2023-04-20 07:06:00
[Sports Center/Comprehensive Report]The league leader, 3-16 Athletic has settled in Oakland for more than half a century. The current lease of the stadium is until 2024. The Athletic hopes to build a new stadium in Oakland, but has been unable to pass the test every time. , The Athletics announced today that they will move to Las Vegas. The new dome will be completed in 2027. The Athletics have also become the first major league team to move in nearly 20 years since the Washington Nationals (formerly known as the Montreal Expos) in 2005. team.
Dave Kaval, president of the Athletics, announced today that the team has purchased a 49-acre piece of land near the Las Vegas Boulevard last week and will spend $1 billion to build an open-door dome that can accommodate up to 35,000 people. Construction has begun and it is hoped that it will be officially opened in 2027.
In this regard, the mayor of Auckland, Sheng Thao, said that he was disappointed that he might not become a “true partner” with the athletes, and believed that they had made a lot of efforts to keep the athletes, but the team had no intention of being here. , just trying to use them to get a better deal from Las Vegas, so they’re not interested, the fans and citizens deserve better.
The Athletic’s team salary this season is only 58 million US dollars, which is less than the combined salary of the Mets strong voters Max Scherzer (Max Scherzer) and Justin Verlander (Justin Verlander). It can accommodate more than 35,000 people at most, but the average number of people playing at home this season is only 11,027, which is the least among the 30 teams in the major leagues. Since 2014, the number of people playing at home in the entire season has not exceeded 2 million. .
The Athletic settled in the Oakland Arena in 1968 and has been there for 55 years. Now he is determined to move out of Oakland. This city rich in sports culture originally had 3 professional teams, but they have all moved away in recent years. The NBA often wins The Golden State Warriors will move to San Francisco in 2019, the Oakland Raiders of the NFL will move to Las Vegas in 2020, the athletes will also leave, and the city will not have any professional teams.
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