I hate to this this, all of the conversation in th media is just soundbite snipes, but everyone is just sort of resigned to the fact that A's fans are going to be disappointed no matter how it shakes out.

LV is gonna get sadled with a stadium deal that will end up being a bad deal for tax payers, Oakland will have a monument to failure in the decaying Coliseum, Fisher will get rich(er) when he sells the team.

Owning a team is a good deal if you have the capital. I'm sure someone would be able to come to the table with the city of Oakland, field a competitive team, and pay Fisher enough money that he's in the green. The only thing that prevents that from happening is that it's not enough money for Fisher. This is the fruition of a long plan to maximize profits on behalf of Fisher at almost everyone else's expense.

The league and Manfried could make him sell. They could threaten to revoke their ability to play other teams if they had the courage, or block the move and restrict revenue sharing and strangle Fisher to sell. But Rob is too scared to cross that line because he's serving at the pleasure of 30 owners, all of whom might speak publicly about supporting Oakland but would be very very nervous about Rob or the MLB taking any anti ownership stance.

It's just all a huge bummer, sorry A's.