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Where are the Oakland A’s moving to? Here’s the answer.

The Oakland A’s are on the move after 2024.

It was an awful, sad day by the Bay on Thursday, as A’s fans bid farewell to their team in Oakland with heartbreaking signs and a sad goodbye from the radio broadcast, although the team did leave with a win.

So: where are they off to now? Good question!

The near-term answer is they’ll play in Sacramento temporarily starting in 2025. Long-term? They’re waiting for a stadium to be built in Las Vegas that will house the team as they move to Nevada full time.

There you have it. Heartbreaking, as it is for every team that’s had to relocate their franchise.

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The A’s radio broadcast offered the most melancholic farewell to Oakland Coliseum

“The memories hopefully will last forever. May those memories be a blessing.”

It’s now official: the Athletics have played their final baseball game in Oakland.

On Thursday, the Athletics closed out their time in Oakland with one final win in front of fans as starting next season, the team will briefly stop in Sacramento before eventually landing in Las Vegas. Going into Thursday’s final game, fans were taking seats from Oakland Coliseum and a staffer even generously helped shovel dirt as souvenirs before the final curtain.

MORE: 11 heartbreaking signs that fans brought to the final A’s game in Oakland.

As the final pitch came down and the game was won, A’s radio announcer Ken Korach brought it all home with a poignant and emotional farewell for all the memories made by fans, players, and staffers alike.

A’s play final game at Oakland Coliseum, watch John Facenda narrate Raiders early days there

As the A’s end their final game at Oakland Coliseum, watch John Facenda narrate Raiders early days there

It’s an end of an era in Oakland…again. Nearly five years after the Raiders played their final game at Oakland Coliseum, the A’s have now done the same.

With the A’s planning to also pull up stakes and head for Vegas, they wrapped up their time in Oakland Coliseum Thursday with a win over the Texas Rangers.

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And with this final game in this iconic stadium, let’s take a little trip back to the early days in the A’s first season in Oakland and the Raiders entering their third season at the Coliseum, just after taking the team to Super Bowl II.

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The plan is for the A’s to play in Sacramento for the next few years until a new stadium is built for them. Plan being the operative word.

Fans in Oakland have been urging owner John Fisher to sell the team in the hopes of a new ownership engaging in actual negotiations to build a new stadium in Oakland.

But Fisher’s intentions were always to take the team away so he could cash in the same way the Raiders did — by landing billions in public money with a move to Las Vegas.

A’s legend Barry Zito performed a pitchy national anthem for final Oakland game

Sing us off, Barry Zito!

The Oakland A’s played their final game at The Coliseum on Thursday ahead of the team’s move to Las Vegas.

In honor of the historic farewell, the A’s brought back a franchise great and fan favorite to sing the national anthem.

Former Oakland pitcher Barry Zito returned to where he started his MLB career to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” for all the A’s fans in attendance.

This was such a special moment for the franchise, as Zito was one of the best arms to ever come through Oakland and did a pretty solid, if … pitchy … job on the mic.

It’s bittersweet to see a franchise great return to send off The Coliseum, and Zito did the A’s proud with this national anthem performance.

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A’s staffer shoveled actual dirt from the Oakland Coliseum as a heartwarming souvenir for fans

It was a beautiful moment for those lucky fans who will now always have a physical piece of the Oakland Coliseum.

Before the Oakland Athletics move from the Bay Area, some fans are leaving with unique souvenirs to remember their beloved team.

During the final home series that the team will play at the Oakland Coliseum in California, some fans literally removed seats from the ballpark. While that decision was likely not sanctioned by those who worked for the team, others are getting help from Oakland employees.

One of the groundskeepers for the organization took a shovel and dug up dirt from the field to give to fans. It was a beautiful moment for those lucky fans who will now always have a physical piece of the Oakland Coliseum.

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Although many fans are upset with team ownership for how everything about the move to Las Vegas was handled, others will keep fond memories of their time in Oakland.

Those who got the dirt from this kind groundskeeper can transfer it from the water bottles they received it to a more permanent and fitting home.

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An Oakland A’s hat had an unintentionally NSFW message summing up an awful 2024

Oops!

It’s been a rough year in the Bay Area for the Oakland A’s, to say the least.

The move to Las Vegas is one year closer and they’re supposed to play in Sacramento next year. It all stinks.

Which brings us to this hat that fans notice was being sold by Fanatics until — as far as we can tell — recently. It’s part of the New Era Shadow 9FIFTY Snapback series, which makes multiple prints of team logos on the front.

And … it spelled out something very unfortunate, unintentionally. We’ll let you interpret it, but: WARNING! NSFW language ahead!

Oops.

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The A’s amazingly scored 2 runs on 3 bunts in 4 pitches during an extra innings win vs. the Astros

Some fans dig small ball, too.

This late in the season, the Oakland A’s tried a new offensive approach to scoring runs in a baseball game and it actually worked.

Nearly twenty games below .500 with not many games remaining left on their schedule, now is as perfect of a time as any to experiment with the mere concept of how the sport is supposed to look and feel.

The game against the divisional rival Astros finished regulation with a tied score. In the top of the 12th inning, per MLB rules, Oakland started with a runner on second base. Then, the inning got a little off the rails.

Oakland outfielder Daz Cameron laid down a successful bunt, advancing runner Zack Gelof to third base.

Suddenly, the A’s had runners on first and third base as Max Schuemann came up to the plate. He, too, executed a perfect bunt that scored Gelof from home. Cameron found his way to third base and once again, Oakland had two runners on first and third.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it: Nick Allen came to the plate with no outs. Allen, to no surprise, also laid down a bunt that led to a fielder’s choice at second. In this play, though, Cameron scored.

This meant that on four pitches, the A’s officially scored two runs on three successful bunts. They went on to win the game. AMAZING.

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Max Muncy had an error that allowed some other dude named Max Muncy to score a run

Max Muncy and Max Muncy not only share a name but a birthday as well.

Something strange happened on a professional baseball field when Max Muncy scored after a throwing error committed by Max Muncy.

It wasn’t a case of cloning or anything strange like that. It was more like when Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Will Smith hit a home run after off former Atlanta Braves relief pitcher Will Smith during the 2020 MLB postseason.

The latter Muncy is the one that you have probably heard of before today. He is a two-time MLB All-Star and a former World Series champion and he has played for the Dodgers (who clearly have an affinity for players who share a name with other players) since 2018.

He was playing the field for the Oklahoma City Baseball Club, a minor league affiliate for the Dodgers, on an injury rehabilitation assignment before he returns to Los Angeles.

We will refer to him as the major league Muncy for the remainder of this article to avoid confusion. Fascinatingly enough: Both of these professional baseball players also happen to share a birthday, August 25.

The minor league Muncy, who plays for the Las Vegas Aviators, scored after a throwing error from the major leaguer.

For what it is worth: The minor league shortstop was actually a first-round pick by the Athletics in the 2021 MLB Draft. He is considered one of the ten best prospects in the organization, so he could potentially make his major league debut sooner rather than later.

At that point, we will have to find another way to differentiate between the two guys named Max Muncy born on August 25.

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Lip-reading video shows A’s pitcher Austin Adams yelling NSFW stuff while mocking Mets

Austin Adams yelled a lot of expletives at the Mets.

A tale for you, before we get into this: Oakland A’s pitcher Austin Adams had joined the New York Mets last offseason, but got sent to the minors and was eventually dealt to the Bay Area.

This is pertinent because Adams pitched against the Mets on Tuesday in a win, and knowing that, you’ll get why he started mocking the franchise to their faces with jokes about their patented OMG celebration before launching into what might be some serious expletives aimed at the Mets.

Jomboy was on top of it as always. Here’s his breakdown of lip-reading, with a WARNING: LOTS OF NSFW LANGUAGE AHEAD!

Adams took a little bit of a different angle when asked about it:

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Watching this dog wearing an A’s hat getting booped on the nose at an Oakland game will make your day

We warn you: this video has overloads of cuteness.

During Tuesday’s Oakland A’s game against the Houston Astros, a very, very good dog stole the show in the stands with just one boop.

A very big, fluffy St. Bernard dog adorably wearing an A’s hat joined its owner in the Oakland stands for the game, which is fantastic enough on its own.

However, things got even more wonderful when the game broadcast showed owner of this very, very good dog booped the dog on the nose.

We warn you: the cuteness overload on this video might create a smile so big on your face you can’t get rid of it for the rest of your day.

There’s not much else to this video than this very good, good dog wearing an A’s hat getting booped on the nose by their owner, but isn’t that all you really need sometimes?

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