The Athletics are still years away from their official move to Nevada, but the club gave fans a fresh look at where that future is taking shape.
2nd truss is complete ✅ pic.twitter.com/i5wvPhplSe
— Athletics (@Athletics) August 20, 2026
On Thursday, the team posted a 15-second video on X showing construction activity at the new Las Vegas stadium, with cranes visible around the site on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip. The ballpark is being built while the Athletics continue playing in Sacramento, California, and the franchise is not set to make the official switch to Nevada until the 2028 season.
The update landed in the middle of a relationship that has already been badly frayed. A big part of the anger traces back to the team’s departure from Oakland, where fans spent more than a year protesting owner John Fisher and growing increasingly frustrated with an organization they felt wasn’t doing enough to improve the roster.
That resentment was on full display in the comments under the team’s video. One person wrote, “You lost our truss when you left Oakland,” and added, “We will never truss you.”
Another response was shorter and a lot less forgiving: “BOOOOOOOOO.”
Others took aim at the bigger picture around the move. “All that to go 62-100,” claimed another user.
One individual said, “I'm interested in selling the franchise.”
And another fan asked, “Is anyone even excited about this?”
For now, the Athletics keep moving through the 2026 campaign. They face the Kansas City Royals on Thursday in the final game of a four-game series, then head on the road for a weekend series against the Houston Astros.
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