A’s release renderings of new Las Vegas domed stadium that resembles famous Sydney Opera House

[CaliAngel]

What if they keep the A on the cap, so people can still call them the A's, but instead of the Athletics they change the name to the Las Vegas Aces? Can't believe nobody has thought of that.

Oh and also, they should keep the elephant mascot/logo out of respect for the all-you-can-eat buffets littered throughout the city.

[TroutField]

1 hour ago, CaliAngel said:

What if they keep the A on the cap, so people can still call them the A's, but instead of the Athletics they change the name to the Las Vegas Aces? Can't believe nobody has thought of that.

Oh and also, they should keep the elephant mascot/logo out of respect for the all-you-can-eat buffets littered throughout the city.

This gotta be like the 15th time this has been said in this thread. 
 

The Las Vegas Aces is the Las Vegas WNBA team. They aren’t going to have 2 sports franchises in the same city with the same team name. 

[Amazing Larry]

3 hours ago, TroutField said:

This gotta be like the 15th time this has been said in this thread. 
 

The Las Vegas Aces is the Las Vegas WNBA team. They aren’t going to have 2 sports franchises in the same city with the same team name. 

Also there is the Reno Aces who I’m sure have trademark rights for any franchise attempting to use that name. 

[Duren, Duren]

And to think of the stability they had in Philadelphia. Connie Mack, surreal,  managing for fifty years. Nine pennants, five world series, retired at age 87. 

Then becoming a virtual Yankee farm team in Kansas City in the fifties in  before transitioning into the Charlie Finley show in Oakland in the late sixties. And a three peat champion a few years later. 

Some great teams in the eighties, steroid infamy in the nineties. Moneyball after, and since then seemingly a yearly crisis of one sort of another. 

Vegas will be another colorful stop for the franchise most likely. I may even go to a game or two when they play the Angels. I go to Vegas every couple of years but a baseball game there would be a change of pace. 

 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

5 hours ago, CaliAngel said:

What if they keep the A on the cap, so people can still call them the A's, but instead of the Athletics they change the name to the Las Vegas Aces? Can't believe nobody has thought of that.

Oh and also, they should keep the elephant mascot/logo out of respect for the all-you-can-eat buffets littered throughout the city.

For the 50th time: ACES IS ALREADY TAKEN. It's our WNBA team.

[REDneck]

How bout the Aces of diamonds????

[angelsfan100]

18 hours ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

As illustrated, it probably wouldn't. Even if they found a way, like how they put graphics on a curved roof over Fremont Street, it would be at such an extreme angle that it would be virtually useless to anyone sitting on the first base side.

Another observation that came from these illustrations is that there is no apparent seating in left field. I can't imagine that many people willingly standing for an entire baseball game 

Interesting. I'm curious as someone from Vegas would you be against the As building a new stadium?

[T.G.]

How about changing the name of the A's to Aces?

[CaliAngel]

17 hours ago, T.G. said:

How about changing the name of the A's to Aces?

Totally agree.

That way they keep the A'th logo on the cap and people could still call them the A'th.

At the exit of the all you can eat buffet in left field there should be a rope connected to an elephant horn sound drop, like the bell you ring at Arby's when you walk out, and it goes off throughout the stadium letting everyone know you were satisfied with your meal.

[James]

5 minutes ago, CaliAngel said:

Totally agree.

That way they could keep the A'th logo on the cap and people still would call them the A'th.

Its a no brainer. 

[Tank]

23 hours ago, T.G. said:

How about changing the name of the A's to Aces?

came here to suggest the same thing.

seems like a natural and logical move.

[Blarg]

They could keep the A and go with Las Vegas Asses and switch out their mascot to either a donkey or a stripper. 

[TroutField]

1 hour ago, Blarg said:

They could keep the A and go with Las Vegas Asses and switch out their mascot to either a donkey or a stripper. 

How about a donkey AND a stripper? 

[Blarg]

8 minutes ago, TroutField said:

How about a donkey AND a stripper? 

They would have to move to Tijuana for that. 

[Dtwncbad]

The WNBA team could also just change their name to the Airballs.  Then they could market the game experience as “come see airballs and broads.”

Then AirBnB steps up for naming rights to the arena. . .

Schedule as many homes games as possible on Tuesdays to promote Taco Tuesdays, etc.  Maybe get creative like the tacos come with more and more cheese as the game progresses, etc.

It all comes together logically pretty quickly.

Edited March 13 by Dtwncbad

[Vegas Halo Fan]

On 3/11/2024 at 11:34 AM, REDneck said:

How bout the Aces of diamonds????

Might be hard to fit that on the uniform.

[Tank]

1 hour ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

Might be hard to fit that on the uniform.

Nike executives: challenge accepted.

[Taylor]

Another thread, another instance of CaliAngel getting owned

[jeskola]

On 3/11/2024 at 11:03 AM, Duren, Duren said:

And to think of the stability they had in Philadelphia.

 

You can't think of that but you are good at reading wikipedia. Ahh the good ol days of 1901!

[Redondo]

Thousands of Athletics fans gathered in the Coliseum's south parking lot before Thursday night's Opening Day game against the Cleveland Guardians to try out a new way of displaying their displeasure with the team's ownership: showing up but staying away.

In what might be the beginning of the team's final season in Oakland, fans waved hundreds of "SELL" flags, ate free tacos and listened to live music. What most of them didn't do was enter the stadium to watch the game, choosing to continue the party through the night by watching the game on a blowup projection screen. The announced crowd for the game -- 13,522.

"This will be the first time since 2006 that I've missed Opening Day," said Jorge Leon, the president of the Oakland 68s, an influential fan group. "Opening Day used to be a holiday for all of us. We'd take the day off and celebrate from 11 a.m. to the first pitch. This is hard."

 

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39830102/a-fans-protest-move-watching-opener-parking-lot

[Taylor]

48 minutes ago, Redondo said:

Thousands of Athletics fans gathered in the Coliseum's south parking lot before Thursday night's Opening Day game against the Cleveland Guardians to try out a new way of displaying their displeasure with the team's ownership: showing up but staying away.

In what might be the beginning of the team's final season in Oakland, fans waved hundreds of "SELL" flags, ate free tacos and listened to live music. What most of them didn't do was enter the stadium to watch the game, choosing to continue the party through the night by watching the game on a blowup projection screen. The announced crowd for the game -- 13,522.

"This will be the first time since 2006 that I've missed Opening Day," said Jorge Leon, the president of the Oakland 68s, an influential fan group. "Opening Day used to be a holiday for all of us. We'd take the day off and celebrate from 11 a.m. to the first pitch. This is hard."

 

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39830102/a-fans-protest-move-watching-opener-parking-lot

[Jeremiah]

2 hours ago, Redondo said:

Thousands of Athletics fans gathered in the Coliseum's south parking lot before Thursday night's Opening Day game against the Cleveland Guardians to try out a new way of displaying their displeasure with the team's ownership: showing up but staying away.

In what might be the beginning of the team's final season in Oakland, fans waved hundreds of "SELL" flags, ate free tacos and listened to live music. What most of them didn't do was enter the stadium to watch the game, choosing to continue the party through the night by watching the game on a blowup projection screen. The announced crowd for the game -- 13,522.

"This will be the first time since 2006 that I've missed Opening Day," said Jorge Leon, the president of the Oakland 68s, an influential fan group. "Opening Day used to be a holiday for all of us. We'd take the day off and celebrate from 11 a.m. to the first pitch. This is hard."

 

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39830102/a-fans-protest-move-watching-opener-parking-lot

I hope this continues to get negative coverage for the team and the league. It’s a really bad look for them to take away a team that has a winning history over its nearly 60 years there. It’s hard to see that right now, but when Walter Haas owned the team (80’s and early 90’s), they spent on the right FA’s, developed young players, and kept their core guys around. Because of that they drew fans. In an area that boasted around 4M residents at the time, they were pulling in 2.5M-3M per season. The population there has doubled in size since then. For perspective, the Las Vegas area boasts about 3M total residents. They can be, and have been, very successful in Oakland with competent leadership. It’s just the last three owners have run the team like Jackie Autry ran the Angels, like a small-market team. I don’t like making fun of this or of the fans for protesting in their way because this can happen to any team that isn’t the Yankees, Red Sox, or Dodgers. I hope they find a way to keep the team there.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

On 3/11/2024 at 3:26 PM, angelsfan100 said:

Interesting. I'm curious as someone from Vegas would you be against the As building a new stadium?

I don't know how you might draw that conclusion from what I said.

The Tropicana closes for good at noon on April 2.

Edited March 30 by Vegas Halo Fan

[Amazing Larry]

On 3/29/2024 at 6:47 AM, Taylor said:

One of my favorite gifs. 

[Redondo]

The city of Oakland will present Athletics ownership with an offer to extend the team's lease that includes a five-year contract with an opt-out after three years, as well as a requirement the team pays a $97 million "extension fee," according to document obtained by ESPN and KGO-TV in San Francisco on Saturday.

The team and the city will meet Tuesday, the third formal meeting between the two sides since the Athletics received unanimous approval from major league owners to move the franchise to Las Vegas.

The team is hoping its stadium in Las Vegas, on the site of the soon-to-be-demolished Tropicana Casino and Resort, will be completed in time to open the 2028 season. With the Coliseum lease expiring at the end of this season, that leaves at least a three-year gap the Athletics and Major League Baseball need to fill.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39843426/oakland-present-athletics-ownership-lease-extension