"no urgency" A Bally’s Corp. executive said Wednesday there’s no urgency in developing plans for a resort attached to a Major League Baseball stadium being built by the Oakland Athletics on the Tropicana site.DETAILS: https://t.co/fvbc8opyxn pic.twitter.com/Zc8yrxYPPY— Las Vegas Review-Journal (@reviewjournal) May 2, 2024 Chatter amongst informed Vegas developers is Fisher’s stadium is 20% (or more) over the $1.5B price tag based on preliminary schematics & ROM budgets. Could be more if Fisher has to pick up the full onsite infrastructure tab if Bally’s resort plan stalls.Rooted In Incompetence.— Vitamin Dee (@2Legit2QuitDee) May 2, 2024 meanwhile... new MLB stadium in Miami Tonight’s paid attendance is 6,376 #Marlins pic.twitter.com/SSVN7uVY7n— Kevin Barral (@kevin_barral) April 30, 2024
Fisher crying, losing hoap. https://www.propublica.org/article/sports-team-owners-face-new-scrutiny-from-irs-over-tax-avoidance "The IRS has launched a campaign to examine whether wealthy taxpayers are violating the law when using their ownership of sports teams to save large amounts in taxes."
This is focused on significant tax losses... certainly not all sports teams are reporting losses, plenty make money... but one exception to that would be the current Oakland A's! The effort will focus on sports industry entities that are reporting “significant tax losses” to “determine if the income and deductions driving the losses” are lawful, according to the IRS announcement earlier this year.
This would be soooo awesome if billionaires were finally stopped from taking sports teams as tax deductions.
Dude, there’s a long, long list of people and things much more evil than that. I mean, Fisher is an asshole, but he’s not a murdering dictator, or Elon Musk. Go Quakesfans!!
Bally’s chair: The A's had already made the decision to leave the Bay Area when I spoke to them. Nice job by Bally’s chairman Soo Kim inadvertently revealing the A’s lies about their attempts to find a solution in the Bay Area. 🤡🤡🤡 pic.twitter.com/BEmJRFWQYw— Damon Amendolara (@DamonAmendo) May 7, 2024 There are 553 sports teams in U.S.-based leagues averaging more fans per home game than the Oakland Athletics right now On that list are three Indoor Football League franchises, two college wrestling teams, a professional women’s volleyball team, and a whole lot more 👇 pic.twitter.com/dyYiGcBP74— Lev Akabas (@LevAkabas) May 7, 2024 cool interactive graphic with all 553 teams (including the Quakes, Republic, BayFC) is here https://www.sportico.com/leagues/ba...etics-attendance-mlb-sports-teams-1234777988/
Do the Quakes hold a Taiwanese Heritage Day? If not they should. Unrelated: Jensen Huang can we interest you in buying a professional baseball and / or soccer team in the Bay Area? Same owner so maybe you can get a discount... not that you need one.
Via @SBJ @MLB commissioner suggests the A’s are paying for upgrades in Sacramento pic.twitter.com/uFAkSiXflV— Howard Stutz (@howardstutz) May 24, 2024 I'm honestly starting to believe there's no path that doesn't end in contraction, which I know makes no business sense but neither does anything about this process.— Melissa Lockard (@melissalockard) May 24, 2024 Thread: Long-time A's reporter (and current reporter at @TheAthletic) @melissalockard gave voice to an extraordinary thought this week, one that really has me reflecting; with my apologies, a thread... 1/https://t.co/VQMdnfQTQ7— Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill) May 27, 2024