Funding in place to pay for final cost of $2B Strip ballpark, A’s president says
August 22, 2025
Funding in place to pay for final cost of $2B Strip ballpark, A’s president says
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That’s unfortunate.
Welp
This article doesn’t say what changed, or if anything changed. This article feels like a nothingburger. The A’s may get there, but I don’t think anything material has changed yet.
I feel bad for the Nevada taxpayers who will be covering the shortfall on the bond payments, all for a billionaire’s new stadium. FJF
$2B just to build a stadium on that little piece of land. Crazy.
Waterfront baseball stadium in downtown Oakland would have been amazing.
There is nothing of substance in the article. I mean, you could technically say all along that FJF had the funding just based on his shares of GAP. I will believe it when I hear more details.
An article written by Mick Akers in the Las Vegas Review Journal? That is something I will always trust and believe in. /s
Obviously we’re hoping Fisher fails with this project but I just read the article. Am I just delusional or It’s still a whole lot of nothing essentially? Sure there’s a lot of work being done on site, but as far as we know it’s Bally’s thats funding the ground work
Knowing that Mick Akers is Fisher/A’s mouthpiece, it’s just another article they pushed out saying that “we’re funding the stadium.”
Thank the heavens! Glad everyone could get this through.
I went to Vegas recently for work – loved seeing how quickly they have embraced the As.
“trust us, bro”
Sure it is
Funding could actually be in place but we are not getting that news broken by Bootlick Akers who has been saying it has for years.
2B? oh john fisher going somewhere else
Right down the street here in NE Philly is the Delaware River and planty of land. Philadelphia A’s! I can bring my Joe Rudi hat.
There’s were my $20 breakfast sandwiches on the strip are going to
It seems the purpose of this article is just to quote A’s president Marc Badain saying the funding is in place.
And to me (my own opinion), it seems Marc Badain is throwing it out there with the following quote, that if anything goes south, that it’s on John Fisher (and not Marc Badain). I wonder if Badain is thinking about his next job/project and not wanting to be associate with this stadium if it doesn’t get built.
> “Well, we have a budget, and we build contingencies into that,” Badain said Thursday following a Las Vegas Stadium Authority meeting. “John (Fisher) said what he said, and the financing is in place for that dollar amount.”
Well, at least the next phase concrete hasn’t been going in yet (since there is no permit for steel yet… and the design is still in progress… per this article). 🫠
17 comments
That’s unfortunate.
Welp
This article doesn’t say what changed, or if anything changed. This article feels like a nothingburger. The A’s may get there, but I don’t think anything material has changed yet.
I feel bad for the Nevada taxpayers who will be covering the shortfall on the bond payments, all for a billionaire’s new stadium. FJF
$2B just to build a stadium on that little piece of land. Crazy.
Waterfront baseball stadium in downtown Oakland would have been amazing.
There is nothing of substance in the article. I mean, you could technically say all along that FJF had the funding just based on his shares of GAP. I will believe it when I hear more details.
An article written by Mick Akers in the Las Vegas Review Journal? That is something I will always trust and believe in. /s
Obviously we’re hoping Fisher fails with this project but I just read the article. Am I just delusional or It’s still a whole lot of nothing essentially? Sure there’s a lot of work being done on site, but as far as we know it’s Bally’s thats funding the ground work
Knowing that Mick Akers is Fisher/A’s mouthpiece, it’s just another article they pushed out saying that “we’re funding the stadium.”
Thank the heavens! Glad everyone could get this through.
I went to Vegas recently for work – loved seeing how quickly they have embraced the As.
“trust us, bro”
Sure it is
Funding could actually be in place but we are not getting that news broken by Bootlick Akers who has been saying it has for years.
2B? oh john fisher going somewhere else
Right down the street here in NE Philly is the Delaware River and planty of land. Philadelphia A’s! I can bring my Joe Rudi hat.
There’s were my $20 breakfast sandwiches on the strip are going to
It seems the purpose of this article is just to quote A’s president Marc Badain saying the funding is in place.
And to me (my own opinion), it seems Marc Badain is throwing it out there with the following quote, that if anything goes south, that it’s on John Fisher (and not Marc Badain). I wonder if Badain is thinking about his next job/project and not wanting to be associate with this stadium if it doesn’t get built.
> “Well, we have a budget, and we build contingencies into that,” Badain said Thursday following a Las Vegas Stadium Authority meeting. “John (Fisher) said what he said, and the financing is in place for that dollar amount.”
Well, at least the next phase concrete hasn’t been going in yet (since there is no permit for steel yet… and the design is still in progress… per this article). 🫠
The price of steel in the U.S. has gone up [16% this year because of the tariffs](https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/07/24/us-steel-producers-hike-prices-amid-trumps-tariffs), and there was a recent layoff of [500+ steel workers](https://www.cbtnews.com/uaw-rallies-after-500-layoffs-at-cleveland-cliffs-dearborn-steel-plant) in one of two major steel manufacturers in the U.S.
But FJF says he’s good for it.
/s
Fuck Fisher