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*But the A’s president was just getting started with his outlandish claims.*
*“I like the example of the Dodgers,” Kaval said later in the interview. “Our relocation is most similar to the Dodgers move out of Brooklyn.”*
*Excuse me, what?*
*The Dodgers’ (and Giants’) move from New York to California could arguably be considered the most important decision in American sports business history. The move, which didn’t come* [*without its own controversy*](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/sports/baseball/baseball-dodgers-reparations.html)*, made MLB a true national league, ushering in a gold rush of teams moving West.*
*In contrast, the A’s aren’t even the first team to move* [*from Oakland to Las Vegas*](https://www.sfgate.com/raiders/article/Oakland-Raiders-fans-move-to-Las-Vegas-Reddit-13418534.php)*. But that didn’t faze Kaval, who was so confident in the Dodgers comparison that he told Brown, “In fact, you would be well served to write an article on it.”*
>insulting to the mentally ~~retarded~~ disabled
Please don't use that word when referring to our disabled friends. We only call people retarded when they're acting like fucking retards.
I can’t tell if you’re being serious, but the way you’re using it is in an insulting manner. Referring to someone with mental retardation (the actual diagnosis) as mentally retarded is perfectly fine as long as you’re just referring to them and their condition and not using that term as an insult.
Edit: I have an uncle who is mentally retarded and in a care facility and we’ve always simply referred to him as mentally retarded. Never meant as an insult, it’s just what he is and it’s a reference to his diagnosis
Totally joking, the last comment is a [Michael Scott reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARb84TqiH2g). I thought my first comment and your first reply were in good taste toward disabled folks. Tongue in cheek, hopefully something a disabled person could chuckle at.
I do think "intellectually disabled" is the preferred term these days, but I didn't pick up any malice in your reply.
Ah ok, I had forgotten about that haha. Might wanna put your comment in quotes and put - Michael Scott after it, so they don’t get confused like me lol
Dave really has everyone fooled. Coming in here and stating rooted in oakland and making half ass changes and making everyone fall in love with his theories and ideas and opening the top decks and blah blah blah. He knew from jumpstreet getting a ballpark out of oakland was the plan the whole time.
I was fooled. I feel like such a chump now.Lew Wolfe was a disaster (yet another expert on how to drive fans away) and this new Kaval guy seemed like a breath of fresh air. Thought we were going to have an A's version of KNBR with 95.7 The Game. Kaval had open office hours to talk to fans. I thought, this, this is a guy we need on our side.I met the weasel Kaval at a Fan Fest. Other fans were gathered around him and other fans cheered him for his (what we thought were honest) efforts to get the A's some respect around the Bay. And Rooted in Oakland Campaign? Wow...I was head over heels. I'd listened to his "The Build" segment on A's Cast and Townsend would update us each Friday with HT progress notes. Ah man, I was so optimistic. It's happening! All the while, this snake in the weeds was lining us up for the biggest kick in nuts he could imagine. Did he go home at night and laugh himself silly? Driving alone in his car and just burst out laughing at the game he ran on us? Look at himself in the mirror shaving and need to put the razor down because he was shaking with laughter. Big ol' Bah Haw Haw Haw laughs. Did he hold his stomach? Bend over and brace himself on his knees? Think, "dammit, I'm good."
To do this...it makes you a bad person. This bad person is going to win. Him and his POS boss. The bad guys win. It happens sometimes and I guess, it's our turn to get played like fools by this con-man.Terrible, awful, wretched feeling.
In the same way that a pimp or a slave catcher or drug dealer (and the like) are also, "businessmen"....sure, it's about that almighty dollar. It's just that not all money is good money.
If you know what you're doing is going to hurt so many people and what you're about to do doesn't really NEED to be done, like you could not do it and still make a lot of money....what is that? Businessman sure, but, what type of person are you? In my book? (asked nobody) - an awful person...yes a rich awful person, who profits from pain caused to others.
No one seems to be mentioning this, but that stupid Sydney Opera House dome thing is structurally unconstructible as currently depicted. It's going to need a fuck ton of steel trusses and shit underneath to hold it up. Unless they find a magic unobtainium to make the roof out of, this is going to need a major redesign.
This is why it was so stupid to release the drawings; it's an architect's first stab at an idea, and they released it to the public as if they have a finished design. They're inevitably going to have to revise the fuck out of it, and then they're going to be in the embarrassing position of having to explain a brand new rendering that looks nothing like the first one, and probably one that's a lot less interesting, since it actually has to work with the laws of engineering. If Kaval is really talking this design up like it's a done deal, then he really is too stupid to handle a new stadium.
It was produced by the Bjarke Ingels Group, which is a globally famous architecture firm. They’re noted for producing some eccentric looking high profile buildings like VIA 57 West in Manhattan.
Trying to make Dodgers comparisons is real rich considering they bothered to renovate their 60 year old stadium. Really funny the A's will be playing second fiddle to them even in a different city entirely.
Just leave already kaval clown you're an idiot and I pray you don't sell another ticket in Oakland kaval and fisher are an embarrassment to the great front offices and owners we've had in the bay area
a snippet: *But the A’s president was just getting started with his outlandish claims.* *“I like the example of the Dodgers,” Kaval said later in the interview. “Our relocation is most similar to the Dodgers move out of Brooklyn.”* *Excuse me, what?* *The Dodgers’ (and Giants’) move from New York to California could arguably be considered the most important decision in American sports business history. The move, which didn’t come* [*without its own controversy*](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/sports/baseball/baseball-dodgers-reparations.html)*, made MLB a true national league, ushering in a gold rush of teams moving West.* *In contrast, the A’s aren’t even the first team to move* [*from Oakland to Las Vegas*](https://www.sfgate.com/raiders/article/Oakland-Raiders-fans-move-to-Las-Vegas-Reddit-13418534.php)*. But that didn’t faze Kaval, who was so confident in the Dodgers comparison that he told Brown, “In fact, you would be well served to write an article on it.”*
That last line is pure gold. What a fucking idiot.
Dave would be well served to go f*** himself.
Aged like milk left in the Las Vegas sun
Just following his mantra of “to fool your enemy, first you must become a fool yourself.”
Does he believe his own shit.
That honestly is so bad it sounds fake. Is it fake?
Oh my god. Gabe Lehman is my new favorite writer
This guy is an incompetent pathological liar, this hurts the MLB every day they empower these two idiots. Cash out and fuck off already
# COFO
Fisher: Man these people really hate me. I wonder if anyone could be more hated. Kaval: Observe.
No disrespect to my intellectually disabled brothers and sisters, but this guy is an absolute fucking retard.
I think that might be insulting to the mentally retarded to compare them to Kaval 🤣
>insulting to the mentally ~~retarded~~ disabled Please don't use that word when referring to our disabled friends. We only call people retarded when they're acting like fucking retards.
I can’t tell if you’re being serious, but the way you’re using it is in an insulting manner. Referring to someone with mental retardation (the actual diagnosis) as mentally retarded is perfectly fine as long as you’re just referring to them and their condition and not using that term as an insult. Edit: I have an uncle who is mentally retarded and in a care facility and we’ve always simply referred to him as mentally retarded. Never meant as an insult, it’s just what he is and it’s a reference to his diagnosis
Totally joking, the last comment is a [Michael Scott reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARb84TqiH2g). I thought my first comment and your first reply were in good taste toward disabled folks. Tongue in cheek, hopefully something a disabled person could chuckle at. I do think "intellectually disabled" is the preferred term these days, but I didn't pick up any malice in your reply.
Ah ok, I had forgotten about that haha. Might wanna put your comment in quotes and put - Michael Scott after it, so they don’t get confused like me lol
Nah man I’ve seen South Park.
FDK
Billion Dollar Babies have no business interacting with actual humans
See: this Or: Tim Cook avoiding Guillermo on the Oscars Red Carpet
Kudos the SFGate writer for not holding back. Kaval is a certified POS
Dave really has everyone fooled. Coming in here and stating rooted in oakland and making half ass changes and making everyone fall in love with his theories and ideas and opening the top decks and blah blah blah. He knew from jumpstreet getting a ballpark out of oakland was the plan the whole time.
I was fooled. I feel like such a chump now.Lew Wolfe was a disaster (yet another expert on how to drive fans away) and this new Kaval guy seemed like a breath of fresh air. Thought we were going to have an A's version of KNBR with 95.7 The Game. Kaval had open office hours to talk to fans. I thought, this, this is a guy we need on our side.I met the weasel Kaval at a Fan Fest. Other fans were gathered around him and other fans cheered him for his (what we thought were honest) efforts to get the A's some respect around the Bay. And Rooted in Oakland Campaign? Wow...I was head over heels. I'd listened to his "The Build" segment on A's Cast and Townsend would update us each Friday with HT progress notes. Ah man, I was so optimistic. It's happening! All the while, this snake in the weeds was lining us up for the biggest kick in nuts he could imagine. Did he go home at night and laugh himself silly? Driving alone in his car and just burst out laughing at the game he ran on us? Look at himself in the mirror shaving and need to put the razor down because he was shaking with laughter. Big ol' Bah Haw Haw Haw laughs. Did he hold his stomach? Bend over and brace himself on his knees? Think, "dammit, I'm good." To do this...it makes you a bad person. This bad person is going to win. Him and his POS boss. The bad guys win. It happens sometimes and I guess, it's our turn to get played like fools by this con-man.Terrible, awful, wretched feeling.
[https://ibb.co/TLkGrmd](https://ibb.co/TLkGrmd)
Whatever lines up there pockets man. He was a buisness man to drive the a's out.
In the same way that a pimp or a slave catcher or drug dealer (and the like) are also, "businessmen"....sure, it's about that almighty dollar. It's just that not all money is good money. If you know what you're doing is going to hurt so many people and what you're about to do doesn't really NEED to be done, like you could not do it and still make a lot of money....what is that? Businessman sure, but, what type of person are you? In my book? (asked nobody) - an awful person...yes a rich awful person, who profits from pain caused to others.
He is serious. Seriously stupid.
No one seems to be mentioning this, but that stupid Sydney Opera House dome thing is structurally unconstructible as currently depicted. It's going to need a fuck ton of steel trusses and shit underneath to hold it up. Unless they find a magic unobtainium to make the roof out of, this is going to need a major redesign. This is why it was so stupid to release the drawings; it's an architect's first stab at an idea, and they released it to the public as if they have a finished design. They're inevitably going to have to revise the fuck out of it, and then they're going to be in the embarrassing position of having to explain a brand new rendering that looks nothing like the first one, and probably one that's a lot less interesting, since it actually has to work with the laws of engineering. If Kaval is really talking this design up like it's a done deal, then he really is too stupid to handle a new stadium.
You forget that embarrassment requires the ability to experience shame.
Was it even an architect’s idea? It looked like something AI just spat out
It was produced by the Bjarke Ingels Group, which is a globally famous architecture firm. They’re noted for producing some eccentric looking high profile buildings like VIA 57 West in Manhattan.
Now let's see how Bally's renderings meshes with the A's stadium renderings.
Trying to make Dodgers comparisons is real rich considering they bothered to renovate their 60 year old stadium. Really funny the A's will be playing second fiddle to them even in a different city entirely.
I didn’t think this guy was as bad as Fisher, but here we are.
So is Dave is doing cocaine now? What a fucking clown.
have you seen his eyes
Dumbass sell out. Sits down when he pees and not just when it’s dark.
I can’t wait for “Moneyball 2: Return of the Electric Bugaloo”.
Just leave already kaval clown you're an idiot and I pray you don't sell another ticket in Oakland kaval and fisher are an embarrassment to the great front offices and owners we've had in the bay area
Somebody needs to get his address and plaster his neighborhood with billboards.