A’s Season-Opener In Oakland Set For Thursday After Franchise Revealed Stadium Renderings For Las Vegas Venue On Strip; Tickets Quite Affordable For A’s Home-Opener
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
Tickets for the Athletics’ first home-opener since the news of the franchise’s decision to move to Las Vegas are quite affordable for the A’s-Cleveland Guardians game at the Coliseum Thursday evening.
On the secondary ticket market as of Tuesday night, there was a ticket available for $16.
On the same night, the A’s had a ticket as low as $26.
The A’s home-opener comes less than a month after the franchise revealed its drawings for a planned $1.5 billion, 33,000-seat stadium on the Strip that is scheduled to open for the MLB 2028 season. The domed venue is set to be built on nine acres on the 35-acre site at Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard.
The Tropicana hotel-casino is scheduled to close April 2 and the A’s hope to have a groundbreaking for the stadium in the first half of 2025.
The decision by the Athletics to leave Oakland has left their passionate fans both heartbroken and angry. The team looked at multiple locations from Oakland to San Jose, but could never close a stadium deal.
Instead, the A’s decided to move to Las Vegas after the Nevada state legislature approved $380 million toward the construction of the $1.5 billion stadium. A’s owner John Fisher told LVSportsBiz.com that his family is prepared.
