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S8 Ep325: PREVIEW FOR LATER TRADEMARK TROUBLES FOR THE RELOCATING ATHLETICS Colleague Jeff Bliss. As the Oakland A's move to Las Vegas via a temporary stay in Sacramento, they face significant branding hurdles. Jeff Bliss explains the team cannot use "Sacramento At

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🗓️ 16 January 2026

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PREVIEW FOR LATER TRADEMARK TROUBLES FOR THE RELOCATING ATHLETICS Colleague Jeff Bliss. As the Oakland A's move to Las Vegas via a temporary stay in Sacramento, they face significant branding hurdles. Jeff Bliss explains the team cannot use "Sacramento Athletics" due to local business conflicts and faces legal battles over the "Las Vegas Athletics" name, which was already registered by another party.

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0:00.0

The Oakland A's are headed to Las Vegas. They're stopping off in Sacramento to play the season there while they're building the stadium in Las Vegas, ready in 2028, I believe. Here's Jeff Bliss to explain a little problem developed about the naming of the Oakland A's that were once the Kansas City A's, and I think before that they were the Philadelphia A's.

0:23.2

But on their way to become a Las Vegas A's,

0:26.7

some funny happened.

0:27.8

Here's Jeff to explain.

0:29.2

More of this tonight.

0:30.8

But good for Las Vegas.

0:32.5

Smart to pick up a Major League Baseball team.

0:35.0

Successful, wonderful.

0:37.0

I can see the games now on late night radio live

0:40.6

from las vegas wonderful is jeff that's a good question where the name is that you know they're

0:46.0

in sacramento right now while you know they they they finish their lease in oakland uh you know

0:52.0

they're they're the last pro team to leave Oakland. There's no

0:55.2

NHL hockey anymore, no NBA there. That's over in San Francisco. No NFL Raiders. You know,

1:01.0

everybody left. And the stadium there is partially to blame. The city is a big reason, too.

1:05.8

Oakland is horrible these days. They left Oakland and between the time getting their stadium built in Vegas in

1:12.6

28 is the completion date, they've been, you know, playing at a minor league baseball field in

1:18.8

Sacramento. And there's been a lot of talk, are they the Sacramento A's? And they've kind of

1:22.8

tried to avoid that. But they finally managed to nail down a name and logo and such for their Sacramento

1:31.0

stay, and they're the Sacramento A's. They weren't allowed to have Sacramento Athletics

1:35.4

because it's too close to other businesses that have been long established in the city. But

1:40.8

they're having very bad, you know, very tough problems right now because they applied for Las Vegas A's and Las Vegas athletics.

1:48.0

Somebody got there ahead of them, got those names.

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