{"id":1718366,"date":"2022-10-31T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718366"},"modified":"2022-10-31T12:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T16:03:27","slug":"have-to-look-for-an-alternative-mlbs-manfred-says-oakland-should-consider-moving-to-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/have-to-look-for-an-alternative-mlbs-manfred-says-oakland-should-consider-moving-to-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Have To Look For An Alternative\u2019: MLB\u2019s Manfred Says Oakland Should Consider Moving To Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhave-to-look-for-an-alternative-mlbs-manfred-says-oakland-should-consider-moving-to-vegas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718366&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said that the Oakland Athletics, whose attendance in 2022 plunged to the lowest level of any team in 18 years, would have to consider moving to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletics\u2019 lease at the RingCentral Coliseum expires in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the A\u2019s and the Tampa Bay Rays, interviewer Chris Russo asked if Las Vegas and Nashville were alternatives for the teams, saying, \u201cYou can\u2019t have baseball being played in that ballpark. This has got to end eventually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do want to say this: I think the mayor in Oakland has made a huge effort to try to get it done in Oakland. It just doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019s gonna happen,\u201d Manfred replied. \u201cI\u2019m not positive about it. I think the A\u2019s have proceeded prudently in terms of exploring the Las Vegas alternative; given the lack of pace in Oakland I think they have to look for an alternative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manfred said that Tampa\u2019s problems could be surmounted even by staying in the same city: \u201cI see Tampa differently; I think a properly located facility in Tampa, that Tampa\u2019s a viable major-league market. I got a lot of faith in Stu Sternberg; I think they will find a place to get a ballpark built and I think baseball can thrive in Tampa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Oakland does leave, when would that be?\u201d asked Russo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, Oakland \u2014 it\u2019s hard to say,\u201d Manfred admitted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin five years?\u201d Russo pressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh yeah, oh yeah. Something has to happen. We can\u2019t go five more years in the Coliseum,\u201d Manfred answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think at the end of the day Oakland\u2019s going to Vegas,\u201d Russo stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t say that \u2014 what I said is, and I stand by it, is given the lack of pace in Oakland, the lack of certainty, they have to be looking at Las Vegas as an alternative because they can\u2019t continue to play in a facility they\u2019re in,\u201d Manfred concluded.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ICYMI: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MLB<\/a> Commissioner <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RobManfred?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RobManfred<\/a> talked about Oakland &#038; Tampa and their current ballpark situations. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q7wLSJY6n0\">pic.twitter.com\/Q7wLSJY6n0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Mad Dog Russo (@MadDogUnleashed) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MadDogUnleashed\/status\/1586469416388395013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The storied Athletics franchise, despite its mildly peripatetic history, has been one of the most successful teams in baseball. The team started as one of the American league\u2019s charter franchises as the Philadelphia Athletics in 1901. Legendary owner and manager Connie Mack ran the team for 5o years; they won the World Series in 1910, 1911, and 1913, then fielded one of the greatest teams of all time in their World Series winners of 1929-1930.<\/p>\n<p>In 1955, the team moved to Kansas City, where they experienced 13 lean years before they moved to Oakland in 1968. Their legendary 1972-1974 teams were the last teams to win three consecutive World Series titles. They also won the World Series in 1989, giving the franchise nine World Series titles, trailing only the New York Yankees (27) and the St. Louis Cardinals (11).<\/p>\n<p>As far back as October 2019, Manfred made noise about the Athletics moving to Las Vegas, hinting that the city needed to jettison its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/Oakland-s-curveball-City-sues-county-over-14481751.php\">lawsuit<\/a> targeting Alameda County so the county would not sell the Coliseum arena site to the Athletics or the team would move to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe kind of laid down the law,\u201d City Councilman\u00a0Larry Reid stated, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/philmatier\/article\/The-Las-Vegas-A-s-Baseball-commissioner-tells-14494415.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Mobile)&#038;utm_source=t.co&#038;utm_medium=referral\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>, adding, \u201cThe commissioner pointed out that Bay Area fans will soon be going to Las Vegas to see the Raiders and that unless things changed, Bay Area fans may be going to Las Vegas or elsewhere to see the\u00a0A\u2019s as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said that the Oakland Athletics, whose attendance in 2022 plunged to the lowest level of any team in 18 years, would have to consider moving to Las Vegas. The Athletics\u2019 lease at the RingCentral Coliseum expires in 2024. Speaking of the A\u2019s and the Tampa Bay Rays, interviewer Chris Russo asked &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1718369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}