aggression? ideological refusal? wow. if my post was aggressive you should really assess how you think about things and/or how you read things on the internet.

As long as they’re not moving to fucking Freemont (or anywhere outside of Oakland) I’m fine with pretty much whatever.

I meant in the sense he is their VP of Baseball Ops and is famous for making shrewd business decisions regarding player contracts and trades which would lead to being in a positive financial situation thus removing the need (or desire) to scam local municipalities.

Yes, it is technically a neighborhood, but the current site is surrounded by an enormous parking lot and is only close neighbors with things 880, some sizable city streets, warehouses, etc. It’s disingenuous to act like it’s in some old fashioned residential neighborhood. All you have to do is pull up Google…

I meant in the sense he is their VP of Baseball Ops and is famous for making shrewd business decisions regarding player contracts and trades which would lead to being in a positive financial situation thus removing the need (or desire) to scam local municipalities.

That’s a very odd comment... it’s nothing but residential to the east.

Billy Beane owns an insignificant percentage of the team. The A’s are John Fisher, who is worth ~$2.5B.

(Edited to clarify: by “area” I mean the city and whole region. I have no idea whether there are known faults in or near the sites being considered.)

HighAndTight is 100 percent correct. There’s no neighborhood at all around the Coliseum. I’ve been going to games in Oakland for 25 years, and there’s literally no place around the ballpark to grab a beer or a meal. Putting the new stadium at this site is going to totally change the feeling around the team. It’s…

So that really is what this is all about- the A’s wanting to get out of that neighborhood. Trying to draw people who are too scared to go to the A’s home of the last 50+ years, all while pumping up their “Oakland pride.”

Our former friend Kevin Draper

The A’s are Billy Beane so keep that in mind when considering their on field play.

I think that this new location is just better in general. It is closer in on the BART. You can walk to the game after work, and there are places to get food around this area. The old stadium stunk because it was built in a giant parking lot designed for the preferences of a long gone era when everyone would drive to…

Our former friend Kevin Draper...

Without reading any of the plans or linked articles because I’m lazy, the idea with new stadiums in general is that no matter where the financing comes from, the teams have more control over the revenues—parking, concessions, and the biggie, luxury boxes.

Wait so they’re trying to privately finance a stadium despite evidently not having the money to field a watchable team, and they have great unis (with a long tradition and fairly unique colours), and they were a great team during my childhood? Sounds like I’m going to have to start rooting for the A’s.

largely paid for through private financing.

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Well, this is a rabbit hole.