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John Fisher met with four reporters before the A’s home opener. “It’s a very hopeful time.”
Fisher was asked what his response would be to Sacramento locals miffed at the idea of not calling the team the Sacramento A’s despite using the region as its home.
“It’s professional baseball,” he said. “It doesn’t get any better than this. It’s the Athletics against the Chicago Cubs in front of 14,000 people. Which, people are saying, ‘Oh, it’s a minor league ballpark.’ I’m like, ‘This is the most intimate, positive experience that anybody can have in Major League Baseball today.’
The saga has led to many A’s fans imploring Fisher to sell the team. He was asked Monday if he ever considered it, and his reasoning for moving forward with moving the franchise.
“From the beginning, I’ve been committed to having this team be successful for the next 50 years,” Fisher said. “And I really saw that as (an) important part of what I stood for and what I wanted to achieve for this team. And so really, everything that I’ve done, the work that we did in the Bay Area, the work that we did in Oakland, and ultimately moving things forward in Las Vegas and here in Sacramento, were part of where I think the team needs to go to be successful.”
“We’ve finalized all of our plans,” Fisher said. “We’re going through our processes with different agencies, including the County Commission, which has to sort of approve the project. And so we’re close. We really moved at an incredible pace in terms of getting these things done and achieved and designed, yeah.
“We’re in a good place.”
https://www.sacbee.com/sports/mlb/article303207936.html
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