When a professional sports team leaves a city, such as the Oakland Athletics, what effect does it have on the region?
Wow, I’m sorry. I said A? I’m referring to the Oakland Raiders. Or the Golden State Warriors? It looks like an evacuation. Oakland is in a sunken landfill and other people throw their forearms out of town before it sinks into the bay.
Of course, for some other people, having a professional sports team in your city is not as important as building an exit ramp. After all, the exit would provide much-needed relief from traffic congestion. The Athletics? Some other people don’t even know how to spell “A. “
It doesn’t help that no matter which team played in the city, Oakland has been San Francisco’s unwanted and much-reviled half-brother. however, it is a loose passage east of Oakland.
So how do you measure the effect of a team in a city?Perhaps the most impressive quick answer is a 2015 KGO-TV video of the parade crowd in Oakland as the Warriors celebrated their first NBA name in 40 years. Police estimated the crowd at a million enthusiasts and that would seem exaggerated until the helicopter video scanned the Yes, that’s what a million people look like tucked into a can of sardines.
For comparison, Saul Perlmutter, a professor of physics at UC Berkeley, won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for working with a team that discovered the accelerated expansion of the universe. To be fair, Mr. Perlmutter’s paintings have had a global impact. impact, a vital achievement that has dragged on beyond this year.
But also, to be fair, a million other people didn’t show up in 90-degree heat in the middle of the day to honor M. Perlmutter.
A professional athlete, a musician and a film actor bring what M. Perlmutter cannot, with due respeto. Échapper. Divertissement. La suspended reality, much sought after today. Sitting in the stands, supporters don’t look around and the user’s political association sits next to them. The color of their skin has no more influence on them than the shape of someone’s ear.
They are brothers and sisters united, albeit temporarily, on the level in front of them. The object of their attention and affection is so little public that they call them by their first name, although the athlete knows them by hanger. This link connects race, color, and creed. Nowhere else in American society are such conflicting and potentially volatile differences resolved in such a benign way.
Unless a fool makes the decision to drink sitting in the middle of a crowd of Raiders dressed in the colors of the Kansas City Chiefs. If this happens, take your children for a walk in the lobby. Or buy a raincoat.
Team owners play those fan affections like a violin. They hold the cities captive, The Card of Affection while waiting for the blank check. Enthusiasts deserve more, so go to the countryside. Fans deserve a better stadium, better food, better atmosphere, more seating and, especially in the case of Oakland, better plumbing.
Nowhere is there any talk that A enthusiasts deserve greater owners.
He has already read the previous sentence. When it comes to passing asset list that treated the baseball team as if it were a perennial sale, it’s a miracle that the Athletics lasted so long in Oakland. Walter Haas and his son gave Oakland something special in the ’80s for depreciating and tarnishing to the point that the existing team now seems more like a headache than an attraction.
A headache for this reason: The team that once played baseball in the Bay Area turns out to be lifelong and there are a hundred Advils. The team at Canseco, McGwire, Stew, the Eck, Rickey and others remind us of what it was.
2022 A reminds us of what it is. The team with the worst baseball record plays in front of the smallest crowds in baseball. The owner who doesn’t speak in public and we’re glad he doesn’t, John Fisher, has the temerity to take the city of Oakland and Alameda County hostage.
With such a depleted roster, you may not have enough talent to win the Pacific Coast League championship. However, as A’s assets say through secondary channels, it’s best to put ourselves in Howard Terminal with a new stadium where this list of thugs is going to Las Vegas.
The Athletics announced 15 months ago that they had seen Las Vegas. On other occasions, the Athletics were gone. So they weren’t. So they thought about it seriously. Then they hoped Oakland would enjoy them. Then they got discouraged, Oakland didn’t.
A checkpoint then questioned whether city and county officials were competent to postpone this. Reports from last February revealed that the Raiders had left the city and county with a debt of $189,726,358. the interest increased, the football team introduced a clause according to which they can default at any time the payment of the loan without penalty.
The Raiders left for Las Vegas and the city and county are now struggling for nearly $190 million. Imagine the blush. Imagine, moreover, why the town may not even need to give Fisher a burger to make the move. Imagine Fisher wondering if they have enough cash for this burger.
The combination of incompetence, bravado, disinterest and poor monetary management is enough for an A fan to set fire to his hair and scream at night, for a video of the 1989 season.
This situation answered the question: What impact does a professional sports team have on a community?This can make mega-millionaires reasonable to make more money and then cry for it. citizens to suddenly become astonished celebrities, abandoning common sense and sixth-grade math.
Oakland is the only example of a town that throws dust on its symbol and the wrists of its accountants because of a sports team. However, given the magnitude of the loss, Oakland is the leader of the clubhouse. In fact, it’s not even a competition.
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