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We’re urging people not to go in so they have less money to build their stadium.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “There’s no playbook when someone says, ‘We’re stealing your team from you.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11952845,news_11947286,news_11949532\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Managers for both teams empathized with the fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t expect anything less from Oakland A’s fans,” manager Mark Kotsay said. “When they come out, they come out with support, with love, and they do it full force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kotsay added that the fans who show up to the game itself would “have a way to just be loud and create energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just to put a uniform on and to have this opportunity to be a big leaguer, to manage a big league club — I’m honored, regardless if there’s one fan or 60,000 fans,” Kotsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland remains a special place for Guardians manager Stephen Vogt, who debuted \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/opening-day-guardians-vogt-675745b51a6856acf824eebe1d682cc6\">against the club\u003c/a> for which he played six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart goes out to the fans and the people of Oakland, obviously the organization as well,” Vogt said. “They’re in a tough place right now, and hopefully, they’ll get some answers and some clarity soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In protest of the A’s planned move to Las Vegas in 2028, fan groups boycotted the home opener on Thursday, purchasing tickets to the game to organize a block party outside the stadium. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'We're Fighting Back': A's Fans Throw Block Party Outside Oakland Coliseum to Protest Las Vegas Move","datePublished":"2024-03-29T18:53:24.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-29T19:43:28.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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,"nprByline":"Eric He\u003cbr>Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11981232/were-fighting-back-as-fans-throw-block-party-outside-oakland-coliseum-to-protest-las-vegas-move","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Many fans at the Oakland Coliseum were still hanging out in the parking lot when Alex Wood delivered the first pitch of the season for \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/opening-day-guardians-athletics-score-bieber-vogt-c823ba3f92d4587f3bf0f5a6a010b730\">the Athletics against the Cleveland Guardians.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they had no intention of going into the stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In protest of the A’s planned move to Las Vegas in 2028, fan groups boycotted the home opener on Thursday, purchasing tickets to the game to organize a block party outside the stadium. Paid attendance for the game was 13,522, but many never made it inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A half-hour before the game’s first pitch, hundreds of fans gathered in the far corner of the parking lot. They displayed “Sell” T-shirts and flags, threw beanbags at caricatures of team executives — including owner John Fisher and president Dave Kaval — and danced to live music while munching on dinner from food trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We’re raising money to fight back. We’re urging people not to go in so they have less money to build their stadium.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Hal Gordon, economist and former Coliseum hot dog vendor","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Everyone’s in such a good mood because we’re all here for the same thing,” said Edward Silva, a student at San José State and a lifelong A’s fan. “Everyone knows the score. So everyone’s on the same page and just creating a wonderful atmosphere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s opened gates to parking lots just two hours before the game to align with what they said was the expected attendance, but fan groups that organized the boycott, including the Oakland 68’s and The Last Dive Bar, said it was an attempt to limit the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennis Biles, an organizer with the Oakland 68’s, said at a rally in the parking lot that Thursday was the first A’s home game he missed in five years. Biles, a season ticket holder since 2007, chose to attend college locally so he could still go to A’s games. He noted that other fans probably made similar sacrifices to support the club, small or large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a long time, I really believed that the A’s were actually dedicated to the community,” Biles said. “And I really bought into that whole spiel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981236\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981236\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436.jpg\" alt=\"An older man with sunglasses and green and yellow hat watches through a net, another man with the same hat stands a little to his left.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2113299436-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A’s manager Mark Kotsay watches batting practice before the game against the Guardians at RingCentral Coliseum on Thursday, March 28. \u003ccite>(Lachlan Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The A’s plan to relocate to Las Vegas in 2028, but where they will play after this season remains uncertain, as their lease at the Coliseum expires. Sacramento and Salt Lake City have been floated as options, as has sharing Oracle Park with the San Francisco Giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland 68’s and the Oakland United Coalition called at the rally for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to back out of their agreement to sell their 50% stake of the Coliseum to the A’s. At another booth were organizers at Schools Over Stadiums, a group attempting to block public funding for the Las Vegas stadium in favor of money for education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday was the second large action taken by A’s fans during home games after plans to move to Las Vegas were announced. Last June, fans packed the Coliseum for a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/oakland-as-fans-reverse-boycott-sell-492340255543278241c63de72e2ddf77\">reverse boycott,\u003c/a> urging Fisher to sell the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like that was for us to know that it was important,” said Hal Gordon, an economist and former hot dog vendor at the Coliseum who became a fan favorite before he left in 2022. “This time, we’re fighting. We’re fighting back. We’re raising money to fight back. We’re urging people not to go in so they have less money to build their stadium.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “There’s no playbook when someone says, ‘We’re stealing your team from you.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11952845,news_11947286,news_11949532","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Managers for both teams empathized with the fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t expect anything less from Oakland A’s fans,” manager Mark Kotsay said. “When they come out, they come out with support, with love, and they do it full force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kotsay added that the fans who show up to the game itself would “have a way to just be loud and create energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just to put a uniform on and to have this opportunity to be a big leaguer, to manage a big league club — I’m honored, regardless if there’s one fan or 60,000 fans,” Kotsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland remains a special place for Guardians manager Stephen Vogt, who debuted \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/opening-day-guardians-vogt-675745b51a6856acf824eebe1d682cc6\">against the club\u003c/a> for which he played six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart goes out to the fans and the people of Oakland, obviously the organization as well,” Vogt said. “They’re in a tough place right now, and hopefully, they’ll get some answers and some clarity soon.”\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11981232/were-fighting-back-as-fans-throw-block-party-outside-oakland-coliseum-to-protest-las-vegas-move","authors":["byline_news_11981232"],"categories":["news_8","news_10"],"tags":["news_18203","news_22143","news_111"],"featImg":"news_11981235","label":"news"},"news_11952845":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11952845","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11952845","score":null,"sort":[1686774350000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-as-fans-swing-to-save-oakland-baseball","title":"Oakland A's Fans' 'Reverse Boycott' Draws 27,000 as Team Moves a Step Closer to Leaving","publishDate":1686774350,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Oakland A’s Fans’ ‘Reverse Boycott’ Draws 27,000 as Team Moves a Step Closer to Leaving | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Oakland A’s fans swarmed into the Coliseum Tuesday night, many wearing green T-shirts emblazoned with the word “Sell” as part of a last-ditch effort to keep the team in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sell the team!” fans chanted thousands of times during the A’s 2–1 victory against the Tampa Bay Rays that gave Oakland a season-best seven-game winning streak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of the so-called reverse boycott, which drew the biggest crowd of the season at 27,759, are calling for A’s owner John Fisher to sell the 55-year-old baseball franchise to a buyer committed to keeping the team in Oakland, rather than moving forward with plans to build a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949532/oakland-as-signal-move-to-las-vegas-strip-after-reaching-an-agreement-for-potential-stadium-site\">$1.5 billion stadium on the Las Vegas Strip\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed move to the desert came one step closer to reality Tuesday afternoon when the Nevada state Senate \u003ca href=\"https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/2023-legislature/as-ballpark-funding-bill-approved-by-nevada-senate-2793296/\">voted in favor of an amended version\u003c/a> of a proposed $380 million public financing package for the new stadium. The measure must now be approved by the state Assembly and the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11952972 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man in a lime green shirt that reads \"sell\" points and smiles at the camera while standing in a parking lot.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Wohl at the reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like my heart is being ripped out. It’s the worst feeling in the world, really,” Matthew Wohl, a lifelong A’s fan, said during a tailgate party before the game Tuesday night. “I’ve barely been watching baseball this year, but I know more than likely they’re leaving. Watching them leave is just killing me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball needs to be in Oakland,” he insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the A’s defy the odds and manage to stay “rooted in Oakland,” as its supporters are demanding, the team would face an already bruised and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947286/devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move\">devastated fan base\u003c/a> that has united in condemning Fisher and team president Dave Kaval. Both executives, they say, have poorly managed the team and are betraying a city the A’s have called home since moving from Kansas City in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, the owner owns the team, but it’s not theirs, it’s the community’s,” said Jorge Leon, president of A’s fan group the Oakland ’68s, at the Coliseum last week. “The A’s [management] have been alienating the fan base for a while. It’s nothing new. And so, now it’s the last straw — and people are tired of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland ’68s are known for sitting in the right-field bleachers, spiritedly rooting for their team. Since news of the potential A’s Vegas move, the group has taken to chanting brazen sentiments such as, “Sell the team,” as they beat on drums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952927\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd of people wearing Oakland A's clothing fill an outdoor parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans of the Oakland A’s gather at the Oakland Coliseum as part of a reverse boycott to protest the ownership of the team. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last few months, the group raised more than $27,000 from fans in Oakland and farther afield, and teamed up with local clothing company Oaklandish to produce the “Sell” T-shirts that go for $5 a pop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Batres, who drove down from Sacramento for Tuesday’s event, was among the thousands donning the green T-shirts. “I’ve had a big love affair with the A’s over the Giants for quite some time. And I felt that it was kind of a personal thing, especially when I consider them my team,” said Batres, who’s been a die-hard fan for four decades. “So even suggesting the fact they’re going to move to Las Vegas is kind of a big deal to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt='Three men stand beside a car with t-shirts that read \"sell\" drinking beer, eating snacks and talking to each other.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Batres (right) joins other Oakland A’s fans during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Katie Callahan-Cisco said she and her older sister had come both to support the team and as tribute to their father, Dick Callahan, the longtime A’s public address announcer, who died in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so gratifying to see all of these people supporting the team and this reverse boycott,” she said. “The fans really initiated this and then it just really spread like wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before first pitch, the A’s announced they would donate all ticket revenue from the game to the Alameda County Community Food Bank and Oakland Public Education Fund — a total of $811,107.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952928\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11952928 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of seven people stand together to take a photo in an outdoor parking lot, all but one wear t-shirts reading "sell" and several wear Oakland A's hats.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Callahan (second from the right), Cary Kennerley (left of center) and Katie Callahan-Cisco (center) tailgate in the parking lot of the Oakland Coliseum with their families. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fight to keep the A’s in Oakland comes just three years after the city lost the Raiders — also to Las Vegas. The year before, the Golden State Warriors jumped ship to a new stadium in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s, who play in the American League West, currently sit at the bottom of their division and, at 19–50, have lost more games this season than any other team in the league. Still, they managed to beat the Rays — who have the best record in baseball — on Monday and Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11952916 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two young men wearing Oakland A's jerseys look at the camera while standing beside a car a large open parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob and Joseph Palpallatoc join other fans of the Oakland A’s during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum to protest the ownership of the baseball team. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is ridiculous that they’re trying to move to Las Vegas. I think that we need to keep them here in Oakland,” said Annette Burt, 60, who has been an A’s fan since she was 5 years old. “It’s been a family pastime for me forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burt said she understands the chances of the team staying here are slim, but is still holding out hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s a done deal,” she said. “I think there’s still enough interest, and it can be a very competitive team and it has been in the past. If we had owners backing us up, it would be very successful. And it would be successful for Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Phoebe Quinton and Matthew Green, and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Filling the Coliseum with chants of, 'Sell the team!,' A's fans vented their anger toward owners' plans to uproot the team and mourned what looks like an increasingly likely move to Las Vegas.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1686784836,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1089},"headData":{"title":"Oakland A's Fans' 'Reverse Boycott' Draws 27,000 as Team Moves a Step Closer to Leaving | KQED","description":"Filling the Coliseum with chants of, 'Sell the team!,' A's fans vented their anger toward owners' plans to uproot the team and mourned what looks like an increasingly likely move to Las Vegas.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Oakland A's Fans' 'Reverse Boycott' Draws 27,000 as Team Moves a Step Closer to Leaving","datePublished":"2023-06-14T20:25:50.000Z","dateModified":"2023-06-14T23:20:36.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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-aaef00f5a073/54b519f9-95ea-4db1-954d-b021012a8a4d/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11952845/oakland-as-fans-swing-to-save-oakland-baseball","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland A’s fans swarmed into the Coliseum Tuesday night, many wearing green T-shirts emblazoned with the word “Sell” as part of a last-ditch effort to keep the team in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sell the team!” fans chanted thousands of times during the A’s 2–1 victory against the Tampa Bay Rays that gave Oakland a season-best seven-game winning streak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of the so-called reverse boycott, which drew the biggest crowd of the season at 27,759, are calling for A’s owner John Fisher to sell the 55-year-old baseball franchise to a buyer committed to keeping the team in Oakland, rather than moving forward with plans to build a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949532/oakland-as-signal-move-to-las-vegas-strip-after-reaching-an-agreement-for-potential-stadium-site\">$1.5 billion stadium on the Las Vegas Strip\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed move to the desert came one step closer to reality Tuesday afternoon when the Nevada state Senate \u003ca href=\"https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/2023-legislature/as-ballpark-funding-bill-approved-by-nevada-senate-2793296/\">voted in favor of an amended version\u003c/a> of a proposed $380 million public financing package for the new stadium. The measure must now be approved by the state Assembly and the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11952972 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man in a lime green shirt that reads \"sell\" points and smiles at the camera while standing in a parking lot.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66248__DSC3948-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Wohl at the reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like my heart is being ripped out. It’s the worst feeling in the world, really,” Matthew Wohl, a lifelong A’s fan, said during a tailgate party before the game Tuesday night. “I’ve barely been watching baseball this year, but I know more than likely they’re leaving. Watching them leave is just killing me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball needs to be in Oakland,” he insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the A’s defy the odds and manage to stay “rooted in Oakland,” as its supporters are demanding, the team would face an already bruised and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947286/devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move\">devastated fan base\u003c/a> that has united in condemning Fisher and team president Dave Kaval. Both executives, they say, have poorly managed the team and are betraying a city the A’s have called home since moving from Kansas City in 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, the owner owns the team, but it’s not theirs, it’s the community’s,” said Jorge Leon, president of A’s fan group the Oakland ’68s, at the Coliseum last week. “The A’s [management] have been alienating the fan base for a while. It’s nothing new. And so, now it’s the last straw — and people are tired of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland ’68s are known for sitting in the right-field bleachers, spiritedly rooting for their team. Since news of the potential A’s Vegas move, the group has taken to chanting brazen sentiments such as, “Sell the team,” as they beat on drums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952927\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd of people wearing Oakland A's clothing fill an outdoor parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66260_DSC03329-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fans of the Oakland A’s gather at the Oakland Coliseum as part of a reverse boycott to protest the ownership of the team. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last few months, the group raised more than $27,000 from fans in Oakland and farther afield, and teamed up with local clothing company Oaklandish to produce the “Sell” T-shirts that go for $5 a pop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Batres, who drove down from Sacramento for Tuesday’s event, was among the thousands donning the green T-shirts. “I’ve had a big love affair with the A’s over the Giants for quite some time. And I felt that it was kind of a personal thing, especially when I consider them my team,” said Batres, who’s been a die-hard fan for four decades. “So even suggesting the fact they’re going to move to Las Vegas is kind of a big deal to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952915\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt='Three men stand beside a car with t-shirts that read \"sell\" drinking beer, eating snacks and talking to each other.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-02-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Batres (right) joins other Oakland A’s fans during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Katie Callahan-Cisco said she and her older sister had come both to support the team and as tribute to their father, Dick Callahan, the longtime A’s public address announcer, who died in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so gratifying to see all of these people supporting the team and this reverse boycott,” she said. “The fans really initiated this and then it just really spread like wildfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before first pitch, the A’s announced they would donate all ticket revenue from the game to the Alameda County Community Food Bank and Oakland Public Education Fund — a total of $811,107.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952928\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11952928 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of seven people stand together to take a photo in an outdoor parking lot, all but one wear t-shirts reading "sell" and several wear Oakland A's hats.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66268__DSC3917-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Callahan (second from the right), Cary Kennerley (left of center) and Katie Callahan-Cisco (center) tailgate in the parking lot of the Oakland Coliseum with their families. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fight to keep the A’s in Oakland comes just three years after the city lost the Raiders — also to Las Vegas. The year before, the Golden State Warriors jumped ship to a new stadium in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s, who play in the American League West, currently sit at the bottom of their division and, at 19–50, have lost more games this season than any other team in the league. Still, they managed to beat the Rays — who have the best record in baseball — on Monday and Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11952916 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two young men wearing Oakland A's jerseys look at the camera while standing beside a car a large open parking lot.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/20230614-AS-REVERSE-BOYCOTT-03-AC-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob and Joseph Palpallatoc join other fans of the Oakland A’s during a reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum to protest the ownership of the baseball team. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is ridiculous that they’re trying to move to Las Vegas. I think that we need to keep them here in Oakland,” said Annette Burt, 60, who has been an A’s fan since she was 5 years old. “It’s been a family pastime for me forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burt said she understands the chances of the team staying here are slim, but is still holding out hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s a done deal,” she said. “I think there’s still enough interest, and it can be a very competitive team and it has been in the past. If we had owners backing us up, it would be very successful. And it would be successful for Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Phoebe Quinton and Matthew Green, and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11952845/oakland-as-fans-swing-to-save-oakland-baseball","authors":["11812","11852"],"categories":["news_8","news_10"],"tags":["news_18203","news_27626","news_20426","news_4694","news_18","news_161","news_22143","news_17596","news_28301"],"featImg":"news_11952917","label":"news"},"news_11948726":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11948726","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11948726","score":null,"sort":[1683490354000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"baseball-icon-vida-blue-led-oakland-to-3-world-series-titles-dies-at-73","title":"Baseball Icon Vida Blue, Who Led Oakland to 3 World Series Titles, Dies at 73","publishDate":1683490354,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Baseball Icon Vida Blue, Who Led Oakland to 3 World Series Titles, Dies at 73 | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Vida Blue, a hard-throwing left-hander who became one of baseball’s biggest draws in the early 1970s and helped lead the brash Oakland Athletics to three straight World Series titles, has died. He was 73.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Oakland Athletics\"]‘There are few players with a more decorated career than Vida Blue. Vida will always be a franchise legend and a friend.’[/pullquote]The A’s said Blue died Saturday but didn’t give a cause of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember watching a 19 year old phenom dominate baseball, and at the same time alter my life,” Dave Stewart, a four-time 20-game winner for the A’s a generation later, wrote on Twitter. “There are no words for what you have meant to me and so many others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Dsmoke34/status/1655211438586363904\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blue was awarded the 1971 American League Cy Young Award and voted Most Valuable Player after going 24–8 with a 1.82 ERA and 301 strikeouts with 24 complete games, eight of them shutouts. He was 22 when he won MVP, the youngest to win the award. He remains among just 11 pitchers to win MVP and Cy Young in the same year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910561/bay-area-baseball-fans-celebrate-opening-day-as-big-changes-loom-for-both-teams\">interview with KQED’s Brian Watt\u003c/a> last year, Blue spoke about the benefits of being a left-handed player.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They say if you’re left-handed and still breathing, you can always get a job,” said Blue. “I’m not sure how true that is, but for some reason, they always look for left-handed batters, hitters, and always look for the left-handed pitcher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it’s all a bunch of hooey,” he added. “If you can hit, you could hit. If you can pitch, you can pitch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RadioBWatt/status/1655256489613983744\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blue finished 209–161 with a 3.27 ERA, 2,175 strikeouts, 143 complete games and 37 shutouts over 17 seasons with Oakland (1969–77), San Francisco (1978–81, 1985–86) and Kansas City (1982–83).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vida Blue has been a Bay Area baseball icon for over 50 years,” Giants President Larry Baer said in a statement. “His impact on the Bay Area transcends his 17 years on the diamond with the influence he’s had on our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11910561,news_11947211,news_11947286\" label=\"Related Posts\"]A six-time All-Star and three-time 20-game winner, Blue helped pitch the Swingin’ A’s, as Charley Finley’s colorful, mustachioed team was known, to consecutive World Series titles from 1972–74. Since then, only the 1998–2000 New York Yankees have accomplished the feat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are few players with a more decorated career than Vida Blue,” the A’s said in a statement. “Vida will always be a franchise legend and a friend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selected by the then-Kansas City Athletics on the second round of the 1967 amateur draft, Blue made his big league debut with Oakland on July 20, 1969, about a week shy of his 20th birthday. He made four starts and 12 relief appearances, then spent most of 1970 at Triple-A Iowa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Called up when rosters expanded, he pitched a one-hit shutout at Kansas City in his second start. In his fourth start, Blue pitched a no-hitter against Minnesota on Sept. 21 at 21 years, 55 days, which made him the youngest pitcher to throw a no-hitter since the live-ball era started in 1920.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He held out after his MVP season and signed a $50,000 one-year deal. Blue didn’t make his first start until May 24 and went 6–10. From 1973–76, he went 77–48 and 0–3 in the World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948728\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526-800x943.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage black and white photo of a Black man dressed in a baseball uniform getting ready throw a baseball.\" width=\"800\" height=\"943\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526-800x943.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526-160x189.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526.jpg 869w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vida Blue, No. 14 for the Oakland Athletics, pitching during a game at County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1974. \u003ccite>(Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1975, he pitched the first five innings of a no-hitter against the California Angels, but was pulled early by manager Alvin Dark to rest him for the playoffs in a game finished by Glenn Abbott, Paul Lindblad and Rollie Fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Blue clashed publicly with Finley, the A’s owner traded Blue twice only to be blocked each time by baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finley attempted in June 1976 to trade Blue to the New York Yankees for $1.5 million and Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers to the Boston Red Sox for $1 million each. Kuhn vetoed the deals under the commissioner’s authority to act in the “best interest of baseball.” In December 1977, Kuhn stopped Finley from trading Blue to Cincinnati for $1.75 million and minor league first baseman Dave Revering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blue was traded to the Giants the following March in a deal that brought Oakland seven players, including outfielder Gary Thomasson and catcher Gary Alexander. Blue was dealt to the Royals in March 1982 and released in August 1983.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His death comes weeks after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947211/oakland-mayor-says-as-fans-deserve-better-after-team-announces-deal-to-buy-vegas-stadium\">A’s announced plans to move the team to Las Vegas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big business, and getting traded is a part of the business,” said Blue in an interview with KQED last year about the team potentially leaving Oakland. “Teams come and teams go, and hopefully they get something resolved and the A’s can stay in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Brian Watt contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Vida Blue, a hard-throwing left-hander who became one of baseball’s biggest draws in the early 1970s and helped lead the brash Oakland Athletics to three straight World Series titles, has died. He was 73.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1683647634,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":953},"headData":{"title":"Baseball Icon Vida Blue, Who Led Oakland to 3 World Series Titles, Dies at 73 | KQED","description":"Vida Blue, a hard-throwing left-hander who became one of baseball’s biggest draws in the early 1970s and helped lead the brash Oakland Athletics to three straight World Series titles, has died. He was 73.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Baseball Icon Vida Blue, led Oakland to 3 World Series Titles, Dies at 73","twDescription":"Vida Blue, a hard-throwing left-hander who became one of baseball’s biggest draws in the early 1970s and helped lead the brash Oakland Athletics to three straight World Series titles, has died. 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He was 73.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There are few players with a more decorated career than Vida Blue. Vida will always be a franchise legend and a friend.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Oakland Athletics","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The A’s said Blue died Saturday but didn’t give a cause of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember watching a 19 year old phenom dominate baseball, and at the same time alter my life,” Dave Stewart, a four-time 20-game winner for the A’s a generation later, wrote on Twitter. “There are no words for what you have meant to me and so many others.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1655211438586363904"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Blue was awarded the 1971 American League Cy Young Award and voted Most Valuable Player after going 24–8 with a 1.82 ERA and 301 strikeouts with 24 complete games, eight of them shutouts. He was 22 when he won MVP, the youngest to win the award. He remains among just 11 pitchers to win MVP and Cy Young in the same year.\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 an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11910561/bay-area-baseball-fans-celebrate-opening-day-as-big-changes-loom-for-both-teams\">interview with KQED’s Brian Watt\u003c/a> last year, Blue spoke about the benefits of being a left-handed player.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They say if you’re left-handed and still breathing, you can always get a job,” said Blue. “I’m not sure how true that is, but for some reason, they always look for left-handed batters, hitters, and always look for the left-handed pitcher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it’s all a bunch of hooey,” he added. “If you can hit, you could hit. If you can pitch, you can pitch.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1655256489613983744"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Blue finished 209–161 with a 3.27 ERA, 2,175 strikeouts, 143 complete games and 37 shutouts over 17 seasons with Oakland (1969–77), San Francisco (1978–81, 1985–86) and Kansas City (1982–83).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vida Blue has been a Bay Area baseball icon for over 50 years,” Giants President Larry Baer said in a statement. “His impact on the Bay Area transcends his 17 years on the diamond with the influence he’s had on our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11910561,news_11947211,news_11947286","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A six-time All-Star and three-time 20-game winner, Blue helped pitch the Swingin’ A’s, as Charley Finley’s colorful, mustachioed team was known, to consecutive World Series titles from 1972–74. Since then, only the 1998–2000 New York Yankees have accomplished the feat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are few players with a more decorated career than Vida Blue,” the A’s said in a statement. “Vida will always be a franchise legend and a friend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selected by the then-Kansas City Athletics on the second round of the 1967 amateur draft, Blue made his big league debut with Oakland on July 20, 1969, about a week shy of his 20th birthday. He made four starts and 12 relief appearances, then spent most of 1970 at Triple-A Iowa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Called up when rosters expanded, he pitched a one-hit shutout at Kansas City in his second start. In his fourth start, Blue pitched a no-hitter against Minnesota on Sept. 21 at 21 years, 55 days, which made him the youngest pitcher to throw a no-hitter since the live-ball era started in 1920.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He held out after his MVP season and signed a $50,000 one-year deal. Blue didn’t make his first start until May 24 and went 6–10. From 1973–76, he went 77–48 and 0–3 in the World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948728\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526-800x943.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage black and white photo of a Black man dressed in a baseball uniform getting ready throw a baseball.\" width=\"800\" height=\"943\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526-800x943.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526-160x189.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-72343526.jpg 869w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vida Blue, No. 14 for the Oakland Athletics, pitching during a game at County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1974. \u003ccite>(Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1975, he pitched the first five innings of a no-hitter against the California Angels, but was pulled early by manager Alvin Dark to rest him for the playoffs in a game finished by Glenn Abbott, Paul Lindblad and Rollie Fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Blue clashed publicly with Finley, the A’s owner traded Blue twice only to be blocked each time by baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finley attempted in June 1976 to trade Blue to the New York Yankees for $1.5 million and Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers to the Boston Red Sox for $1 million each. Kuhn vetoed the deals under the commissioner’s authority to act in the “best interest of baseball.” In December 1977, Kuhn stopped Finley from trading Blue to Cincinnati for $1.75 million and minor league first baseman Dave Revering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blue was traded to the Giants the following March in a deal that brought Oakland seven players, including outfielder Gary Thomasson and catcher Gary Alexander. Blue was dealt to the Royals in March 1982 and released in August 1983.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His death comes weeks after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947211/oakland-mayor-says-as-fans-deserve-better-after-team-announces-deal-to-buy-vegas-stadium\">A’s announced plans to move the team to Las Vegas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big business, and getting traded is a part of the business,” said Blue in an interview with KQED last year about the team potentially leaving Oakland. “Teams come and teams go, and hopefully they get something resolved and the A’s can stay in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Brian Watt contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11948726/baseball-icon-vida-blue-led-oakland-to-3-world-series-titles-dies-at-73","authors":["byline_news_11948726"],"categories":["news_8","news_10"],"tags":["news_18203","news_27626","news_161","news_22143","news_32711","news_144"],"featImg":"news_11910565","label":"news"},"news_11947286":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11947286","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11947286","score":null,"sort":[1682112037000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move","title":"'Devastated' Oakland A's Fans React to Team's Vegas Move","publishDate":1682112037,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Devastated’ Oakland A’s Fans React to Team’s Vegas Move | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A sports team is nothing without a community that supports it. Many Oakland A’s fans are still processing the news that their beloved team \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947211/oakland-mayor-says-as-fans-deserve-better-after-team-announces-deal-to-buy-vegas-stadium\">signed a deal\u003c/a> to build a new stadium near the Las Vegas Strip. If all these plans go through, it seems like the A’s could leave their hometown altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Die-hard fans told KQED that they believed A’s leadership when it boasted its #RootedInOakland campaign. Now, many say they feel betrayed. There are fans who grew up going to the ballpark and who introduced their children to the excitement of baseball. Some have even proposed to their partners at the Coliseum. As Oakland stands to lose yet another sports team to Las Vegas, A’s fans share their heartfelt reactions and genuine memories of what the team has meant to The Town for more than five decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006 during Game 3 of the opening round of the American League playoffs, Sean McKissick remembers, the A’s absolutely dismantled the Minnesota Twins and advanced to the next round of the playoffs. He said it’s one of his top memories next to the birth of his children. But it was one of those electrifying games that was made better by being part of a roaring crowd alongside his wife, his brothers and his parents.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sean McKissick, longtime Oakland A’s fan\"]‘You’ve got such a fan base here. You’ve got such a history here. It’s the home of Rickey Henderson. How do the A’s leave the town where Rickey Henderson grew up?’[/pullquote]“I remember being in that crowd … we’ve already got the lead, but the bases are loaded for Marco Scutaro. He clears the bases with a double. The entire crowd, 50,000 strong, is chanting Scu-ta-ro, Scu-ta-ro,” McKissick said. “It was a high. I won’t say it’s better than the birth of my kids, but if you put that aside, it’s pretty high up on my most treasured memories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKissick grew up in the East Bay and said he spent his infancy in the Coliseum cheering on the A’s. He now lives in Fair Oaks, a suburb of Sacramento. But despite the distance, he was still making the drive to Oakland to attend A’s games with his family. He said being at the ballpark over the last 40 years truly shaped a significant part of his life. Now that the team is leaving, he’s unsure how to feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just didn’t make sense to me. You’ve got such a fan base here. You’ve got such a history here. It’s the home of Rickey Henderson. How do the A’s leave the town where Rickey Henderson grew up?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947301\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A family of four stand with Oakland A's mascot Stomper.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1928\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-800x602.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-2048x1542.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-1920x1446.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland A’s fan Michael Garcia (far right) poses with (from left) his father, nephew and niece with A’s mascot Stomper. The family attended a game against the Kansas City Royals on June 17, 2022 — the first-ever MLB game Garcia’s niece and nephew attended. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Michael Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michael Garcia, an application developer, said he has been going to the Coliseum for 20 years with his dad and still can’t believe the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have experienced countless heartbreaks. Whether it was our favorite players getting traded or tolerating where all we could hope for was having at least a .500 season, we’ve been through it all.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael Garcia, longtime A’s fan\"]‘Despite the sadness and frustration that I feel, I am still thankful for all the wonderful memories that the A’s have given us over the years. Those are the memories that I will continue to cherish, even when we are no longer the Oakland Athletics.’[/pullquote]“The recent news regarding the A’s moving to Las Vegas was the biggest heartbreak by far. Despite the sadness and frustration that I feel, I am still thankful for all the wonderful memories that the A’s have given us over the years. Those are the memories that I will continue to cherish, even when we are no longer the Oakland Athletics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Medina, a former military member, said there were times during his service when he followed A’s games even when he had little to no reception. He kept up with the team because he cared about the sport and loved the A’s that much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been an A’s fan my entire life, but after this decision, I simply can’t watch or support them anymore,” he said. “It’s as if we’ve been backstabbed by a team that pushed the ‘Rooted in Oakland’ narrative. My family and friends were in utter shock by this decision because they were more than a team to us. They were a part of Oakland and our lives, and like the roots they claimed were there, they simply dug them out and chose to put them somewhere else and didn’t even bother to cover up the hole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime fan Brice Robinson-Wasley told KQED he cheered on the A’s from his small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was a boy in the ’90s, the Giants were looking to relocate to Tampa. I was in Little League and the Giants were doing zero outreach to the community. The A’s, however, had every intention of staying. They had a Little League day where we got to watch a game, walk on the field, have the experience of a lifetime. I certainly have remembered it all my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been an A’s fan ever since. It occurs to me that the roles have been reversed: The Giants are now [the] ones with no intention to move and the A’s are the team looking for a way out (and they’ve gotten it). Even if by some miracle they do stay, who are the A’s building as lifelong fans like they did 25–30 years ago?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs.jpg\" alt=\"Two men wearing green and gold baseball jerseys along with green baseball hats, smile from behind the golden Oakland A's 1972 World Champions trophy.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Strat (left) and Jacob Vides met at an A’s game and became best buds. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jacob Vides)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jacob Vides said the Oakland Coliseum is a place where fellow A’s fans bond over their team pride and become lifelong friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Michael and I] became best friends after we met at an A’s game in 2016. And have attended many more games together since. We have Oakland to thank for many great and fun memories,” Vides said. “We are devastated to learn about the potential move and feel let down by the A’s and to a lesser degree the city of Oakland. Our message is owners should veto this move, and MLB Commissioner Manfred should not waive the $2 billion relocation fee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Vides weighed Oakland’s loss, other fans such as Michael Melland, an Oakland resident since 1988, say good riddance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“See ya. Wouldn’t want to be ya. They’ve destroyed this baseball team. They’ve insulted all of the fans. The owner is a billionaire … it’s like, OK, go ahead. We don’t want you here. … He ruined a whole brand here. I mean, look at these guys. What have they won? Three games and it’s already the last half of April. It’s terrible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why should the poor taxpayers of Oakland who can’t even keep the schools, or the police, or health care going, why should they have to pony up just so he can make even more money? It’s insane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/pquinton99/status/1649160482866233354\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a dedicated A’s fan for more than 30 years, Connie Voss said she’s hurt just like everyone else, but looks forward to the upcoming soccer season and women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hurt that they’re leaving us. The way they’re leaving us. I was devastated … It really, really, really hurt. We kind of thought they were going to leave us, but hoping they weren’t,” she said. “But I’m trying to think positive and deal with the new kinds of sports that are coming: the soccer games and the women’s teams. I’m looking forward to all of that. I don’t want to live in the past. I want to move to the future.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mumin Abuzaid, longtime A’s fan\"]‘That whole ‘Rooted in Oakland’ thing is kind of like a slap in the face when you use that as a marketing strategy to promote your brand and, of course, that got you money, but now where’s that whole philosophy?’[/pullquote]Mumin Abuzaid, 23, was born in San Francisco, but lives in Alameda and grew up attending A’s games. He said he’s sad that the team’s president, Dave Kaval, would be willing to take money from a city that has a long list of immediate needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bit weird for a billion-dollar franchise to be asking that of a city when they already support you more than they really should, as you haven’t been winning as much as other teams. It’s a bit entitled, if you ask me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That whole ‘Rooted in Oakland’ thing is kind of like a slap in the face when you use that as a marketing strategy to promote your brand and, of course, that got you money, but now where’s that whole philosophy? Hearing [that] the Warriors, the Raiders and now the A’s are going to be leaving Oakland, it’s a bit of a slap in the face to a community who always stood behind their teams through rough, rough times. Now they’re gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947322\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54998_012_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Oakland Athletics baseball fan wears the team's green and gold jersey. The fan poses for a photo with their back toward the camera and is standing next to the team's mascot, Stomper, who is wearing a baseball uniform. Stomper is an elephant.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54998_012_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54998_012_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54998_012_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54998_012_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54998_012_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan poses for a photo with Oakland Athletics mascot Stomper during a fan event in San Francisco on April 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chris Parker’s grandparents moved to the Bay four years before the A’s started as an Oakland team back in 1968. His family have been die-hard fans ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been something each generation’s been proud of and had in common. We’ve gone to games for years — some of my earliest memories are at the Coliseum hearing Dick Callahan’s voice. My grandpa especially watched nearly every game he could on TV until he passed this December. If he was still around, I know he’d be madder than he usually got watching what he would say [A’s owner John] Fisher thinks passes for a franchise these days and what Manfred enables in the league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I helped Dave Kaval and others with their live Q&A sessions they held on our subreddit, and whenever he’d speak to the media for the past few years, the A’s leadership would always stress how they were ‘#RootedInOakland’ and committed to the community, fans, and working to get a deal. After today, it seems the only commitment the organization has is to driving the franchise into the ground …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A’s fans are generally a hardy lot, and range from overly forgiving to very fickle, but I think it’s safe to say that almost everyone is going to be unified on feeling betrayed and hurt on this one. Personally, I don’t know if I’m going to be able to watch the game after this … and it won’t necessarily be as simple as ‘pick another team.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/pquinton99\">Phoebe Quinton\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/fjhabvala\">Farida Jhabvala Romero\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bwatt\">Brian Watt\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/agonzalez\">Alexander Gonzalez\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As the Oakland A's announced the team finalized a deal to build a new stadium near the Las Vegas Strip, fans react to the news and reflect on their memories attending games at the Coliseum.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1682119030,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":2100},"headData":{"title":"'Devastated' Oakland A's Fans React to Team's Vegas Move | KQED","description":"As the Oakland A's announced the team finalized a deal to build a new stadium near the Las Vegas Strip, fans react to the news and reflect on their memories attending games at the Coliseum.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'Devastated' Oakland A's Fans React to Team's Vegas Move","datePublished":"2023-04-21T21:20:37.000Z","dateModified":"2023-04-21T23:17:10.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11947286/devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A sports team is nothing without a community that supports it. Many Oakland A’s fans are still processing the news that their beloved team \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947211/oakland-mayor-says-as-fans-deserve-better-after-team-announces-deal-to-buy-vegas-stadium\">signed a deal\u003c/a> to build a new stadium near the Las Vegas Strip. If all these plans go through, it seems like the A’s could leave their hometown altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Die-hard fans told KQED that they believed A’s leadership when it boasted its #RootedInOakland campaign. Now, many say they feel betrayed. There are fans who grew up going to the ballpark and who introduced their children to the excitement of baseball. Some have even proposed to their partners at the Coliseum. As Oakland stands to lose yet another sports team to Las Vegas, A’s fans share their heartfelt reactions and genuine memories of what the team has meant to The Town for more than five decades.\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 2006 during Game 3 of the opening round of the American League playoffs, Sean McKissick remembers, the A’s absolutely dismantled the Minnesota Twins and advanced to the next round of the playoffs. He said it’s one of his top memories next to the birth of his children. But it was one of those electrifying games that was made better by being part of a roaring crowd alongside his wife, his brothers and his parents.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘You’ve got such a fan base here. You’ve got such a history here. It’s the home of Rickey Henderson. How do the A’s leave the town where Rickey Henderson grew up?’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Sean McKissick, longtime Oakland A’s fan","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I remember being in that crowd … we’ve already got the lead, but the bases are loaded for Marco Scutaro. He clears the bases with a double. The entire crowd, 50,000 strong, is chanting Scu-ta-ro, Scu-ta-ro,” McKissick said. “It was a high. I won’t say it’s better than the birth of my kids, but if you put that aside, it’s pretty high up on my most treasured memories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKissick grew up in the East Bay and said he spent his infancy in the Coliseum cheering on the A’s. He now lives in Fair Oaks, a suburb of Sacramento. But despite the distance, he was still making the drive to Oakland to attend A’s games with his family. He said being at the ballpark over the last 40 years truly shaped a significant part of his life. Now that the team is leaving, he’s unsure how to feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just didn’t make sense to me. You’ve got such a fan base here. You’ve got such a history here. It’s the home of Rickey Henderson. How do the A’s leave the town where Rickey Henderson grew up?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947301\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947301\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A family of four stand with Oakland A's mascot Stomper.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1928\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-800x602.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-2048x1542.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Courtesy-Michael-Garcia-1920x1446.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland A’s fan Michael Garcia (far right) poses with (from left) his father, nephew and niece with A’s mascot Stomper. The family attended a game against the Kansas City Royals on June 17, 2022 — the first-ever MLB game Garcia’s niece and nephew attended. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Michael Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michael Garcia, an application developer, said he has been going to the Coliseum for 20 years with his dad and still can’t believe the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have experienced countless heartbreaks. Whether it was our favorite players getting traded or tolerating where all we could hope for was having at least a .500 season, we’ve been through it all.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Despite the sadness and frustration that I feel, I am still thankful for all the wonderful memories that the A’s have given us over the years. Those are the memories that I will continue to cherish, even when we are no longer the Oakland Athletics.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Michael Garcia, longtime A’s fan","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The recent news regarding the A’s moving to Las Vegas was the biggest heartbreak by far. Despite the sadness and frustration that I feel, I am still thankful for all the wonderful memories that the A’s have given us over the years. Those are the memories that I will continue to cherish, even when we are no longer the Oakland Athletics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Medina, a former military member, said there were times during his service when he followed A’s games even when he had little to no reception. He kept up with the team because he cared about the sport and loved the A’s that much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been an A’s fan my entire life, but after this decision, I simply can’t watch or support them anymore,” he said. “It’s as if we’ve been backstabbed by a team that pushed the ‘Rooted in Oakland’ narrative. My family and friends were in utter shock by this decision because they were more than a team to us. They were a part of Oakland and our lives, and like the roots they claimed were there, they simply dug them out and chose to put them somewhere else and didn’t even bother to cover up the hole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime fan Brice Robinson-Wasley told KQED he cheered on the A’s from his small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was a boy in the ’90s, the Giants were looking to relocate to Tampa. I was in Little League and the Giants were doing zero outreach to the community. The A’s, however, had every intention of staying. They had a Little League day where we got to watch a game, walk on the field, have the experience of a lifetime. I certainly have remembered it all my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been an A’s fan ever since. It occurs to me that the roles have been reversed: The Giants are now [the] ones with no intention to move and the A’s are the team looking for a way out (and they’ve gotten it). Even if by some miracle they do stay, who are the A’s building as lifelong fans like they did 25–30 years ago?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs.jpg\" alt=\"Two men wearing green and gold baseball jerseys along with green baseball hats, smile from behind the golden Oakland A's 1972 World Champions trophy.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs.jpg 1500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/CourtesyOaklandAs-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Strat (left) and Jacob Vides met at an A’s game and became best buds. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jacob Vides)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jacob Vides said the Oakland Coliseum is a place where fellow A’s fans bond over their team pride and become lifelong friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Michael and I] became best friends after we met at an A’s game in 2016. And have attended many more games together since. We have Oakland to thank for many great and fun memories,” Vides said. “We are devastated to learn about the potential move and feel let down by the A’s and to a lesser degree the city of Oakland. Our message is owners should veto this move, and MLB Commissioner Manfred should not waive the $2 billion relocation fee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Vides weighed Oakland’s loss, other fans such as Michael Melland, an Oakland resident since 1988, say good riddance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“See ya. Wouldn’t want to be ya. They’ve destroyed this baseball team. They’ve insulted all of the fans. The owner is a billionaire … it’s like, OK, go ahead. We don’t want you here. … He ruined a whole brand here. I mean, look at these guys. What have they won? Three games and it’s already the last half of April. It’s terrible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why should the poor taxpayers of Oakland who can’t even keep the schools, or the police, or health care going, why should they have to pony up just so he can make even more money? It’s insane.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1649160482866233354"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>As a dedicated A’s fan for more than 30 years, Connie Voss said she’s hurt just like everyone else, but looks forward to the upcoming soccer season and women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hurt that they’re leaving us. The way they’re leaving us. I was devastated … It really, really, really hurt. We kind of thought they were going to leave us, but hoping they weren’t,” she said. “But I’m trying to think positive and deal with the new kinds of sports that are coming: the soccer games and the women’s teams. I’m looking forward to all of that. I don’t want to live in the past. I want to move to the future.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘That whole ‘Rooted in Oakland’ thing is kind of like a slap in the face when you use that as a marketing strategy to promote your brand and, of course, that got you money, but now where’s that whole philosophy?’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Mumin Abuzaid, longtime A’s fan","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mumin Abuzaid, 23, was born in San Francisco, but lives in Alameda and grew up attending A’s games. He said he’s sad that the team’s president, Dave Kaval, would be willing to take money from a city that has a long list of immediate needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bit weird for a billion-dollar franchise to be asking that of a city when they already support you more than they really should, as you haven’t been winning as much as other teams. It’s a bit entitled, if you ask me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That whole ‘Rooted in Oakland’ thing is kind of like a slap in the face when you use that as a marketing strategy to promote your brand and, of course, that got you money, but now where’s that whole philosophy? Hearing [that] the Warriors, the Raiders and now the A’s are going to be leaving Oakland, it’s a bit of a slap in the face to a community who always stood behind their teams through rough, rough times. Now they’re gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947322\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54998_012_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Oakland Athletics baseball fan wears the team's green and gold jersey. The fan poses for a photo with their back toward the camera and is standing next to the team's mascot, Stomper, who is wearing a baseball uniform. Stomper is an elephant.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54998_012_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54998_012_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54998_012_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54998_012_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS54998_012_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fan poses for a photo with Oakland Athletics mascot Stomper during a fan event in San Francisco on April 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chris Parker’s grandparents moved to the Bay four years before the A’s started as an Oakland team back in 1968. His family have been die-hard fans ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been something each generation’s been proud of and had in common. We’ve gone to games for years — some of my earliest memories are at the Coliseum hearing Dick Callahan’s voice. My grandpa especially watched nearly every game he could on TV until he passed this December. If he was still around, I know he’d be madder than he usually got watching what he would say [A’s owner John] Fisher thinks passes for a franchise these days and what Manfred enables in the league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I helped Dave Kaval and others with their live Q&A sessions they held on our subreddit, and whenever he’d speak to the media for the past few years, the A’s leadership would always stress how they were ‘#RootedInOakland’ and committed to the community, fans, and working to get a deal. After today, it seems the only commitment the organization has is to driving the franchise into the ground …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A’s fans are generally a hardy lot, and range from overly forgiving to very fickle, but I think it’s safe to say that almost everyone is going to be unified on feeling betrayed and hurt on this one. Personally, I don’t know if I’m going to be able to watch the game after this … and it won’t necessarily be as simple as ‘pick another team.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/pquinton99\">Phoebe Quinton\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/fjhabvala\">Farida Jhabvala Romero\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bwatt\">Brian Watt\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/agonzalez\">Alexander Gonzalez\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\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/11947286/devastated-oakland-as-fans-react-to-teams-vegas-move","authors":["11852","11530"],"categories":["news_8","news_10"],"tags":["news_18203","news_24720","news_4962","news_27626","news_4694","news_2540","news_18","news_161","news_22143","news_31143","news_111"],"featImg":"news_11947316","label":"news"},"news_11947211":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11947211","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11947211","score":null,"sort":[1682014360000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-mayor-says-as-fans-deserve-better-after-team-announces-deal-to-buy-vegas-stadium","title":"Oakland Mayor Says A's Fans 'Deserve Better' After Team Announces Vegas Stadium Deal","publishDate":1682014360,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Oakland Mayor Says A’s Fans ‘Deserve Better’ After Team Announces Vegas Stadium Deal | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The Oakland Athletics have signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a new retractable-roof ballpark in Las Vegas after being unable to build a new venue in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Team President Dave Kaval said Wednesday night the team finalized a deal last week to buy the 49-acre site close to the Las Vegas Strip, where the A’s plan to build the stadium with a seating capacity of 30,000 to 35,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s will work with Nevada and Clark County on a public-private partnership to fund the stadium. Kaval said the A’s hope to break ground by next year and hope to move to their new home by 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s obviously a very big milestone for us,” Kaval said. “We spent almost two years working in Las Vegas to try to determine a location that works for a long-term home. To identify a site and have a purchase agreement is a big step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s had been looking for a new home for years to replace the outdated and run-down Oakland Coliseum, where the team has played since arriving from Kansas City for the 1968 season. They had sought to build a stadium in Fremont and San José before shifting their attention to the Oakland waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las Vegas would be the fourth home for a franchise that started as the Philadelphia Athletics in 1901, lasting until 1954.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re turning our full attention to Las Vegas,” Kaval said. “We were on parallel paths before. But we’re focused really on Las Vegas as our path to find a future home for the A’s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Rob Manfred said in December the A’s would not have to pay a relocation fee if the team moved to Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re past any reasonable timeline for the situation in Oakland to be resolved,” Manfred said then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference on Thursday, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao said she realized the A’s were using the city of Oakland as leverage early Wednesday evening when she received a phone call from Kaval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to be very clear, this announcement happened mid-negotiations and it shows that they had no interest in reaching a deal with Oakland at all,” Thao said. “Oakland is not interested in being used as leverage in the A’s negotiations with Las Vegas, and it is disrespectful to our residents and our fans to string the city along this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released late Wednesday, Thao said she was disappointed the A’s didn’t negotiate with the city as a “true partner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\"]‘I am not interested in continuing to play that game — the fans and our residents deserve better.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has gone above and beyond in our attempts to arrive at mutually beneficial terms to keep the A’s in Oakland,” Thao said in the statement. “In the last three months, we’ve made significant strides to close the deal. Yet, it is clear to me that the A’s have no intention of staying in Oakland and have simply been using this process to try to extract a better deal out of Las Vegas. I am not interested in continuing to play that game — the fans and our residents deserve better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am incredibly proud of what we have accomplished as a City, including securing a fully entitled site and over $375 million in new infrastructure investment that will benefit Oakland and its Port for generations to come. In a time of budget deficits, I refuse to compromise the safety and well-being of our residents. Given these realities, we are ceasing negotiations and moving forward on alternatives for the redevelopment of Howard Terminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947216\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS2890_Oakland-Coliseum_-Getty-Images.jpg\" alt=\"A baseball stadium is seen in the distance from a parking lot. Two, large stadium light poles stick out and a line of baseball fans line up.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS2890_Oakland-Coliseum_-Getty-Images.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS2890_Oakland-Coliseum_-Getty-Images-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS2890_Oakland-Coliseum_-Getty-Images-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS2890_Oakland-Coliseum_-Getty-Images-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS2890_Oakland-Coliseum_-Getty-Images-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view outside the Oakland Coliseum before a game between the Seattle Mariners and the Oakland Athletics in Oakland, on April 6, 2012. \u003ccite>(Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The A’s would be only the second MLB team to change cities in more than a half-century. Since the Washington Senators became the Texas Rangers in 1972, the only team to relocate was the Montreal Expos, who became the Washington Nationals in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s lease at the Coliseum expires after the 2024 season. The team has struggled to draw fans to the stadium in recent years as owner John Fisher slashed payroll and many of the team’s most recognizable stars were traded away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland had the lowest opening day payroll in baseball at $58 million — less than the combined salaries of Mets pitchers Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, who tied for the major league high of $43.3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dave Kaval, president, Oakland Athletic’s\"]‘Obviously we’re grateful for all the hard work that went into the waterfront. But we have been unable to achieve success or make enough progress.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team is 3–16 this season and has been outscored by 86 runs — the worst mark through 19 games since 1899. The average attendance through 12 home games this season is 11,027 for the lowest mark in the majors and less than half of the league average of about 27,800. The A’s haven’t drawn 2 million fans at home since 2014 — their only year reaching the mark since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the A’s leave Oakland, the city with a rich sports tradition would have no major pro sports teams, with the NFL’s Raiders having moved to Las Vegas in 2020 and the NBA’s Warriors moving across the bay to San Francisco in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\"]‘I don’t believe that this city is defined by Major League Baseball. I think that this city is defined by its great people, its great culture …’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know it’s a difficult message for our folks in Oakland,” Kaval said. “Obviously we’re grateful for all the hard work that went into the waterfront. But we have been unable to achieve success or make enough progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las Vegas is quickly becoming a sports mecca after years of being considered a pariah because of ties to the gambling industry. With gambling legalized in much of the country, the city now could have a baseball team to join the NHL’s Golden Knights, who began as an expansion team in 2017, and the Raiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t believe that this city is defined by Major League Baseball. I think that this city is defined by its great people, its great culture, its great weather, and many other things,” Thao said at the Thursday press event. “We’re not going to sell out the residents and the businesses in the city of Oakland and give all the money that we do not have to one Major League Baseball team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Phoebe Quinton and Steph Rodriguez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'I don't believe that this city is defined by Major League Baseball. I think that this city is defined by its great people, its great culture,' said Mayor Sheng Thao of the Oakland A's plans to move to Las Vegas.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1682117121,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1253},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Mayor Says A's Fans 'Deserve Better' After Team Announces Vegas Stadium Deal | KQED","description":"'I don't believe that this city is defined by Major League Baseball. I think that this city is defined by its great people, its great culture,' said Mayor Sheng Thao of the Oakland A's plans to move to Las Vegas.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Oakland Mayor Says A's Fans 'Deserve Better' After Team Announces Vegas Stadium Deal","datePublished":"2023-04-20T18:12:40.000Z","dateModified":"2023-04-21T22:45:21.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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"}}},"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JoshDubowAP\">Josh Dubow\u003c/a>\u003cbr>The Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11947211/oakland-mayor-says-as-fans-deserve-better-after-team-announces-deal-to-buy-vegas-stadium","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Oakland Athletics have signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a new retractable-roof ballpark in Las Vegas after being unable to build a new venue in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Team President Dave Kaval said Wednesday night the team finalized a deal last week to buy the 49-acre site close to the Las Vegas Strip, where the A’s plan to build the stadium with a seating capacity of 30,000 to 35,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s will work with Nevada and Clark County on a public-private partnership to fund the stadium. Kaval said the A’s hope to break ground by next year and hope to move to their new home by 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s obviously a very big milestone for us,” Kaval said. “We spent almost two years working in Las Vegas to try to determine a location that works for a long-term home. To identify a site and have a purchase agreement is a big step.”\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 A’s had been looking for a new home for years to replace the outdated and run-down Oakland Coliseum, where the team has played since arriving from Kansas City for the 1968 season. They had sought to build a stadium in Fremont and San José before shifting their attention to the Oakland waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las Vegas would be the fourth home for a franchise that started as the Philadelphia Athletics in 1901, lasting until 1954.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re turning our full attention to Las Vegas,” Kaval said. “We were on parallel paths before. But we’re focused really on Las Vegas as our path to find a future home for the A’s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Rob Manfred said in December the A’s would not have to pay a relocation fee if the team moved to Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re past any reasonable timeline for the situation in Oakland to be resolved,” Manfred said then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference on Thursday, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao said she realized the A’s were using the city of Oakland as leverage early Wednesday evening when she received a phone call from Kaval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to be very clear, this announcement happened mid-negotiations and it shows that they had no interest in reaching a deal with Oakland at all,” Thao said. “Oakland is not interested in being used as leverage in the A’s negotiations with Las Vegas, and it is disrespectful to our residents and our fans to string the city along this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released late Wednesday, Thao said she was disappointed the A’s didn’t negotiate with the city as a “true partner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I am not interested in continuing to play that game — the fans and our residents deserve better.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has gone above and beyond in our attempts to arrive at mutually beneficial terms to keep the A’s in Oakland,” Thao said in the statement. “In the last three months, we’ve made significant strides to close the deal. Yet, it is clear to me that the A’s have no intention of staying in Oakland and have simply been using this process to try to extract a better deal out of Las Vegas. I am not interested in continuing to play that game — the fans and our residents deserve better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am incredibly proud of what we have accomplished as a City, including securing a fully entitled site and over $375 million in new infrastructure investment that will benefit Oakland and its Port for generations to come. In a time of budget deficits, I refuse to compromise the safety and well-being of our residents. Given these realities, we are ceasing negotiations and moving forward on alternatives for the redevelopment of Howard Terminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947216\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS2890_Oakland-Coliseum_-Getty-Images.jpg\" alt=\"A baseball stadium is seen in the distance from a parking lot. Two, large stadium light poles stick out and a line of baseball fans line up.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS2890_Oakland-Coliseum_-Getty-Images.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS2890_Oakland-Coliseum_-Getty-Images-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS2890_Oakland-Coliseum_-Getty-Images-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS2890_Oakland-Coliseum_-Getty-Images-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS2890_Oakland-Coliseum_-Getty-Images-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view outside the Oakland Coliseum before a game between the Seattle Mariners and the Oakland Athletics in Oakland, on April 6, 2012. \u003ccite>(Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The A’s would be only the second MLB team to change cities in more than a half-century. Since the Washington Senators became the Texas Rangers in 1972, the only team to relocate was the Montreal Expos, who became the Washington Nationals in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s lease at the Coliseum expires after the 2024 season. The team has struggled to draw fans to the stadium in recent years as owner John Fisher slashed payroll and many of the team’s most recognizable stars were traded away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland had the lowest opening day payroll in baseball at $58 million — less than the combined salaries of Mets pitchers Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, who tied for the major league high of $43.3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Obviously we’re grateful for all the hard work that went into the waterfront. But we have been unable to achieve success or make enough progress.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Dave Kaval, president, Oakland Athletic’s","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team is 3–16 this season and has been outscored by 86 runs — the worst mark through 19 games since 1899. The average attendance through 12 home games this season is 11,027 for the lowest mark in the majors and less than half of the league average of about 27,800. The A’s haven’t drawn 2 million fans at home since 2014 — their only year reaching the mark since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the A’s leave Oakland, the city with a rich sports tradition would have no major pro sports teams, with the NFL’s Raiders having moved to Las Vegas in 2020 and the NBA’s Warriors moving across the bay to San Francisco in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I don’t believe that this city is defined by Major League Baseball. I think that this city is defined by its great people, its great culture …’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know it’s a difficult message for our folks in Oakland,” Kaval said. “Obviously we’re grateful for all the hard work that went into the waterfront. But we have been unable to achieve success or make enough progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las Vegas is quickly becoming a sports mecca after years of being considered a pariah because of ties to the gambling industry. With gambling legalized in much of the country, the city now could have a baseball team to join the NHL’s Golden Knights, who began as an expansion team in 2017, and the Raiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t believe that this city is defined by Major League Baseball. I think that this city is defined by its great people, its great culture, its great weather, and many other things,” Thao said at the Thursday press event. “We’re not going to sell out the residents and the businesses in the city of Oakland and give all the money that we do not have to one Major League Baseball team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Phoebe Quinton and Steph Rodriguez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated. \u003c/em>\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/11947211/oakland-mayor-says-as-fans-deserve-better-after-team-announces-deal-to-buy-vegas-stadium","authors":["byline_news_11947211"],"categories":["news_8","news_10"],"tags":["news_18203","news_27626","news_4694","news_2540","news_18","news_161","news_22143"],"featImg":"news_11947217","label":"news"},"news_11910561":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11910561","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11910561","score":null,"sort":[1649445936000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-area-baseball-fans-celebrate-opening-day-as-big-changes-loom-for-both-teams","title":"With Big Changes Ahead, Bay Area Baseball Fans Celebrate Opening Day","publishDate":1649445936,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/07/1091448541/mlb-opening-day-baseball\">delay\u003c/a> caused by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/11/1085979676/major-league-baseballs-lockout-ends-after-both-sides-reach-a-deal\">second-longest strike in MLB history\u003c/a>, baseball has returned today, Friday, to the Bay Area. On Opening Day, the Giants host the Miami Marlins at Oracle Park. The A’s play in Philadelphia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both teams are dealing with major changes this season: The Giants are missing their star catcher Buster Posey, who announced his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13905846/buster-posey-retirement-sf-giants-baseball-mlb\">retirement\u003c/a> last season, while the A’s have traded away several productive players — Chris Bassitt, Matt Olson and Matt Chapman — and beloved manager Bob Melvin, who left to manage the San Diego Padres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910567\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man and Women hold Oakland A's Fan Gear on a sunny day\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland A's fans Tom and Joanne Hall hold their memorabilia during a fan event in San Francisco on April 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We're all a little bit disconcerted because we've gotten attached to the players and Melvin,” said Joanne Hall, a longtime A’s fan, on Wednesday during a Giants-A’s joint event outside San Francisco's Ferry Building to promote Opening Day. “But the A's have a long history of building a good team, and I think we're going to be starting a new one.\"[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Vida Blue, former A's pitcher\"]'Teams come and teams go. Hopefully, they can get something resolved, and the A's can stay in Oakland.'[/pullquote]Standing near her team’s mascot, Stomper the elephant, she addressed the other elephant in the dugout, so to speak: whether yet another Oakland sports team will relocate. The team wants to build a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/19/oakland-as-waterfront-ballpark-proposal-can-move-forward-after-vote-on-environmental-review/\">waterfront ballpark\u003c/a>, but owners also are checking out options in Las Vegas, where Oakland’s former NFL team, the Raiders, currently resides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910704\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women smile wearing giants gear while posing for a photo outside Giants Stadium\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nett and London pose for a portrait before going in to watch the Giants' play on Opening Day on Apr. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It makes no sense to build a stadium out at the port when we’ve got a perfectly good site at the Coliseum and BART goes right to it. I think a lot of fans feel that way,” she said, holding a copy of “50 Years of Oakland A’s Baseball.” She hoped legendary A’s pitcher Vida Blue would sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910565\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910565\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54995_007_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Former A's Pitcher Vida Blue smiles while sitting on a bench\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54995_007_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54995_007_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54995_007_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54995_007_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54995_007_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Athletics pitcher Vida Blue during a fan event in San Francisco on April 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blue, who also played for the Giants, appeared at Wednesday’s event. He weighed in on the future of the A’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big business. Getting traded is part of the business,” he said. “Teams come and teams go. Hopefully, they can get something resolved, and the A’s can stay in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relocation can be a touchy subject for many A’s fans. Some tweeted outrage that Wednesday’s event, meant to promote both Bay Area teams, took place in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hey \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Athletics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Athletics\u003c/a>... The comments on this tweet are overwhelmingly negative. The Giants haven't tweeted anything about it. Are they even aware of it? Serious question... Who's the genius in the FO that thought this was a good idea? \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/I90OiA5Yjx\">https://t.co/I90OiA5Yjx\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CoachⓋShawn (@shawcochrane) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/shawcochrane/status/1511355413723332614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2022\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Hall said she doesn’t mind seeing Stomper far from the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let him go over the bridge once in a while,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Giants fan Robin Shaw pointed out, \"Baseball brings out this kind of joy.\" He's excited for the return of baseball — especially after the recent strike and the intense couple of years brought on by COVID, which put a halt on professional sports for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910705\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"3 people pose for a selfie outside giants stadium\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-1536x1055.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ketnia Palacios, Angela Valle, and DJ Lando take a selfie together before heading into Oracle Park for the Giants' Opening Day of the season on Apr. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Seeing your friends get sick and your elderly friends or relatives die, it affects people,” he said. “Baseball did its darndest to entertain us, and offered us a distraction and gave us hope.”[aside postID=arts_13910698 label=\"More On Oakland A's\"]As for the future of the Giants, which had a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/giants-clinch-2021-nl-west-title-franchise-record-107th-win\">franchise-record number of wins\u003c/a> last season, Shaw said the team could still sneak in as a wild card with Posey gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a tall order,” he added. “It's going to be another one of those seasons where we have our own unique sets of trials and tribulations that we'll have to overcome and that will hopefully steel our resolve.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After a delayed start, both teams are dealing with major changes this season: The Giants are missing their star catcher Buster Posey, who announced his retirement last season, while the A’s have traded away several key players, and face the prospect of relocating.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1649461342,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":780},"headData":{"title":"With Big Changes Ahead, Bay Area Baseball Fans Celebrate Opening Day | KQED","description":"After a delayed start, both teams are dealing with major changes this season: The Giants are missing their star catcher Buster Posey, who announced his retirement last season, while the A’s have traded away several key players, and face the prospect of relocating.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"With Big Changes Ahead, Bay Area Baseball Fans Celebrate Opening Day","datePublished":"2022-04-08T19:25:36.000Z","dateModified":"2022-04-08T23:42:22.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11910561 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11910561","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/04/08/bay-area-baseball-fans-celebrate-opening-day-as-big-changes-loom-for-both-teams/","disqusTitle":"With Big Changes Ahead, Bay Area Baseball Fans Celebrate Opening Day","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/16881d41-83dd-48b0-ac16-ae710131f120/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11910561/bay-area-baseball-fans-celebrate-opening-day-as-big-changes-loom-for-both-teams","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/07/1091448541/mlb-opening-day-baseball\">delay\u003c/a> caused by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/11/1085979676/major-league-baseballs-lockout-ends-after-both-sides-reach-a-deal\">second-longest strike in MLB history\u003c/a>, baseball has returned today, Friday, to the Bay Area. On Opening Day, the Giants host the Miami Marlins at Oracle Park. The A’s play in Philadelphia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both teams are dealing with major changes this season: The Giants are missing their star catcher Buster Posey, who announced his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13905846/buster-posey-retirement-sf-giants-baseball-mlb\">retirement\u003c/a> last season, while the A’s have traded away several productive players — Chris Bassitt, Matt Olson and Matt Chapman — and beloved manager Bob Melvin, who left to manage the San Diego Padres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910567\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man and Women hold Oakland A's Fan Gear on a sunny day\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54997_011_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland A's fans Tom and Joanne Hall hold their memorabilia during a fan event in San Francisco on April 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We're all a little bit disconcerted because we've gotten attached to the players and Melvin,” said Joanne Hall, a longtime A’s fan, on Wednesday during a Giants-A’s joint event outside San Francisco's Ferry Building to promote Opening Day. “But the A's have a long history of building a good team, and I think we're going to be starting a new one.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Teams come and teams go. Hopefully, they can get something resolved, and the A's can stay in Oakland.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Vida Blue, former A's pitcher","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Standing near her team’s mascot, Stomper the elephant, she addressed the other elephant in the dugout, so to speak: whether yet another Oakland sports team will relocate. The team wants to build a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/19/oakland-as-waterfront-ballpark-proposal-can-move-forward-after-vote-on-environmental-review/\">waterfront ballpark\u003c/a>, but owners also are checking out options in Las Vegas, where Oakland’s former NFL team, the Raiders, currently resides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910704\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women smile wearing giants gear while posing for a photo outside Giants Stadium\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55055_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-7-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nett and London pose for a portrait before going in to watch the Giants' play on Opening Day on Apr. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It makes no sense to build a stadium out at the port when we’ve got a perfectly good site at the Coliseum and BART goes right to it. I think a lot of fans feel that way,” she said, holding a copy of “50 Years of Oakland A’s Baseball.” She hoped legendary A’s pitcher Vida Blue would sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910565\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910565\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54995_007_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Former A's Pitcher Vida Blue smiles while sitting on a bench\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54995_007_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54995_007_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54995_007_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54995_007_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS54995_007_KQED_BaseballFanEvent_04062022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Athletics pitcher Vida Blue during a fan event in San Francisco on April 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blue, who also played for the Giants, appeared at Wednesday’s event. He weighed in on the future of the A’s.\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 a big business. Getting traded is part of the business,” he said. “Teams come and teams go. Hopefully, they can get something resolved, and the A’s can stay in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relocation can be a touchy subject for many A’s fans. Some tweeted outrage that Wednesday’s event, meant to promote both Bay Area teams, took place in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hey \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Athletics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Athletics\u003c/a>... The comments on this tweet are overwhelmingly negative. The Giants haven't tweeted anything about it. Are they even aware of it? Serious question... Who's the genius in the FO that thought this was a good idea? \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/I90OiA5Yjx\">https://t.co/I90OiA5Yjx\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CoachⓋShawn (@shawcochrane) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/shawcochrane/status/1511355413723332614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2022\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Hall said she doesn’t mind seeing Stomper far from the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let him go over the bridge once in a while,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Giants fan Robin Shaw pointed out, \"Baseball brings out this kind of joy.\" He's excited for the return of baseball — especially after the recent strike and the intense couple of years brought on by COVID, which put a halt on professional sports for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910705\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"3 people pose for a selfie outside giants stadium\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-1536x1055.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ketnia Palacios, Angela Valle, and DJ Lando take a selfie together before heading into Oracle Park for the Giants' Opening Day of the season on Apr. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Seeing your friends get sick and your elderly friends or relatives die, it affects people,” he said. “Baseball did its darndest to entertain us, and offered us a distraction and gave us hope.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13910698","label":"More On Oakland A's "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As for the future of the Giants, which had a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/giants-clinch-2021-nl-west-title-franchise-record-107th-win\">franchise-record number of wins\u003c/a> last season, Shaw said the team could still sneak in as a wild card with Posey gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a tall order,” he added. “It's going to be another one of those seasons where we have our own unique sets of trials and tribulations that we'll have to overcome and that will hopefully steel our resolve.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11910561/bay-area-baseball-fans-celebrate-opening-day-as-big-changes-loom-for-both-teams","authors":["11724","11238"],"categories":["news_8","news_10"],"tags":["news_18203","news_27626","news_24719","news_22143","news_1148","news_17152"],"featImg":"news_11910703","label":"news"},"news_11873231":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11873231","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11873231","score":null,"sort":[1620784330000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"mlb-tells-oakland-athletics-to-explore-relocation-if-no-new-ballpark","title":"MLB Tells Oakland Athletics to Explore Relocation if No New Ballpark","publishDate":1620784330,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5/16: \u003c/strong>Oakland City Council leaders have reached out to Major League Baseball to move forward with plans for a new Howard Terminal Ballpark at Oakland's waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes days after MLB instructed the Oakland A’s to begin to search for a new home elsewhere. Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan is pushing to schedule a vote in July on the A’s term sheet outlining financial plans for a new ballpark in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We invited them to join us, in proceeding in a way that would build a win-win strategy, that would allow the A’s to have a successful future in Oakland, in a way that would also benefit the local community,\" Kaplan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland City Council seemingly wants to set the record straight — from their perspective — after taking heat from the MLB, who claimed they did not know the council's position on the waterfront ballpark proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A letter to the MLB from Oakland City Council leadership reads, \"From MLB’s statement, there appears to be incorrect information being conveyed. We want to make clear that it is entirely false that the City Council is delaying or refusing to consider the A’s project proposal.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The MLB did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The original story follows.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major League Baseball has instructed the Athletics to explore relocation options as the team tries to secure a new waterfront ballpark in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MLB released a statement Tuesday expressing its longtime determination that the current Coliseum site is “not a viable option for the future vision of baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“MLB is concerned with the rate of progress on the A’s new ballpark effort with local officials and other stakeholders in Oakland,” MLB said. “The A’s have worked very hard to advance a new ballpark in downtown Oakland for the last four years, investing significant resources while facing multiple roadblocks. We know they remain deeply committed to succeeding in Oakland, and with two other sports franchises recently leaving the community, their commitment to Oakland is now more important than ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mayor Libby Schaaf's office\"]'Today’s statement makes clear that the only viable path to keeping the A’s rooted in Oakland is a ballpark on the waterfront.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2018, the A’s announced they had found a waterfront location for their new ballpark that would cost more than $1 billion, with picturesque views toward San Francisco, the Bay Bridge and the Port of Oakland. The goal had been to open in 2023, but now, even if approved by Oakland’s City Council this summer, it would not be ready until 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if the announcement was meant to put political pressure on the Oakland City Council to consider the waterfront site sooner, rather than later, A’s President Dave Kaval said he was just hoping for their consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just want to get a sense from the City Council if they share our vision for a new waterfront in Oakland or not,\" Kaval told KQED. \"That's why we're hopeful they take a vote by this summer on our project. Four to five years has been the timeline we've invested in this effort. We really just need an indication, especially since we're running out of time at the Coliseum, our existing location, if it could work at the waterfront in Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas said they are \"committed to keeping the A's in Oakland,\" and that she had just met with Kaval on April 30 to tell him they are ready to meet with A's ownership to discuss the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she said, \"They have not responded and I reached out today to reiterate our offer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Oakland Stadium Alliance, a group that wishes to \"preserve the Port of Oakland\" and keep the A's in East Oakland, lambasted the team's ownership for playing hardball with the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The City of Oakland and its residents should not be pressured by threats from the Oakland A’s and Major League Baseball into a bad deal that involves handing out hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to fund a massive real-estate development,\" the group wrote in a statement. \"The Coliseum location is the ideal place to build a new stadium, as it already has freeway access, public transit, and more than enough space to create a ‘ballpark village’ that could revitalize East Oakland. Despite 50 years of history and four World Series victories, John Fisher and the A’s are now telling East Oaklanders without any explanation that East Oakland is no longer good enough.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AllianceOakland/status/1392217637120135169\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The East Oakland Stadium Alliance thinks the Oakland A's have other reasons for wanting to build on the Oakland waterfront, besides baseball.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early this year, Kaval asked the City Council to vote before it breaks for the summer on a $12 billion privately funded ballpark project and major community development plan featuring $450 million in community benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaval said he's waiting for word that the Oakland City Council is ready to play ball, but was not available to comment on Bas' assertions that the council had already reached out to talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team’s lease at the Coliseum is up in 2024, but the aging venue where the A’s have played since 1968 is already having lighting and flooding issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11802698\" label=\"More A's Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A’s owner John Fisher said in a statement Tuesday he will honor MLB’s instructions but remains committed to continuing to pursue the waterfront ballpark proposed for construction in the city’s Howard Terminal location, close to the popular Jack London Square neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The future success of the A’s depends on a new ballpark,” Fisher said. “Oakland is a great baseball town, and we will continue to pursue our waterfront ballpark project. We will also follow MLB’s direction to explore other markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A’s, who previously proposed and withdrew plans for ballparks in Fremont and San Jose, are hopeful MLB’s pressure might help push that process with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Libby Schaaf's office voiced support for the waterfront location in a statement on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We share MLB’s sense of urgency and their continued preference for Oakland. Today’s statement makes clear that the only viable path to keeping the A’s rooted in Oakland is a ballpark on the waterfront,\" wrote Justin Berton, Schaaf's spokesperson, in a statement. \"We call on our entire community – regional and local partners included — to rally together and support a new, financially viable, fiscally responsible, world-class waterfront neighborhood that enhances our city and region, and keeps the A’s in Oakland where they belong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11867172\" label=\"The A's Return Amid The Pandemic\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed ballpark site is about 6 miles from the Coliseum and there is no mass transit. The A’s and city have said they plan to build a gondola that would go from the waterfront area of ballpark over Interstate 880 to downtown. Kaval said the gondola is approved and undergoing environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has mentioned as possible expansion candidates: Charlotte, North Carolina; Las Vegas; Montreal; Nashville, Tennessee; Portland, Oregon; and Vancouver, British Columbia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We continue to play in Oakland until something changes,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said before a game in Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Athletics have moved twice since the franchise was founded in Philadelphia, arriving in Kansas City for the 1955 season and in Oakland for the 1968 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if the A's were considering a jump to Las Vegas or Portland, two locations previously mentioned publicly, Kaval said exactly where they go is a decision up to the MLB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't exactly have a read on that yet. That's gonna be something the MLB will determine. They have the best sense of the markets that'd make the most sense for the A's,\" Kaval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two MLB teams have moved in the past half-century: The expansion Washington Senators became the Texas Rangers for the 1972 season and the Montreal Expos transformed into the Washington Nationals for the 2005 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"arts_13839115\" label=\"Putting the A's in Oakland\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Braves also moved twice, switching from Boston to Milwaukee for the 1953 season and to Atlanta for 1966.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a flurry of switches in the 1950s and ’60s: the St. Louis Browns became the Baltimore Orioles (1954), the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles for 1958, the New York Giants moved to San Francisco for 1958, the original Washington Senators became the Minnesota Twins (1961) and the Seattle Pilots became the Milwaukee Brewers (1970).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manfred says MLB will not consider expansion until the A’s and Tampa Bay Rays get new ballparks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rays owner Stu Sternberg had been working to build a ballpark in Tampa’s Ybor City area but abandoned that plan in December 2018. MLB’s executive council gave the Rays permission in June 2019 to explore splitting their home schedule between the Tampa Bay area and Montreal after their lease at the Trop expires at the end of the 2027 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the A’s are the last professional team. The NBA’s Golden State Warriors moved to San Francisco before the 2019-20 season and the NFL’s Raiders relocated to Las Vegas last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is unfortunate that a couple teams have left,” Melvin said. “Certainly we don’t want that to happen, and I don’t think anything that’s been said today would suggest it’s going to, I think it’s just giving MLB and the organization a few more options to maybe look elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Janie McCauley of The Associated Press. 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Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan is pushing to schedule a vote in July on the A’s term sheet outlining financial plans for a new ballpark in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We invited them to join us, in proceeding in a way that would build a win-win strategy, that would allow the A’s to have a successful future in Oakland, in a way that would also benefit the local community,\" Kaplan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland City Council seemingly wants to set the record straight — from their perspective — after taking heat from the MLB, who claimed they did not know the council's position on the waterfront ballpark proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A letter to the MLB from Oakland City Council leadership reads, \"From MLB’s statement, there appears to be incorrect information being conveyed. We want to make clear that it is entirely false that the City Council is delaying or refusing to consider the A’s project proposal.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The MLB did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The original story follows.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major League Baseball has instructed the Athletics to explore relocation options as the team tries to secure a new waterfront ballpark in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MLB released a statement Tuesday expressing its longtime determination that the current Coliseum site is “not a viable option for the future vision of baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“MLB is concerned with the rate of progress on the A’s new ballpark effort with local officials and other stakeholders in Oakland,” MLB said. “The A’s have worked very hard to advance a new ballpark in downtown Oakland for the last four years, investing significant resources while facing multiple roadblocks. We know they remain deeply committed to succeeding in Oakland, and with two other sports franchises recently leaving the community, their commitment to Oakland is now more important than ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Today’s statement makes clear that the only viable path to keeping the A’s rooted in Oakland is a ballpark on the waterfront.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Mayor Libby Schaaf's office","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2018, the A’s announced they had found a waterfront location for their new ballpark that would cost more than $1 billion, with picturesque views toward San Francisco, the Bay Bridge and the Port of Oakland. The goal had been to open in 2023, but now, even if approved by Oakland’s City Council this summer, it would not be ready until 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if the announcement was meant to put political pressure on the Oakland City Council to consider the waterfront site sooner, rather than later, A’s President Dave Kaval said he was just hoping for their consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just want to get a sense from the City Council if they share our vision for a new waterfront in Oakland or not,\" Kaval told KQED. \"That's why we're hopeful they take a vote by this summer on our project. Four to five years has been the timeline we've invested in this effort. We really just need an indication, especially since we're running out of time at the Coliseum, our existing location, if it could work at the waterfront in 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>Oakland City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas said they are \"committed to keeping the A's in Oakland,\" and that she had just met with Kaval on April 30 to tell him they are ready to meet with A's ownership to discuss the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she said, \"They have not responded and I reached out today to reiterate our offer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Oakland Stadium Alliance, a group that wishes to \"preserve the Port of Oakland\" and keep the A's in East Oakland, lambasted the team's ownership for playing hardball with the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The City of Oakland and its residents should not be pressured by threats from the Oakland A’s and Major League Baseball into a bad deal that involves handing out hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to fund a massive real-estate development,\" the group wrote in a statement. \"The Coliseum location is the ideal place to build a new stadium, as it already has freeway access, public transit, and more than enough space to create a ‘ballpark village’ that could revitalize East Oakland. Despite 50 years of history and four World Series victories, John Fisher and the A’s are now telling East Oaklanders without any explanation that East Oakland is no longer good enough.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1392217637120135169"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The East Oakland Stadium Alliance thinks the Oakland A's have other reasons for wanting to build on the Oakland waterfront, besides baseball.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early this year, Kaval asked the City Council to vote before it breaks for the summer on a $12 billion privately funded ballpark project and major community development plan featuring $450 million in community benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaval said he's waiting for word that the Oakland City Council is ready to play ball, but was not available to comment on Bas' assertions that the council had already reached out to talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team’s lease at the Coliseum is up in 2024, but the aging venue where the A’s have played since 1968 is already having lighting and flooding issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11802698","label":"More A's Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A’s owner John Fisher said in a statement Tuesday he will honor MLB’s instructions but remains committed to continuing to pursue the waterfront ballpark proposed for construction in the city’s Howard Terminal location, close to the popular Jack London Square neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The future success of the A’s depends on a new ballpark,” Fisher said. “Oakland is a great baseball town, and we will continue to pursue our waterfront ballpark project. 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Today’s statement makes clear that the only viable path to keeping the A’s rooted in Oakland is a ballpark on the waterfront,\" wrote Justin Berton, Schaaf's spokesperson, in a statement. \"We call on our entire community – regional and local partners included — to rally together and support a new, financially viable, fiscally responsible, world-class waterfront neighborhood that enhances our city and region, and keeps the A’s in Oakland where they belong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11867172","label":"The A's Return Amid The Pandemic "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed ballpark site is about 6 miles from the Coliseum and there is no mass transit. The A’s and city have said they plan to build a gondola that would go from the waterfront area of ballpark over Interstate 880 to downtown. Kaval said the gondola is approved and undergoing environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has mentioned as possible expansion candidates: Charlotte, North Carolina; Las Vegas; Montreal; Nashville, Tennessee; Portland, Oregon; and Vancouver, British Columbia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We continue to play in Oakland until something changes,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said before a game in Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Athletics have moved twice since the franchise was founded in Philadelphia, arriving in Kansas City for the 1955 season and in Oakland for the 1968 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if the A's were considering a jump to Las Vegas or Portland, two locations previously mentioned publicly, Kaval said exactly where they go is a decision up to the MLB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't exactly have a read on that yet. 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MLB’s executive council gave the Rays permission in June 2019 to explore splitting their home schedule between the Tampa Bay area and Montreal after their lease at the Trop expires at the end of the 2027 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the A’s are the last professional team. The NBA’s Golden State Warriors moved to San Francisco before the 2019-20 season and the NFL’s Raiders relocated to Las Vegas last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is unfortunate that a couple teams have left,” Melvin said. “Certainly we don’t want that to happen, and I don’t think anything that’s been said today would suggest it’s going to, I think it’s just giving MLB and the organization a few more options to maybe look elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Janie McCauley of The Associated Press. 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Gavin Newsom announced that on Tuesday the state had recorded more than 12,000 new coronavirus cases — its largest daily total yet. California now has the largest number of COVID-19 cases in the nation, surpassing New York, and California’s rates of hospitalization and death due to the respiratory illness have also soared in recent weeks. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Senate Republicans are struggling to craft a new round of federal aid. Although the White House dropped its demands for a payroll tax cut, which some GOP lawmakers opposed, big divisions remain over the scope of the relief package as unemployment benefits for millions of Americans are set to expire next week. Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing for a $3 trillion relief package passed in the House of Representatives in May that would include aid to states like California facing massive budget deficits. Also this week, President Trump announced that the Republican National Convention that was set to take place next month in Jackson, Florida, has been canceled, citing concerns about the state’s surging rate of infections. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guests:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scott Shafer, KQED politics and government senior editor\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marisa Lagos, KQED politics and government correspondent\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Criminal Justice Reforms in Santa Clara County\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The national reckoning over racial injustice and police misconduct has reverberated throughout society and sharpened demands for criminal justice reforms — nationally and locally. This week, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced he would no longer seek the death penalty in all cases. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He also announced the creation of a new board for greater public oversight into police misconduct.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But some — including Santa Clara County Public Defender Molly O’Neal — argue that more needs to be done to change the culture of policing following the revelation last month of racist and anti-Muslim posts made on a private, now deactivated Facebook group comprised of current and former San Jose police officers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guests:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jeff Rosen, Santa Clara County district attorney\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Molly O’Neal, Santa Clara County public defender\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pandemic Throws Baseball a Curveball\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Friday, the Oakland Athletics will play their opening day game against the Los Angeles Angels at RingCentral Coliseum in Oakland as Major League Baseball returns for a new, shortened season upended by the coronavirus pandemic. New rules and health guidelines are making the 60-game season unlike any other, for fans and players alike. Stadiums across the country are closed to the public to help lower the spread of the coronavirus. Some MLB teams, including the Oakland A’s, made cardboard cutouts of loyal fans to place in the stands, since spectators — for now, at least — are barred from attending games. Socially distanced seating will now also be required in the dugouts, as will frequent coronavirus testing among coaches and players, some of whom have decided to opt out of the season over health and safety concerns. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guest:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mark Willard, host, “The Mark Willard Show” \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1595630132,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":517},"headData":{"title":"Congress Works on New Relief, Criminal Justice Reforms, Baseball's Return | KQED","description":"As COVID-19 Cases Spike, Pressure Mounts for New Relief Deal California Gov. 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Gavin Newsom announced that on Tuesday the state had recorded more than 12,000 new coronavirus cases — its largest daily total yet. California now has the largest number of COVID-19 cases in the nation, surpassing New York, and California’s rates of hospitalization and death due to the respiratory illness have also soared in recent weeks. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Senate Republicans are struggling to craft a new round of federal aid. Although the White House dropped its demands for a payroll tax cut, which some GOP lawmakers opposed, big divisions remain over the scope of the relief package as unemployment benefits for millions of Americans are set to expire next week. Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing for a $3 trillion relief package passed in the House of Representatives in May that would include aid to states like California facing massive budget deficits. 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We love our team. We want them to stay. We’re proud that they’re rooted in Oakland,\" Myres told the crowd. \"And we want them also to be rooted in community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myres said the coalition formed approximately five years ago when talk of the Oakland Raiders and A’s were considering new stadiums in Oakland started going around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making an appearance, former mayoral candidate Cat Brooks told of being asked about the stadium on the campaign trail and the need for a community benefits agreement regardless of the complex’s location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Myers-1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"EBASE's Jahmese Myers addresses a crowd on Oct. 5, 2019 at a town hall regarding desired community benefits from the new Oakland A's stadium. Former mayoral candidate Kat Brooks prepares to speak. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778491\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Myers-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Myers-1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Myers-1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Myers-1920-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Myers-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Myers-1920-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Myers-1920-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Myers-1920-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Myers-1920-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Myers-1920-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">EBASE's Jahmese Myres addresses a crowd on Oct. 5, 2019 at a town hall regarding desired community benefits from the new Oakland A's stadium. Former mayoral candidate Cat Brooks prepares to speak. \u003ccite>(Amy Mostafa/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alma Blackwell, an Oakland born and raised organizer summarized the sentiment of the meeting when she said: “Oakland is working hard to keep the A’s in Oakland, but how hard are they working to keep us in Oakland?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackwell cited the significant displacement of Oakland’s black residents over the past two decades. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11742341,news_11697296' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the town hall, Myres emphasized the need to speed along plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This project is moving very quickly. The A’s have a very ambitious timeline, and so we need those guarantees in writing right away,” Myres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An A’s spokesperson said the team has already committed to addressing community requests in an agreement with the Port of Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Myres said the agreement is not specific or legally binding to actionable items. She said the coalition had been in direct contact with the team regarding community benefits back in March but are now continuing discussion with the city as mediator. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town hall was held as plans for the new stadium continue to advance between the baseball team and state and city officials. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742341/alameda-county-oks-plan-to-sell-its-share-of-oakland-coliseum-complex-to-as\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A’s plans to purchase Alameda County’s share\u003c/a> of the 155-acre property encompassing the Coliseum and Oracle Arena for $85 million was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/athletics/article/city-oakland-alameda-county-as-baseball-coliseum-14484237.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stalled by a lawsuit\u003c/a> filed on behalf of the Oakland City Council last week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team hopes construction on the new ballpark will begin in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A coalition of Oakland residents and workers are demanding that the A's commit to a community benefits agreement before any more progress is made on permitting for the team’s proposed waterfront ballpark. 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We love our team. We want them to stay. We’re proud that they’re rooted in Oakland,\" Myres told the crowd. \"And we want them also to be rooted in community.\"\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>Myres said the coalition formed approximately five years ago when talk of the Oakland Raiders and A’s were considering new stadiums in Oakland started going around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making an appearance, former mayoral candidate Cat Brooks told of being asked about the stadium on the campaign trail and the need for a community benefits agreement regardless of the complex’s location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Myers-1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"EBASE's Jahmese Myers addresses a crowd on Oct. 5, 2019 at a town hall regarding desired community benefits from the new Oakland A's stadium. 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Former mayoral candidate Cat Brooks prepares to speak. \u003ccite>(Amy Mostafa/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alma Blackwell, an Oakland born and raised organizer summarized the sentiment of the meeting when she said: “Oakland is working hard to keep the A’s in Oakland, but how hard are they working to keep us in Oakland?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackwell cited the significant displacement of Oakland’s black residents over the past two decades. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11742341,news_11697296","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the town hall, Myres emphasized the need to speed along plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This project is moving very quickly. 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