(07-14-2021 12:51 AM)DawgNBama Wrote:  One important thing to remember here is how many home dates an MLB team has: 81. Unlike the Raiders who could draw fans from the outskirts of Los Angeles, if not from LA itself, IMHO, the A's couldn't do that on a regular basis because baseball is played over several days, not just one game a week. That's why I'm not too keen on Las Vegas as being an option for the A's.

Now Portland, on the other hand, wouldn't have to rely on a distant metro to pump up a team's attendance, IMO, because Portland is not built as a tourist mecca like Las Vegas is. The Raiders can make Las Vegas work because they can market themselves to suburbs on LA's outskirts to come to the game in a week. Could the Raiders do that if they had to play night after night in the same week??? No, IMHO.

The Las Vegas Golden Knights are different from MLB as well in that they have a much smaller arena to fill up (20,000 max probably) compared to a 30,000 to 40,000 seat baseball stadium.

To me, the A's choices are either stay in Oakland or move to Portland, Oregon.