(01-22-2017 12:11 PM)Love and Honor Wrote:  The Coliseum is a lost cause imo, it's a dump in an iffy location. If they build a new ballpark on surrounding parking lots I think they'll be fine. Ideally they'd build a new one in downtown Oakland, which from what I've read is becoming the 'next Brooklyn' with how insanely expensive San Francisco is.

Hope that Oakland doesn't lose the A's, they just lost the Raiders and the Warriors are moving across the bay to San Francisco in a few years. So many teams in baseball have unnecessarily built new ballparks the last few decades (Tigers, Yankees, now the Braves and maybe the Rangers), yet one of them that actually needs one badly hasn't been able to get it done.

While it'd suck to lose the A's, they are a small market team as long as they stay in the EB, at least with the Giants still around. Maybe Portland would be a better location for them, which would at least give them all of Oregon as well as keep them close to their old stomping grounds. Or maybe Vancouver.