Former A's Bruce Maxwell calls out Oakland A's owner John Fisher for Vegas move

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

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🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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After more than 50 years, the Oakland A's announced their departure from the city last year, leaving Oakland bereft of its sports teams after the flight of the Warriors in 2019 and the Raiders in 2020. To the dismay of fans, the A's plan to temporarily relocate to a minor league stadium in Sacramento before permanently moving to Las Vegas in the 2028 season. Former A's catcher Bruce Maxwell joins Edge of Sports to discuss the move, its impact on the local community and workers, and the trajectory of his own career and the place of the A's in his life story.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Edge of Sports, the podcast, brought to you by the Nation magazine. I'm Dave Ziron.
0:05.9	Thrilled to give this to you right now. It is an interview with Bruce Maxwell, former catcher for the Oakland A's.
0:14.5	Bruce Maxwell has a ton to say about the sale of the A's, about their move to Las Vegas, and about why he chose to be the first
0:25.3	and frankly only Major League Baseball player to take a knee in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick back in
0:32.6	2016. So, hey, let's not waste any more time. Oh, I also am going to have some choice words about
0:39.4	soccer and Palestine because everything comes back to Palestine right now, and that's just the way
0:45.6	it is. But, hey, enough of that yapping. Let's go to Bruce Maxwell.
0:52.3	A champion is bread from hard time scar mine standing on the ledge.
0:56.7	The squad grind all time victory in spite of opposition.
0:59.9	Welcome to competition.
1:02.5	You pick a side, I pick a side, they kick aside.
1:05.5	Take a knee against abuse.
1:06.8	They rather you die pushing through dark tunnels.
1:09.1	Trying to share light.
1:10.1	The fight is on the moment we ended the game of life.
1:12.7	Get it right for the whole thing gone dead.
1:14.7	Let's go ahead and take it there.
1:16.6	Meet me on the edge.
1:21.4	Welcome to Edge of Sports, the TV show, only on the Real News Network.
1:25.1	I'm Dave Ziron.
1:26.3	We are talking baseball right now with former Oakland
1:29.1	days and current Mexican league catcher Bruce Maxwell. If that name rings a bell, it might be because
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