We will know soon (Info on the A's potential new home)

[Redondo]

43 minutes ago, stormngt said:

Locals don't gamble.  However we do enjoy the shows, sporting events and the fine dining.

I live in a gambling area and we don't gamble either

Laughlin

[Vegas Halo Fan]

5 hours ago, stormngt said:

Locals don't gamble.  However we do enjoy the shows, sporting events and the fine dining.

However I stopped going to the strip once they started charging for parking.  As a person who gre up in the 80s there, charging fir parking is sacrilegious. 

Especially as a local, I don't feel like paying a premium for doing business with a particular hotel.

Once upon a time, we used to go to Mandalay Bay for the lunch buffet after our monthly executive staff meetings. The last time that we went, they charged us $9 to park. They said that the only way out of it was to be a platinum level players card member (translation: lose enough in their casino that they don't mind giving you perks). We haven't been back since, and they have lost about $200 per month from our party alone.

[Lou]

1 hour ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

and they have lost about $200 per month from our party alone.

I think they'll be ok

[SlappyUtilityMIF]

21 hours ago, stormngt said:

Locals don't gamble.  However we do enjoy the shows, sporting events and the fine dining.

However I stopped going to the strip once they started charging for parking.  As a person who gre up in the 80s there, charging fir parking is sacrilegious. 

Exactly, my folks have been there for 25 years. They go down to the strip for concerts and Anniversary dinners other than that they stay local to Summerlin.

[Hubs]

Portland makes more sense than Vegas. Vegas Metro. It’s not as hot, so you don’t have to build completely indoor just a retractable roof. 2.7 M people vs. 2.2M metro areas… and they wouldn’t be competing with other teams and groups of teams. The 51’s draw just ok but I know that Portland’s AAA team was replaced with a MLS team. They have an NBA team too and no other pro sports.

They’d really support their teams, too. Anyone who remembers how good those crowds were for those Blazers teams when they were good knows that. 
 

Nashville, Montreal, are other good options. But if they can get a deal done in Oakland it’s likely the best 

[failos]

I couldn't care less about this team

[Lazorko Saves]

1 hour ago, Hubs said:

Portland makes more sense than Vegas.

Nah, Vegas is growing faster than here.  Less incompetent and corrupt government in Nevada.  There's zero chance current Oregon state or Portland city government is going to engage with any kind of public/private partnership to build a stadium.  Wrong kind of politicians (anti-growth, anti-business) are in power here.

We lost our chance back when the Expos were shopping for a city.  Local Indian tribe (Grand Ronde) offered 100% funding for a downtown stadium in exchange for a license to operate a casino inside the metro area boundary.  City turned it down.  We ended up with casinos close to the metro boundary anyway (Cowlitz built a big one just north in Vancouver, WA) and still have no ballpark.

MLB to Portland is essentially dead right now.

[gotbeer]

19 hours ago, Hubs said:

Portland makes more sense than Vegas. Vegas Metro. It’s not as hot, so you don’t have to build completely indoor just a retractable roof. 2.7 M people vs. 2.2M metro areas… and they wouldn’t be competing with other teams and groups of teams. The 51’s draw just ok but I know that Portland’s AAA team was replaced with a MLS team. They have an NBA team too and no other pro sports.

They’d really support their teams, too. Anyone who remembers how good those crowds were for those Blazers teams when they were good knows that. 
 

Nashville, Montreal, are other good options. But if they can get a deal done in Oakland it’s likely the best 

 

What makes Vegas a much more favorable location for the team and fans is that their home games would in essence be excuse travel destinations for the visiting fans.  For Portland, you would have to depend 100% on the local population for 81 games a year.  Through good times and bad.  And as seen in Oakland, even good times is pretty bad.  In Vegas, you would still rely on the local population.  But just the number of fans from other teams going to visit could make a Vegas home game look like a Boston game in Anaheim all year long.

It's really something that no other city can offer.  

[stormngt]

On 11/27/2021 at 2:35 PM, Hubs said:

Portland makes more sense than Vegas. Vegas Metro. It’s not as hot, so you don’t have to build completely indoor just a retractable roof. 2.7 M people vs. 2.2M metro areas… and they wouldn’t be competing with other teams and groups of teams. The 51’s draw just ok but I know that Portland’s AAA team was replaced with a MLS team. They have an NBA team too and no other pro sports.

They’d really support their teams, too. Anyone who remembers how good those crowds were for those Blazers teams when they were good knows that. 
 

Nashville, Montreal, are other good options. But if they can get a deal done in Oakland it’s likely the best 

Antifa is burning down Portland everywhere week.

Las Vegas has a lot of land, 100,000 tourist every weekend.

[HanfordGuy]

https://www.kron4.com/mlb/as/oakland-as-have-their-sights-on-tropicana-las-vegas-as-potential-ballpark-report/amp/
 

LAS VEGAS (KLAS)– The Oakland Athletics are reportedly interested in the Tropicana Hotel and Casino on the Strip as a possible site for a baseball stadium, according to a new report.

According to CNBC, that another site under consideration was the Wynn golf course. Another site possibly in the running is an unnamed property owned Caesars Entertainment. But before that would even be considered, they’d have to bid on the land and put together a public-private financing plan. 

A spokesperson for the A’s declined to comment saying “the Oakland Athletics can’t confirm this report and do not have a comment at this time.”

 

The A’s have openly explored Las Vegas for potential relocation this year amid ongoing negotiations for a new baseball stadium in Oakland. 

The Las Vegas Aviators asked its fan base last month to speak up about a possible relocation of its parent team, the Oakland A’s, to the Las Vegas valley.
 

Bally’s Corporation announced in April that they brought the Tropicana Las Vegas from Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn National Gaming in a deal worth $308 million.

The Tropicana is one of the Las Vegas Strip’s oldest resorts, opening in 1957. The deal is expected to close in early 2022.