The A’s imminent move to Las Vegas is managing to revive an old rivalry that dates back several years, with Mark Davisowner of the Raiders.
But let’s give context before going fully into the little gossip, because the A’s are packing up to leave Oakland and move to the city of sin… Las Vegas.
Your luggage is already beginning to have “VivaVegas” stickersbut they have to leave Oakland, California because the baseball team could not find conditions to change stadiums within the same city.
Athletics has been playing at the Oakland Coliseum for a while, a very old stadium and the MLB no longer considers it as for a professional team. The team leadership did seek to stay in California, but failed.
So, the MLB pressured the Athletics to have a new stadium, since in 2024 the lease endsThat is why they will take their bags to Las Vegas, to meet up with Mark Davis.
But they will officially leave Oakland in 2027since after the agreement in Las Vegas, the construction of the new stadium of the Athletics will begin in 2024.
How’s it going with the A’s reunion with Mark Davis?
First, we have to say that Mark Davis is the owner of the NFL Raiders and he knows the Athletics perfectly, because they shared a stadium for a long time.
They were many years which the Athletics and Raiders shared the Oakland ColiseumBecause yes, the ‘Bad Guys’ were a team from that city and Mark Davis lived through many of those years.
From his childhood, Mark Davis was close to the Raiders because his father, Al Davis, was a legendary team owner while they were in Oakland.
So, he knows not only the insides of his team, but also the A’s and everything that has to do with the MLB franchise, although he doesn’t have good memories of them.
and well, how Mark Davis doesn’t have such fond memories of the MLB franchisebecause it exploded against the Athletics and the move they will have to Las Vegas.
The unpleasant words of Mark Davis towards the Athletics
“All they did was fuck up the bay area“sentenced Mark Davis, referring to Oakland, in an interview that they did to him in the Las Vegas Review-Journal about the A’s moving to Las Vegas.
And it is that, Mark Davis applies the “I forgive, but I do not forget”, because he resents the Athletics because, according to the Raiders owner, they wouldn’t let him build a stadium when they were still in Oakland.
“I won’t forget what they did to us in Oakland. They held a 10-year lease and made it impossible for us to build that stadium.“Mark Davis said, referring to giving the Oakland Coliseum a hand of a cat.
“They were looking for a stadium. We were looking for a stadium. They didn’t want to build a stadium, and then they went ahead and they signed a 10-year lease with the city of Oakland and said, ‘We’re the base team’“he added.
Basically, the lease that Mark Davis is referring to, it made the Raiders unable to remodel the Oakland Coliseum and had to find a way out to Las Vegasits current state.
He also mentioned that the A’s wanted to have the entire Bay Area market to themselveswhen the Raiders still lived in Oakland.
And well, they did it, because the ‘Malosos’ went to Las Vegas and had the whole market to themselves, but they didn’t count on the people, maybe they didn’t love them and they will have to leave the city too.
