The Complex Debate on Sports Teams Staying in Oakland

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00:00In Oakland, that's the whole thing, guys.

00:05I'm not saying that this Fisher guy's a good guy, okay?

00:09Very few owners are good guys.

00:10So I'm not defending Fisher.

00:12But this like pure vitriol hate for him, Scott, and sell the team and stay in Oakland.

00:19Where was that for Mark Davis?

00:21The Warriors just left.

00:23And I tell you what, 85% of the people who live in Oakland, if they had enough money,

00:27they would leave too, Scott.

00:29I don't want to be like that guy, but I know you are.

00:32We live in a fact-based world.

00:34Me and Scott, we love the Bay Area.

00:35I love it out there.

00:36I'm not walking around.

00:37I'm not, you know, dude, there's an in-and-out burger that's been there for like 70 freaking

00:42years.

00:43They had to close it.

00:44It got robbed too many times.

00:45The cops can't show up on time because there's too many robberies.

00:48It's easy for everyone to sit on the couch and say, oh, they should stay.

00:51The players don't.

00:52You know, the players got to worry about if their car's going to be there when they come

00:55back out of the stadium after the game.

00:57You know what I mean?

00:58Every team that plays in Oakland stays in San Francisco.

01:02The Warriors left.

01:03Everybody left.

01:04So what?

01:05The A's are the bad guys somehow?

01:07And I'm not defending Fisher.

01:08He's a terrible owner.

01:09He didn't pay players.

01:10He didn't do this.

01:11I get that.

01:12They don't do it in Pittsburgh either, right?

01:14And the whole thing is too, like people don't get it.

01:17I don't want to get political here, but Oakland has real problems.

01:21They can't pay their police department.

01:23Nobody wants to be a fireman there.

01:25Their city budget is whacked.

01:27Everything is out of control.

01:29If I had billions of dollars, I tell you what, Scott, I wouldn't say, you know what, Scott,

01:33you and I are rich.

01:34Why don't we put a baseball team in Oakland?

01:36That'll work.

01:37It's done.

01:38You know what I mean?

01:39You can put the blame at this and that and everybody else.

01:42The fact is, they've got to get their city back together right now.

01:46And they are.

01:47It's not like hell on earth or anything like that, but we're talking about billions of

01:53dollars.

01:54Like part of this, when you talk about like, oh, the city and stuff, like when Montreal

01:58lost the Expos, you're like, man, you know, that's all these teams that stay in hotels.

02:03They don't even stay in Oakland players.

02:04They stay in San Francisco, you know, like they don't even stay in Oakland.

02:09So like, they're not really losing.

02:11What revenue are they losing?

02:12The stadium is a freaking hellhole dump.

02:15It has more rats than fans in that stadium.

02:18Like literally, there's like, there's possum in the press box.

02:21Remember?

02:23And another thing is too, Scott, I don't want to be a jerk and everything, but Sacramento's

02:2890 minutes away.

02:29Chill out.

02:30All right.

02:31You know what I mean?

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