The Oakland Athletics are about to embark on a reasonably brutal three-year stretch with out residence.
The A’s introduced an settlement on Thursday to play the following three seasons in Sacramento, California whereas they await a brand new everlasting and long-term residence to be inbuilt Las Vegas, finishing their drawn out relocation.
It’s removed from a super resolution. The truth is, it’s a fairly horrible resolution for everyone concerned.
If all goes in line with plan, they may play the following three seasons at Sutter Well being Park, a 14,000-seat Triple-A Stadium that’s at present residence to the Sacramento River Cats. As a Triple-A stadium, it doesn’t have any of the facilities that Main League Baseball groups sometimes have, from locker rooms, weight rooms and household rooms.
It will make the A’s a good greater punchline as a corporation than they’ve already change into.
However it isn’t the primary time a professional sports activities workforce has had a less-than-ideal short-term stadium resolution.
Let’s check out a number of the others.
Los Angeles Chargers (StubHub Middle)
When the Chargers rushed out of San Diego and again to Los Angeles previous to the 2017 season they did so and not using a everlasting place to play. The momentary resolution was the StubHub Middle, a 30,000 soccer stadium that was by far the smallest venue within the NFL.
Whereas the stadium was at all times stuffed each week, it was sometimes overrun by visiting followers giving the Chargers zero residence area benefit. They ultimately moved into SoFi Stadium that they now share with the Los Angeles Rams.
Arizona Coyotes (Mullett Area)
That is an ongoing state of affairs within the NHL. The Coyotes have been unable to safe a brand new enviornment in Arizona, and now play their video games at Mullett Area, a 5,000-seat faculty hockey enviornment the place the Arizona State Solar Devils are the first tenant.
It’s a very comparable state of affairs to what the Chargers had on the StubHub Middle the place the sector is at all times full, however sometimes with visiting followers. The Coyotes aren’t any nearer to a long-term residence and their future in Arizona may be very a lot nonetheless doubtful.
New York Islanders (Barclays Middle)
When the Islanders had been between arenas on Lengthy Island, they discovered a brief resolution at Brooklyn’s Barclays Middle simply after it opened. Whereas the sector was primarily constructed for basketball (the Brooklyn Nets) and live shows, they had been in a position to squeeze an NHL rink into it however nothing about it made sense.
The scoreboard was off-center and was positioned over the blue line as an alternative of middle ice, whereas one finish of the sector had seats that had been so obstructed the Islanders didn’t even promote them, leading to a three-quarter horseshoe model seating association.
Islanders followers additionally hated it as a result of it felt like their workforce was taken away from them as no one needed to make the journey into Brooklyn. Brooklyn additionally didn’t totally embrace them, typically leading to low attendance figures. The Islanders at the moment are again on Lengthy Island at a model new cutting-edge enviornment that’s constructed for them and hockey.
The Chicago Bears (College of Illinois)
The Chicago Bears needed to quickly relocate down state through the 2002 NFL season when Soldier Area was being rebuilt and renovated. The outcome was them taking part in two hours south on the College of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois. Whereas Bears followers nonetheless principally stuffed the stadium, it created a state of affairs the place the workforce was mainly taking part in a street sport with journey over the course of a whole 16-game season. They ended up going 4-12 and had been ravaged by accidents all season.
Tennessee (Titans) Oilers (Liberty Bowl)
When the Houston Oilers initially left Texas to for Tennessee, they didn’t go straight to Nashville. They spent a few years taking part in in Memphis on the Liberty Bowl, and it was a whole mess. The town by no means accepted them as they knew it was a short-term resolution, the stadium was outdated, whereas the Oilers and NFL made a mockery of the entire thing and tried to swindle Memphis for the whole lot they might.
Memphis noticed proper via it and barely confirmed up for video games. They lastly moved to their everlasting residence in 1999 and had been re-branded because the Tennessee Titans.
