Still, the little daylight that remains for reconciliation between the two sides appears to be waning. And I’m going to continue to push for that window to be open if they do think it is closed.” “What I believe is that it’s an option for people to open windows. “I don’t believe in completely closed windows,” Thao told The Athletic. She also asserted that, while she doesn’t want to predict what will happen–and admitted to not having any conversations recently with the A’s–she remains hopeful that the team could eventually remain in Oakland. In talking to the San Francisco Chronicle, Thao reiterated past statements that the team’s plan to build just a stadium in Las Vegas is not only equally feasible at Howard Terminal, where the A’s have sought to build several ancillary buildings of mixed-use (residential, commercial and retail space), but could get started “within 18 months.” MLB trade deadline: With Fujinami gone, who else could A’s move? The A’s are seeking to build a $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat ballpark with a retractable roof on nine acres of the Tropicana hotel site of the Las Vegas Strip.
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Manfred also confirmed that the A’s have begun the process of applying to move to Las Vegas, though the team hasn’t submitted the full relocation application. “That’s number one on the disappointment list.” “My single biggest disappointment is because of the kind of political process in Oakland, we didn’t find a solution to keep the A’s in Oakland,” Manfred said on Tuesday. While it reportedly went well, Manfred would again pass the blame for the lack of a stadium deal in Oakland on to the city, rather than to Fisher, when speaking to the media two days later.
Thao had her office’s chief of staff Leigh Hanson, chief of communications Pati Navalta and Howard Terminal project manager Molly Mayburn with her in the meeting in Seattle. “They never got to a point where they had a plan to build a stadium at any site.” “There is no Oakland offer, OK?” Manfred said on June 15 after the meeting. Thao brought 31 printed packages - one for each of MLB’s 30 owners, including A’s owner John Fisher, and one personally for Manfred - with the details that would directly refute Manfred’s claim that the city hadn’t done anything. “If people were misinformed, we wanted to make sure everybody had all the real-time information of how close we were to a ballpark.” We wanted to dispel that notion,” Thao told The Athletic. “Through the press, we have heard that Manfred has stated there was no proposal. In a Q&A with The Athletic, Thao said the impetus for the meeting - her first with Manfred since taking over as mayor in January - was to bring transparency to the A’s attempted relocation to Las Vegas. Even under baseball’s brightest spotlight over the All-Star weekend, some things can slip through undetected.Īs Oakland A’s fans were making their presence felt over the last several days in Seattle, Oakland mayor Sheng Thao quietly met face-to-face with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred.Īccording to multiple reports, Thao and several workers from her office flew up to Seattle for a one-hour meeting with Manfred and MLB deputy commissioner Dan Halem on Sunday, where Thao detailed Oakland’s effort to build a ballpark at Howard Terminal, a large plot of land at the city’s port.
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