1, when some 201 kgs of cocaine were seized in Riverside County, California, as part of an investigation into an international trafficking ring. \u003ccite> (U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In other cases, murders were allegedly carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wedding and Clark allegedly directed the Nov. 20, 2023, murders of two members of a family in Ontario, Canada, in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office says. The agency says another person was killed in May over an unpaid debt, allegedly on Wedding and Clark’s orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve of the 16 defendants have been arrested. They include four Canadians arrested in Ontario this week and three Canadians arrested in the U.S., according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2024/significant-transnational-organized-crime-group-disrupted-rcmp-fbi-and-police-canada-and\">Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\u003c/a> But Wedding and several others remain at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If convicted, Wedding and several co-defendants “would face a mandatory minimum penalty of life in federal prison on the murder and attempted murder charges,” according to the Justice Department. Other charges in the case also carry similarly stiff penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the second time U.S. authorities have leveled serious drug charges against Wedding: In 2009, he was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and served more than a year in prison. Canadian authorities had also previously investigated him as part of drug inquests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Salt Lake City Games in 2002, Wedding placed 24th in the parallel giant slalom, according to his \u003ca href=\"https://olympics.com/en/athletes/ryan-wedding\">Olympic bio page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12010071/former-olympian-accused-of-orchestrating-drug-ring-partially-operated-in-california","authors":["byline_news_12010071"],"categories":["news_34167","news_6188","news_8","news_10"],"tags":["news_20189","news_34258","news_34679","news_21238","news_2403","news_2808","news_34680"],"featImg":"news_12010072","label":"source_news_12010071"},"news_12008329":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12008329","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12008329","score":null,"sort":[1728341886000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-coliseum-sales-new-deal-draws-council-members-ire-over-lack-of-transparency","title":"Oakland Coliseum Sale’s New Deal Draws Council Members’ Ire Over Lack of Transparency","publishDate":1728341886,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Oakland Coliseum Sale’s New Deal Draws Council Members’ Ire Over Lack of Transparency | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> City Council members are accusing Mayor Sheng Thao of a lack of transparency around the sale of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">Coliseum\u003c/a> site, which the city is using to help close a budget deficit after her office revealed a higher purchase price and condensed payment schedule on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The African American Sports & Entertainment Group will now pay $125 million rather than the initially agreed price of $105 million to buy the city’s stake in the site, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003025/east-oakland-students-share-bold-vision-for-coliseum-revamp-with-new-owners\">the group plans to revitalize\u003c/a> with housing, restaurants, a convention center and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s administration also confirmed the city received a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">$10 million payment from developers\u003c/a> that several council members had accused them of missing last month, putting the city’s budget at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997946/oakland-reaches-deal-on-105-million-coliseum-sale-to-stave-off-budget-cuts\">the original deal\u003c/a> signed at the end of July, an initial $5 million payment was meant to have been followed by $10 million in September, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992883/oakland-city-council-passes-budget-amid-concerns-over-pending-coliseum-sale\">the city’s budget\u003c/a> included a contingency plan with drastic cuts triggered on Oct. 1 if that first $15 million had not come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council convened Monday morning for what was meant to be a planned emergency meeting to discuss the status of the missed payment and the city’s contingency plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001427\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-02_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-02_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-02_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-02_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-02_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-02_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-02_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Hall in downtown Oakland on Aug. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though the meeting was canceled due to a lack of quorum, councilmembers Treva Reid, Janani Ramachandran and Noel Gallo stayed on to voice anger and frustration that the amended deal did not come before the council for approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This process has been layered with deception, delay, silence, manipulation, withholding and inequitable disclosing of details to all council members,” Reid said, “and unfortunately, bully tactics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/alameda,Alameda County: Your Voter Guide to Navigate the Candidates and Issues on Your Ballot' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Voter-Guide-Local-Elections-Alameda-County-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Council doesn’t have a lot of powers when it comes to deals like this, but we do have the power to approve contracts with this much money at stake, with this much political capital and the money of taxpayers and our residents here at stake,” Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called the city’s approach to the dealings a “potentially ridiculous risk” to its finances that could have meant drastic cuts to police academies and fire, brownouts, and a halting of contracts, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the role and responsibility of the City Council to balance, to make sure that we do not go bankrupt like other governments have,” added Gallo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the revised sale agreement announced Monday, the rest of the money — $110 million — must arrive within the current fiscal year. The full balance is now due in May instead of in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao called the deal a “win-win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very grateful for the hard work of the City team in helping reach our amended agreement,” AASEG founder and managing member Ray Bobbitt said in a statement. “The creation of jobs, housing, art, clean green space and a new generation of Sports and Entertainment at the Coliseum Site cannot wait; and will provide a certain pathway to the revitalization of East Oakland through massive investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office said it’s still waiting for Alameda County to approve the sale of its half of the Coliseum ownership stake, which has taken longer than expected. County officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao announced a revised Coliseum sale agreement with a new price and payment schedule, some council members were upset that they did not get a say in the deal.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1728344464,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":621},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Coliseum Sale’s New Deal Draws Council Members’ Ire Over Lack of Transparency | KQED","description":"After Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao announced a revised Coliseum sale agreement with a new price and payment schedule, some council members were upset that they did not get a say in the 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\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> City Council members are accusing Mayor Sheng Thao of a lack of transparency around the sale of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">Coliseum\u003c/a> site, which the city is using to help close a budget deficit after her office revealed a higher purchase price and condensed payment schedule on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The African American Sports & Entertainment Group will now pay $125 million rather than the initially agreed price of $105 million to buy the city’s stake in the site, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003025/east-oakland-students-share-bold-vision-for-coliseum-revamp-with-new-owners\">the group plans to revitalize\u003c/a> with housing, restaurants, a convention center and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s administration also confirmed the city received a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">$10 million payment from developers\u003c/a> that several council members had accused them of missing last month, putting the city’s budget at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997946/oakland-reaches-deal-on-105-million-coliseum-sale-to-stave-off-budget-cuts\">the original deal\u003c/a> signed at the end of July, an initial $5 million payment was meant to have been followed by $10 million in September, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992883/oakland-city-council-passes-budget-amid-concerns-over-pending-coliseum-sale\">the city’s budget\u003c/a> included a contingency plan with drastic cuts triggered on Oct. 1 if that first $15 million had not come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council convened Monday morning for what was meant to be a planned emergency meeting to discuss the status of the missed payment and the city’s contingency plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001427\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-02_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-02_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-02_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-02_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-02_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-02_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-02_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Hall in downtown Oakland on Aug. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though the meeting was canceled due to a lack of quorum, councilmembers Treva Reid, Janani Ramachandran and Noel Gallo stayed on to voice anger and frustration that the amended deal did not come before the council for approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This process has been layered with deception, delay, silence, manipulation, withholding and inequitable disclosing of details to all council members,” Reid said, “and unfortunately, bully tactics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"From the 2024 Voter Guide ","link1":"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/alameda,Alameda County: Your Voter Guide to Navigate the Candidates and Issues on Your Ballot","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Voter-Guide-Local-Elections-Alameda-County-1200x1200-1.png"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Council doesn’t have a lot of powers when it comes to deals like this, but we do have the power to approve contracts with this much money at stake, with this much political capital and the money of taxpayers and our residents here at stake,” Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called the city’s approach to the dealings a “potentially ridiculous risk” to its finances that could have meant drastic cuts to police academies and fire, brownouts, and a halting of contracts, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the role and responsibility of the City Council to balance, to make sure that we do not go bankrupt like other governments have,” added Gallo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the revised sale agreement announced Monday, the rest of the money — $110 million — must arrive within the current fiscal year. The full balance is now due in May instead of in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao called the deal a “win-win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very grateful for the hard work of the City team in helping reach our amended agreement,” AASEG founder and managing member Ray Bobbitt said in a statement. “The creation of jobs, housing, art, clean green space and a new generation of Sports and Entertainment at the Coliseum Site cannot wait; and will provide a certain pathway to the revitalization of East Oakland through massive investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office said it’s still waiting for Alameda County to approve the sale of its half of the Coliseum ownership stake, which has taken longer than expected. County officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12008329/oakland-coliseum-sales-new-deal-draws-council-members-ire-over-lack-of-transparency","authors":["3214"],"categories":["news_28250","news_8","news_13","news_10"],"tags":["news_32983","news_18352","news_27626","news_34054","news_643","news_17596","news_17968","news_31962","news_34078"],"featImg":"news_12005840","label":"news"},"news_12007485":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12007485","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12007485","score":null,"sort":[1727988339000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-jose-state-volleyball-faces-wave-of-forfeits-in-apparent-protest-over-transgender-athlete","title":"SJSU Volleyball Gets Police Security Amid Apparent Protest Over Transgender Athlete Rules","publishDate":1727988339,"format":"standard","headTitle":"SJSU Volleyball Gets Police Security Amid Apparent Protest Over Transgender Athlete Rules | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:45 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A string of forfeits against the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose-state-university\">San José State University\u003c/a> women’s volleyball team grew for the second straight day this week as Utah State pulled out of an upcoming match, joining three other teams in an apparent protest over the NCAA’s rules allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to forfeit the Oct. 23 match, which the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported was initially posted on Utah State’s website on Wednesday before the post disappeared, was confirmed Thursday by a spokesperson for SJSU, who said the university was providing security for the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day earlier, the University of Wyoming said it was pulling out of its match this weekend against SJSU. The decision, which followed forfeits by Boise State University last week and Southern Utah University last month, came amid mounting pressure from Wyoming lawmakers, including \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GovernorGordon/status/1841234858468917535\">Gov. Mark Gordon\u003c/a>, who wrote on social media platform X: “I am in full support of the decision by @wyoathletics to forego playing its volleyball match against San Jose State. It is important we stand for integrity and fairness in female athletics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wyoming did not specify a reason for its forfeit, providing only a short statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After a lengthy discussion, the University of Wyoming will not play its scheduled conference match against San José State University in the UniWyo Sports Complex on Saturday, Oct. 5,” the university’s statement reads. “Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference will record the match as a forfeit and a loss for Wyoming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university declined to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the NCAA changed its\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2022/1/19/media-center-board-of-governors-updates-transgender-participation-policy.aspx\"> transgender student-athlete participation policy\u003c/a> to require transgender athletes to undergo testosterone testing and meet sport-specific levels to compete in women’s divisions. The association is \u003ca href=\"https://www.iconswomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/088-2-Exhibit-A-Second-Amended-Complaint.pdf\">currently facing a lawsuit\u003c/a> over its move to allow transgender women to compete in women’s sports, filed in Georgia, which says it aims to “remedy sex discrimination against women in college athletics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11988162 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240125-SFSUStrike-08-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SJSU has become a target in this debate, as a member of the school’s team recently joined the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iconswomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/088-2-Exhibit-A-Second-Amended-Complaint.pdf\">lawsuit against the NCAA\u003c/a>. In the lawsuit, Brooke Slusser, a junior at SJSU, said that one of her teammates she roomed with is transgender and repeatedly misgenders her. KQED is not naming the teammate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, SJSU spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald confirmed that all volleyball team members comply with the NCAA and the Mountain West Conference rules and regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is disappointing that our SJSU student-athletes… are being denied opportunities to compete,” she wrote. “We are committed to supporting our student-athletes through these challenges and in their ability to compete in an inclusive, fair, safe and respectful environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University police are providing security for the team at home and road games, Smith McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republican politicians like those in Wyoming and Idaho have voiced support for the teams refusing to play SJSU, advocates for transgender rights are speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is doubling down on a policy of discrimination and exclusion instead of fostering what we should be fostering as part of athletics, which is camaraderie and competition,” said Tom Temprano, a spokesperson for the LGBTQ+ rights organization Equality California. “Instead, we’re centering these divisive values and discriminatory actions, which I would imagine the vast, vast majority of these student-athletes are unhappy with and would be opposed to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SJSU is scheduled to play against Colorado State University on Thursday. CSU did not respond to a request for comment on whether it plans to forfeit the game but did \u003ca href=\"https://csurams.com/news/2024/10/1/volleyball-colorado-state-to-host-spartans-and-bulldogs\">post a game preview\u003c/a> to its website on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jservantez\">Jared Servantez\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Utah State is the fourth school in a month to refuse to play against San José State, which was named in a lawsuit against NCAA rules allowing transgender women in women’s sports.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1727991575,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":661},"headData":{"title":"SJSU Volleyball Gets Police Security Amid Apparent Protest Over Transgender Athlete Rules | KQED","description":"Utah State is the fourth school in a month to refuse to play against San José State, which was named in a lawsuit against NCAA rules allowing transgender women in women’s sports.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SJSU Volleyball Gets Police Security Amid Apparent Protest Over Transgender Athlete Rules","datePublished":"2024-10-03T13:45:39-07:00","dateModified":"2024-10-03T14:39:35-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-12007485","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12007485/san-jose-state-volleyball-faces-wave-of-forfeits-in-apparent-protest-over-transgender-athlete","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:45 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A string of forfeits against the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose-state-university\">San José State University\u003c/a> women’s volleyball team grew for the second straight day this week as Utah State pulled out of an upcoming match, joining three other teams in an apparent protest over the NCAA’s rules allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to forfeit the Oct. 23 match, which the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported was initially posted on Utah State’s website on Wednesday before the post disappeared, was confirmed Thursday by a spokesperson for SJSU, who said the university was providing security for the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day earlier, the University of Wyoming said it was pulling out of its match this weekend against SJSU. The decision, which followed forfeits by Boise State University last week and Southern Utah University last month, came amid mounting pressure from Wyoming lawmakers, including \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GovernorGordon/status/1841234858468917535\">Gov. Mark Gordon\u003c/a>, who wrote on social media platform X: “I am in full support of the decision by @wyoathletics to forego playing its volleyball match against San Jose State. It is important we stand for integrity and fairness in female athletics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wyoming did not specify a reason for its forfeit, providing only a short statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After a lengthy discussion, the University of Wyoming will not play its scheduled conference match against San José State University in the UniWyo Sports Complex on Saturday, Oct. 5,” the university’s statement reads. “Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference will record the match as a forfeit and a loss for Wyoming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university declined to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, the NCAA changed its\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.org/news/2022/1/19/media-center-board-of-governors-updates-transgender-participation-policy.aspx\"> transgender student-athlete participation policy\u003c/a> to require transgender athletes to undergo testosterone testing and meet sport-specific levels to compete in women’s divisions. The association is \u003ca href=\"https://www.iconswomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/088-2-Exhibit-A-Second-Amended-Complaint.pdf\">currently facing a lawsuit\u003c/a> over its move to allow transgender women to compete in women’s sports, filed in Georgia, which says it aims to “remedy sex discrimination against women in college athletics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11988162","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240125-SFSUStrike-08-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SJSU has become a target in this debate, as a member of the school’s team recently joined the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iconswomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/088-2-Exhibit-A-Second-Amended-Complaint.pdf\">lawsuit against the NCAA\u003c/a>. In the lawsuit, Brooke Slusser, a junior at SJSU, said that one of her teammates she roomed with is transgender and repeatedly misgenders her. KQED is not naming the teammate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, SJSU spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald confirmed that all volleyball team members comply with the NCAA and the Mountain West Conference rules and regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is disappointing that our SJSU student-athletes… are being denied opportunities to compete,” she wrote. “We are committed to supporting our student-athletes through these challenges and in their ability to compete in an inclusive, fair, safe and respectful environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University police are providing security for the team at home and road games, Smith McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republican politicians like those in Wyoming and Idaho have voiced support for the teams refusing to play SJSU, advocates for transgender rights are speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is doubling down on a policy of discrimination and exclusion instead of fostering what we should be fostering as part of athletics, which is camaraderie and competition,” said Tom Temprano, a spokesperson for the LGBTQ+ rights organization Equality California. “Instead, we’re centering these divisive values and discriminatory actions, which I would imagine the vast, vast majority of these student-athletes are unhappy with and would be opposed to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SJSU is scheduled to play against Colorado State University on Thursday. CSU did not respond to a request for comment on whether it plans to forfeit the game but did \u003ca href=\"https://csurams.com/news/2024/10/1/volleyball-colorado-state-to-host-spartans-and-bulldogs\">post a game preview\u003c/a> to its website on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jservantez\">Jared Servantez\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12007485/san-jose-state-volleyball-faces-wave-of-forfeits-in-apparent-protest-over-transgender-athlete","authors":["11362"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8","news_10"],"tags":["news_34547","news_20013","news_20003","news_19345","news_18541","news_5711","news_29184","news_21285","news_29386","news_5652","news_25293"],"featImg":"news_12007557","label":"news"},"news_12007628":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12007628","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12007628","score":null,"sort":[1727913660000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"newsom-signs-law-that-could-extend-last-call-but-only-for-a-private-club-in-la-clippers-new-arena","title":"Newsom Signs Law That Could Extend 'Last Call' — but Only for a Private Club in LA Clippers’ New Arena","publishDate":1727913660,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Newsom Signs Law That Could Extend ‘Last Call’ — but Only for a Private Club in LA Clippers’ New Arena | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The last call for drinks is 2 a.m. in California, but the state will soon carve out an exception to allow alcohol to be served until 4 a.m. for one private, members-only club located in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sports-technology-nba-nhl-los-angeles-clippers-c2d937b78072daf9088e792c14089d3b\">the Los Angeles Clippers’ new state-of-the-art arena\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom over the weekend will allow about 100 club members to be served wine, beer and other liquor until 4 a.m. in private suites inside the Intuit Dome after game days and concerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was sponsored by a group owned by Steve Ballmer, the current Clippers owner and former CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/06cd71793f7e4ebc82c436ef7674d73f\">Microsoft\u003c/a>. Ballmer funded the Intuit Dome and his wife, Connie Ballmer, gave Newsom’s campaign \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2598713&amendid=0\">$1 million\u003c/a> in 2021 to help fight a recall election against the governor. The group owned by Steve Ballmer also spent roughly $220,000 this year to sway lawmakers on the legislation, among other proposals, according to lobbying reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure drew criticism from some, including ethics experts, for granting an exception benefiting a major campaign donor’s family member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s certainly going to become an issue for his opponents and critics to point to the fact that he seemed to provide a special favor to a wealthy sports franchise owner and its facility and its wealthy fans,” said John Pelissero, director of government ethics at Santa Clara University. “It just doesn’t look good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s spokesperson Izzy Gardon said, “The governor’s decisions on legislation are made solely on the merits of each bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time the governor has faced a backlash for carving out exceptions for a select few. He was lambasted for attending \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gavin-newsom-birthdays-california-coronavirus-pandemic-b89221b870cb137e3eb1695631000f9e\">a birthday party\u003c/a> in 2020 at the pricy French Laundry restaurant in wine country north of San Francisco, breaking the very rules he preached to the public to slow the spread of the coronavirus during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007639\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007639\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2166945159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2166945159.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2166945159-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2166945159-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2166945159-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Ballmer, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, speaks onstage at the ribbon-cutting ceremony during the opening night of the Intuit Dome on Aug. 15, 2024, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Kevin Winter/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new California law allowing the exception for the private club members comes after California lawmakers spent years unsuccessfully pushing to extend \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/4baec7b626104ec0bc15e08e0679d0ec\">the last call for drinks\u003c/a> in a few cities. Several states, including New York and Tennessee, have already passed legislation extending serving hours beyond 2 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they think opening venues and having drinking until 4 o’clock in the morning is good for just exclusive groups, then it should be for everyone, and my contention is, it’s not good for anyone,” Republican state Sen. Kelly Seyarto said in August of the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives working for Steve Ballmer didn’t immediately respond to calls about the new law and potential influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arena located in Inglewood — 12 miles from the team’s old arena in downtown Los Angeles — officially opened in August with 18,000 seats. It is scheduled to host the 2026 All-Star Game and serve as the basketball venue for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the new California law said it’s a pilot program that will boost the local economy and attract more visitors to the entertainment hub in the city of Inglewood, which boasts several iconic venues, including the Rams’ SoFi stadium, the Forum, and now the new Intuit Dome. Under the law, the exception will sunset in January 2030, and the new last-call rule still needs final approval from the city. Opponents worry the new last-call hours will lead to more drunk driving and promote excessive drinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a signing message, Newsom also said he would direct California Highway Patrol to work with local police to monitor drunken driving incidents in the area and report back findings to lawmakers for further consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remain cognizant of the potential risks to public safety posed by extending service hours for alcoholic beverage service, which could lead to an increase in driving under the influence-related crashes and fatalities,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The law signed last weekend would let about 100 club members be served alcohol until 4 a.m. in private suites inside the Intuit Dome on event nights. Critics said the move appeared to show favoritism. 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Gavin Newsom over the weekend will allow about 100 club members to be served wine, beer and other liquor until 4 a.m. in private suites inside the Intuit Dome after game days and concerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was sponsored by a group owned by Steve Ballmer, the current Clippers owner and former CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/06cd71793f7e4ebc82c436ef7674d73f\">Microsoft\u003c/a>. Ballmer funded the Intuit Dome and his wife, Connie Ballmer, gave Newsom’s campaign \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2598713&amendid=0\">$1 million\u003c/a> in 2021 to help fight a recall election against the governor. The group owned by Steve Ballmer also spent roughly $220,000 this year to sway lawmakers on the legislation, among other proposals, according to lobbying reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure drew criticism from some, including ethics experts, for granting an exception benefiting a major campaign donor’s family member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s certainly going to become an issue for his opponents and critics to point to the fact that he seemed to provide a special favor to a wealthy sports franchise owner and its facility and its wealthy fans,” said John Pelissero, director of government ethics at Santa Clara University. “It just doesn’t look good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s spokesperson Izzy Gardon said, “The governor’s decisions on legislation are made solely on the merits of each bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time the governor has faced a backlash for carving out exceptions for a select few. He was lambasted for attending \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gavin-newsom-birthdays-california-coronavirus-pandemic-b89221b870cb137e3eb1695631000f9e\">a birthday party\u003c/a> in 2020 at the pricy French Laundry restaurant in wine country north of San Francisco, breaking the very rules he preached to the public to slow the spread of the coronavirus during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007639\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007639\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2166945159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2166945159.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2166945159-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2166945159-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-2166945159-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Ballmer, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, speaks onstage at the ribbon-cutting ceremony during the opening night of the Intuit Dome on Aug. 15, 2024, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Kevin Winter/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new California law allowing the exception for the private club members comes after California lawmakers spent years unsuccessfully pushing to extend \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/4baec7b626104ec0bc15e08e0679d0ec\">the last call for drinks\u003c/a> in a few cities. Several states, including New York and Tennessee, have already passed legislation extending serving hours beyond 2 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they think opening venues and having drinking until 4 o’clock in the morning is good for just exclusive groups, then it should be for everyone, and my contention is, it’s not good for anyone,” Republican state Sen. Kelly Seyarto said in August of the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives working for Steve Ballmer didn’t immediately respond to calls about the new law and potential influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arena located in Inglewood — 12 miles from the team’s old arena in downtown Los Angeles — officially opened in August with 18,000 seats. It is scheduled to host the 2026 All-Star Game and serve as the basketball venue for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the new California law said it’s a pilot program that will boost the local economy and attract more visitors to the entertainment hub in the city of Inglewood, which boasts several iconic venues, including the Rams’ SoFi stadium, the Forum, and now the new Intuit Dome. Under the law, the exception will sunset in January 2030, and the new last-call rule still needs final approval from the city. Opponents worry the new last-call hours will lead to more drunk driving and promote excessive drinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a signing message, Newsom also said he would direct California Highway Patrol to work with local police to monitor drunken driving incidents in the area and report back findings to lawmakers for further consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remain cognizant of the potential risks to public safety posed by extending service hours for alcoholic beverage service, which could lead to an increase in driving under the influence-related crashes and fatalities,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12007628/newsom-signs-law-that-could-extend-last-call-but-only-for-a-private-club-in-la-clippers-new-arena","authors":["byline_news_12007628"],"categories":["news_8","news_13","news_10"],"tags":["news_18058","news_16","news_6303","news_4","news_3952"],"featImg":"news_12007637","label":"news"},"news_12006567":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12006567","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12006567","score":null,"sort":[1727388833000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"photos-fans-flood-coliseum-to-bid-emotional-farewell-at-as-last-game-in-oakland","title":"Photos: Fans Flood Coliseum to Bid Emotional Farewell to A's at Last Game in Oakland","publishDate":1727388833,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Photos: Fans Flood Coliseum to Bid Emotional Farewell to A’s at Last Game in Oakland | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:20 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/lastoaklandasgame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/lastoaklandasgame\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Follow live fan coverage from KQED reporters and photographers of the A’s final game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter where they go, they’re still Oakland to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So said diehard A’s fan Debra Piper as she arrived at the Coliseum on Thursday morning, hours before the team took the field for their final home game in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to really start to tear up now. There is so much history, love and support for the community and the players and this stadium,” said Piper, who left her home in Auburn at 3 a.m. to get here early enough for an extended farewell tailgate party. “It doesn’t matter how many times you come to see them play; when you go out and see the stadium and smell the grass, it’s just that ‘ahh’ feeling. It’s tingly. And now we don’t have that. There’s nothing like baseball to bring people together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006770\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006770 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-03KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-03KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-03KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-03KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-03KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-03KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-03KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debra Piper (left) and Carla McClean wait in line for the last A’s home game at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006771\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006771 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-04KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-04KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-04KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-04KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-04KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-04KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-04KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debra Piper shows off her A’s earrings at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s game against the Texas Rangers marks a solemn end to the storied team’s 57-year run in Oakland, one that brought the city four World Series championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team is slated to move temporarily to a minor league stadium in West Sacramento next year, with plans to move permanently to a proposed ballpark in Las Vegas in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006556 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy wearing an A's jersey stands behind a gate.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Villalobos (center) and Messiah Garcia wait in line for the last A’s home game at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fans lined up at the break of dawn for the Oakland Coliseum gates to open for the sold-out game, and for some, it was a long journey back to the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A’s fan Lester Hernandez brought his son and two daughters from Miami for the final home game. They arrived at the stadium Thursday at 5:30 a.m., waiting nearly four hours for the stadium’s gates to open at 9:37 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been a fan of the Oakland Athletics for more than 50 years, you know, since they got the championships in 1972, 1973 and 1974,” Hernandez said while waiting in line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006560\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006560 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"And older man, wearing a green and yellow A's hat, stands with his arm around a younger man, wearing a green A's T-shirt, outside of the Oakland Coliseum\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lester Hernandez and his son Lester Hernandez Jr. wait in line for the last A’s home game at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26. 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006650\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006650 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-20-1.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man in an A's T-shirt holds a drum in a parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-20-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-20-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-20-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-20-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-20-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-20-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Allen of Los Angeles (left) plays a drum in the Oakland Coliseum parking lot on Sept. 26, 2024, ahead of the A’s final game in Oakland. Allen has been attending A’s games since 2011. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006642\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006642 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-21.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing an A's hat stands at a hot dog cart handing a hot dog to a customer.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-21.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-21-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-21-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-21-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-21-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-21-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Davie of Oakland (left) sells hot dogs in the Oakland Coliseum parking lot on Thursday before the team’s last game in Oakland. Davie carries on the tradition left behind by former A’s hot dog vendor Hal Gordon, known as ‘Hal the Hot Dog Guy,’ a well-known vendor who carried around steamers throughout the stadium’s seating areas. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006558\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006558 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man in an A's shirt and hat stand among a large outdoor crowd.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Alvarado (center) and Shang Yang (right) wait in line for the last A’s game at the Oakland Coliseum on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006647\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006647 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-14-1.jpg\" alt=\"Signs protesting the Oakland A's leaving the city.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-14-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-14-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-14-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-14-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-14-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-14-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protest signs displayed at the Oakland Coliseum parking lot on Sept. 26, 2024, ahead of the A’s last game there. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saddled with a green and gold bagpipe, Andrew Johnstone played an ode to his favorite baseball team with “Take Me Out To the Ball Game” at a parking lot tailgate at the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always play the bagpipes going into battle and at funerals, and it’s a bit of a battle and a funeral today, you know?” said Johnstone, who moved to the Bay Area more than 30 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Scottish-born A’s fan shared how his family’s tartan colors are green and gold, “perfect for the A’s,” he said. Cheers and tears erupted as he asked fans around him to sing along for another round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/ZddC5xLe3j8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the rest of his plans for the day? “Enjoy the game and try to stay sober,” Johnstone laughed. “Let’s get in there and win this bloody thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum’s famous Brutalist facade became the backdrop for the A’s fashion-obsessed on Thursday. Crocheted hats, handmade jewelry, autographed sneakers made the stadium sparkle with Oakland flair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My whole wardrobe is green and gold. I don’t know what to do!” lifelong A’s fan Jules Hanson said. “This has been such a huge part of my life. I’ve met lifelong friends, and we’ve been through so much together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006649\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006649 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-17-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with green hair and green-and-gold eyeliner.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-17-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-17-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-17-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-17-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-17-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-17-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stacy Miller, an A’s ticket holder for over 20 years, wears green-and-gold eyeshadow for the A’s final home game on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006639\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006639 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-16.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wears a knit A's Stomper the Elephant beanie.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-16.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-16-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-16-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-16-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-16-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sahra Ghafari, an A’s fan since 1989, wears a beanie of Stomper the elephant, the A’s official mascot, at the final A’s game at the Oakland Coliseum on Sept. 26, 2024. The beanies are hand-crocheted by Kim Jackson, an A’s fan of over three decades. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006667\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006667 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-27.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-27-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-27-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-27-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-27-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mila Shank, at the Coliseum parking lot in Oakland on Thursday morning, showing off the A’s tattoo she got a few days ago. Shank has been coming to games here since 1982. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dressed to the nines in a yellow suit, Todd Schwenk handed out yellow roses to his fellow A’s fans before entering the Coliseum on Thursday morning. It’s a regular tradition for Schwenk, who said he’s handed out more than 500 roses at A’s home games this week alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been an A’s fan since 1972 and has been dubbed by some of the stadium ushers as the ‘mayor’ of the Coliseum, where he’s known to wander around throughout games spreading the A’s gospel. “I feel like a walking history book of the Coliseum, and I just love that,” Schwenk said. “I work the room. It’s full of love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006637\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006637 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-10.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a light-yellow jacket and green-and-yellow ties holds yellow flowers and leans against a barricade. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-10.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-10-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diehard A’s fan Todd Schwenk, known around the Coliseum as ‘The Mayor,’ hands out yellow roses — which he calls a ‘sign of life’ to fans and stadium staff on Thursday, before the A’s last game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly 47,000 fans packed into the stadium on Thursday, the largest crowd for a final home game in Major League Baseball history, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/09/26/live-blog-fans-relish-as-final-game-at-oakland-coliseum-after-57-year-tenure/#87498\">\u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. The mood was at once jubilant and plaintive, as the team took the field for the very last time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006781 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-14KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-14KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-14KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-14KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-14KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-14KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-14KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Vallan’s dad Jerald takes her picture with Rickey Henderson field as they arrive at the A’s last home game in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006575\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006575 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An A's baseball player signs a ball for a fan.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Soderstrom signs A’s fan Susanna Smulligan’s ball on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006780\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006780 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-13KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-13KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-13KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-13KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-13KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-13KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-13KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A’s fans watch the team warm up from above the dugout for the final time ahead of the last A’s game at the Oakland Coliseum, on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006782 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-15KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-15KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-15KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-15KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-15KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-15KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-15KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Peterson, who attended the A’s first-ever game in Oakland in 1968, stands for the National Anthem at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A’s gained an early lead, driving in two runs in the bottom of the third inning, and adding another run in the fifth. The Rangers clamored back with two runs to close out the sixth inning 3–2. JJ Bleday helped the A’s hold onto their lead at the top of the seventh with a diving catch in the outfield. After the seventh-inning stretch and one last rendition of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” chants of “Sell the Team” filled the stadium, along with profanity-laced reprimands directed at A’s owner John Fisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006623\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006623 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a baseball field.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first at-bat of the A’s last home game in Oakland, at the Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006691\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006691 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"A packed stadium.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packed stands at the Oakland Coliseum for the A’s last home game on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An A’s fan tips his hat during the A’s final home game at the Coliseum on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006759\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006759 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-34.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a green Oakland A's scarf holds up his hands at a crowded A's stadium.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-34.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-34-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-34-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-34-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-34-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-34-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An A’s fan reacts during the team’s final home game at the Coliseum on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006744\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006744 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-45.jpg\" alt=\"A large, inflatable baseball floats above the crowd at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-45.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-45-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-45-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-45-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-45-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-45-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large, inflatable baseball bounces above the packed crowd at the last Coliseum A’s game on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006743\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006743 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-44.jpg\" alt=\"A Dixieland jazz band play in the stands at an A's game.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-44.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-44-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-44-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-44-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-44-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-44-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland A’s Swingers, a Dixieland band, play during the A’s final home game at the Oakland Coliseum on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The departure of the team is also a huge blow to the hundreds of food vendors, ushers, security guards and other workers at the stadium \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006372/as-as-play-final-game-at-oakland-coliseum-workers-feel-the-financial-and-emotional-toll\">who stand to lose their jobs\u003c/a>. Karm Henry, who has worked as a food vendor at the Coliseum for the last seven seasons, was overcome by emotion Thursday as the traversed the stands, hoisting a poll over his shoulder with bags of cotton candy hanging from the end. Henry said he cried on his way to the stadium this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006746 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-49.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue shirt sells cotton candy on a stick at the Oakland Coliseum during a game.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-49.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-49-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-49-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-49-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-49-1536x1030.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-49-1920x1287.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karm Henry, a food vendor at the Oakland Coliseum who has worked here for 7 seasons, sells cotton candy in the stands during the A’s final home game. Henry said he cried on his way to work today. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Emotions — and sometimes tensions — ran high as the game neared its end. Two people who ran onto the field during the top of the ninth inning were taken away by security. A smoke bomb was also thrown onto the field and removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006785\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006785 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-18KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-18KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-18KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-18KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-18KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-18KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-18KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan runs onto the field at the A’s last home game in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006747\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006747 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-58.jpg\" alt=\"Security guards on a baseball field, as green smoke wafts through.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-58.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-58-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-58-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-58-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-58-1536x978.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-58-1920x1223.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Security guards remove colored smoke bombs thrown onto the field during the A’s final home game against the Texas Rangers at the Oakland Coliseum on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the end, the crowd exploded as the A’s clinched a 3–2 win against the Rangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006786\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006786 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-19KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-19KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-19KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-19KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-19KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-19KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-19KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Wasczuk-Valencia roots for the home team towards the end of the A’s last home game in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Players took to the field to wave at fans, as A’s manager Mark Kotsay addressed the crowd:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you for your lifelong support of the Oakland A’s,” Kotsay said. “We’ve played our asses off this year. We still got three left, gentlemen. I think we all should pay homage to this amazing stadium that we have had the privilege to enjoy for the last 57 years. And I ask you for one more time to start the greatest cheer in baseball. Let’s Go, Oakland!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006748 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-59.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland A's players stand on the mound waving to fans.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-59.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-59-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-59-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-59-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-59-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-59-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland A’s pose for a group photo on the mound Thursday afternoon after beating the Texas Rangers 3–2 in their final home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As tens of thousands of fans made their way back to the parking lot and BART station, many stayed behind to take in one last moment at the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With tears in his eyes, Gilbert Bañuelos III recalled being an Oakland sports fan his entire life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of emotions right now because I was fortunate to be here for the last Raiders game at the Coliseum, and now I’m here for the last Oakland A’s game,” Bañuelos said. “It just sucks, you know, this is it for here. I could travel to go see them, but this is home. And now it’s just a memory and a legend, a legacy that will never be forgotten.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006789\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006789 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-22KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-22KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-22KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-22KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-22KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-22KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-22KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gilbert Bañuelos III, a lifelong fan, sheds a tear at the end of the A’s last game at the Oakland Coliseum on Sept. 26, 2024. ‘It just sucks, you know. This is it for here. I could travel to go see them, but this is home. And now it’s just a memory and a legend, a legacy that will never be forgotten,’said the lifelong A’s fan,’ he said. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Bañuelos and other fans clinging to the final minute, ties to the A’s are about much more than home runs and strikeouts; it’s a family and a community of friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My uncle was a huge A’s fan. He’s the one that really got me attached to them,” Bañuelos said. “I want to make a big shout out to my uncle Sal, may he rest in peace. I wish you were here. I’m just glad I had the opportunity to see it. This one’s for you, uncle — they won.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim and Gayle Burleigh were lingering after the game to savor the last time at the stadium also.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very emotional, it’s very sad. We took our boys here as they grew up,” Jim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The characters that made this team and made our memories, I am gutted right now,” Gayle mustered through tears. “I wish we could have figured out a way to have them stay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006790\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006790 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Wasczuk-Valencia hugs Gilbert Bañuelos III at the end of the last A’s home game at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jenneane Rocha, 44, remembers coming to games at the Coliseum as young as age 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came here with my dad all the time and he passed away, so I went with a friend and her dad, and he also passed away,” she said of her emotional ties to the team. “If you just want to see good baseball, Oakland fans are the kindest and the sweetest.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Fans packed into the Coliseum on Thursday to watch the A's win their final game in Oakland, beating the Rangers 3–2 to cap a 57-year legendary run in the city. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1728335609,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":2533},"headData":{"title":"Photos: Fans Flood Coliseum to Bid Emotional Farewell to A's at Last Game in Oakland | KQED","description":"Fans packed into the Coliseum on Thursday to watch the A's win their final game in Oakland, beating the Rangers 3–2 to cap a 57-year legendary run in the city. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Photos: Fans Flood Coliseum to Bid Emotional Farewell to A's at Last Game in Oakland","datePublished":"2024-09-26T15:13:53-07:00","dateModified":"2024-10-07T14:13:29-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-12006567","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12006567/photos-fans-flood-coliseum-to-bid-emotional-farewell-at-as-last-game-in-oakland","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:20 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/lastoaklandasgame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/lastoaklandasgame\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Follow live fan coverage from KQED reporters and photographers of the A’s final game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter where they go, they’re still Oakland to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So said diehard A’s fan Debra Piper as she arrived at the Coliseum on Thursday morning, hours before the team took the field for their final home game in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to really start to tear up now. There is so much history, love and support for the community and the players and this stadium,” said Piper, who left her home in Auburn at 3 a.m. to get here early enough for an extended farewell tailgate party. “It doesn’t matter how many times you come to see them play; when you go out and see the stadium and smell the grass, it’s just that ‘ahh’ feeling. It’s tingly. And now we don’t have that. There’s nothing like baseball to bring people together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006770\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006770 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-03KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-03KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-03KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-03KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-03KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-03KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-03KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debra Piper (left) and Carla McClean wait in line for the last A’s home game at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006771\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006771 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-04KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-04KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-04KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-04KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-04KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-04KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-04KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debra Piper shows off her A’s earrings at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s game against the Texas Rangers marks a solemn end to the storied team’s 57-year run in Oakland, one that brought the city four World Series championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team is slated to move temporarily to a minor league stadium in West Sacramento next year, with plans to move permanently to a proposed ballpark in Las Vegas in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006556 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy wearing an A's jersey stands behind a gate.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Villalobos (center) and Messiah Garcia wait in line for the last A’s home game at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fans lined up at the break of dawn for the Oakland Coliseum gates to open for the sold-out game, and for some, it was a long journey back to the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A’s fan Lester Hernandez brought his son and two daughters from Miami for the final home game. They arrived at the stadium Thursday at 5:30 a.m., waiting nearly four hours for the stadium’s gates to open at 9:37 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been a fan of the Oakland Athletics for more than 50 years, you know, since they got the championships in 1972, 1973 and 1974,” Hernandez said while waiting in line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006560\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006560 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"And older man, wearing a green and yellow A's hat, stands with his arm around a younger man, wearing a green A's T-shirt, outside of the Oakland Coliseum\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lester Hernandez and his son Lester Hernandez Jr. wait in line for the last A’s home game at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26. 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006650\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006650 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-20-1.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man in an A's T-shirt holds a drum in a parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-20-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-20-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-20-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-20-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-20-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-20-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Allen of Los Angeles (left) plays a drum in the Oakland Coliseum parking lot on Sept. 26, 2024, ahead of the A’s final game in Oakland. Allen has been attending A’s games since 2011. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006642\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006642 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-21.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing an A's hat stands at a hot dog cart handing a hot dog to a customer.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-21.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-21-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-21-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-21-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-21-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-21-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Davie of Oakland (left) sells hot dogs in the Oakland Coliseum parking lot on Thursday before the team’s last game in Oakland. Davie carries on the tradition left behind by former A’s hot dog vendor Hal Gordon, known as ‘Hal the Hot Dog Guy,’ a well-known vendor who carried around steamers throughout the stadium’s seating areas. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006558\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006558 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man in an A's shirt and hat stand among a large outdoor crowd.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Alvarado (center) and Shang Yang (right) wait in line for the last A’s game at the Oakland Coliseum on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006647\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006647 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-14-1.jpg\" alt=\"Signs protesting the Oakland A's leaving the city.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-14-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-14-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-14-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-14-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-14-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-14-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protest signs displayed at the Oakland Coliseum parking lot on Sept. 26, 2024, ahead of the A’s last game there. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Saddled with a green and gold bagpipe, Andrew Johnstone played an ode to his favorite baseball team with “Take Me Out To the Ball Game” at a parking lot tailgate at the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always play the bagpipes going into battle and at funerals, and it’s a bit of a battle and a funeral today, you know?” said Johnstone, who moved to the Bay Area more than 30 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Scottish-born A’s fan shared how his family’s tartan colors are green and gold, “perfect for the A’s,” he said. Cheers and tears erupted as he asked fans around him to sing along for another round.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ZddC5xLe3j8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ZddC5xLe3j8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>As for the rest of his plans for the day? “Enjoy the game and try to stay sober,” Johnstone laughed. “Let’s get in there and win this bloody thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coliseum’s famous Brutalist facade became the backdrop for the A’s fashion-obsessed on Thursday. Crocheted hats, handmade jewelry, autographed sneakers made the stadium sparkle with Oakland flair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My whole wardrobe is green and gold. I don’t know what to do!” lifelong A’s fan Jules Hanson said. “This has been such a huge part of my life. I’ve met lifelong friends, and we’ve been through so much together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006649\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006649 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-17-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with green hair and green-and-gold eyeliner.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-17-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-17-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-17-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-17-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-17-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-17-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stacy Miller, an A’s ticket holder for over 20 years, wears green-and-gold eyeshadow for the A’s final home game on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006639\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006639 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-16.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wears a knit A's Stomper the Elephant beanie.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-16.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-16-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-16-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-16-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-16-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sahra Ghafari, an A’s fan since 1989, wears a beanie of Stomper the elephant, the A’s official mascot, at the final A’s game at the Oakland Coliseum on Sept. 26, 2024. The beanies are hand-crocheted by Kim Jackson, an A’s fan of over three decades. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006667\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006667 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-27.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-27-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-27-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-27-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-27-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mila Shank, at the Coliseum parking lot in Oakland on Thursday morning, showing off the A’s tattoo she got a few days ago. Shank has been coming to games here since 1982. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dressed to the nines in a yellow suit, Todd Schwenk handed out yellow roses to his fellow A’s fans before entering the Coliseum on Thursday morning. It’s a regular tradition for Schwenk, who said he’s handed out more than 500 roses at A’s home games this week alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been an A’s fan since 1972 and has been dubbed by some of the stadium ushers as the ‘mayor’ of the Coliseum, where he’s known to wander around throughout games spreading the A’s gospel. “I feel like a walking history book of the Coliseum, and I just love that,” Schwenk said. “I work the room. It’s full of love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006637\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006637 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-10.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a light-yellow jacket and green-and-yellow ties holds yellow flowers and leans against a barricade. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-10.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-10-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diehard A’s fan Todd Schwenk, known around the Coliseum as ‘The Mayor,’ hands out yellow roses — which he calls a ‘sign of life’ to fans and stadium staff on Thursday, before the A’s last game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly 47,000 fans packed into the stadium on Thursday, the largest crowd for a final home game in Major League Baseball history, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/09/26/live-blog-fans-relish-as-final-game-at-oakland-coliseum-after-57-year-tenure/#87498\">\u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. The mood was at once jubilant and plaintive, as the team took the field for the very last time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006781 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-14KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-14KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-14KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-14KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-14KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-14KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-14KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Vallan’s dad Jerald takes her picture with Rickey Henderson field as they arrive at the A’s last home game in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006575\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006575 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An A's baseball player signs a ball for a fan.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Soderstrom signs A’s fan Susanna Smulligan’s ball on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006780\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006780 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-13KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-13KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-13KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-13KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-13KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-13KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-13KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A’s fans watch the team warm up from above the dugout for the final time ahead of the last A’s game at the Oakland Coliseum, on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006782 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-15KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-15KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-15KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-15KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-15KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-15KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-15KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Peterson, who attended the A’s first-ever game in Oakland in 1968, stands for the National Anthem at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A’s gained an early lead, driving in two runs in the bottom of the third inning, and adding another run in the fifth. The Rangers clamored back with two runs to close out the sixth inning 3–2. JJ Bleday helped the A’s hold onto their lead at the top of the seventh with a diving catch in the outfield. After the seventh-inning stretch and one last rendition of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” chants of “Sell the Team” filled the stadium, along with profanity-laced reprimands directed at A’s owner John Fisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006623\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006623 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a baseball field.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first at-bat of the A’s last home game in Oakland, at the Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006691\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006691 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"A packed stadium.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packed stands at the Oakland Coliseum for the A’s last home game on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An A’s fan tips his hat during the A’s final home game at the Coliseum on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006759\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006759 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-34.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a green Oakland A's scarf holds up his hands at a crowded A's stadium.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-34.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-34-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-34-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-34-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-34-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-34-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An A’s fan reacts during the team’s final home game at the Coliseum on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006744\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006744 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-45.jpg\" alt=\"A large, inflatable baseball floats above the crowd at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-45.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-45-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-45-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-45-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-45-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-45-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large, inflatable baseball bounces above the packed crowd at the last Coliseum A’s game on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006743\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006743 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-44.jpg\" alt=\"A Dixieland jazz band play in the stands at an A's game.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-44.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-44-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-44-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-44-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-44-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-44-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland A’s Swingers, a Dixieland band, play during the A’s final home game at the Oakland Coliseum on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The departure of the team is also a huge blow to the hundreds of food vendors, ushers, security guards and other workers at the stadium \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006372/as-as-play-final-game-at-oakland-coliseum-workers-feel-the-financial-and-emotional-toll\">who stand to lose their jobs\u003c/a>. Karm Henry, who has worked as a food vendor at the Coliseum for the last seven seasons, was overcome by emotion Thursday as the traversed the stands, hoisting a poll over his shoulder with bags of cotton candy hanging from the end. Henry said he cried on his way to the stadium this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006746 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-49.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a blue shirt sells cotton candy on a stick at the Oakland Coliseum during a game.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-49.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-49-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-49-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-49-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-49-1536x1030.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-49-1920x1287.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karm Henry, a food vendor at the Oakland Coliseum who has worked here for 7 seasons, sells cotton candy in the stands during the A’s final home game. Henry said he cried on his way to work today. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Emotions — and sometimes tensions — ran high as the game neared its end. Two people who ran onto the field during the top of the ninth inning were taken away by security. A smoke bomb was also thrown onto the field and removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006785\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006785 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-18KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-18KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-18KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-18KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-18KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-18KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-18KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan runs onto the field at the A’s last home game in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006747\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006747 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-58.jpg\" alt=\"Security guards on a baseball field, as green smoke wafts through.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-58.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-58-800x510.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-58-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-58-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-58-1536x978.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-58-1920x1223.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Security guards remove colored smoke bombs thrown onto the field during the A’s final home game against the Texas Rangers at the Oakland Coliseum on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the end, the crowd exploded as the A’s clinched a 3–2 win against the Rangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006786\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006786 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-19KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-19KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-19KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-19KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-19KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-19KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-19KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Wasczuk-Valencia roots for the home team towards the end of the A’s last home game in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Players took to the field to wave at fans, as A’s manager Mark Kotsay addressed the crowd:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you for your lifelong support of the Oakland A’s,” Kotsay said. “We’ve played our asses off this year. We still got three left, gentlemen. I think we all should pay homage to this amazing stadium that we have had the privilege to enjoy for the last 57 years. And I ask you for one more time to start the greatest cheer in baseball. Let’s Go, Oakland!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006748 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-59.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland A's players stand on the mound waving to fans.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-59.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-59-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-59-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-59-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-59-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240926_AsFinalHomeGame_GC-59-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland A’s pose for a group photo on the mound Thursday afternoon after beating the Texas Rangers 3–2 in their final home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As tens of thousands of fans made their way back to the parking lot and BART station, many stayed behind to take in one last moment at the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With tears in his eyes, Gilbert Bañuelos III recalled being an Oakland sports fan his entire life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of emotions right now because I was fortunate to be here for the last Raiders game at the Coliseum, and now I’m here for the last Oakland A’s game,” Bañuelos said. “It just sucks, you know, this is it for here. I could travel to go see them, but this is home. And now it’s just a memory and a legend, a legacy that will never be forgotten.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006789\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006789 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-22KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-22KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-22KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-22KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-22KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-22KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-22KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gilbert Bañuelos III, a lifelong fan, sheds a tear at the end of the A’s last game at the Oakland Coliseum on Sept. 26, 2024. ‘It just sucks, you know. This is it for here. I could travel to go see them, but this is home. And now it’s just a memory and a legend, a legacy that will never be forgotten,’said the lifelong A’s fan,’ he said. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Bañuelos and other fans clinging to the final minute, ties to the A’s are about much more than home runs and strikeouts; it’s a family and a community of friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My uncle was a huge A’s fan. He’s the one that really got me attached to them,” Bañuelos said. “I want to make a big shout out to my uncle Sal, may he rest in peace. I wish you were here. I’m just glad I had the opportunity to see it. This one’s for you, uncle — they won.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim and Gayle Burleigh were lingering after the game to savor the last time at the stadium also.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very emotional, it’s very sad. We took our boys here as they grew up,” Jim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The characters that made this team and made our memories, I am gutted right now,” Gayle mustered through tears. “I wish we could have figured out a way to have them stay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006790\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12006790 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-23KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Wasczuk-Valencia hugs Gilbert Bañuelos III at the end of the last A’s home game at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jenneane Rocha, 44, remembers coming to games at the Coliseum as young as age 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came here with my dad all the time and he passed away, so I went with a friend and her dad, and he also passed away,” she said of her emotional ties to the team. “If you just want to see good baseball, Oakland fans are the kindest and the sweetest.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12006567/photos-fans-flood-coliseum-to-bid-emotional-farewell-at-as-last-game-in-oakland","authors":["1263","11840"],"categories":["news_8","news_10"],"tags":["news_27626","news_2672","news_34078"],"featImg":"news_12006788","label":"news"},"news_12006372":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12006372","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12006372","score":null,"sort":[1727348418000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"as-as-play-final-game-at-oakland-coliseum-workers-feel-the-financial-and-emotional-toll","title":"As A's Play Last Game in Oakland, Coliseum Workers Feel the Financial and Emotional Toll","publishDate":1727348418,"format":"standard","headTitle":"As A’s Play Last Game in Oakland, Coliseum Workers Feel the Financial and Emotional Toll | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/lastoaklandasgame\">Follow live coverage from KQED reporters and photographers of the A’s final game at the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ob Rosenthal, a lifelong baseball fan and a merchandise vendor at the Oakland Coliseum, said he likens working during A’s games to “getting paid to eat candy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I wasn’t doing it, I’d probably be going to the games and spending money,” said the 73-year-old, who worked at the Coliseum since the first A’s game there in 1968, when the team moved to Oakland from Kansas City. “I figured I might as well work there and get paid for what I do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his sunny disposition, sporting the team’s green and gold, he said the last few weeks have been “heart-wrenching.” He is among hundreds of workers — security, food vendors, broadcasters, among others — who face uncertain times as the A’s play their final home game at the Coliseum on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s basically cutting out 50 percent of my salary,” said Rosenthal, who also works a similar gig at San Francisco Giants games. “I’m not going to be able to go on vacations like I used to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, A’s owner John Fisher announced the team would move to West Sacramento for at least the next three seasons while a proposed new $1.5 billion stadium in Las Vegas is built to house the A’s permanently. In a press release on Monday, he apologized to fans: “Though I wish I could speak to each one of you individually, I can tell you this from the heart: we tried. Staying in Oakland was our goal. It was our mission, and we failed to achieve it. And for that, I am genuinely sorry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005839\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lee Neuo works to stock the fridges of the field box seats along the first and third base lines at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20., 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has historically been blessed with a multitude of professional sports teams that have allowed the many Coliseum workers to cobble together a full-time workload. When baseball season ends, people can transition to working football and basketball game, or nonsporting events, like concerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To make a living in this business, you have to work multiple venues,” said John Arnolfo, the director of the concessions vendors division for Teamsters Local 853, which represents about 60 Coliseum vendors, including Rosenthal. “Most of these people that work the A’s, they work the Giants, Warriors, 49ers. They used to work the Raiders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Arnolfo, the arrival of a women’s professional basketball team, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986061/get-ready-for-the-golden-state-valkyries-bay-areas-new-wnba-team\">Golden State Valkyries\u003c/a>, which are set to begin playing next season at San Francisco’s Chase Center, will also help soften the financial blow for some Coliseum workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005843\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel (center) and Luis Gonzalez (left) wait in line to buy A’s merchandise from at the team store at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But out of all those sports, baseball promises the most profits for many workers because there are so many games, multiple workers told KQED. During a six-month regular season, the A’s play around 81 games out of a 162-game season at home. (By comparison, the 49ers are scheduled to play nine games at home out of their 17-game season.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many people at the Coliseum that we’ve seen every day who’ve been here even longer than I’ve been here, and I don’t know what their future holds, and that breaks my heart,” said David Feldman, who grew up in Walnut Creek, and has worked on the A’s television broadcast crew since 1991. “Besides the place where I live, the place where I have spent the most days of my life has been at the Oakland Coliseum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said until now, Major League Baseball has done a good job of making sure the A’s and Giants aren’t playing home games at the same time, allowing him to work for both teams. This season, the A’s and the Giants only played six games when both teams were at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A’s fan Jesse Gonzalez (front) and others examine the hats at a merchandise store at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the A’s moving out of the Bay Area next season, the MLB has scheduled the two baseball teams to play 56 home games at the same time. This means, next year, even if he wanted to make the drive to West Sacramento to work an A’s game, it would likely conflict with his ability to work a Giants game, Feldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to impact a lot of the TV crew workers who used to work at both places,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman hopes to continue to work for A’s broadcasting, but how that might work out is unclear to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hasn’t been talked about,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers face different outcomes once the Coliseum shuts its gates to the A’s partly because of the patchwork of employers there — the team itself, third-party contractors for things like security, and the food service giant Aramark, which employs people in roles like cooks, bartenders, and food servers. Some employees have union representation and some do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005841\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Cowell works to restock A’s merchandise at a team store at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unite Here Local 2 represents over 400 people, many working for Aramark. IATSE 107 represents stagehands who service the building, fixing seats and setting up metal detectors. Allied Universal takes care of security during games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yulisa Elenes, vice president of the East and North Bay at Unite Here Local 2, said that workers she represents — many of whom have worked at the Coliseum for decades — are at risk of being laid off by Aramark once the A’s leave because their contract is specific to the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These jobs here at the Coliseum have been really important to the community in Oakland,” she said. “A lot of the workers have used this job as a way to be able to get benefits, get training to learn how to be a cook or concession worker and apply those skills to get a different job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12006230,news_12006211,news_12004485\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said longtime employees are upset that Aramark denied a proposal from the union for severance pay and that the company is cutting off workers’ benefits earlier than what workers are entitled to. She said the union plans to file a grievance with Aramark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Debbie Albert, a spokesperson for Aramark, said: “We understand that this is a difficult transition period. We are bargaining in good faith with the union regarding the effects of the A’s departure and are prepared to offer those impacted available roles in other areas of our organization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the future of the Oakland Coliseum itself, in August, the Oakland Roots soccer team announced they reached a deal to play their 2025 home games at the Coliseum, ensuring at least for part of next year, the venue will not sit vacant. Both the A’s and the city of Oakland have sold their share of the Coliseum site to a local Black-owned developer group with plans for housing, green space, entertainment and retail for the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with some prospects for other work, for people like Bob Rosenthal, who has been working at the Coliseum as long as the A’s, Thursday’s game will be a hard day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005840\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teams prepare the field at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20., 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be quite emotional walking out of there and getting into my car for the last time,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman said he has been going through the five stages of grief. He’s now at acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for most of the fans and the employees, we’re all feeling it. It’s easy to put blame on the A’s owners, and some people want to blame the city of Oakland, but at the end of the day, it just sucks for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"While all eyes are on the team and fans, Coliseum workers are also facing hardships — both financial and emotional — as the A's leave Oakland. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1727375384,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1487},"headData":{"title":"As A's Play Last Game in Oakland, Coliseum Workers Feel the Financial and Emotional Toll | KQED","description":"While all eyes are on the team and fans, Coliseum workers are also facing hardships — both financial and emotional — as the A's leave Oakland. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"As A's Play Last Game in Oakland, Coliseum Workers Feel the Financial and Emotional Toll","datePublished":"2024-09-26T04:00:18-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-26T11:29:44-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/9d1dacac-4fd1-485a-b2d9-b1f701098019/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-12006372","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12006372/as-as-play-final-game-at-oakland-coliseum-workers-feel-the-financial-and-emotional-toll","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/lastoaklandasgame\">Follow live coverage from KQED reporters and photographers of the A’s final game at the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">B\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ob Rosenthal, a lifelong baseball fan and a merchandise vendor at the Oakland Coliseum, said he likens working during A’s games to “getting paid to eat candy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I wasn’t doing it, I’d probably be going to the games and spending money,” said the 73-year-old, who worked at the Coliseum since the first A’s game there in 1968, when the team moved to Oakland from Kansas City. “I figured I might as well work there and get paid for what I do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his sunny disposition, sporting the team’s green and gold, he said the last few weeks have been “heart-wrenching.” He is among hundreds of workers — security, food vendors, broadcasters, among others — who face uncertain times as the A’s play their final home game at the Coliseum on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s basically cutting out 50 percent of my salary,” said Rosenthal, who also works a similar gig at San Francisco Giants games. “I’m not going to be able to go on vacations like I used to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, A’s owner John Fisher announced the team would move to West Sacramento for at least the next three seasons while a proposed new $1.5 billion stadium in Las Vegas is built to house the A’s permanently. In a press release on Monday, he apologized to fans: “Though I wish I could speak to each one of you individually, I can tell you this from the heart: we tried. Staying in Oakland was our goal. It was our mission, and we failed to achieve it. And for that, I am genuinely sorry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005839\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lee Neuo works to stock the fridges of the field box seats along the first and third base lines at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20., 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has historically been blessed with a multitude of professional sports teams that have allowed the many Coliseum workers to cobble together a full-time workload. When baseball season ends, people can transition to working football and basketball game, or nonsporting events, like concerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To make a living in this business, you have to work multiple venues,” said John Arnolfo, the director of the concessions vendors division for Teamsters Local 853, which represents about 60 Coliseum vendors, including Rosenthal. “Most of these people that work the A’s, they work the Giants, Warriors, 49ers. They used to work the Raiders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Arnolfo, the arrival of a women’s professional basketball team, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986061/get-ready-for-the-golden-state-valkyries-bay-areas-new-wnba-team\">Golden State Valkyries\u003c/a>, which are set to begin playing next season at San Francisco’s Chase Center, will also help soften the financial blow for some Coliseum workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005843\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel (center) and Luis Gonzalez (left) wait in line to buy A’s merchandise from at the team store at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But out of all those sports, baseball promises the most profits for many workers because there are so many games, multiple workers told KQED. During a six-month regular season, the A’s play around 81 games out of a 162-game season at home. (By comparison, the 49ers are scheduled to play nine games at home out of their 17-game season.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many people at the Coliseum that we’ve seen every day who’ve been here even longer than I’ve been here, and I don’t know what their future holds, and that breaks my heart,” said David Feldman, who grew up in Walnut Creek, and has worked on the A’s television broadcast crew since 1991. “Besides the place where I live, the place where I have spent the most days of my life has been at the Oakland Coliseum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said until now, Major League Baseball has done a good job of making sure the A’s and Giants aren’t playing home games at the same time, allowing him to work for both teams. This season, the A’s and the Giants only played six games when both teams were at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A’s fan Jesse Gonzalez (front) and others examine the hats at a merchandise store at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the A’s moving out of the Bay Area next season, the MLB has scheduled the two baseball teams to play 56 home games at the same time. This means, next year, even if he wanted to make the drive to West Sacramento to work an A’s game, it would likely conflict with his ability to work a Giants game, Feldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to impact a lot of the TV crew workers who used to work at both places,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman hopes to continue to work for A’s broadcasting, but how that might work out is unclear to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hasn’t been talked about,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers face different outcomes once the Coliseum shuts its gates to the A’s partly because of the patchwork of employers there — the team itself, third-party contractors for things like security, and the food service giant Aramark, which employs people in roles like cooks, bartenders, and food servers. Some employees have union representation and some do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005841\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Cowell works to restock A’s merchandise at a team store at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unite Here Local 2 represents over 400 people, many working for Aramark. IATSE 107 represents stagehands who service the building, fixing seats and setting up metal detectors. Allied Universal takes care of security during games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yulisa Elenes, vice president of the East and North Bay at Unite Here Local 2, said that workers she represents — many of whom have worked at the Coliseum for decades — are at risk of being laid off by Aramark once the A’s leave because their contract is specific to the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These jobs here at the Coliseum have been really important to the community in Oakland,” she said. “A lot of the workers have used this job as a way to be able to get benefits, get training to learn how to be a cook or concession worker and apply those skills to get a different job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_12006230,news_12006211,news_12004485"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said longtime employees are upset that Aramark denied a proposal from the union for severance pay and that the company is cutting off workers’ benefits earlier than what workers are entitled to. She said the union plans to file a grievance with Aramark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Debbie Albert, a spokesperson for Aramark, said: “We understand that this is a difficult transition period. We are bargaining in good faith with the union regarding the effects of the A’s departure and are prepared to offer those impacted available roles in other areas of our organization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the future of the Oakland Coliseum itself, in August, the Oakland Roots soccer team announced they reached a deal to play their 2025 home games at the Coliseum, ensuring at least for part of next year, the venue will not sit vacant. Both the A’s and the city of Oakland have sold their share of the Coliseum site to a local Black-owned developer group with plans for housing, green space, entertainment and retail for the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with some prospects for other work, for people like Bob Rosenthal, who has been working at the Coliseum as long as the A’s, Thursday’s game will be a hard day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005840\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teams prepare the field at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20., 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be quite emotional walking out of there and getting into my car for the last time,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman said he has been going through the five stages of grief. He’s now at acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for most of the fans and the employees, we’re all feeling it. It’s easy to put blame on the A’s owners, and some people want to blame the city of Oakland, but at the end of the day, it just sucks for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12006372/as-as-play-final-game-at-oakland-coliseum-workers-feel-the-financial-and-emotional-toll","authors":["11785"],"categories":["news_8","news_10"],"tags":["news_27626","news_34054"],"featImg":"news_12005838","label":"news"},"news_12006402":{"type":"posts","id":"news_12006402","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"12006402","score":null,"sort":[1727301763000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-as-fans-helped-push-bart-ridership-to-heights-not-seen-since-2020","title":"Oakland A’s Fans Helped Push BART Ridership to Heights Not Seen Since 2020","publishDate":1727301763,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Oakland A’s Fans Helped Push BART Ridership to Heights Not Seen Since 2020 | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>BART is enjoying its best ridership month since the start of the pandemic, thanks in part to the return of crowds taking transit to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a> for the A’s final homestand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 204,265 fare-gate exits reported Tuesday mark the first time the figure has topped 200,000 since March 12, 2020 — days before COVID-19 stay-at-home orders were imposed in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late summer and early fall are typically the strongest periods for Bay Area transit ridership, including for BART. Before this month, its post-pandemic daily ridership peaks were recorded in September 2023 — with just over 192,000 trips — immediately after the agency introduced a new schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month’s uptick has beaten those numbers several times, and last week, BART also set a new high for weekly ridership since the pandemic started, with 1.15 million people riding the system. The number of trips reported for the first 24 days of September is about 11% higher than during the same period last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFBART/status/1838997796709609889\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, BART’s September–October numbers have gotten a boost from sporting and entertainment events at the Coliseum, including A’s, Raiders and Warriors games. But with two of those three teams leaving Oakland five years ago and A’s attendance falling into a prolonged funk, traffic at the Coliseum station has declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But A’s attendance was strong for the series with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants last month. And fans have turned out in large numbers — many taking BART — for the team’s final week in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12006211 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1250054983-1-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART data shows that the impact of increased attendance is dramatic. The number of people recorded entering and leaving the Coliseum station since last Friday totals 57,000, compared to 20,000 for the same five days the previous week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with the current surge, BART’s average daily ridership this month is still only 46.4% of its pre-pandemic baseline. The good September numbers also come after an extended lull in BART’s comeback, as ridership actually fell in June and August compared to the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall transit use across the Bay Area is still well below pre-pandemic levels for nearly all of the region’s 27 transit agencies. The exceptions: The North Bay’s SMART train system, which is carrying more riders now than it did before COVID-19, and San Mateo County’s SamTrans, which is carrying about the same number of passengers as it did before stay-at-home orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"During the A’s final homestand at the Coliseum, BART reported 204,265 trips on Tuesday — the first time it topped 200,000 since March 2020. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1727303400,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":470},"headData":{"title":"Oakland A’s Fans Helped Push BART Ridership to Heights Not Seen Since 2020 | KQED","description":"During the A’s final homestand at the Coliseum, BART reported 204,265 trips on Tuesday — the first time it topped 200,000 since March 2020. 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Before this month, its post-pandemic daily ridership peaks were recorded in September 2023 — with just over 192,000 trips — immediately after the agency introduced a new schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month’s uptick has beaten those numbers several times, and last week, BART also set a new high for weekly ridership since the pandemic started, with 1.15 million people riding the system. The number of trips reported for the first 24 days of September is about 11% higher than during the same period last year.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1838997796709609889"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>In the past, BART’s September–October numbers have gotten a boost from sporting and entertainment events at the Coliseum, including A’s, Raiders and Warriors games. But with two of those three teams leaving Oakland five years ago and A’s attendance falling into a prolonged funk, traffic at the Coliseum station has declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But A’s attendance was strong for the series with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants last month. And fans have turned out in large numbers — many taking BART — for the team’s final week in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_12006211","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1250054983-1-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART data shows that the impact of increased attendance is dramatic. The number of people recorded entering and leaving the Coliseum station since last Friday totals 57,000, compared to 20,000 for the same five days the previous week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with the current surge, BART’s average daily ridership this month is still only 46.4% of its pre-pandemic baseline. 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Among them is legendary batter and base-stealer Rickey Henderson. In 2017, the team named its diamond Rickey Henderson Field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson played for the A’s in the 1980s through the 1990s and was a product of the Oakland sports hotbed going back generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the thing that made Rickey the greatest leadoff man of all time … was just that combination of speed, power, and obviously, the thing that people pay most attention to in baseball now, his eye,” said Howard Bryant, a sports historian and author of “Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson’s family was from Arkansas but followed the path of many African American families who moved West during the Second Great Migration between 1940 and 1970 — ending up in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In telling the story of Henderson, Bryant points to Huey Newton, who founded the Black Panthers and lived on the same Oakland Street as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13916840/the-day-bill-russell-roasted-me-at-mcclymonds\">iconic basketball player Bill Russell\u003c/a>. Russell and Newton’s families lived in the same neighborhood in Monroe, Louisiana, before settling in West Oakland. The migration stories of Henderson, as well as of other famous athletes — Paul Silas, Dave Stewart, Gary Pettis, Lloyd Moseby and more — all mirror that movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant spoke with KQED’s Brian Watt about what made Henderson a special player and how growing up in Oakland helped shape him as an athlete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On how Rickey Henderson’s feats on the field made him a legend\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>What it is with him is the style, the confidence, the fearlessness in which he played baseball. When I look at the type of player that Rickey would be today and other eras, he wouldn’t be a leadoff hitter. He would be in the middle of the order with all the other power hitters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was just such a unique player who could do anything he wanted on a baseball field. You couldn’t keep your eyes off him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88770054.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88770054.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88770054-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88770054-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88770054-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88770054-1536x1037.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rickey Henderson takes off to steal second base against the California Angles, tying former St. Louis Cardinals Lou Brocks’ record of 938 career stolen bases during a game on April 28, 1991, at the Coliseum.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On how Rickey Henderson and the way he got to Oakland became part of the city’s history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We always talk about Oakland as one of the great sports cities in terms of the development of the players. Where are they from? And that’s what I wanted to do with the first couple of chapters of this book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The players all come from Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. That pipeline coming out of World War II all the way to West Oakland. And it wasn’t a migration to Oakland; it was a migration specifically to West Oakland. When you think about the concentration of African Americans in that one neighborhood, what also came with that was a massive concentration of athletic talent. It’s an unbelievable story in terms of talent for a town that is not very big.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the concentration of athletes in Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>And all of these players are coming from a great distance. They are playing on the same Little League teams as kids. And then they end up playing in the major leagues together, and they’re on All-Star teams together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it was amazing to me talking to these players and asking, Rickey, When did you realize you had world class talent? And he was like, I don’t know, fifth or sixth grade? It’s incredible. But part of the reason that he had that much confidence was the legacy of Oakland sports — there were so many great players there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12006250\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88769995-1020x1511.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"948\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88769995-1020x1511.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88769995-800x1185.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88769995-160x237.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88769995-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-88769995.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rickey Henderson hits during an early 1990s game at the Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Focus on Sport/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t rare for those guys to see players be that good and to feel like, well, if Joe Morgan could make the big leagues, I could make the big leagues. If Bill Russell’s in the big leagues or if Curt Flood is in the big leagues, I can do it because they actually had those examples in their own neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, there’s a history there. There’s a legacy there that all of those kids feel like they’re next.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the ‘spirit of Oakland’ and how it empowered athletes like Rickey Henderson\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There’s an Oakland style, and you can feel it when you watch Rickey, and you talk to Rickey. You can see it with a Marshawn Lynch and with Gary Payton and Damian Lillard. All of them have that same Oakland-style confidence — they don’t back down from anything or anybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_12004485,news_12004710,forum_2010101907199\" label=”Related Stories”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you grew up down the street from the Black Panthers headquarters, and you’ve seen your neighbors challenge institutions at the highest level, challenging police, challenging government, asserting your independence — that spirit permeates everything. And I thought it was fascinating that you could connect those dots all the way back to the ‘40s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is something that you see in the style of play. Rickey’s rookie year was 1979. His first 10 years in the league were unbelievable labor struggles in baseball — strikes and lockouts. Baseball players and the owners hated each other during those years. You had a 1980 lockout. You had a 1981 strike; you had another in 1985. Then, you had collusion going on during that same time, where the owners were purposely not signing players to keep salaries down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet Rickey was one of those guys who was completely unafraid to tell you exactly what he’s worth. Most of those players during that time period were very shy and sheepish and almost embarrassed about making that much money and saying so publicly. Rickey was one of the first guys who was like, “Hey, pay me what I’m worth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the Oakland A’s leaving the city and its long sports history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Well, it’s devastating. And it’s even more devastating when you think about it from a different standpoint. Over the past five years, they’re all gone. The A’s are gone. The Warriors are back in San Francisco. The Raiders are in Las Vegas. And so this is the first city in modern North American sports that lost all of their teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s not a city in this country that produced as many homegrown players at that level as Oakland — Jason Kidd, Gary Payton, Damian Lillard, Rickey Henderson, Bill Russell — the list goes on and on. And also had the same amount of great team success. The A’s win three straight World Series in the ’70s, the Warriors win in 75, the Raiders win three Super Bowls, the A’s win again in the ’80s, the Warriors then have their dynasty in the 2010s. And now it’s all gone. It’s incredibly painful for that fan base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the day, the biggest loser is the fans. The fans lose, and they always lose. And they lose because we have created a society in our sports and our sports political culture that, as much as we call these institutions “local treasures,” they still belong to private industry, even though public money is what houses them. And so I still feel, at some point, something has to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Sports historian Howard Bryant talked with KQED about what made Rickey Henderson such a special player and how growing up in Oakland shaped him and other iconic athletes.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1727383446,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1344},"headData":{"title":"How Oakland Style Empowered A's Great Rickey Henderson and Other Athletes | KQED","description":"Sports historian Howard Bryant talked with KQED about what made Rickey Henderson such a special player and how growing up in Oakland shaped him and other iconic athletes.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How Oakland Style Empowered A's Great Rickey Henderson and Other Athletes","datePublished":"2024-09-25T12:00:18-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-26T13:44:06-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/eb56a1b0-1153-4a18-9024-b1f50100d4d2/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12006231/how-oakland-style-empowered-as-great-rickey-henderson-and-other-athletes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The A’s began their final series of games at the Oakland Coliseum on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the A’s haven’t had much success in recent years, the team has a long history of producing some of baseball’s greatest players. Among them is legendary batter and base-stealer Rickey Henderson. In 2017, the team named its diamond Rickey Henderson Field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson played for the A’s in the 1980s through the 1990s and was a product of the Oakland sports hotbed going back generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the thing that made Rickey the greatest leadoff man of all time … was just that combination of speed, power, and obviously, the thing that people pay most attention to in baseball now, his eye,” said Howard Bryant, a sports historian and author of “Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson’s family was from Arkansas but followed the path of many African American families who moved West during the Second Great Migration between 1940 and 1970 — ending up in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In telling the story of Henderson, Bryant points to Huey Newton, who founded the Black Panthers and lived on the same Oakland Street as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13916840/the-day-bill-russell-roasted-me-at-mcclymonds\">iconic basketball player Bill Russell\u003c/a>. Russell and Newton’s families lived in the same neighborhood in Monroe, Louisiana, before settling in West Oakland. The migration stories of Henderson, as well as of other famous athletes — Paul Silas, Dave Stewart, Gary Pettis, Lloyd Moseby and more — all mirror that movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant spoke with KQED’s Brian Watt about what made Henderson a special player and how growing up in Oakland helped shape him as an athlete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On how Rickey Henderson’s feats on the field made him a legend\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>What it is with him is the style, the confidence, the fearlessness in which he played baseball. When I look at the type of player that Rickey would be today and other eras, he wouldn’t be a leadoff hitter. He would be in the middle of the order with all the other power hitters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was just such a unique player who could do anything he wanted on a baseball field. 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All of them have that same Oakland-style confidence — they don’t back down from anything or anybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_12004485,news_12004710,forum_2010101907199","label":"Related Stories"},"numeric":["Stories”"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you grew up down the street from the Black Panthers headquarters, and you’ve seen your neighbors challenge institutions at the highest level, challenging police, challenging government, asserting your independence — that spirit permeates everything. And I thought it was fascinating that you could connect those dots all the way back to the ‘40s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is something that you see in the style of play. Rickey’s rookie year was 1979. 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