6 sad photos of an almost empty Oakland A's stadium amid Las Vegas move limbo
It’s a very weird time to be an Oakland A’s fan right now.
There’s talk that the franchise might get a lease extension from the city as it waits to move to Las Vegas to a new stadium that hasn’t been built yet (the Tropicana Casino, where the site is, JUST closed for good). And with all the protests calling for the owners to sell, fans aren’t coming to games. Yes, it doesn’t help that the team is just top to bottom bad.
How bad are we talking? Through six games to start the season, they’re averaging 6,348 fans per game. Here are some of the photos of the mostly empty Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum: