"I Gave Everything I Had" - A's Owner/Supervillain John Fisher With Maybe The Biggest Lie Ever Told When Talking About His Attempts To Keep The Team In Oakland

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A's owner John Fisher is a special kind of asshole and yesterday showed me he's finally starting to lean into it. Everything about this guy just screams evil. At a Vegas event on Wednesday he got in front of the media for the first time in a while to discuss the future. The way I saw it he had two options of ways to go about this conversation and his choice of words. 

Option A: Humanize yourself a little and express regret over how the last few years were handled. Admit you made mistakes along the way, but at the end of the day this was the move to make. You're excited for the future, but understand the way you arrived here was brutal. 

Option B: Embrace being a villain, put on a smug smile when you speak, and spew out some blatant lies that are clearly so far from the truth that it makes people laugh. 

John obviously went with Option B. 

You almost have to respect how big of a dick head John Fisher is at this point. Talking to the media with that smile as he tells people he did everything he could to keep the A's in the Bay Area. Dude deliberately tanked a sports franchise so that no one would go to games anymore and then once things got as bleak as he could have ever dreamed he ran for the hills. But don't worry guys, he said he did whatever he could to keep them in the Bay Area. $43M payroll. Good job, good effort. 

A quick update regarding the status of their move —it's not going well. 

We initially got stadium renderings back in May, but since that the A’s director of design Brad Schrock basically told everyone to scrap those ideas. The organization then told everyone that they'd have real stadium renderings at the beginning of December 2023. We're nearly two months from that and crickets. Fisher said at this event that they'll release the renderings when they feel they're ready. Surely nothing to see there. 

Also looks like the current space they're targeting for the stadium isn't going to work. 

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Excellent news. 

Cheap fuck Fisher also said during this event that while he wants to fund the $1.5B stadium with his own family money that they're thinking about opening it up to the public so that they can feel part of the team and community. Definitely not a deceptive way of saying "we do not want to pay all this money." Nope, certainly not.  

Then there's the whole issue of where the hell this team is going to play from now until 2028. Somehow some way they're going to run back the Coliseum one more time in 2024. After that their lease is up and they'll likely be calling minor league stadiums their home. For three years this team is going to be playing major league baseball in 10,000 person stadiums. 

And when 2028 comes around you're going to have countless new fans waiting for you at your new digs. Just listen to this excitement