Bay Area Sports Many Oakland Fans Skipping A’s-Giants Series at Oracle Park This Weekend As the Athletics return to the Bay Area for the team's annual three-game series against the San Francisco Giants this weekend, many longtime fans are staying home and instead focusing their support on local teams.
Arts & Entertainment Notable Humans: Susan Kare, Designer Of Mac’s Earliest Icons — And Its Friendly Aesthetic In this week’s roundup, SFist pays tribute to Susan Kare, the groundbreaking designer of Mac’s early icons; Jorge Leon, the mastermind behind Oakland’s thriving sports scene; and Matthew Kraft, a social worker who received “Child Protector of the Year.”
Bay Area Sports A’s First Game in Sacramento Was a Complete Debacle, and Losing 18-3 Was Probably the Least Embarrassing Part The Sacramento A’s first home game was an 18-3 blowout loss, but still worse, the radio broadcast conked out seven times, scoreboards went out, there was a drone delay, and chants of “Sell the Team!” rocked the new ballpark Sutter Health Park.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A's Single-Game Tickets Go On Sale Next Week A's single-game tickets go on sale next week; Apple to revamp AI efforts; and Meta to invest heavily in AI infrastructure.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fair Amount of Fan Mayhem at A’s Last Ever Game in Oakland A battery fire in a garage briefly shut down Cesar Chavez Street Thursday; Gavin Newsom vetoed a reparations bill; and there were a few incidents of fan rowdiness as the Oakland A’s won their last-ever game in Oakland.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Mistakenly Print Up “A’ss” Hat, Quickly Remove It, Now It’s Selling for $5,000 on eBay I’ve heard the term “asshat,” but this is ridiculous. Major League Baseball printed up Oakland A’s hats that appear to say “A’ss,” and while they immediately yanked them, some fans still managed to buy one, so now they’re on eBay for $5,000.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Scores of A's Fans Tailgate Before Final Coliseum Game Over 1,000 A's fans were already in the Coliseum parking lot before 8 am today ahead of their final home game; two Vallejo firefighters were injured during a rescue; and BART ridership hit a new post-pandemic record on Tuesday.
Bay Area Sports A’s Fans Tried to Steal Seats From Coliseum Tuesday Night, But Did Not Successfully Steal the Seats In the third-to-last ever Oakland A’s home game Tuesday night, a couple fans ripped their seats out of the Oakland Coliseum. But they reportedly did not manage to leave the Coliseum with those seats, and could face charges.
Bay Area Sports Rumors Flying That the A’s Might Stay in Oakland for Another Year, or Even Longer One of Major League Baseball’s most prominent agents has stirred the pot about the possibility of the A’s staying in Oakland for another year or longer, and it may be significant that the players’ union has still not signed off on the deal for the A’s to play in Sacramento.
Bay Area Sports A's Likely Dreading Playing on Hot Turf For 3 Years In Crummy Triple-A Stadium In West Sacramento The A's ownership could have more than just Oakland fans' ire to contend with when they make their move to Sacramento next year — they could also be facing a player revolt if conditions at their new temporary home stadium are as bad as they're sounding.
Bay Area Sports Las Vegas Sets Date to Blow Up Tropicana Hotel So the Oakland A’s Can Build Their Ballpark There The now-defunct Tropicana Las Vegas resort and casino has been sentenced to death by implosion on October 9 so the carpetbagging Oakland A’s can try to build a stadium there, and the destruction will come complete with "a drone and fireworks show."
Bay Area Sports This Weekend Is the Last-Ever A’s-Giants ‘Bay Bridge Series’ Before the A’s Leave Rich with history, the SF Giants and Oakland A’s ‘Bay Bridge Series’ will play out its final iteration on Saturday and Sunday, as the A’s will play in Oakland for only another six weeks.
Bay Area Sports A’s Sell Their Share of the Oakland Coliseum to Black-Owned Development Group for $125 Million The African American Sports & Entertainment Group will soon become the full owner of the Oakland Coliseum, as they bought the City of Oakland's ownership share of the Coliseum earlier this year, and they just bought the other half from the departing Oakland A’s.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Ballers Introduce New Mascot, Which Is a Possum, as Another Way to Troll the Oakland A’s The Oakland B’s new mascot “Scrappy the Possum” is an obvious troll of the carpetbagging Oakland A’s, whose dilapidated stadium has a well-known possum problem.
Bay Area Sports City of Oakland Sells Off Its Stake in Oakland Coliseum for a Reported $105 Million With the Oakland Raiders long gone and the Oakland A’s having one foot out the door, the deficit-strapped City of Oakland just struck a deal to sell their 50% stake in the Oakland Coliseum to the African American Sports & Entertainment Group for more than $100 million.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Are Officially Moving to Sacramento for the Next Three Seasons This will in fact be the final season that the Oakland A’s play in Oakland, as the team officially announced Thursday morning that they’re moving to Sacramento to play in a rinky-dink minor-league ballpark while their Las Vegas stadium gets built.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Offers the A’s Five-Year Lease Extension for $97 Million to Keep Playing In Usually Empty Coliseum The Oakland A’s need a ballpark for the next three years while their proposed Las Vegas stadium is getting built, but the City of Oakland hopes to charge them nearly $100 million if they want to play those three years at the Oakland Coliseum.
SF News Opening Day Around the Bay: Oakland A’s Restrict Parking Lot Access to Squelch Fan Protest BART is touting that they’re arresting lots more people on their trains these days; the Giants sadly released Pablo Sandoval once and for all; and the Oakland A’s refused to open their parking lot Thursday afternoon because of fan protesters.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Release Renderings of Proposed ‘Spherical Armadillo’ Las Vegas Stadium, To Widespread Mockery The sun is literally setting in the wrong direction in the Oakland A’s seemingly AI-generated new renderings of their proposed Las Vegas ballpark, which may be a metaphor for this troubled stadium gamble.
SF Politics A’s Biggest Roadblock to Las Vegas Could Be Set By… Former SF Supervisor Chris Daly? A blast from San Francisco’s political past could help shoot down the Oakland A’s proposed move to Las Vegas, as former SF supervisor Chris Daly is now the political director for a Nevada ballot measure and lawsuit that could be Oakland fans’ ace in the hole to keep the team.
Bay Area Sports A’s Negotiating to Stay In Oakland Three More Years, Because They Have Nowhere Else to Play The Oakland A’s are dragging their tails into negotiations with the City of Oakland and Alameda County to continue playing at the Oakland Coliseum through 2027, even though they’re still planning to move to Las Vegas, because they don’t have anywhere else to play.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland A’s Getting First Woman Primary Play-By-Play Announcer in MLB History The vacant Castro flower shop space for Ixia has a new tenant, Pinterest has unloaded their former headquarters as a sublease, and the Oakland A’s have hired the first-ever woman to be their primary play-by-play announcer.
Bay Area Sports Las Vegas Mayor Comes Out Swinging Against the Idea of the A’s Moving to Vegas In a stunning podcast interview published today, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman seemed to square up against the A’s moving to Las Vegas, saying their proposed stadium site “doesn’t make sense,” and “they’ve got to figure out a way to stay in Oakland.”
Bay Area Sports A’s Agree to Cough Up $45 Million for Unpaid Oakland Coliseum Bill Oakland is at least getting one piece of good news as the A’s prepare to bolt for Las Vegas, with the team agreeing to pay Alameda County $45 million of the unpaid balance on their Oakland Coliseum deal.
Bay Area Sports Alameda County Puts the Screws to the A’s, Demands $45 Million In Unpaid Coliseum Bills Some hardball tactics from Alameda County as the A’s try to bolt for Las Vegas, with the county pointing out a fine-print clause in their contract that says the team is on the hook for $45 million if they ever decide to leave town.
