#PacificWatch: SACRAMENTO thrilled to welcome the As until Vegas is ready. @JCBli
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🗓️ 13 April 2024
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#PacificWatch: SACRAMENTO thrilled to welcome the As until Vegas is ready. @JCBliss
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| 0:00.0 | This is a series, I on the world, I'm John Patterson. |
| 0:08.0 | Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch and we go immediately to Las Vegas for the Vegas report on the Oakland A's soon to be the |
| 0:15.8 | Vegas A's but not immediately. Jeff a very good evening to you. What is the |
| 0:20.1 | planning for the Oakland A's now playing in Oakland before well not |
| 0:25.1 | before many people moving to Las Vegas where is the interim on the way good |
| 0:30.3 | evening to you good evening John it looks like for now, for probably the next three years until the |
| 0:36.8 | stadium is built in Las Vegas. The A's will be using a minor league ballpark over in Sacramento, so, you know, not across the bay, but keep |
| 0:46.1 | going east and you hit Sacramento. |
| 0:48.2 | And that's the home of the River Cath, Sacramento River Cats. |
| 0:52.1 | It's a team that's owned by the same guy who owns the NBA Sacramento Kings, |
| 0:56.0 | and he's a friend of the owner of the A is Fisher. |
| 1:00.0 | So I'm sure it all work out fine. |
| 1:02.0 | You have some players that are grumbling that'll be a smaller stadium they'll be playing in. |
| 1:05.6 | It's not a big town like, you know, San Francisco and Oakland combined there in the Bay Area. |
| 1:11.2 | But it'll be a place to play and get away from it all around |
| 1:14.1 | Oakland and then eventually probably in 2028 they'll move to the new stadium |
| 1:19.1 | which is going to be at the site of the formerly Tropic Canada Hotel and Resort there on the |
| 1:25.0 | strip. How is the audience in Sacramento? Are they happy about having a |
| 1:29.8 | major league ball player ball team coming to town? |
| 1:33.2 | They are beyond excited. |
| 1:35.8 | The media is thrilled, of course, |
| 1:37.4 | they're gonna have something else to talk about. |
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