On Baseball Stadiums: LVSportsBiz Chats With NBC Regional Broadcaster Brodie Brazil On Athletics’ Efforts To Build $1.5 Billion Ballpark On Strip In Las Vegas

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

Not only does TV broadcaster Brodie Brazil tackle the pregame and postgame duties for NBC Regional’s coverage of the Oakland Athletics in the Bay area, Brazil has followed the Athletics stadium situation in Las Vegas very closely.

Brodie has chatted with LVSportsBiz.com about the A’s stadium plan several times for his outstanding YouTube channel. LVSportsBiz.com considers Brazil an authoritative voice on the franchise’s decision to try and build a $1.5 billion, 33,000-seat stadium at the Tropicana hotel site on the Strip.

So, today we flipped the script and LVSportsBiz.com videotaped Brazil about his thoughts and observations about the controversial Athletics move to Las Vegas and other related stadium topics.

Our chat is broken into three segments:

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LVSportsBiz.com is spending some time in Mesa at the Athletics spring training camp and at four preseason A’s games at Hohokam Stadium Saturday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday to get more background on this historic A’s franchise and to talk with fans and any officials about the stadium subject. Subscribe to LVSportsBiz.com for our coverage.

 


 

Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.