Comments by "Jeanne Halperin" (@edalder2000) on "The A's Are Moving To Las Vegas: How Oakland Lost Their Last Team" video.

I am an A's fan. If Fisher wanted to stay in Oakland, the team would be there. But he, Manfred, and MLB want a team in Las Vegas-period. No offer Oakland would put forth would have been acceptable. I doubt The A's will work in Vegas. Fisher is absurdly cheap and did his best to poison the well in Oakland. You have to make a splash like signing Ohtani and building around him. Fisher will never do that. The Raiders crowds are majority visiting fans. Vegas did not want The Raiders and the local populace does not want The A's. The reason The Golden Knights have succeeded is that they are an expansion team founded in Las Vegas. It is their team Not from anywhere else.
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@studmuffin6630 I can bet that disassembling Mount Davis itself would be expensive. It anyone can find a citation, that would be great. Mount Davis was a huge downgrade. The Oakland Coliseum has never had any sort of true renovation and it opened in 1966! Without Mount Davis, The Oakland Coliseum could have been renovated. That may have been a less expensive option than a new ballpark. Before Mount Davis, The Coliseum was a serviceable bowl modeled on Dodger Stadium. The Coliseum did not have a lot of maintenance and upkeep devoted to it. That was a larger factor in how the park has decayed.
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