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I saw a post yesterday that said Oakland signed someone to a 66 million dollar contract and that's the largest contract in franchise history , and that was back in 06.



It also drives me nuts that Manfred has no balls. Yes that stadium sucks, but back in 17 and 18 when they were decent the fans packed that stadium. It isn't their fault ownership decided to destroy the roster and not pay literally anyone.
 
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mr.checkerboards said:
I saw a post yesterday that said Oakland signed someone to a 66 million dollar contract and that's the largest contract in franchise history , and that was back in 06.



It also drives me nuts that Manfred has no balls. Yes that stadium sucks, but back in 17 and 18 when they were decent the fans packed that stadium. It isn't their fault ownership decided to destroy the roster and not pay literally anyone.
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Manfred's a dope and he definitely did nothing to help Oakland, but his hands were tied. He works for the owner. Fisher didn't want to stay in Oakland, and you can't force a dude to sell unless it's a Sterling/Synder situation. I just don't understand why you want to be John Fisher. Sell, make a cool $1B or whatever and go live in anonymity.
 
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What's hilarious is Fisher still hasn't submitted a financial plan to state of Nevada for his portion of the proposed stadium in Vegas, and they can't actually break ground or do anything official until it's submitted and approved. And they have been trying to move to Vegas for a half decade. He's a legitimate moron.
 
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What's hilarious is Fisher still hasn't submitted a financial plan to state of Nevada for his portion of the proposed stadium in Vegas, and they can't actually break ground or do anything official until it's submitted and approved. And they have been trying to move to Vegas for a half decade. He's a legitimate moron.
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I don’t think he actually has enough money.
 
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From Tim Keown's article the other day. Man it must be nice to be born into money

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For brokenhearted fans, you can't spell Oakland without the A's

As their last remaining home team enters its final series at the Coliseum, die-hards process anger, sadness.
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The Major League Baseball Players Association has yet to approve the changes to Sutter Health Park. There are no final renderings of the Las Vegas ballpark. The list goes on. The A's, in a characterization the team believes is unwarranted, are viewed as the mythical snake eternally eating its own tail. It was a sign when the A's abandoned the first site they planned in Vegas, and a sign when it was revealed that the current location, on the site of the soon-to-be demolished Tropicana Casino and Resort, consists of just 9 acres to build a domed or retractable-roof ballpark. (The A's say the space is not an issue, but the smallest park in the big leagues, Target Field in Minneapolis, sits on 8 acres.) And it is considered an ongoing sign that Fisher has not presented a financing plan to fund the ballpark costs beyond the $380 million in public funding provided by the state of Nevada.

"It's interesting that the financing question has continued to persist," Dean says. "John Fisher has said on several occasions that his family will invest the capital that is needed to build the project. The A's relocation was approved after a three-month review by a relocation committee at MLB that was made up of financially sophisticated owners. As I talked about at the [Las Vegas] Stadium Authority meeting in July, we are in good shape for financing and have been planning for this for some time."
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