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    And as I said somewhere earlier in this thread just because Darrell Steinberg said something doesn't mean it's in play. The River Cats don't play in his city or even in Sacramento County (West Sacramento and Yolo County respectively). The reason as that article states Steinberg was being coy about things, is because like 99.9% of what he says this is coming out of his rear end. Take what he says with a gigantic grain of salt because nothing Darrell's said over his tenure as mayor came to fruition. Unless something is coming from the mayor of West Sacramento or Yolo County officials you can safely ignore Darrell. This is even before we broach the issue of what corporate sponsorships they would be able to get locally because as a government town Sacramento is devoid of major corporations. I'm also not certain they'd draw very well in Sacramento either as over the last decade-plus Sacramento's become a far more solidly Giants town. My prediction is they'll either play those two years out in Las Vegas with a very small possibility of a split with Reno to try and drum up some interest statewide or stay in Oakland barring the city terminating the lease early. Of course IIRC most baseball fans in Reno are Giants fans and they'd run into the same issue with sharing a ballpark with a minor league team. tl/dr: No chance the A's use Sacramento as a temporary home.
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    Are you serious? I might buy that take if Mayor Thao assumed office with no experience in Oakland government. Fact is she's been on the City Council since 2018. She knew or should have known what was happening regarding negotiations with the A's. Even if she was blindsided by the A's announcement, when negotiating deals, the worst-case scenario is always in your mind and a strong possibility until the contract is signed and you always, always have a contingency plan. The A's have been trying to get a stadium deal done in some form since at least when Jerry Brown was mayor covering the administrations of Brown, Dellums, Quan, Schaff and now Thao. While there's fault on ownership's side there's plenty of fault to go around on the side of the City of Oakland and now more like when they leave with the Nevada legislature passing the funding bill, the Oakland government shoulders blame too. We can debate the degree but they do have blame.
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    Bill passed the Nevada Assembly.
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    Kept my Stone jersey in the closet because in the two games in the last couple of rounds I took it out, they lost. I was in Vegas for Games 1 and 2. The party on Toshiba Plaza before and during both games was a blast.
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    In the shortest post, I've ever written on these here boards. No.
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    There's as much chance of Barbara Lee getting MLB's anti-trust exemption taken away as I do of winning the run for US President I'm not now, nor ever will make. She doesn't have the pull, the ability, or the votes to get that done.
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    I wouldn't put much stock in that. First, don't believe a word that comes out of Darrell's mouth. He's as full of it as anyone in that town and maybe even more inept. Second, he wouldn't have much say there anyway as the ballpark is in West Sacramento which is a separate city, in a separate county. If the West Sac mayor were saying this my ears might perk up a little and even then I'd dismiss it. Oakland is the poster child for inept governance. Sacramento is a very close second. I see no chance of the A's using Sacramento for any type of stopgap. I think they'd draw worse than the River Cats do now.
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    Given how bad West Oakland is very, very few would make the walk from there to Howard Terminal.
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    Everyone forgets the Sacramento Kings who kept the name when they moved from Kansas City/Omaha.
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    Yeah, I mixed that up. It's what happens when I go off of memory sometimes. Steiner did replace Kay. I'm a long-time, die-hard Islander fan and much of the fanbase is afraid of losing Brendan Burke he's that good. I've also enjoyed Howie Rose over the years because he's always been brutally honest about the teams he worked for be it the Mets or Islanders and he worked for the Islanders during arguably the worst period in team history. Interesting too how a lot of ex-WFAN guys ended up in the broadcast booth be it Suzyn Waldman, Howie Rose, Ian Eagle, Steve Levy, Bob Wischusen, etc, and if you want to extend it out to WNBC radio (I'm old enough to have listened to this too) Dave Sims with the Mariners who did sports talk in NYC before there was an all-sports radio station.
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    The Mets television booth is arguably the best in baseball followed by the Giants, and I watch every team's broadcast at least a couple of times a season. Gary, Ron and Kieth do a phenomenal job you should watch them more often and this is coming from a Yankee fan. Kay was a Yankee beat writer for the NY Daily News back in the 80's which somehow led to him finding his way into the booth, first on the radio side working with Charlie Steiner and then on to television. The Yankees tv booth is so bad I sync the radio to any game I watch. IMHO the Yankees tv booth is hasn't been remotely watchable since Phil Rizzuto retired in the early 90's.
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    Michael Kay's PBP is so bad I'll sync games to the radio broadcast. Then again when compared to the Mets the Yankees' television booth's always been subpar going back to the early 90's or so. The Yankees are notorious for not allowing their broadcasters to criticize the team too hard. Kay's radio show is horrible too. It's damn near unlistenable.
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    To make the Devil Rays colors even more disjointed the Authentic Collection I've seen and purchased around it is black so it doesn't match the caps at all.
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    Considering the current state of the Mets it's the most appropriate jersey sponsor ever. The bigger question is what would Tank have to say about this one.
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    Even worse, the Yankees do it at Spring Training games. There's no P.C. Richard's within 1000 miles of here and I still have to hear that damn jingle.
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    In that case, one representative of each entity will fight to the death in a steel cage for the right to the jersey!
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    Looks like Sacramento Republic's owner is buying Huddersfield Town in the EFL Championship. My first thought was I didn't think he had the financial ability to do that. Then my second thought was if you can't get your act together here I guess that's what you do. I think at this point if there was even a glint of hope that Sacramento would successfully get into MLS this ends that discussion.
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    Maybe he's the second coming of John Spano...
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    If your "friend" wants to go a slightly different route what he could do is purchase blank Adidas "authentic" jerseys from whatever source he chooses, then send that jersey off to the place that customizes them for the team. That's what I find myself doing, and outside of one jersey, I've had no problems and some very quick turnarounds (under two weeks).
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    Fanatics has produced the "official Authentic Pro" off-ice gear for years now and it's just not good. The NHL is the easiest league not to buy new merch from. I've saved a decent amount of money since they switched the off-ice stuff to Fanatics and I look forward to saving more now that they'll have the jerseys too.
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    You left out the biggest softball and most relevant guy to the thread...Auston Matthews who if I remember right is from Scottsdale.
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    Flex Seal. You haven't seen their new commercial have you?
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    Howard Terminal will probably have accessibility issues too as the closest BART stations are over a mile away, Outside of a couple of bus routes and a cross-bay ferry, getting in and out of there will be a logistical nightmare.
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    No one seems to remember either that Candlestick was difficult to access outside of the 101 and an express bus from downtown. They had attendance issues as well. Giants attendance didn't surge until Pac Bell was built in a more accessible location.
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    When you find the Tampa/St. Pete equivalent to BART get back to us...
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