2023 MLB Season

Phillies play the Braves tonight and the two off days have been hilarious on Twitter. Apparently the Braves have a mascot named "Blooper" that decided to chirp at the greatest mascot in sports the Phillie Phanatic and the Phillies fans responded as only they can. (BTW, it's now saying it's getting death threats)
 
Looking increasingly like it’ll be a rematch of last year’s World Series. Don’t think that’s happened since the 1970s.
 
Disappointed it didn't get to game 6 (Friday) and maybe even game 7 (Saturday). Too late midweek our time to watch it.
 
And that’s it. Oakland A’s moving to Las Vegas. First the hockey Golden Seals go to Cleveland. Then the Raiders to LA, then back, then to Vegas. The Warriors go across the bay to SF. As a kid there were four pro sports in Oakland. Now zero (save the lower league Roots for footy/soccer).

It’s so sad.
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
And that’s it. Oakland A’s moving to Las Vegas. First the hockey Golden Seals go to Cleveland. Then the Raiders to LA, then back, then to Vegas. The Warriors go across the bay to SF. As a kid there were four pro sports in Oakland. Now zero (save the lower league Roots for footy/soccer).

It’s so sad.
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Just awful. They’ll now go, along with the Raiders, onto my list of “teams I used to like, but now wish nothing but sadness on”. Shame, as the A’s have far and away the best uniforms in baseball, if not all of US pro sports.
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
And that’s it. Oakland A’s moving to Las Vegas. First the hockey Golden Seals go to Cleveland. Then the Raiders to LA, then back, then to Vegas. The Warriors go across the bay to SF. As a kid there were four pro sports in Oakland. Now zero (save the lower league Roots for footy/soccer).

It’s so sad.
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I suppose it's part of the peripatetic history of American sport, but that doesn't make it easier to swallow. From Philadelphia to Kansas to Oakland and now to Las Vegas. While the Coliseum has looked and sounded soulless for some time, nothing, to me, could be more soulless than Vegas. Feel for the fans and people of Oakland. As you say, so sad, and I reckon that makes Oakland the first major city to have been denuded of all its major teams.
 
Gabriel said:
I suppose it's part of the peripatetic history of American sport, but that doesn't make it easier to swallow. From Philadelphia to Kansas to Oakland and now to Las Vegas. While the Coliseum has looked and sounded soulless for some time, nothing, to me, could be more soulless than Vegas. Feel for the fans and people of Oakland. As you say, so sad, and I reckon that makes Oakland the first major city to have been denuded of all its major teams.
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To be fair Las Vegans have done a great job supporting their hockey team, though they’ve also been really good since inception. I don’t believe there’s another city that has lost four pro franchises — five if you count the Raiders twice, let alone that many without replacing them. I can’t offhand think of one that’s lost three even though I guess you’d count New York maybe depending on if losing a team to another borough or New Jersey is “losing” them.
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
To be fair Las Vegans have done a great job supporting their hockey team, though they’ve also been really good since inception. I don’t believe there’s another city that has lost four pro franchises — five if you count the Raiders twice, let alone that many without replacing them. I can’t offhand think of one that’s lost three even though I guess you’d count New York maybe depending on if losing a team to another borough or New Jersey is “losing” them.
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If we look at the history of the United States, then cities such as St.Louis and New York have lost multiple franchises, more even than Oakland, though sometimes these saw teams become defunct and sometimes migrate elsewhere. They have, of course, seen franchises stay or others replace them, so it has not had quite the same impact. What makes Oakland unique, I think, is that it has lost everything, without replacement, and what is particularly worrying about that is the speed at which it has happened. Will Oakland be on a more financially sound footing without these teams, or will the city struggle to attract investment, especially in the short term, if it is deemed a place from which to leave?
 
Tickets for next year's London series Mets v Phillies. Going both days, first saw Mets in San Francisco in 1984
 
Biggest sports contract in history.

Dude can't even pitch till 2025. Ohtani/Freeman/Betts is some top of the lineup though.
 
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