Could Sacramento make a play for the A’s AND the Earthquakes?

Could Sacramento make a play for the A’s AND the Earthquakes?

the top of the hour so what you got I had a Moment of semic clarity last night I was sitting outside watching the uh Stanley Cup Final was this pre or post post ear irrigation that’s where I think the clarity came from friend was just I could I I could hear clearly some stuff around in there I did maybe knocked a a brain Celler too loose yeah so I’m goingon to do a one of my patented big leadin here because I this is this is a sensitive topic for a lot of people and understandably so I have fully fallen in love with the Oakland A’s fan base and what they’re going through and it is no small part because of what we went through with the Sacramento Kings there’s no doubt that there’s a kinship there and I believe the Oakland A belong in Oakland full stop no butt I want to make that clear the Oakland Athletics belong in Oakland John fiser is a snake and has no business owning any pro sports franchise he owns the San Jose Earthquakes of the MLS of MLS not the keep doing that they’re happy with him there too oh no but I get your point they’re not they’re routinely at the bottom of attendance they’re routinely at the bottom of payroll at or near he has run the earthquakes I think slightly better than the A’s in the sense that he hasn’t run them completely into the ground they’re just like on the surface of the ground he doesn’t belong in Pro Sports so I I I lead into that by saying the idea of franchise is moving sucks and the more and more I get into the whole thing and learn I don’t know I don’t know that there is a feasible path for the A’s to stay in Oakland and ultimately for the earthquakes to stay in San Jose that’s another thing that’s kind of Brewing if Fishers in or out so I thought well okay what if we look at this from a completely different angle I don’t think Vegas is going to happen I’ve said that from the beginning I don’t think Vegas is going to happen that thing is is is on sh Shaky Ground if there ever was one there are funding issues all over the place they still don’t have the 325 million we’ll find out this summer if they’re going to get that or not there’s a lot of political backlash on that now that’s been building the appetite for the A’s in Las Vegas is next to nothing that’s coming not just from fans out there but from the media guys we know that talk to them every single day they want an expansion Club they don’t want anything to do with John fiser they want their own team and by the way they have the Aces and they have the Raiders and they have the the golden knights which own that town and and oh by the way it’s Vegas they have a lot of other things John fiser has been trying to raise money to take care of his part of the stadium by selling Equity shares in the team but his valuation is reportedly somewhere near $3 billion when the team itself is in the one billion is range and oh by the way that’s if you get controlling interest again not to get too deep in the weeds with you guys but if you’re selling the Sacramento Kings for3 billion that’s three billion that’s the price for controlling interest shares of the team if you don’t have control of the team you’re in effect an investor in the team the Sacramento Kings have a bunch of minority owners VX the the the chairman there’s a there’s a you know 10 15 20 I can’t ever keep track owners underneath I heard many times you know there’s a saying amongst a lot of the minority owners that they are glorified season ticket holders they have no input they have no say they have no there there there is not a council like The Fellowship of the Ring when it comes to the Kings it is VC and that’s it doesn’t mean they don’t have meetings doesn’t mean they don’t have Capital calls where they need to raise money to buy the thing to do the this that they’re business partners but thec controls the team 100,000 trillion billion percent that’s worth $3 billion being one of the glorified season ticket holders that’s worth significantly less I say that because John fiser is so out of line with what he’s reportedly asking for for these Equity shares it’s a reason why you haven’t heard like well Fred Smith has bought in for blle why not just kill off the whole thing at once why not just swoop in and go to John Fisher and say dude let’s just take care of this you don’t want to be in this business man people hate you they straight hate you we want to buy you out and we want to buy you completely out of sports we want to buy the A’s and we want to buy the earthquakes whoa want to buy them both now is there a city somewhere that has no major league baseball team and has no major league soccer team keep in mind the MLS team is actually a big reason why this could be incredibly interesting the World Cup is about to come here in the next year or two year two two years right Chris 2026 2026 the last time the World Cup was in the United States basically launched MLS it it it there is a huge huge which is is why I couldn’t believe they signed the deal with Apple there was a huge influx of soccer fans you if the World Cup bounce man it happens valuations for these MLS teams are about to absolutely go crazy and you already have I think one I think lafc is it is worth a billion dollars is in the billion dollar club they’re about to be the majority a billion or above so if you have the ability to go to John Fischer and say hey dude I don’t want the eggs I want the whole thing and you go okay well where are you going to put well if it was my choice I would say put the a in keep the A’s in Oakland keep the earthquakes in San Jose but that’s not going to be the incentive the incentive would be if you were putting together an ownership group to do that would be bring them up here the earthquakes become the Republic the Republic gets their entry into MLS you don’t have the territorial issues you would have had anyways you don’t have to put up the billion dollars and in Sacramento there is a necessity we’re already looking at one outdoor stadium that is I know Republic fans hate hearing this but this part I know this part I can speak on all this other stuff and let me be very very uh uh transparent by the way it is public knowledge that I work with some people that do things like this this is not I don’t know anything this is me spitball what I can speak on is the outdoor stadium that Kevin Nagel has been working on forever is on the head of a pin ready to go and I know it’s been that way for a while but I’m just telling you I’ve seen it it’s it’s that it’s that close now if you were able to take for example The Rail Yards which has been there forever drv is the the company that owns it Larry Kelly his son Denton and those folks good people and you’re able to say okay we’re going to take the Rail Yards we’re going to pop two stadiums in there we’re going to make an entertainment and sports District we’re going to build a baseball stadium and we’re going to build a soccer stadium we’re going to put them both which by the way they would fit on that Rail Yards property and part of that is we’re going to partner up now I’m pretty sure there’s at least one University in town that would love to have a place to play their football games Stingers up and I know that there are some people in this town with resources that have very close relationships with sax State especially with their new president whose late brother by the way rest in peace was one of the figureheads that nobody knows or unless you were involved you don’t know one of the leading uh uh uh guys behind the scenes when it came to uh think big and playing to win and that whole thing with the mayor’s office was saving the team so these everybody kind of thinks that way I think there’s a a very I don’t know if you remember in The Avengers when uh uh Benedict cumberbatch’s character held up the uh the the the number one to Iron Man saying this is your one chance out of whatever it was I think it’s like I think I think there’s a possible opening here I think John Fischer’s vulnerable well that seems true I think he has been bopped around like a pinball these guys don’t even have their social media open for comments they don’t show up they’re Persona NG grada and they’re looking at Las Vegas and they’re going holy crap nobody wants us there either we’re in limbo right now they don’t have the money they’re not getting the money they’re not getting the political support and if you remember the playbook for the malof it was it’s rats trying to escape the maze cut off their exits keep cutting off their exits and eventually they’re going to throw up their hands remember the kings were never for sale until they sold to Seattle I feel like this is an opportunity here okay kill both birds with one stone bring them here get John fiser out of the sports business and you’re good last thing and then we’ll we’ll we’ll car this questions for you I I will because this is a Whopper I will finish this way I am 100% aware one trillion per aware of the proceed hypocrisy in saying the A’s belong in Oakland oh by the way the San Jose Earthquakes have a ton of they have fans die hards yeah I’m just saying there’s people that does yeah yeah and saying oh we’re GNA relocate the both of you up here haha I I only care about them moving unless it’s to Sacramento I hate that plee I started this monologue by saying the A’s belong in Oakland and that’s what should happen what I am saying is I also think that Santa Claus should be real and uh I should have married Charlie th it didn’t happen no offense was if the A’s are not going to stay in Oakland if the San Jose Earthquakes are going to continue to toil in obscurity and lameness because John fiser owns them I would like to think if you pulled A’s fans and you said here’s the choice you can lose the A’s outright to Las Vegas or Salt Lake City and John fiser takes the A’s and everything with them and goes or the A’s move whatever 80 miles east up to Sacramento you have a new ownership you keep the uniforms you keep everything you’re going to be driving up here the same way we drove down there and ultimately and I know this seems kind of cheeseball but I would absolutely and if that means that you do some sort of hybrid where they’re not the the Sacramento A’s were they’re the Northern California you do something to to I know I know I just I I I feel really sensitive about the a fans this is only a viable option if you get John fiser off the chessboard and you’re and it’s a choice between Sacramento or Vegas Salt Lake that’s what I would present to a stand some of which would honestly say I don’t care if it’s not Oakland it’s nowhere and I get it but I would like to think that a majority of the fan base would say I don’t like them leaving Oakland at all whether it’s Sacramento or anywhere else but if you had he had to have me choose between Sacramento and brand new ownership or Salt Lake or Vegas and John fiser I’d probably take Sacramento and new ownership if that’s the only play left on the board to keep them close to Oakland I say you take a look at it and San Jose Earthquake fans that’s an entirely different topic we’ll get into we’ll take a break when we come back Jason you have questions I totally get it

Carmichael Dave rolls out an interesting idea for Oakland Athletics and San Jose Earthquakes owner John Fisher: Sell both teams to Sacramento.

Why? Dave and Jason Ross discuss.

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