Nevada Legislature passes $380M bill to fund new A's stadium in Las Vegas

While multiple steps remain to finalize the A's move, the passage of Senate Bill 1 - in a special session called by Gov. Joe Lombardo, a proponent of Las Vegas adding a baseball team to the NHL's Golden Knights and NFL's Raiders - paves the ways for it to happen. If the 42-person Nevada Assembly approves it by a majority vote and Lombardo signs the bill into law, MLB owners plan to authorize the A's to relocate and end the team's half-century-plus-long tenure in Oakland.

The passage of the Senate bill comes on the same day A's fans planned a so-called "reverse boycott," in which they would show up to the moribund Oakland Coliseum wearing shirts that say "SELL" and encourage Fisher to unload the team rather than move it. A's fans have abandoned the team this season after a Fisher-forced fire sale led to a depleted roster and the worst record in baseball, 18-50.

Instead of a potential expansion team, Las Vegas would inherit the A's, who have proposed a 30,000-seat stadium - the smallest in MLB - on a nine-acre plot at the site of the Tropicana Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. The original bill did not include specifics on the stadium site, which changed after the A's announced in April they'd had a "binding agreement" for a larger parcel of land.

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