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This week in the locker March 09, 2024We realize the enormity of saying “the most CONCACAF game ever,” as this particular region of the soccer world is literally where people throw ducks at balloons and nothing is the way it seems. Just about anything can happen when the North and Central American Federation is in charge, and boy did it...

What do the A's & Sydney Opera House have in common?; No winners in Russell Wilson's war; USWNT's CONCACAF madnessLeave it to the A’s and John Fisher to be three months late on the renderings for a ballpark that still feels like it has a better chance of being built in Narnia than it does in Vegas, and then to have it leak out a day after they meant it to: - Sam Fels Read More...

The Oakland A’s want to build the Sydney Opera HouseLeave it to the A’s and John Fisher to be three months late on the renderings for a ballpark that still feels like it has a better chance of being built in Narnia than it does in Vegas, and then to have it leak out a day after they meant it to:...

The push to block the Oakland A's relocation continues

The Oakland Athletics move to Las Vegas is no closer to completion, as the Nevada State Education Association (NESA) is preparing to file an injunction to block the $380 million in public funds for the A’s, on the grounds that it is unconstitutional....

Finally, politicians tell a team owner to shove their new arena proposal

The stadium/arena swindle in pro sports has been going on for a couple decades now, but that kind of history couldn’t save Ted Leonsis’s plan for a new arena in Virginia for the Capitals and Wizards. Even with numerous studies and proof that publicly funded arenas or stadiums have no public benefit ...

Vegas mayor not sold on A's move?; Corey Kluber calls it quits; 50 reasons to be amped about 2024 season

A Nevada teacher’s union doesn’t believe that $380 million in public funds that could be put towards education should be used to fund the new home of the Las Vegas A’s, and they’re suing to stop it. - Julie DiCaro Read More...

Someone is finally standing up to the Las Vegas sports juggernaut

The A’s move to Las Vegas gets worse every day

John Fisher, who might be the luckiest idiot alive because no dunderheaded maneuver he makes can seem to deprive him of the money that must’ve been chucked out of a moving car at him, has once again caught a break in that, with the Super Bowl being in Vegas this week, it’ll mask that the latest indi...

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John Fisher's move of A's may have a snag; Jim Harbaugh avoids a choke job; the strange case of Luke Littler

There’s generally little hope for fans when it’s already been announced that their team will move to another city. That hope evaporates more when a league approves it, as MLB has done with the A’s move to Vegas. And yet, there’s always a sliver of light that can’t be extinguished when an owner is so...

by Deadspin Bot|

|Sat Jan 06 2024

John Fisher might not have the money to move the A’s to Vegas

by Sam Fels|

|Wed Jan 03 2024

Notoriously cheap owner has to pay for A's to leave Oakland

The Oakland Athletics are about to pay more than their entire 2022 payroll just to leave Oakland....

by Mackenzie Meaney|

|Fri Dec 08 2023

MLB owners approve team that they will soon hate

It has been said by many more talented and knowledgeable people than me that the biggest problem with MLB owners is all they see is the next dollar, not the five farther down the line they could have, much less the next win. Oh sure, there are exceptions. Philadelphia’s John Middleton seems to get i...

by Sam Fels|

|Thu Nov 16 2023

Jets fans get a last meal before returning to hell

You’re already hearing it. New York Jets fans pointing out that, on a night when their “final piece” quarterback made it four plays before his decaying body snapped, and on a night where the Bills clanked a game-tying field goal off the post and in, the fact that they still pulled it out on an overt...

by Sam Fels|

|Tue Sep 12 2023

The US Open has been a tough watch the past few days

The US Open used to bill itself as “The World’s Toughest Tennis.” It’s New York, which has to bill anything having to do with itself as the “biggest and toughest” or the city will collapse in on itself. But the Open was on hardcourt, it was at the end of summer so it was hot, and they used to make p...

by Sam Fels|

|Thu Sep 07 2023

You have to marvel at the wretchedness of the Chicago White Sox

There are certainly a host of disappointing teams in MLB this year. More so than usual it feels like, with the Mets, Padres, and Cardinals face down in a muck they never considered being in back in the spring. You can throw the Mariners on there if you’re feeling truly dispirited and want to take it...

by Sam Fels|

|Tue Jul 25 2023

Sports are awesome, but the business is fascinating

Something about summer in America will always feel more like the true transition of the year as opposed to New Year’s Day. The holiday has so much pomp and circumstance that it’s difficult to take the time to truly reflect on the year, and it is also very cold in much of the country. During the summ...

by Stephen Knox|

|Fri Jul 14 2023

Rob Manfred perpetuates the stereotype of Rob Manfred

I don’t want to speak for an entire fanbase here, but I’m 99.99999 percent confident when I say Rob Manfred can take his sympathy for Oakland A’s fans and shove it up his (redacted) until his (redacted) are popping out of his (redacted). Go (redacted) yourself, you (redacted) lying heap of (redacted...

by Sean Beckwith|

|Fri Jun 16 2023

The least Rob Manfred could do is leave the Athletics name in Oakland

I don’t like to be fatalist, or wave a white flag to unchecked capitalism. I want to believe, at some point, that the fans’ voice matters. That the runaway chase for profits and growth that ignores and bulldozes everything around it eventually crashes into a wall. And certainly, Oakland A’s fans’ vo...

by Sam Fels|

|Thu Jun 15 2023

The Oakland A's can't draw fans, yet get stadium deal hinged on attendance approved

It won’t be that much of a shock that the Oakland A’s were able to wait out the Nevada State Senate and get approval for their grift of a stadium deal. It still has to go through the House, but we know how politicians like to roll over on these things no matter what their constituents think. As Geor...

by Sam Fels|

|Wed Jun 14 2023

The A’s keep using the word 'binding' — I do not think it means what they think it means

Geez, if you didn’t know any better, you might get the impression that John Fisher, and Dave Kaval don’t know what they’re doing. ...

by Sam Fels|

|Tue May 09 2023

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