What is the Oakland Coliseum’s fate…?

here’s Prody Brazil just a reminder you can leave me a voicemail anytime you want anytime something comes to your mind give me a call i never actually pick up this number but put it in your phone right now 510 3433640 hi Brady my name is Josh i’m calling from Perth Australia just giving you a call just about the open coliseum and it being used for cricket now and if you see the Coliseum future being a cricket and soccer venue and if you think cricket will catch on in the Bay Area thanks no Josh thank you isn’t the internet amazing somebody calling in from thousands of miles away oceans away in Perth Australia to ask me about the sports venue that I pretty much grew up in the Oakland Coliseum one that’s not very far from where I still live today so Josh thank you very much for your concern and the call and this is definitely a topic that is front burner on my mind these days the Oakland A’s are no longer they’ve departed to West Sacramento i don’t know what’s next for the future of the Oakland Coliseum i mean the arena has sat there i say dormant and vacant that’s not entirely true there are other events that happen at the indoor arena where the Warriors used to play but I worry a little bit more about the outdoor cavernous coliseum it just doesn’t have the prototype to fit for a lot of other concerts or indoor type events i just don’t know who exactly is going to be renting it out on a regular basis that being said we’re seeing cricket there like right now as I’m recording this video we’ve seen Oakland Roots the soccer club playing their first season at the Coliseum but all of that is temporary by design that’s not a permanent solution that’s not a forever home the point I want to make about the Coliseum is this the venue definitely needs a plan and a direction moving forward now I realize there’s this weird sentimental aspect of you don’t want to touch it just in case there’s the hope there’s the thought that somehow someway Major League Baseball could ever return to Oakland and we know that is not where you want to land long term but just keeping that space open and available for a while instability of the A’s exists and until they can actually no not do groundbreaking but like fully fund a stadium project somewhere else you kind of just want to keep the door unlocked the door might be closed but maybe there’s a weird sentimental aspect about locking that door and doing something else with the coliseum but my point is for the good of the stadium for the good of the venue for the value of the venue something else needs to happen there I think on a regular basis otherwise it’s an eyesore otherwise otherwise it goes through degradation uh depletion as a venue it’s one of those things where like if you don’t use it you kind of lose it in terms of the quality of the venue but we went from 81 home baseball dates there every summer and about a $1 million rent paid annually by the A’s to now potentially and I say this in a good way fewer events but I do think the Coliseum can actually make more money with the rent they can get from other events and they can get more than a million dollars so it’s not probably not a lot more but they are doing fewer things there and maybe they can actually make more money but I don’t know again if that is the endgame this building needs a purpose otherwise the land is just sitting there as a huge resource for Oakland as a huge resource for Alama County as a huge resource for the East Bay in general and what’s it going to be just an empty parking lot for 3 54 days out of the year that just seems like a waste to me the roots are eventually going to want and need their own soccer specific home you know what it’s cool that they’re there i’m going to get out there to a match by the end of this season just to see it but I don’t know that that’s what they ultimately want in the long term i know that’s not what they want they’re doing it because it’s a nice landing spot it gets them away from uh kind of crashing on on friends couches you know whether it was initially Laney College and then Cal State I’m I almost said Cal State Hayward Cal State East Bay for a couple seasons playing up on the hilltop up there but on the ridge but eventually they need their own proper home and this is not it at the Coliseum and the mention was of cricket as well too as part of this that’s definitely an exciting and interesting development like who would have thought even a year ago as we knew the A’s would be departing the coliseum who ever thought something like cricket could be you know a semi-regular event there or a couple cricket test matches being played there cricket is most popular in South Asia right if you look at the entire globe and there’s other places but it’s huge in South Asia and the Bay Area has a large demographic of South Asians especially in the East Bay and so I think it is actually if you look at it and the cool part about it is it’s nice to have a South Asian community where you know cricket feels authentic it feels like oh this is kind of what we do it feels it feels very traditional i hope that it can grow because of that that it feels comfortable here but then it grows here because people might want to check it out but that’s still a long ways away from ever being super popular here or being widely regarded or really accepted here i’m not saying that as a knock they’re doing it right now to kind of showcase cricket in front of a lot of people who have never seen it before and I hope it catches on to a certain degree the whole point here is to just say the Coliseum doesn’t have a purpose right now it’s kind of up in these middle areas and it’s fine for a little while and by that I guess I mean another year or two but if we’re 5 years down the road and the coliseum is just still kind of this multi-purpose thing we just throw anything in there i mean even if it were something as simple as a summertime concert series 10 different concerts lined up throughout the summertime i mean the East Bay gets great weather barely ever rains knock on wood right look how many how how few rain outs there were every baseball season in Oakland do something fun cool um you know kind of groundbreaking if I could use that word do something groundbreaking with the Coliseum that you’ve never done before and hope that it has a second life a second wind a second purpose otherwise it’s just sitting there collecting dust and depleting away and it’s going to cost more than it can ever actually make if you catch my drift all right that’s my thoughts on the coliseum let me know what you think in the comments section below and again 5103433640 you can call me anytime i never actually pick up but I will listen to your voicemails and I will respond to more of the best here on the channel also hit that subscribe button i’d love to see you back here next time

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36 comments

  1. Hey Brodie it would be nice if the owners of the coliseum actually updated the venue to attract other suitors.an example would be the UFL or if MLB has to relocate one of their teams at least it could be an attractive venue for someone.Of course they would not be called the A' but at least there would be a team there again.Also I suspect if the A's didn't have a delinquent owner who alienated the fans they would still be in Oakland where they belong in my opinion.Keep up the good work your channel is amazing!!!

  5. That area is ripe to turn into a transit oriented development district, hopefully with some housing and also with an entertainment district. The location is amazing and it already has incredible transit connections.

  6. Let is stand as a white elephant and reminder to cities shy they should not fund these projects in any way shape or form. Oakland only recently paid off the final amount of the bonds owned on Mt. Davis while getting zero return in revenue. CIties that draw up these deals either need to do a better job getting ROI or stay out of them all together. Celtics sold for 6 billion, Lakers are going to be sold for 10 billion. How much value did they get ouf of new buildings ? Point is cites should only provide tax payer money for a FULL return on investment, empty promises of jobs and taxes alone never work out for cities or the taxpayers.

  8. Ideally I would like them to do something similar to Kezar. Tear it down to one level pole to pole, open outfield. Then use it as a community stadium for high school and juco games, maybe even the Ballers if they get an MiLB affiliation.

  9. The African American Sports and Entertainment Group (AASEG) has plans for the Coliseum. They plan to develop around and plan to bring some new life into it. Currently it is being used for Soccer and Cricket.

    Currently FOUR teams are playing there:

    * Oakland Roots (USLC Soccer) (2025ā€“present)
    * Oakland Soul (USLW Soccer) (2025ā€“present)
    * San Francisco Unicorns (MLC Cricket) (2025ā€“present)
    * United States national cricket team (2025-present)

    As to Cricket, it has a small but growing following in the USA. Currently there are teams in New York, Florida, Washington DC, Oakland, and Los Angeles.

    The challenge with Cricket is that it requires a stadium dimensions different from Baseball or Football, as it uses an Oval design which different from the Baseball or Football dimensions and a bigger field. The advantage to a stadium like Oakland, being one of the last of the "Cookie Cutter" multipurpose stadium is that its shape is more circular and larger, which is perfect for Cricket. A lot of the current baseball only or football only stadiums do not have the correct dimensions for cricket. This is why I think that it might not be demolished.

  10. A UFL Expansion Football Team would be great for the Coliseum. Also, I would love to see the A's change their name once they move to Vegas and relocate one of their minor league teams and name them the Oakland Athletics with the same old jerseys and in the same old Coliseum the Major League A's used to play in.

  12. Whatever city the Aā€™s do end up in, thereā€™s likely going to be a AAA team already in place. Send that team to Oakland and drastically downsize and remodel the stadium for AAA ball. I think I heard a group of African American Businessman (donā€™t remember the name of the group) was given the property so who knows. Likely more apartments and office buildings like the rest of the free space left in the Bay Area.

  13. If I had my say it would be to bring back Day on the Green concerts. Book the big boys again and let's stand in line and get wasted all day b4 collapsing after 6 bands destroy your ears for days. I miss the 70s thru the 90s.

  14. Living now in Los Angeles, and going to Dodger Stadium and Big A, itā€™s obvious the Coliseum can be renovated. Aā€™s fans never cared about an oceanfront ballparkā€”that was ownership. Only thing Aā€™s fans cared about was the Raiders tearing up the field around playoffs every year. But with the Raiders gone, and Fisherā€™s plans uncertain, letā€™s double down. Renovate the Coliseum for Major League Baseball and bring back the Oakland Aā€™s. Donā€™t say it canā€™t happen. Anything can happen. Have you seen whoā€™s president?

  16. Having an empty Coliseum available to showcase sports gives the Bay Area a unique opportunity, if it is big enough. Hearing a caller from Australia gave me an idea. Could the Coliseum host Australian Rules Football? Would teams be willing to come here for a match. I know that the club I follow, St. Kilda, has been to Colorado in the past for High Altitude Training. I just do not know what size the ground needs to be. The MCG in Melbourne looks enormous on TV. Other games, like the games in Darwin or Alice Springs appear small.

    I would absolutely love to see a game here.

  17. I've heard bad things about the Coliseum. Just from watching the movie "Moneyball" about a sewage problem. I bet it can give it a bad smell and maybe rot some of the structure. It they can fix that completely then bring something in there, but it is not a ballpark. Football should be it's focus.

  19. You should've just said to be "teared down" and get it over with. After all, its a piece of šŸ’© that is met its days and no longer has that charms of gatherings and mahir events that took place over the years. That for Oakland's minor sports teams to get modern stadiums to continue their annual home games there.

  24. Oi Oi Oi to Josh! Having a caller from Australia is pretty cool.

    Weird rabbit hole question series related to "fewer and more"…does the City of Oakland get a share of the concessions or do they run the concessions? And if they do, is the sum total of rent + concessions with fewer events greater than rent + concessions with the Athletics there? And would it make sense to turn the Coliseum into a true multi-purpose venue to try and max out revenues and give it that second life?

  25. The Oakland Coliseum was absolutely the WORST multi-purpose MLB/NFL stadium built in the mid-1960ā€™s. Lousy design compared to the others with the football fuel going from 1st to 3rd base. Field level seats and dugouts were far away from the baselines. Other than the view of the Oakland hills, it was terrible. Poor design which should have been torn down when the Raiders moved to LA. Should have built a baseball-only stadium then and told Al Davis to eff off.

  27. Life long A's fan. I was in India years ago and went to some cricket matches. I still don't fully understand the game, especially the length. But if they had matches at the Oakland Coliseum I'd totally go check it out. We have a huge Indian population in the San Ramon Valley so I know there would be some interest initially if they'd have some international friendlies.

  30. We need to destroy and rebuild. Call it the Coliseum 2.0 (minus Mt. Davis) bring back those glorious views of the Oakland hills. In order to do this there needs to be a group of investors (Joe Lacob) and folks to come together who are interested in keeping pro sports back to the East Bay and they need to work with the African American group who are finalizing the deal for the Coliseum site. This is our BEST chance. Our only happy ending to Moneyball 2 is to get another team to represent us and beat John Fisher's A'ss! IF YOU BUILD IT WE WILL COME āš¾

  31. Professional sports in Oakland sadly that ship has sailed there are way more attractive markets that have better financial conditions than Oakland. Baseball has a lot of good options in Nashville, Portland, Charlotte and so on and they donā€™t have to compete with the Giants. Same goes for NFL so many better markets unfortunately. So professional sports may come but itā€™s going to be 30-50 years if it does

    Anyway that space will be rent controlled paper houses for the foreseeable future.

  32. That's a very interesting question. There are a number of possibilities. For the The Roots, there is most likely enough room in ether side of the parking lot to build a whole new soccer stadium. As for the Coliseum, Oakland needs to decide if they want to put together a "baseball project" for possible expansion ( like the "Dreamers"). If so, major renovations are in order, it won't keep it's massive configuration. If not, it needs to come down, keep Henderson Field add a small Oakland baseball museum, and repurpose the rest of the lot. I am aware that expansion is a very remote possibility in Oakland and it wouldn't happen until at least 2032.

  35. I love the Coliseum! To me, it is a classic throwback old-school football field played on baseball diamond dirt. I never understood the need for ā€œmodern amenitiesā€. All of todayā€™s ā€œmodernā€ stadiums are all clones basically using the same blueprints. Get your ass in a seat and shut up. I donā€™t need a gigantic scoreboard that gives me unnecessary BS. All you need is the score, down and distance and quarter. Give me a beer and a couple of hot dogs and Iā€™m good. And if it rains or inclement weather, all the better. Keep it simple. No fluff and glitter. Just the facts! The Coliseum has that, well, charm! šŸ„°šŸ¤™

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