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Athletics Relocation podcast Daniel Dullum Sat May 24, 2025: A’s efforts to try and avoid tariffs on construction costs for Vegas ballpark

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Construction starts on the new Athletics ballpark as crews drill caissons for the foundation and grinding rock piles on the former Tropicana site on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images

Athletics Relocation podcast Daniel Dullum Sat May 24, 2025:

#1 The Athletics are trying to avoid tariff costs for imported materials that could add to the price tag of constructing the Las Vegas ballpark on the former Tropicana Hotel and Casino site.

#2 A’s President Marc Badain and CAA Icon vice president Todd Bishop have a plan that would offset costs that increase the price of constructing the park from imported good and materials from foreign parts and materials.

#3 Badain and Bishop addressed a breakfast gathering at NAIOP at The Orleans Hotel which was held by an commercial real estate industry provider. Badain said he wasn’t sure how the tariffs would impact stadium costs but did outline three ways to solve costs.

#4 Badain said the first move was to source materials and products domestically, where Badain and the A’s aren’t able to secure items needed to prevent tariff costs Badain said he’s trying to lock items into place before the costs climb further.

#5 While grading work started in April for the nine acre ballpark at Tropicana and Las Vegas Blvd Bishop said he anticipates the foundation permit will give them the green light to begin construction towards deep foundations for the new park.

Daniel Dullum does the A’s Relocation podcasts weekends at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Athletics Relocation podcast with Daniel Dullum: Did fans and media put the pressure on Kaval to eventually resign?

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Outgoing Athletics president David Kaval resigned this week and said he would seek other ventures and will remain living in California (file photo Oakland Athletics)

On the Athletics Relocation podcast with Daniel Dullum:

#1 The reaction of the resignation of A’s president David Kaval is one of good riddance in commentaries on social media, main stream media and by former Oakland A’s fans.

#2 Kaval had once said that the A’s are rooted in Oakland when all of that changed in June 2023 when Kaval announced the A’s had a binding deal to move to Las Vegas that was pretty much the beginning of the end of any hope to stay in Oakland but also Kaval is remembered for rubber stamping the idea rather resigning right then and there instead of doing it after Christmas 2024.

#3 Daniel, do you feel the resignation of Kaval was caused by all the last two years of criticism from fans, media, MLB fans around the country, social media, the heart break of the A’s moving out of Oakland and that Kaval was the face of this move.

#4 To what degree does the announcement have a shock value or are people really surprised at all considering the way this relocation had been handled. No money for the construction costs have been announced for the Vegas ballpark as of yet. Did owner John Fisher’s role in all of this and getting negative reaction from the fans and media prove too much for Kaval where he just really had no choice but to walk away?

#5 Fisher family business associate Sandy Dean who had spoke at multiple Las Vegas Stadium Authority meetings in helping cement the financial plans to finance the Vegas ballpark will take over Kaval’s job as team president.

Daniel Dullum does the Athletics Relocation podcasts each Sunday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com