Story by Alan Snel Photos by Hugh Byrne
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — As if hosting the wildly-exciting Stanley Cup Final was not intense enough, Las Vegas is also home to six MLB Athletics games at Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin this week.
LVSportsBiz.com caught up with A’s owner John Fisher, who attended the insane, epic and instant-classic SCF Game 3 in which the Vegas Golden Knights won, 5-4, over the Carolina Hurricanes after the VGK led, 4-0, after two periods.
Here’s our Fisher interview before his A’s hosted the 40-23 Milwaukee Brewers for the 7 PM MLB game at the Triple-A ballpark in Downtown Summerlin. The stadium is the home of the Las Vegas Aviators, the Athletics’ AAA affiliate.
LVSportsBiz.com also interviewed A’s president Marc Badain, who talked about the excitement of the A’s big leaguers playing MLB regular season games in their future 2028 home market. Badain, who also oversaw the construction of the Raiders stadium as that team’s former president, said construction of the A’s stadium roof just began.
The Athletics’ $2 billion domed stadium is slated to open for the 2028 MLB eason.
We even chatted with A’s broadcaster Chris Caray, the great-grandson of legendary baseball broadcaster Harry Caray and the latest member of the Caray baseball broadcaster legacy.
Caray talked about an ascending A’s team that is expected to compete for a division title in 2026 and can still be improving by 2028 when the historic American League franchise lands at its palatial ball yard at the former Tropicana hotel-casino site on the Strip at Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard.
The A’s are playing in a Triple-A ballpark in West Sacramento while their stadium is being built on the Strip.
They’re also phasing business operations into the Las Vegas market like opening a visitors center in the UnCommons business and food hub while also trying to sell premium seat deals that require a personal seat license charge.