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Oakland A’s Relocation podcast with Daniel Dullum: Nevada looking to spend more public money on Warner Bros Studios instead of public Schools; Like A’s ballpark a new tax will be created for studios

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Alexander Marks from Schools over Stadiums (above photo) and Chris Daly, political director of the Nevada State Education Association, attended the brief stadium board meeting to argue that the hiring of the LVCVA by the stadium board was a clear conflict that has been par for the course in a government process that saw the A’s receive the government money in lightning speed. Photo credit: Hugh Byrne/LVSportsBiz.com

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#1 According to Republican Governor Joe Lambardo saying Democrats” have been lying to Nevada families in need about free school meals for weeks.” Lombardo said that parents should see his open letter about free school meals. Lombardo is trying to show that the state is doing something with public money to help schools at the same time using public money for the A’s ballpark.

#2 On Tuesday Schools over Stadiums representative Alexander Marks said that while Lombardo claims he’s transparent then why does he refuse speak to the press about the free school meals budget when they’ve asked for public comment proves the point that the State of Nevada and the Lombardo are not being transparent.

#3 Also on Tuesday it was announced that a Nevada judge will rule if it’s legal to earmark $380 million in public funds to help fund the Las Vegas A’s ballpark on Las Vegas Blvd and Tropicana.

#4 Marks writes on X Tuesday that if the State of Nevada were to a write movie about having a fully funded school system with 20 students per class it would be a like a rated F movie that requires billionaires to build their own studios without public money after news broke that Warner Bros wants to build studios in Vegas if the Nevada State Legislature approves a film tax for the studios. More public money being used for studios and stadiums instead of public schools.

#5 Marks also mentioned Las Vegas Stadium Authority CEO Steven Hill in last week’s meeting regarding the financial progress of the A’s paying for their share of the ballpark that “We’re rounding third and headed for home. There are not many open issues left.” Marks countered by writing on Schools over Stadiums X page, “Except for financing, final renderings, actual stadium location, the constitutional lawsuit, the 2026 referendum…yup very few open issues left”

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Oakland A’s Relocation podcast: Nevada Judge says A’s can’t stop Schools over Stadiums petition drive

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Nevada District Court Judge Kristin Luis ruled last week that the Oakland A’s cannot get involved in the Schools over Stadiums vs. State of Nevada lawsuit over stopping the use of public money for an Oakland A’s Tropicana ballpark on the Las Vegas Strip. (photo from Judge Kristin Luis facebook page)

Oakland A’s Relocation podcast with Daniel Dullum:

#1 Nevada District Judge Kristin Luis ruled that the Oakland A’s request to get involved in the lawsuit between the Nevada State Teachers Union and State of Nevada was denied by Luis. The A’s were told last week that the State of Nevada can work out the case on it’s own.

#2 Judge Luis said that the state can work out their issues and that the A’s who are a private for profit organization saying the A’s “represents its own presumably profit-driven interests, will unduly expand the controversy.”

#3 The A’s argued that timelines to get the stadium under construction is at hand. The Tropicana where the A’s want to build on the strip. The plan in October is to start construction on the Tropicana property and in April 2025 to implode the remaining towers. If Schools Over Stadiums prevails with getting the petition drive to put an initiative on the November 2025 ballot to stop the $380 million public funding for the ballpark.

#4 A’s owner John Fisher said he wants have the stadium ready by April 2028. The cost of the stadium is #1.5 billion and the State of Nevada is putting up $380 million towards the park. Fisher is suppose to come up with $500 million of his share of the construction costs no word if that’s happened yet. He hired a Los Angeles investment firm to look for investors no news on that either.

#5 The Las Vegas Stadium Authority have scheduled a meeting for July 18th. Under the State of Nevada SB1 the authorization for the public funding could expire by the end of the year if the A’s have not presented a development and lease agreement in 18 months. That’s eight months ago since MLB approved the A’s move to Las Vegas by a full owners vote in December with 10 months remaining.

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Oakland A’s Relocation podcast with Daniel Dullum: Source-Oakland Mayor will have to resign over FBI raid and investigation

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Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home was raided by the FBI on Thu Jun 20, 2024. Agents were seen walking out with ice chest size cases. It’s speculated that they were searching for documents related to propriety of campaign contributions. Thao or her office had no comment regarding the raid. (San Francisco Chronicle photo)

Oakland A’s Relocation podcast with Daniel:

#1Daniel Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home was raided by FBI agents Thursday morning. Reporters on the scene asked agents present what was the reason for the raid they didn’t reply. Miles away in Oakland a dozen agents raided the homes of president and CEO David Duong of Cal Waste Solutions and his son Andy Duong. The City of Oakland in the past had investigated Cal Water Solutions over ownership of campaign contributions that went to Thao and other elected officials.

#2 Teresa Hoang who spoke to the press and is a staff member at Cal Waste Solutions said that they are confident that they’ll be cleared from any wrong doing at the conclusion of the investigation. Mayor Thao’s last and latest involvement with the Oakland A’s was attempt at an interim deal to keep the A’s at the Oakland Coliseum that fell apart after the A’s declined to pay $97million for three years rent between 2025-27. The Coliseum Joint Authority and the City dropped the price to $60 million and the A’s declined again and made a deal with Sacramento and Sacramento Rivercats owner Vivek Ranadive.

#3 Daniel, talk about the economic damage moving the Oakland A’s will do to not only the City of Oakland and the East Bay but it also impacts the market share of the Bay Area being the sixth largest market?

#4 Even at this point right now there is still an uncertainty that this move to Las Vegas will even go through in the first place. Will A’s owner John Fisher be able to find those minority investors that the Los Angeles investment firm he hired be able to come through so far just like in Las Vegas no one has stepped up.

#5 The A’s will be playing rent free at Sutter Health Field but for how long? The A’s situation needs to be resolved by closing in of April 2025 which is the target date for putting shovels in the ground in Las Vegas if they want to meet the April 2028 opening of the new park deadline.

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Oakland A’s Relocation podcast with Daniel Dullum: A’s might sell their half of Coliseum to AASEG; No use for A’s since their leaving Oakland

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Sky view look at the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum Complex in Oakland which the property has been purchased 50-50 by the Oakland A’s and the other half by the African American Sports and Entertainment Group (photo by ABC Sky 7 News)

On the Oakland A’s podcast with Daniel Dullum:

#1 Things are changing quickly at the Oakland Coliseum as East Bay developer African American Sports and Entertainment Group or AASEG will be buying 50% of the Oakland Coliseum property from the city of Oakland at the cost of $105 million. The Oakland A’s are leaving the Coliseum for Sacramento after they complete the 2024 season on September 30th.

#2 For the city of Oakland the money is considered a Godsend as the city is bleeding in budget deficits to the tune of $177 million. The $105 will be a good comb over to save city services and job cuts.

#3 AASEG will have half ownership that includes the Oakland Arena. The Arena has been hosting Disney Ice Shows and concerts. There is no doubt that AASEG will put the arena to good use. Once it takes over. They were hoping for a WNBA team but with San Francisco getting a WNBA team that may not happen now.

#4 With the departures of the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas, the Oakland A’s to Sacramento and later to Las Vegas, and Golden State Warriors to San Francisco AASAEG hopes to bring back some life back to both the Arena and the Oakland Coliseum. The Oakland Roots and Oakland Soul soccer teams plan to share the Coliseum for pro soccer in 2025. The big questions how much the A’s will go along with some of AASEG’s dreams, plans and ideas?

#5 The city originally want to sell the entire site to the A’s. The A’s were on board at the time of buying the Coliseum in whole but once they decided to move to Las Vegas they purchased just half of the Coliseum. The big question now lies with AASEG owning half of the Coliseum property and the A’s the other half and if Las Vegas and Sacramento falls through could the Coliseum get back into the picture again?

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

Oakland A’s Relocation podcast: Was Nevada Court’s Decision to turn down Schools over Stadiums the wrong ruling? Fisher and A’s make final payment on Coliseum property

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The Oakland A’s proposed rendering of the Armadillo ballpark located at the Tropicana site at Tropicana and Las Vegas Blvd on the Las Vegas Strip (AP News photo)

Oakland A’s Relocation podcast with Daniel Dullum:

#1 It took two court hearings at the Nevada Supreme Court of Appeals for Schools over Stadiums to be rejected but what were the reasons the court rejected the stopping of SB1 a initiative by Schools over Stadiums to stop the public funding of a Las Vegas A’s Tropicana Stadium?

#2 The court once again ruled that the language to have a ballot measure reject the public funding was “confusing” and “legally deficient” what makes this court decision questionable is that it took five justices to rule on it on a split vote with one judge dissenting.

#3 Behind closed doors you can only imagine, guess but can not prove that the court was under pressure from Nevada governor Joe Lombardo and the strongest union in Las Vegas the Culinary union to name one of the unions to make sure this petition never sees the light of day.

#4 Justice Patricia Lee concurred in her ruling saying saying the petition was “inadequate” and violated Nevada’s constitution because Schools over Stadiums “failed to put forth a full text of the measure proposed.”

#5 Schools over Stadiums countered by saying that they plan to continue the fight the public funding of SB1 for an A’s ballpark at the Tropicana for the 2026 election. Schools over Stadiums said they are organizing another constitutional challenge to SB1.

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

Oakland A’s Relocation podcast with Daniel Dullum: Oakland will never be the City of Champions again; More fans staying away from 2024 home games vs.2023

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Three time World Champions the 1974 Oakland A’s top row left to right Rollie Fingers, Joe Rudi, Vida Blue, second row left to right Reggie Jackson, owner Charlie Finley, Gene Tenace, and third row bottom Sal Bando, Catfish Hunter and Campy Campaneris (Sports Illustrated 1974 photo)

On the Oakland A’s Relocation podcast with Daniel:

#1 For almost a year now the Oakland A’s who announced they had a binding agreement at the Rio in Las Vegas it was the beginning of would be the end of Oakland sports. The NBA’s Golden State Warriors were gone and the Oakland Raiders left for Vegas from the looks of it Daniel the Oakland Coliseum and the City of Oakland will never see a top line professional sports team again as MLB had made it clear they want out of Oakland.

#2 In the 1970s when the A’s won three straight world Championships in a row no one would have dreamed that the A’s would even consider moving out of Oakland and that possibility came in 1977 and 1978 when the A’s within a whisker of moving the team to Denver and being owned by Marvin Davis.

#3 in 1977 the Oakland Coliseum Joint Authority filed a law suit against former A’s owner Charlie Finley saying that Finley had ten more years left on the Coliseum lease. January 23, 1978 Davis ended negotiating with the City of Oakland and the A’s would remain in Oakland.

#4 The appeal for new language on the Nevada petition to stop public funding or SB1 for an Las Vegas A’s ballpark on the Las Vegas strip still no word from the Nevada Court of Appeals. If approved Schools over Stadiums would have until the end of June a month and half away to gather 102,000 signatures to get the measure on the ballot for the Nov 2024 election.

#5 Attendance for A’s home games in Oakland and to no ones surprised down from last year through the first 21 games of the season as reported during the Rangers-A’s doubleheader last Wednesday. The A’s top attendance was on opening day at 13,500 and their lowest crowd was less than 2900 on Monday night. Comparing it to last season’s opener which had 25,000 fans.

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Oakland A’s Relocation podcast with Daniel Dullum: A’s hope LA firm can find investors who can come up with $500 million for Vegas ballpark

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Rendering of the Sydney style Opera House ballpark that would take up nine acres at the old Tropicana Hotel and Casino location at Tropicana and Las Vegas Blvd. Construction is scheduled to start in April 2025 (Renderings from the Oakland A’s)

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#1 The Oakland A’s have hired Los Angeles investor Galatioto Sports Partners to help look for one or more private investors. The investors are trying to help raise $500 million of A’s owner John Fisher’s share of he construction costs for the Las Vegas ballpark.

#2 Daniel, the plan is to have the ballpark sit on nine acres of the 35 acres at the Tropicana. Fisher needs to come up with $500 million of $1.5 billion for his share of he costs and the A’s are counting on Galatioto Sports Partners to find enough investors to make those payments. If that happens 42% of the team’s ownership costs will be financially bought up closing in on half of he value of the team.

#3 Galatioto Sports Partners has helped over 100 sports financing deals and that includes the sale of the Los Angeles Angels owner Arte Moreno in 2004 who bought the team from Walt Disney Co., Broadcom co-founder Henry Samueli and his wife who own the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in 2005 also had help from the partnership. While their reputation is solid some minority partners might come in saying they’ll invest only if they have say in running the club. That might not be acceptable for Fisher under those circumstances.

#4 The Tropicana Hotel and Casino who closed for business in March is set for demolishment in April 2025. Fisher wants to make certain that the $500 million of the $1.5 billion towards stadium construction costs will be paid by investors who could very well own up to 42% of the club.

#5 Written into the agreement is Flip Tax that would require Fisher to pay 20% tax on the full price of the team in the event Fisher decides to sell the club before 2028.

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Oakland A’s Relocation podcast with Daniel Dullum: Are there any comparisons between the Coyotes move to the A’s relocation?

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The Arizona Coyotes of the NHL will soon make their new home at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City for the 2024-25 NHL season as they played their last game in Tempe Arizona on Thu Apr 17, 2024. The relocation was immediate as opposed to the Oakland A’s who will finish (photo by the Utah Jazz)

On the Oakland A’s Relocation podcast with Daniel:

#1 Daniel, you covered the NHL Arizona Coyotes for years and they’re final game was on Wednesday night in a 5-2 in at Mullet Arena in Tempe which was the final and last game for the Coyotes as they will now move to Salt Lake City. It was a heartbreaking scene how foretelling is this when the Oakland A’s finally play their final game at Oakland Coliseum later this season?

#2 Daniel, You take a look at the fans in Arizona they didn’t have plans to do anything as this deal was floated by the NHL and the owner of the Utah Jazz Ryan Smith wasted no time and took the opportunity to purchase and move the Coyotes with little hesitation.

#3 Daniel, in the Coyotes move they did it a week’s time or less with very little warning. Giving Coyotes fans no time to protest, no time for a reverse boycott, and after the game they basically backed up the truck and called it a day. The feeling for the Coyotes fans that their team was relocating was something of a shock and a lot of heartbreak.

#4 The NHL team in Salt Lake City will be called Utah and no nickname has been discussed yet. They’re last team they had was a minor league AHL team called the Golden Eagles. The Eagles name in the AHL is now the Colorado Eagles. This won’t be a problem for the A’s as the A’s will be known as the A’s in Sacramento and Las Vegas.

#5 The shock value is the thing that everybody is talking about in Arizona that this could happen so fast that a team can relocate that quickly with almost little notice. For the Oakland A’s fans, employees, front office, media and even the players there is a percentage of them will not be going to Sacramento with the A’s when they make the trip north. But as opposed to the Coyotes staff and employees the A’s personnel and contractors have this season to get ready for the layoff and move to Sacramento by season’s end.

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Oakland A’s Relocation podcast with Daniel Dullum: A’s fans have smooth boycott before opener at Coliseum

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A sea of humanity some 20,000 fans take to the Oakland Coliseum parking lot for Thu Mar 28, 2024 before the Cleveland Guardians and Oakland A’s opening night contest (Bay Area News Group News photo)

On the Oakland A’s Relocation podcast with Daniel Dullum:

#1 Daniel, Oakland A’s fans who participated in the opening night boycott at the Oakland Coliseum went on without a hitch. There was no one called a “scab” for coming into the ballpark or no harassment complaints by anyone protesting in the parking lot.

#2 Matter of fact some 20,000 fans were staying in the parking lot throughout Thursday night’s opening night at the Coliseum. They paid for the parking but didn’t come into the park as promised.

#3 The announced attendance was 13,522 at the Oakland Coliseum for paid tickets. The message was clear from fans in the lot they want to A’s owner John Fisher to sell the team but as Fisher himself said many times the team is not for sale and the push to get to Las Vegas is on.

#4 Still as reporters, fans and those who are insiders at the Coliseum still question when will John Fisher come up with his share of the construction costs and present a blue print plan that makes sense to build a nine acre ballpark on the Tropicana site?

#5 $30,000 was raised for Schools over Stadiums during Thursday’s boycott at the Oakland Coliseum. One of the fans unnamed stepped up and said if $100,000 was raised at the boycott he would match that donation in the Schools over Stadiums legal fees to get language on the petition approved by the appeals judge to get an initiative on the Nov 2024 ballot to stop the public funding of the A’s Las Vegas ballpark. Schools over Stadiums has until Jun 1st to get over 102,000 signatures to get the initiative on the ballot.

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Oakland A’s relocation podcast with Daniel Dullum: A’s meet with Coliseum Authority next week on April 2

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Oakland A’s officials are to meet with the Oakland Coliseum Joint Authority on Tue Apr 2, 2024 at the Oakland Coliseum (AP News file photo)

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On the A’s podcast with Daniel:

#1 Sources are saying the Oakland A’s are no longer accepting comments from fans or the public on what their plans are for financing the Las Vegas Tropicana and other than the artists rendition of the Sydney Opera House ballpark people want to see the blue prints.

#2 Also it was reported that the Las Vegas community, businesses, and casinos who have been approached about becoming minority owners of the A’s have not taken the bait and have expressed no interest in entering a business with the A’s after observing how the stadium project has been handled.

#3 The A’s have tuned off their X comments page so the public cannot write to them with questions and comments as to what is happening with the relocation of the A’s. As of yet the A’s still have not decided where they will play for the 2025-27 seasons and have a scheduled meeting with the Oakland Coliseum Joint Authority on Tue Apr 2.

#4 Daniel with there being no tangible renderings and blue prints to back it up and no financing since the unveiling of the Sydney Opera House style ballpark A’s fans in both Las Vegas and Oakland are trying to find out what the A’s plans are and have not got a response.

#5 Vegas fans and the business community are really getting turned off after a Wall Street Journal article came out with a headline that read “The Oakland A’s have plans for a new home in Vegas. Now they need a plan to get there.” As this drags out and there is no financing things are becoming more doubtful if this will ever get off the ground.

Daniel does the Oakland A’s Relocation podcasts each Friday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com