The Oakland Athletics on Thursday announced plans to play at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento for the 2025 through 2027 seasons, meaning this season will be their last at the Oakland Coliseum.
The A’s still plan on building a new ballpark in Las Vegas and playing there starting in 2028, but where they would play after 2024 was up in the air.
Sutter Health Park is currently home to the Sacramento River Cats, the Triple-A minor league affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. The Sacramento Kings NBA basketball team is the majority owner of the River Cats and jointly announced the A’s planned move to West Sacramento.
A’s owner John Fisher said in a statement, “We explored several locations for a temporary home, including the Oakland Coliseum. Even with the long-standing relationship and good intentions on all sides in the negotiations with Oakland, the conditions to achieve an agreement seemed out of reach.”
Fisher added, “We understand the disappointment this news brings to our fans, as this season marks our final one in Oakland.
Throughout this season, we will honor and celebrate our time in Oakland, and will share additional details soon.”
The A’s owner also thanked the Kings and the city of West Sacramento and said they “look forward to making Sutter Health Park our home until our new ballpark opens in Las Vegas.”
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I hope Fisher’s Las Vegas deal fails.
If the Vegas mayor isn’t on board, then who knows? One thing for sure-
Oakland is dead.
Fisher is an ass.
Sad day for the A’s. No longer a team to cheer for. Goodbye Fisher.
Sounds like Oakland or Alameda county, or both, didn’t want to kiss and make up.
Not good for Oakland people who worked at the site, Vendors, Maintenance,
The City will need to do some caretaker functions… Lost $$$ and Cost $$$..
I had season tickets for over 20 years, section 120. I could live with them being cheap, I could live with them not resigning players. Mostly because they were often competitive. But when COVID ended and they raised my season ticket prices by 152%, that was it. John Fisher can rot in hell! Screw MLB! Slow ass lame sport, I would rather watch paint dry. They made me hate everything about the backward ass slow crappy league, that nobody under the age of 50 even watches. I don’t give a crap about the Vigiants and would never watch that crap team either. I grew up watching and going to A’s games and going on 3 seasons (this would be the 3rd) haven’t watched a pitch of baseball. I hope Sacramento and then Las Vegas enjoy the crap fest they get to witness.
Vigiants??? Oh my!!!
‘You’ don’t have fans, Mr. Fisher, the ‘As’ have fans.
They lost a lot of die hard fans. They will never be the same.
Get ride of the warriors and now you can build your little 15 minute smart city.
Hard truth is A’s had lowest attendance in MLB, like all other businesses in Oakland owners want out or close up shop. The community and attendance made this decision. And let’s face it MLB is slowly dying. I love baseball and played it my entire childhood but the sport is not the same.
The community didn’t make this decision, Fisher did.
Fisher wanted a new stadium but didn’t want to pay more money like Lacob. So instead of using that GAP money, he dumped/traded controllable players and made the team the laughing stock of MLB so when it was time to move he didn’t have to worry about the fanbase.
Fans want to attend games, they don’t want to watch crap.
The Giants found this out too last season.
Fisher is a bad faith actor. May karma catch up with him in the form of failure in Sacramento and Las Vegas.
you have to realize that the city of Oakland has been going downhill for quite awhile now and they did not want to improve conditions for any sports team ect. they get half of the blame too for what’s been going on. nobody wants to go into the cesspool of crime. thanks Oakland city council and mayor, state governor. the list go on.
Spot on … that’s why Oakland lost 3 teams in the last 6 years.
Good riddance!
I feel your pain, A’s fans. Same thing happened with my Oakland Raiders. I stayed true when they moved down south, but coming back and then going to Vegas was it for me.
So many loyal fans on this sight and everywhere I turn. Why then didn’t you all go to the games
You don’t have to go to a game to be a fan.
cause games r not affordable family fun anymore
I was there in 1968 on opening day. I was there for the 50th anniversary opening day. I was a season ticket holder for 18 years until I got transferred to Woodland (River Cats ticket holder there). With the exception of a few years the Athletics have let us wanting most of the time. Bad trades, constant “well we’re building the team” attitude. Piss poor management, yearly end of season chokes letting us down. Too many “thank you fans for hanging in there, maybe next year. I’m done. Go! Get outta here.
With 50:50 Ownership of the Coliseum, Fisher will punish Oakland, the City can not afford their half of the up keep, the Coliseum will decay into a Drug, Crime, Homeless venue. Eventually it will need to be sold for redevelopment, Oakland”s vision will never happen … this is what failed Leadership looks like
By far the most abused fan base of all professional sports, Oakland A’s fans. 👊⚾️
Professional sports are all about greed. Greedy owners, greedy players, and greedy city officials/politicians. They see the fans as ignorant subjects willing to pay any price for decent seats, crappy food, and memorabilia or souvenirs for a player or team that will be gone in a year. Stop giving your hard earned money to these fools and bring their egos back down to earth.
A shout out to the venerable Libby Schaaf, and current mayor thao for helping create the trifecta of a cities sports teams demise. I feel empathy for the true sports fans from Oakland. They didn’t deserve this. They wanted to tax Oakland to death and they failed in their quest. Their power, greed, and incompetence got the better of them…
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