{"id":39407,"date":"2024-03-06T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T23:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=39407"},"modified":"2024-03-08T13:30:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T21:30:51","slug":"new-as-ballpark-renderings-rate-high-for-laughability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/new-as-ballpark-renderings-rate-high-for-laughability\/","title":{"rendered":"New A’s Ballpark Renderings Rate High for Laughability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The potential move of the Oakland A’s to Las Vegas has become one of the most baffling and amusing episodes in the history of Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

The amusement continues with the recent release of new ballpark renderings from the A’s, renderings which have elicited a wide range of reactions. By “range,” of course, we mean all the various forms of ridicule.<\/p>\n

Here are the A’s renderings. A quote from a high ranking casino executive sums it up best, “You can never have too many imaginary ballparks.”<\/p>\n

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Fun fact: Las Vegas recently experienced winds of 69 miles per hour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The A’s called upon a Danish design firm, Bjarke Ingels Group, a company that clearly has never visited Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n

The baseball-theater-slash-opera-house is described as “a spherical armadillo,” although, our first thought was the designer was inspired by Tina Turner’s shoulder pads in “Beyond Thunderdome.”<\/p>\n

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Youths, “Beyond Thunderdome” was a 1985 movie about a post-apocalyptic dystopian future. Like San Francisco today, but with Australian accents.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the renderings were released, architectural and sports experts began rattling off problems with the ballpark’s design, which was adorable, because analyzing this project with “logic” is like fact-checking the Teen Choice Award-nominated film “Armageddon.”<\/p>\n

Don’t freak out, fellow OCD sufferers, we’ll shoehorn another movie reference into this story before we’re done.<\/p>\n

The three biggest issues with the A’s renderings: 1) The A’s don’t have financing. 2) There’s no Bally’s. Which, oh, also doesn’t have financing. 3) The sun doesn’t set in the east.<\/p>\n

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Baseball players absolutely love the challenge of batting with the sun in their eyes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ultimately, it’s pointless to tear into the A’s ballpark renderings because, in the words of another casino executive (about the A’s ownership and management team), “These aren’t serious people.”<\/p>\n

These renderings are obviously an April Fools’ Day joke, the A’s just missed it by a few weeks.<\/p>\n

Naturally, the typical knee-jerk P.R. reaction to the tsunami of mockery ensued, with Las Vegas officials circling the wagons to express how excited they are about the A’s imaginary sportsball amphitheater which we have dubbed the “Debacle Dome” until there’s a naming rights deal.<\/p>\n

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You know it’s legit when Henderson and Summerlin Little League has your back.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The true believers keep on believing, of course, because Las Vegas was built on optimism and short memories.<\/p>\n

Here’s a nice walk down memory lane at the previous ballpark proposals from the A’s.<\/p>\n

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#Athletics<\/a> ballpark proposal renderings over the years…<\/p>\n

First up; Ballpark proposed for Fremont version one: pic.twitter.com\/WkZAzTI67g<\/a><\/p>\n

— MLB Cathedrals (@MLBcathedrals) March 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n