Death of a Sports Town Part 4: The True Price of Sports

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In covering Oakland’s unraveling as a big time sports town, we’ve documented the greed, the loss, the dubious decisions, and the rich sports community soon to be left behind. But we’ve yet to fully examine the most pertinent question of all––does the Athletics planned move to Las Vegas make any sense at all? Today, in part four of our series Death of a Sports Town, we take stock of why the A’s (and MLB) are so enamored with Las Vegas––a city soon to be the smallest market in the league––why this move will be extraordinarily messy, and why Oakland is America’s most-underappreciated sports town. Don’t miss our series finale, publishing next Tuesday in the ESPN Daily show feed. Death of a Sports Town Episodes: Apple Podcasts: Part 1, Part 2, & Part 3 Spotify: All episodes Alert Text: In part four of our series “Death of a Sports Town,” we take stock of why the A’s move to Las Vegas will be extraordinarily messy and why Oakland is America’s most-underappreciated sports town. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Previously on ESPN daily.
0:07.0	If I had 30 seconds alone with John Fisher,
0:11.0	what I tell them?
0:12.0	I would tell them just to stay in Oakland.
0:14.4	Don't leave. Think about what you're doing to us.
0:17.0	For the last three weeks, we've documented the death of a sports town.
0:22.0	There's nothing I could say to that man
0:25.0	that could ever change his mind or his feelings about what he's done.
0:29.0	This Thursday brings the final Major League Baseball game in Oakland,
0:32.0	making the A's the third major-league baseball game in Oakland making the A's the third major
0:34.7	professional franchise to leave the city since 2019. This has been our lives and
0:40.2	you're pulling it out from under us. So we just want an explanation why you
0:43.7	couldn't make it work. It's a story of greed, loss, dubious decisions, and the
0:49.5	senseless unraveling of a rich sports community.
0:52.8	They basically f
0:53.0	f
0:58.6	with the completely wrong group and the wrong fan base.
0:58.7	You can find all three parts of this bewildering tale
1:01.2	at the link in our episode description.
1:03.3	But today we turn to the one question we've yet to explore as they face a litany of potential
1:14.8	complications and significant financial uncertainty.
1:18.7	Does a move to Las Vegas make any sense at all for the athletics.
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