Cal Canha

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@serenity67 @CalBearCanha He was hired in 2016. “Pretty quickly” guessing you stopped giving the A’s your money and time by the end of 2017/early 2018? Surely by then your great “character radar” kicked in and you stopped supporting them? Right? 😉

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@litewallymex3 @ThatBootlegGuy Exactly, the uncapped system has been great for the top players. The Ohtani’s/Judges etc. They are what pushes the AAV up. Not the low level veterans. The 30 year olds trying to get one more year of service time. Tommy Pham talked about this on @FoulTerritoryTV earlier this year.

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@serenity67 @ThatBootlegGuy That’s literally what every pro league commissioner does. You think Roger Goodell makes $64 million a year because NFL owners all think he’s a great guy? 😅

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@ThatBootlegGuy I’m on the players side. The current system favors the 1% of players, the Ohtani’s/Judges/Sotos. The middle class has left money on the table without a cap/floor. Passen talked about it in that episode. NFL players get a bigger piece of their revenue pie even WITH a cap/floor.

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@NewDiveBar @RFWill149 It’s easier to blame owners. Fisher won. He got his stadium. Oakland lost. They also lost the Warriors, Raiders and Marshawn Lynch’s Panthers. And Sheng faces 95 years in federal prison. The previous vice mayor Kaplan & Carroll Fife were also was corrupt.

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@RFWill149 Oakland politics and terrible financial situation is the bigger reason. They should’ve voted on the HT proposal. They shouldn’t have been afraid of using IFDs in it. 4 teams left in a decade. Even Oaklands favorite son, Marshawn Lynch, couldn’t keep his arena league team in Oak.

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@serenity67 More reason it’s unfortunate vice mayor Kaplan lied to all of us about being able to fix the decrepit infrastructure at HT/JLS. Will it ever be fixed? I feel bad for all the wonderful small businesses there still. I used to go there a lot of weekends with the farmers market there

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@Dtruitne @CalBearCanha @oaklandfans @Athletics @MLB @VegasAthletics @NBCSAthletics @mcuban @Vivek All facts. Sorry if you have no real response to that. I’m always open to a civil discussion.

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@CaseyAPratt Rent free lol

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@LadyOaklandFan @AthleticsFarm And yet you’re still a Raiders fan?

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@serenity67 And there were extremely telling quotes from OCC members. Ones I’ve referenced before. These were their comments after voting on their own term sheet. So many were against really any project. It was very clear.

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@serenity67 Here’s another great article from around that time. With a lot of the same quotes but also this, which has been my point all along:

https://t.co/G7a55ilGxl

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@serenity67 Why can’t simply admit the city’s proposal was a failure. It was grandstanding to even vote on that. They were never getting it done without IFDs.

And another quote you posted was telling mentioning 30% affordable housing. They moved the goal posts SO MANY times on that. WOW 😳

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@serenity67 Once again you dodge the most important question. Why is it so hard for you and other city apologists to answer this?

Why vote on something both sides didn’t agree to? The A’s never agreed to that termsheet. Your Kaval quotes prove that. Why vote then?

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@serenity67 Wow Schaafs comments look even worse there. So crazy. It takes two parties to negotiate. The termsheet was not available to the public prior. I’ll try to find Kaval’s comments after the vote but he specifically said the team had not seen the full term sheet prior to the vote.

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@serenity67 He’s not wrong there. How’s that WNBA team doing in Oakland? 😂

Here’s another one for you from around that time. He knew Oakland wasn’t a serious partner. People like Fife/Gallo/Kaplan never wanted the A’s to stay. They were against ever proposal (even the city’s revised one).

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@serenity67 IFDs would not have put the city at financial risk. The A’s would’ve only been paid back if the taxes went up in that area. I deal with facts, not feelings. And it’s clear the FEELINGS of many OCC members affected their judgement here. And I’m sorry they lied to you.

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@serenity67 This was from S.F. Gate basically a lot of the same quotes, just written after the vote. I wish the city had listened to Kaval. He wasn’t lying to them. And the team was right. The city and Kaplan couldn’t adequately address the offsite infrastructure without the IFDs. Thank you.

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@serenity67 Where’s the termsheet? It’s not in that article. And those are lot of the same quotes I use. There were parts of it the team had not seen. They stated this after the vote.

But that still doesn’t answer my most simple question. Why vote on something both sides didn’t agree on?

[Cal Canha @CaIBearCanha]

@serenity67 And how’d the city’s proposal go? Was it feasible? Plausible? Successful in any way? Or was it just political grandstanding.

Kaplan was more worried about getting a WNBA team during that time. Oh and she FAILED at that as well 😂 😂