Oakland A’s Fans Process Team’s Impending Departure

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🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

For decades, a dedicated, but shrinking, contingent of Oakland A’s fans piled into the Coliseum season after season, banging on drums and sporting their green and gold gear with pride. They did so despite the looming possibility that the team would depart. Now that team owners struck a deal to build a stadium in Las Vegas, scores of Oakland A’s fans are feeling stunned, dejected and hurt. The Vegas proposal comes after numerous failed attempts to find a new home in the Bay Area. We’ll talk about how fans are coping and what could happen next in the A’s long and complicated stadium saga. Related articles: The A’s Are A Poison Pill, by Ray Ratto Guests: Ann Killion, sports columnist, San Francisco Chronicle David Peters, member, Howard Terminal Community Benefits Agreement Steering Committee; founder, Black Liberation Walking Tour; 3rd generation West Oakland resident and lifelong Oakland A's fan Melissa Lockard, senior editor and staff writer, The Athletic; founder, the Oakland Clubhouse - a blog that covered Oakland A's prospects; lifelong A's fan Bryan Johansen, co-owner, Last Dive Bar - small business that makes Coliseum-inspired merchandise and puts on events to rally support to keep the A's in Oakland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.2	From KQD in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:48.6	There are some things that have gone on for so long in the Bay Area that it seems like they could never change.
0:54.4	The rent going up, fog in the summer, and the A is threatening to leave Oakland.
0:58.8	But last week, news broke that the team had struck a deal to develop a new stadium in Las Vegas.
1:05.1	In response, Oakland Mayor Shang Tao ended negotiations.
1:09.1	It's over, for real this time.
1:11.4	Oakland once had three professional teams, and some days soon, Oakland will have none.
1:16.8	So we're going to take the hour listening to your lamentations, reveling in your memories,
1:21.2	and considering what might have been.
1:23.4	That's all coming up next after this news.
1:36.5	Welcome to Forum.
1:37.9	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:40.6	Sports teams are strange, aren't they? On the one hand, their cutthroat operations,
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