Mark Davis — just leave!

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thejunki said:
Mark Davis is such a good GM he is trying everything to return us to Glory. I dont understand why so many fans dislike him. There was only one Al Davis but mark definitely have a few of dad traits. Look how fast he tossed josh McDaniels out on his ass lol something Al Davis would do.
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thejunki said:
Mark Davis is such a good GM he is trying everything to return us to Glory. I dont understand why so many fans dislike him. There was only one Al Davis but mark definitely have a few of dad traits. Look how fast he tossed josh McDaniels out on his ass lol something Al Davis would do.
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He’s the owner not GM and has never attempted to be a GM. We are on 15 years since daddy passed. He has not done a good job of keeping the Raiders relevant at all. Until he fixes it for a period of time that exceeds his 15 years of failure people will always be frustrated with him. Given his age that’s unlikely to change but hey a few SB’s may fix things and he’ll get a few kudos for actually making a good decision, by taking himself out of the equation on football decisions. He needs to just be a fan boy and have fun with the players and fans.

With that being said, I kinda like the guy. He seems very down to earth and is very much like a random dude who happens to own a football team. Something about driving a beat up minivan because it still worked I find endearing for a multi millionaire. Even the dumb ass bowl cut he sports because that’s what he likes is a quality I like. Just a true to himself guy who likes porn stars. (I don’t blame him)
 
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Yea I misspoke I understand he is the owner but at times he was owner/GM just like his dad was. Yall claim he has done nothing to keep the Raiders relevant but he did was his dad wasn't able to do which is move the team to Vegas He tried to hire respected people like Reggie Mckenzie, Gruden , Mayock, jack del rio, josh mcdaniels was a hot name before he arrived here. Mark has tried to right the ship. Happy to have Mark as an owner hopefully our new GM can find us a QB
 
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No clue I only Baseball when the Sox are winning. Speaking of Red Sox I am getting nervous I am gonna be my great grandfather. Where I tell my children and my children’s children that I actually got to see the Raiders win a SB. My boys will never get to see it, my grandchildren will see a Raiders SB only when they have children of their own who are getting ready to have my great great grandchildren.
 
alteredst8 said:
No clue I only Baseball when the Sox are winning. Speaking of Red Sox I am getting nervous I am gonna be my great grandfather. Where I tell my children and my children’s children that I actually got to see the Raiders win a SB. My boys will never get to see it, my grandchildren will see a Raiders SB only when they have children of their own who are getting ready to have my great great grandchildren.
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Well, hopefully the Raiders win and the Sox don't, so we all win.

I appreciate your sacrifice.
 
alteredst8 said:
I plopped this in the A’s thread as well but figured why not here too


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Athletics hire former Raiders exec Marc Badain as new team president ahead of Vegas move​


By Evan Drellich
7h ago

Las Vegas and Oakland fans alike will be well familiar with the new public face of the Athletics.

Marc Badain, who was president of the Raiders when the football team moved to Las Vegas from Oakland in 2020 and left a year later amidst controversy, is going to reprise the role with a baseball team making the same transition.

The Athletics on Thursday named Badain as president, replacing Dave Kaval, who exited this winter. Badain — who two years ago publicly criticized Kaval and the organization — now arrives on the job when perhaps the moment of greatest chaos, the team’s exit from Oakland, has already passed. But major challenges nonetheless await in two different markets. The A’s hope to open their new Vegas ballpark in time for the 2028 season, and construction is slated to begin this summer. In the interim, they plan to play at least three years in a minor-league stadium in West Sacramento, called Sutter Health Park.

“The organization is going to go through technically two relocations,” Badain said by phone from Las Vegas. “The process in Sacramento and that program up there, and all the efforts that are being done to make that an incredible experience for the fans, and the improvements to the ballpark that are going to be done up there, that’s certainly a challenge.

“And then building the organization in Las Vegas, and the construction process simultaneously running with the sales process, It’s something I’m obviously familiar with, but that’s a very intense period of time, and you have to be present, and you have to be at everything in this town, and you have to build something spectacular,” he continued.

Badain said the team’s ballpark designs in Las Vegas, for a $1.75 billion, 33,000-seat stadium, meet that qualification. Construction is slated to begin in June, owner John Fisher said last month. The team has access to $380 million in public funding. Badain helped secure $750 million for Allegiant Stadium, the Raiders’ $2 billion football stadium in Las Vegas.

When asked to measure his confidence that the stadium will open on time for the 2028 season, Badain said he has “no doubts on that at all.”

“I’ve been through it, right?” Badain said. “I relocated a professional sports team from the old market to this market, so I obviously have all those relationships with the folks here in town and I’ve been through the process, so I can work with the staff and everybody that’s going to be making those transitions, and then have a lot of very deep and meaningful relationships with people in the community here.”

A spectacular stadium alone won’t amount to a spectacular product. Badain didn’t put any specifics around the A’s payroll going forward, however. The team will spend a projected $104 million this year, per Cot’s Contracts.

“I come from an environment where it was always about putting a competitive team on the field,” Badain said. “John has assured me that that’s the goal, and the move to Las Vegas was met with that in mind. It was met with having the resources available to be more competitive from a salary standpoint: be able to retain your star players and be able to attract free agents. This is obviously a very attractive market for athletes to come to and play in, and if you have the resources available to pay them, you should be able to do exactly what you’re talking about.”

Badain’s tenure at the Raiders ended poorly. He joined the franchise in 1991 and was named their president in 2015, but resigned in 2021 along with two other high-ranking executives because of what owner Mark Davis called “accounting irregularities.”

Davis that year said the team “overpaid our taxes,” and that the practice might have started in Oakland. Davis also said at the time that “it might be” fair to characterize the resignations as forced. Chief financial officer Ed Villanueva and controller Araxie Grant, who denied wrongdoing in an interview with Sports Business Journal, also resigned.

The next year, The New York Times reported that Raiders employees saw “numerous problems large and small” in the organization.

Badain on Thursday declined to explain his exit, but said he recently spoke to Davis.

“There’s nothing really to talk about there,” Badain said. “The relationship was a great one. I talked to him all the time. I’m not going to address what was in the papers three-and-a-half years ago.

“I had a conversation with Mark Davis yesterday. He could not have been more supportive of me taking on this role, I think he’s very excited to have another piece of infrastructure in the town. It may not sound like it, but it’s good to have all these buildings here. … So when one of the large scale events come here — say WrestleMania is at Allegiant Stadium — the other venues get ancillary events.”

Two years ago, Badain criticized the A’s while speaking on a panel, something he addressed during his interview process. The tension stemmed from when the Raiders and A’s shared the Oakland Coliseum, which was still home to the A’s through last year.

“The issues between the Raiders and the A’s are pretty well documented. Frankly, I think Mark [Davis] was diplomatic,” Badain said in 2023, per Sports Illustrated. “This is a small industry. You compete on the field, but you expect a level of honesty and professionalism that just didn’t exist.”

On Thursday, Badain did not elaborate much on what happened.

“It’s never easy when you share a building with another tenant,” Badain said Thursday. “So anytime two teams are in the same building, there are usually disagreements, and Dave (Kaval) and I had our disagreements. These are five, six, seven years ago. So it’s really not something I’m worried about. It’s water under the bridge. I addressed it with John and Sandy very early on, and we’re moving forward.”

Sandy Dean is an A’s minority owner and longtime advisor to owner John Fisher. He served as the interim team president since Kaval left this winter. Dean now carries the title of vice chairman.

The A’s represent Badain’s third stadium effort in Las Vegas, although the second one hasn’t come to fruition. When he left the Raiders, Badain served as president of Oak View Group, where he oversaw a $10 billion development plan that included an NBA arena. The effort reportedly stalled last year.

“The company’s pretty far along on the Vegas arena,” Badain said. “One person I would never bet against is (Oak View CEO) Tim Leiweke, and I know that arena is going to get built, and I look forward to being a patron there on opening day. And when he’s got something to announce, he’ll announce it.”

On the same panel two years ago where he questioned the professionalism of the A’s, Badain painted the Las Vegas market as better for football and basketball than baseball.

“I think it’s a little more challenging,” he said at the time. “The economics of baseball are very different than the other three sports. The regional sports television comes into play here. This is not a huge market for that. And you’re going to have to sell 2 1/2 million tickets. That’s not easy.”

Badain stood by that assessment Thursday, but said he thinks the A’s can nonetheless do well.

“There’s a different revenue-sharing model between baseball and football, obviously,” Badain said. “The challenges that MLB has versus what NFL has are pretty well documented. The economics here in terms of how to sell 2 1/2 million tickets: you start with the stadium, and then you start with an incredible design, and you start with a great product and a great experience. I have no doubt we’ll be able to achieve that here.”

On the TV front, Badain said only that it’s “obviously a big issue” which he, Fisher and Dean have already discussed.

“We are excited to welcome Marc to the Athletics,” Fisher said in the team’s news release. “His vast experience, particularly his work on the opening of Allegiant Stadium and overseeing the Raiders’ move to Las Vegas, makes him a great addition to our team at this pivotal moment. His leadership, commitment to the community, and ability to oversee transformative projects will be key as we look to build a strong and successful future in Southern Nevada.”

Badain said talk of joining the A’s ramped up in January. He said that his friend Rob Goldstein, CEO of the Sands Corporation, had spent time with Dean and recommended a connection.

“John and Sandy have reached out a couple times over the last call, it 12 to 18 months, as they’ve looked at the opportunity here in Vegas,” Badain said.
 
My family is already saying Fuck the A's so we probably won't go to very many games if any while in Sacramento.

I would do it in memory of my Dad who took me to games the first year in Oakland. But maybe I'm all alone within my family.
 
A’s are supposedly one of the most expensive tickets in baseball playing in a minor league stadium out in BFE.
 
DonkeyKilla said:
my son in law to be was a baseball player so we are talking about it. Actually a great little venue.
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Yeah. It's a great little venue for a AAA game. I've seen a few Rivercats games there. Also went to a Father's Day event with the kiddo and (now ex-)wife. It's a nice place.

But I think we're going to see a lot of games like last night when there are MLB players in the stadium.
 
"I say it every year, this is my favorite time -- we are undefeated," Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis quipped this week from the NFL's Annual League Meeting, via The Athletic.

The offseason has also meant big changes for the Raiders in recent seasons. The 2025 spring marks the third consecutive year that Davis' club has had a different coach-general manager combination. This time around, it's a Pete Carroll-John Spytek combo.

"I just didn't get it right," the Raiders owner said of his previous iterations. "That's all there is to it."

"You always want to compete, but you have to be honest," Davis said. "Are we going to win the Super Bowl this year? I don't know ... it's possible."


 
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