A's to leave Oakland

[Julio]

How about "Fremont Athletics of Oakland"? *G*

[cgy2london]

Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan

Since it is so close to Oakland would they still call the team the Oakland Athletics or are they going to change the name as well?

i sure hope they change it. thats the worst name in the league

[vanisleflamesfan]

Originally Posted by browna

Yeah that Colisuem is a dump..and have never been in a town as shady as Oakland at night. Watched a game there almost 10 years ago, and after the family was appraoched across the street as we went out for a bite to eat. Not a comfortable feeling, and this was in the supposed ok section of town. Even the cheap, Best Western type hotels ahd 24hr security...again, in the "touristy(loose term)" part of town.

Very true, the Coliseum is a brutal stadium for baseball. I was there this past summer and Oakland is SKETCHY!! I don't think that I would ever go to a NIGHT game there. That short walk from the Coliseum to the BART station is as much of Oakland as anybody needs to see ever!!

[Julio]

I went to a night game in Oalkand in August, and if was pretty sketchy...was almost happy the game wasn't close, so we could get out with the first wave of people leaving in the top of the 9th to get on BART and head back to San Fran.

[OilersBaby]

Originally Posted by OILFAN #81

Good news for my sister, she lives in San Jose and the A's are her favorite team.

YUP! Im so excited!!! YAY! I get to see Eric Chavez more often!! I just hope they don't have a dumb name like the Angels and call themselves the Oakland Athletics of Fremont or something like that. The Angels call themselves the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim when those 2 cites are like 40 miles apart............................Oakland and Fremont are only about 15-20 miles apart.

[icarus]

"California 'A'-Holes?"

[Flickered Flame]

A's release new stadium details. 2011 is still along way off.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2661928

[Sylvanfan]

I got sucked into watching a bit of Prime time Sports on Friday and they were talking about the A's and 49'ers setting up in the burbs and if it's the future of pro sports etc. Now that panel of morons couldn't get their heads around the Leafs and the NHL, and being down town. Than they got talking about maybe a small town would be a sucker to put up money for a stadium to get themselves on the map. Than they got talking about will corporate support go to St.Catherines and a bunch of stupid junk. IMO they couldn't think of a situation outside of Toronto type of thing, and figured that you're looking at 40 home games on week nights.

Now in terms of the 49'ers you're talking 10-11 games a year that get played weekly as a maximum for your main tennant in the stadium, and most of those being on a Sunday. So I think you can build that stadium anywhere and still get fans and corporate support. An NFL team is that much of an attraction.

As far as the A's are concerned it's tough to say exactly how this will do. Certainly people in Freemont and San Jose and surrounding area have good incomes and likley make up the type of demographic they'd like to market to. I guess it will depend on if the people that live in these places work close enough to home to attend the stadium for 81 games a year, and if some of these companies in the Silicone valley like Xerox, Cisco etc buy up the seats as corporate support. Certainly PacBell park itself is an attraction and has helped the Giants, but for the most part it's still in San Fran. This will be interesting to see how it works for baseball.