Jed chasing the tech bullshit was definitely a cultural shift. But again, attendance has gone down with the team’s fortunes, end of story. There no doubt was/is a ton of people who said “never again” after the move. But there was clearly a ton of people who went, filled that stadium to capacity when they were winning,…

This is the conundrum of somebody working in the service sector in the Bay Area- would I prefer to be around people who are jerks, but less inclined to ruin the world with their votes? Or would it be more fun being around people who are polite to my face but jerks beneath it?

That lion and sheep quote that gets thrown around is corny and lame. Anybody who uses it is letting us know that not only do they indeed truly care, but they are terrible at talking shit as well.

Anybody who puts an apostrophe in “yall” and uses it repeatedly cannot be trusted.

Not only does the site still hold up in every practical sense, but the collective lack of sentimental value being placed on the Coliseum in this thread is pathetic. Anybody who thinks they’re above that ballpark or neighborhood is trash.

Yep. I assumed they’d be starting this out in the Bay Area, and from what I’ve seen we really don’t have that “bodega culture” out here. It would indeed be more of a gas station thing. I assume there are a fair amount of people out here pretty ignorant of bodegas.

Arco Arena is in the middle of nowhere. The Coliseum is in the middle of East Oakland. What’s disingenuous is to pretend like the Coliseum is out in the boonies because it has a fucking parking lot, that overflows for bigger events.

If the Coliseum is “out in the middle of nowhere” to you, don’t speak for everybody about what is and isn’t part of Oakland.

I used to walk and ride my bike to games at the Coliseum. As you said, it’s in a somewhat rough neighborhood... but it is clearly in a neighborhood! I mean what the fuck, because fools are scared to cross the street, the next block just doesn’t exist anymore?

It will be almost impossible to build the new stadium closer to BART than the Coliseum. The A’s draw far more people from the greater Bay Area than the do from just Lake Merritt/downtown Oakland. No site will be as good for transportation as the current one.

That’s a very odd comment... it’s nothing but residential to the east. You’re surrounded by apartments when you’re in the BART parking lot. Just in that bottom pic, how much of East Oakland is within walking distance?

As for the Coliseum, which would have no professional sports tenants with the expected departure of the Raiders for Las Vegas, the A’s plan to pitch Oakland and Alameda County on the idea of turning the site into a community sports park and urban youth baseball academy in partnership with Major League Baseball. Kaval…

The Coliseum has been recognized as the most efficient site for a stadium in the whole country as far as transportation goes. It’s very disappointing to me how that doesn’t hold much weight these days and there’s likely going to be zero pro sports teams there soon.

You’re only nobody in the statistical sense. I’m sure you did your thing, but let’s not pretend that the public transportation situation was anything other than a distinct minus on Candlestick, and not improving on that with the move doesn’t change it.

That’s more of why you and I aren’t at football games than the people in question though.

The 49ers moved from a facility which was accessible to public transit

Starred, and very true, but I think a lot of people reasonably considered and conceded the land issues that kind of necessitated the move south. Although it also wouldn’t surprise me if the Niners ruled out rebuilding on the Candlestick site for... less admirable reasons, if I may be overly diplomatic.

It’s not even speculation- the place was full when the team was winning. When they were suiting up Ray McDonald.

Oh yeah, it’s everybody else’s fault except the fans that place is empty now huh. Except it was full and people couldn’t stop throwing money at it when the team didn’t suck. Let’s not pretend like that’s just incidental to this. All the scumbags this team fielded during the Harbaugh years, everybody stayed onboard.…

I’m a complete pussy when it comes to that shit, probably does not help being a Bay lifer who can just throw on the headphones during the annual or so occurrence. But yeah, we have some good boomers come through at least every couple years. Anybody who says they’ve been living in SF for 25 years and hasn’t heard…