{"id":281377,"date":"2026-04-23T03:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281377\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:09:18","slug":"ex-as-owner-rips-despicable-giants-for-teams-relocation-from-oakland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281377\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-A\u2019s owner rips \u2018despicable\u2019 Giants for team\u2019s relocation from Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former A\u2019s owner Lew Wolff is blaming the \u201cdespicable\u201d MLB team across the bay for the franchise\u2019s departure from Oakland.<\/p>\n

In a new book titled \u201cMoments,\u201d Wolff wrote that the A\u2019s leaving the city they had called home for 57 seasons was \u201c100 percent due to the nasty, shameful, and continuing opposition of the Giants,\u201d who blocked attempts by the franchise to move to nearby cities as they fought for a new stadium site, according to The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Wolff, who owned the franchise for roughly a decade from 2005-16, pointed the finger at the Giants\u2019 territorial rights that extend into Santa Clara County, including San Jose, as a key reason the A\u2019s South Bay relocation plan repeatedly fell through.<\/p>\n

\"OwnerOwner Lew Wolff and Owner John Fisher of the Oakland Athletics talk in the stands during the game against the Houston Astros<\/a> at the Oakland Coliseum on July 19, 2016 in Oakland, California. Getty Images<\/p>\n

After a long-running stadium saga in Oakland, the Athletics<\/a> left Oakland Coliseum after the 2024 season for their temporary home at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento \u2014 home of the Triple-A River Cats (a Giants affiliate) \u2014 before their eventual move to Las Vegas in 2028.<\/p>\n

The A\u2019s current owner, John Fisher, who bought the team from Wolff in 2016, has long drawn the ire of Oakland faithful as the main person to blame for their city losing the A\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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Wolff, who has been called \u201ca dear and long-term friend\u201d by Fisher, sees it differently.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn Fisher gets blamed for things he doesn\u2019t deserve to be blamed for,\u201d Wolff said. \u201cThe Giants\u2019 position really, really messed us up in trying to even negotiate with Oakland.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Owner of the Oakland Athletics, Lew Wolff attends the spring training game against the San Diego Padres at Peoria Stadium on March 11, 2014 in Peoria, Arizona. Getty Images<\/p>\n

After the team announced its intention to leave Oakland, A\u2019s fans staged several massive protests, including a reverse boycott<\/a> during the club\u2019s second-to-last season at the Coliseum, as they voiced their anger over ownership\u2019s decision to abandon the city after years of stadium drama.<\/p>\n

Their departure leaves the Giants as the lone baseball franchise in a 7.6-million-person Bay Area market.<\/p>\n

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Last summer, the A\u2019s broke ground on the $1.75 billion stadium<\/a> on the Las Vegas Strip, which is expected to be ready for Opening Day 2028.<\/p>\n

The team kicked off the second season of its short-lived tenure in Sacramento last month, having gone 13-11 and leading the American League West heading into Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former A\u2019s owner Lew Wolff is blaming the \u201cdespicable\u201d MLB team across the bay for the franchise\u2019s departure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1956,7,25417,47123,120998,143,14827,12300,145,144,36989,100662,2611,46988,47977],"class_list":{"0":"post-281377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-houston-astros","11":"tag-john-fisher","12":"tag-lew-wolff","13":"tag-oakland","14":"tag-oakland-athletics","15":"tag-oakland-coliseum","16":"tag-oakland-headlines","17":"tag-oakland-news","18":"tag-peoria","19":"tag-peoria-stadium","20":"tag-san-diego-padres","21":"tag-the-athletics","22":"tag-the-giants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}