The owner of A John Fisher says he is confident, not nervous, while the team begins the Sacrament mandate

West Sacramento, California – The first day in Sacramento, John Fisher said he was not nervous.

Sitting in a picnic area in the left fields during the jokes on Monday in Sutter Health Park, the athletics owner stopped when he asked him what emotions he had, if any nerves were ongoing, before the first game of his team in a new city. He started talking about the opening day in general and how much he hopes for a spring of time – “when everything is a little reborn” – before going back.

“Am I nervous for all this?” Fisher said before a night game against Chicago Cubs. “No, in reality, I’m really – I’m confident, without being too confident and I’m enthusiastic about where we are going.”

Fans have long ridiculed Fisher’s choice to move the club from Oakland after 57 years in the city and often involved him to sell the team. He did not force and on Monday he did not answer directly if he ever thought of doing it.

The main reason he left Oakland, he said, was “that our lease was ending … and there was really no legitimate offer on the table to be extended”. Fisher plans to keep the team here at least three years before moving to Las Vegas, and perhaps the largest stranger before the opening day on Monday was the way fans vehemence in this baseball field will demonstrate their regret with Fisher and the transfer of the team, as they did to the Oakland Coliseum.

About an hour after Fisher spoke with a small group of journalists – with still 60 minutes before the first shot – a song “Let’s Go, Oakland” broke briefly, a rather tame exercise considering some of the other messages that A A fans have been known to deliver.

“I think most of us are just a little anxious and enthusiastic about seeing what kind of reception we get from this crowd, and then what kind of crowd it presents itself, what kind of energy it is, what kind of atmosphere we can create,” said the best athletics, Brent Rooker, at the beginning of the afternoon. “The opening evening is not indicative of everything, but it can somehow give the tone of what we could build here for these three years.”

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When Fisher was asked about the atmosphere, the owner said that he expects his passion and that they will attract many fans who otherwise would not have reached the games.

“Everything I can say is that I am enthusiastic about the fans who will present themselves at our games,” Fisher said. “In Oakland, sometimes we had very small crowds, but they were passionate and worshiped their team. And our crowds here, we will have (10,000) to 14,000 fans who are passionate about the game, passionate about looking at the A and supporting their national team, at least for a while.

“And I’m sure we will have many fans who are new to baseball and would like to see how it will be. And then we will also have many fans who will be, you know, fans of Chicago Cubs and fans of Yankees and Kansas City fans who will be able to support their team.

But Fisher has recognized that some fans who frequented the Oakland Coliseum will also make trekking.

“I think we will have some fans, for sure, from East Bay,” he said. “Sacramento, as a market, is more than two million people. … The reality is from East Bay, it is just over an hour to drive here, as long as you stay out of the top hours, and I think those fans who want to continue supporting the team and watching the team will go out and do so.”

A are checking the common practice while in the sacrament and do not wear the name of the city on the chest on the shirts. A shoulder patch will instead recognize the city.

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“We clarified to all those who sacrament was a provisional place for us, who were super enthusiastic about coming here and, frankly, to help the community demonstrate that Sacramento deserves a team of great alloy and that fans here love baseball and will worship our team,” Fisher said. “But we will go to Las Vegas. We expect to start the construction shortly, and therefore we felt like the right path was to call us” athletics “in this provisional period, and then the Las Vegas Athletics when we move to the strip.”

When Fisher was asked to sell potentially, he spoke of the team setting for long -term success, but did not shed light on his long -term plans.

“From the beginning, I committed myself to making this team success for the next 50 years,” he said. “And I really saw it as an important part of what I represented and what I wanted to get for this team. So, really, everything I did, the work we did in the Bay Area, the work we did in Oakland and, ultimately, advancing things in Las Vegas and here in Sacramento, they were part of where I believe that the team should be successful.”

The owner said the project of the team stadium in Las Vegas is “in a good place”. He targeted a revolutionary June in Las Vegas. On Monday he asked if a summer for the construction was still possible, he said only: “I hope so”.

(Photo: Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)