That’s all tix sold.
Historically the NL counted tix used while the AL counted tix sold. They agreed on tix sold about the time interleague play started.
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The A’s lease at RingCenter runs through the 2024 season. They’ll proly honor that lease. For 2025 and 2026 they could play at Las Vegas Ballbark. Even unexpanded, I can’t imagine they’d sell over 10k tix/gm in Oakland, so why not? Another option mentioned in the article is sharing Oracle with the Giants in 2025 and 2026.
Trivia time: where have the A’s been the longest?
Answer: Oakland 56 years (1968-2023). They were in Philly 54 years (1901-1954), and KC 13 years (1955-1967). They’ll be the first four city franchise (ETA: of the White Leagues, see below).
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The Nashville/Columbus/Washington/Baltimore Elite Giants also spent a season as the Cleveland Cubs.
Yeah, I was going from memory regarding the Negro Lgs with the four city franschise remark. I fucked it up.
As you mentioned, the Elite Giants were a five city franchise. Although there is a quibble. When MLB announced that certain Negro League seasons are now recognized as major league, they also stated the exact records are under review, and they were using the Seamheads database as the starting point. One of the points of review is franchise continuity. There are several examples where Seamheads and Wikipedia currently differ. Seamheads lists the Cleveland Cubs as a distinct franchise. Wikipedia lists them as you mentioned, detailed below…
- Nashville Elite Giants (NNL1 1930)
- Cleveland Cubs (NNL1 1931)
- Nashville Elite Giants (NSL, 1932)
- Nashville Elite Giants (NNL2, 1933-1934)
- Columbus Elite Giants (NNL2, 1935)
- Washington Elite Giants (NNL2, 1936-1937)
- Baltimore Elite Giants (NNL2, 1938-1948)
I fucked it up twice in fact. I also didn’t remember the Indianapolis/St.Louis/New Orleans/Harrisberg ABCs/Stars, another four city franchise. They moved from St.Louis to New Orleans during the 1940 season, were on hiatus in 1942, and despite having “St.Louis” in their name in 1943, they only played in Harrisburg. Seamheads and Wikipedia agree on this one.
- Indianapolis ABCs (NAL 1938)
- St.Louis Stars (NAL 1939)
- St.Louis-New Orleans Stars (NAL 1940)
- New Orleans Stars (NNL2 1941)
- Harrisburg-St.Louis Stars (NNL2, 1943)
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Posting this lead me to look up Frank Castillo. I didn’t know this or maybe forgot, but he drowned in a lake in 2013.
2023 
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We are continuing our Cali driving holiday… two nights in Visalia, five nights in San Diego, and two nights in Stockton. Tomorrow is a driving day. Previously we have seen the Quakes win game #3 in Visalia, and the Grizzlies win game #4 in Fresno. The Stockton Ports really didn’t want to win that last game. They went up 5-0, then blew that lead. They scored three in the top of the 9th to go up 9-7, then the Port’s LF clanged an easy fly ball that would have ended the game in the bottom of the 9th. The Ports scored their Manfred man in the 10th and 11th… only to lose 11-12. Ouch. Next up…
- Sunday 2pm: Visalia Rawhide (A D’backs) vs Stockton Ports (A’s) @ Banner Island Ballpark.
Both the D’backs organization (0-2) and the A’s organization (0-1) have been eliminated from the SDDC race.
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Welp that’s about the dumbest way you could ever possibly imagine a perfect game getting ruined by a position player, but no one will ever top Jim Joyce. Statcast says .240 XBA on this.
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I’m amazed the cleveland cubs finished with a winning record
Seamheads have the Cleveland Cubs at 26-26.
NBZ quickly corrected my fuckup regarding four city franchises. I’ve admitted I was lazy. I didn’t even peruse my own notes regarding this issue. Of course, I’m just a fool chatting on the interwebs. I’m not a respected announcer, writer, and I’ve never been pumped as the next MLB commish (no matter that I should have).
Bob Costas made the same fuckup.
The A’s will hold the distinction of being the only franchise in Major League history to have been called by the same name in four different cities, Costas said.
I can’t even think of another team that has been in three cities.
This should be incredibly embarrising for Costas. I guess we should do a Costas stumping trivia question.
Q: how many current MLB franchises have been in three cities…
A: three: the afore mentioned A’s (Philly, KC, Oakland), the Braves (Boston, Milwaukee, Atlanta); the Orioles (Milwaukee Brewers, St.Louis Browns, Baltimore)
Run Diff Medal Stand at the 20 game mark
Rays/Cubs/Rangers
https://twitter.com/SNYtv/status/1647223252547411971
Lmao at letting this asshole continue to own a franchise. This is such a bad look for the league.
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At the rate we’re going there’s gonna be four or five teams in Las Vegas next year.
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Tigazzzz pitcher perfect through 5.
Guy had an amazing game but the As kind of suck. 
He was good through 6 2/3. I’m glad he gave up a hit even though I’m a Tiger fan. It was conceivable that he could have pitched a perfect game and lost, which would be very Tiger-like.
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