-Of course their value has skyrocketed since 2016, every franchise in sports has gone up in value

-if you replace their dungeonous shared use catastrophe of a stadium with a shiny new $2 billion stadium, their value goes up way more than $400 million.

-of course their ticket prices have gone up. They are a lame duck franchise. They’ve been one for most of this decade. I guarantee they are drawing way better than any lame duck franchise there has ever been (especially compared to when they were in LA)

-Vegas is a great hockey town. It’s not tough though when you’re the only game in town. I think the raiders will do well there also, especially with all the raiders fans in nearby Los Angeles. MLB is a completely different animal. You need a bigger population, more corporate sponsorship, and a bigger tv market than any other sport. Vegas is the 40th biggest tv market, there are just 2.2 million in Clark county, and just two Fortune 500 companies.

-there are 8 million people in the Bay Area and another 4 million in the nearby Central Valley, there are 18 Fortune 500 companies, the Bay Area is the 5th largest tv market and if you factor in Sacramento, which is just 70 miles from Oakland, that’s the 20th biggest tv market.

Oakland may not be LA, but there is no better place other than maybe New York or Los Angeles to support them

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