My guess is that the franchise will gain value, the stadium and facilities will be first class, but it won't be an attraction. Vegas is all energy all the time. And Baseball is not. It will get less attention than the pawn shop.
I MOSTLY agree with you. Tourists and locals will be few and far between except for A's fans. However, fans of any visiting team are likely to search out and circle those games as a trip to go see their favorite team play on the road. I live in Idaho and probably have it in my budget ( but not always schedule) to go to 1 game per year. That's the 1 my family will ALWAYS choose.
A’s could bring 400K new tourists to Las Vegas, says MGM CEO https://www.reviewjournal.com/busin...urists-to-las-vegas-says-mgm-ceo-2770669/amp/
Understood. That just means whatever fanbase they can assemble to attend games, expect about 5K more per game.
count me as an Astros fan who would rather stay at the bellagio and then go to see an ‘away’ game at Elvis Ball park, then get get mugged going to a game in Oakland
Mason Miller though, he could be THAT guy. He's looking like a guy who will get people through the gates. He has HOF written on his arm.
It sucks to lose a team. I know from experience. I feel bad for people who grew up as A's fans from the Bay Area. Supporting a baseball team is very different from support of an arena sport (where the seating capacity is about half the size of ballparks) and football (where every game is a Sunday event, and there are only 8 home games per season). This is 81 nights a year.
If I'm still in Idaho ( trying to get back to Florida but LIFE) then I will be shocked if the wife and I don't make at least 1 trip to see a road series and enjoy Vegas every year. Likely 2 if they are spread out a few months apart. About a 10 hr drive thru nowhere.
Lol It’s now the Tropicana You can just stay there and walk to the casino or your room after the game
The more I read about these possible Vegas proposals, the less concrete it actually seems. They don't have a lot of fundamental funding mechanisms in place that normally is already signed off on when these moves start to coalesce. If they're waiting for Oakland to blink, so be it... but this move isn't going to materialize without legit $$$. Wouldn't surprise me to hear about the other potential re-location sites that get discussed yearly (Nashville, Portland, Montreal, Orlando) that may be more willing to pony up the half-billion public money required.
The Tropicana sight is a way better choice. I'm hoping the A's go somewhere else or get their Oakland deal and Vegas gets an expansion team with a stadium at the Tropicana location. That would be the absolute best possible outcome for everyone.
