Vegas has been mentioned many times as having potential for expansion; so I don't think it's that far fetched. That's not really the place I would want to go for a ballgame though.
A dome would obviously be required to play baseball in Vegas, let alone in the summer months. But it would be a total slap in the face if a team had to be a lame duck in Oakland waiting on a stadium being built for their eventual move to Vegas. But it'll suck for NorCal when the A's could've already built a stadium in San Jose if the Giants didn't block it.
Would this make the A's being the first franchise in major sports to be in 4 different cities? I know that the football Cardinals have been in Chicago, St. Louis and Arizona, the Rams in Cleveland, LA and STL and the Braves in Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta.
I cannot think of 4 different cities, but the Rams and Raiders have moved more than the other 3 city teams
Rams-Cleveland, LA, St louis, LA
Raiders- Oakland, LA, Oakland, Vegas
The NBA has a couple teams that have been in 4+ cities, but they involve moves from when the league was not nearly as prominent as it is now. When the NBL and BAA merged to form the NBA in 1949, the NBL in particular had a bunch of teams in small Midwestern markets, and most of those either moved or folded pretty quickly. Of those, the Hawks have been in Moline, IL; Milwaukee; St. Louis; and Atlanta (plus a brief time in Buffalo before the NBA merger), and the Kings have been in Rochester, Cincinnati, Kansas City/Omaha (they split their home games between the two cities for several years before staying in KC full-time), and Sacramento.
The A's have fans that shouldn't get screwed like this. Oakland's on the come up, they need to be sold to someone who will figure something out.
The Rays on the other hand have one fan, Doris, and three families who wandered off a Universal Studios tour. Doris can come stay with me whenever she wants to go watch the Beavers.
The A's have fans that shouldn't get screwed like this. Oakland's on the come up, they need to be sold to someone who will figure something out.
The Rays on the other hand have one fan, Doris, and three families who wandered off a Universal Studios tour. Doris can come stay with me whenever she wants to go watch the Beavers.
How do you handle the realignment if the Rays went to Portland?
The A's have fans that shouldn't get screwed like this. Oakland's on the come up, they need to be sold to someone who will figure something out.
The Rays on the other hand have one fan, Doris, and three families who wandered off a Universal Studios tour. Doris can come stay with me whenever she wants to go watch the Beavers.
How do you handle the realignment if the Rays went to Portland?
Move PRays to the West, Cleveland to the East, Houston or Texas to the Central.
The A's have fans that shouldn't get screwed like this. Oakland's on the come up, they need to be sold to someone who will figure something out.
The Rays on the other hand have one fan, Doris, and three families who wandered off a Universal Studios tour. Doris can come stay with me whenever she wants to go watch the Beavers.
How do you handle the realignment if the Rays went to Portland?
Move PRays to the West, Cleveland to the East, Houston or Texas to the Central.
That won't happen. The whole point of Houston going to AL central was to be a rivalry for Texas because Texas was much further away from other teams in the west.
A's going to Portland is the only thing that makes sense here.