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Oakland A's new Las Vegas ballpark apparently glows

The A's showed off a 3D rendering of the new ballpark, and it glows

Jason Burke

Oakland A's new Las Vegas ballpark apparently glows
Oakland A's new Las Vegas ballpark apparently glows /

We all saw the renderings that were released of the Oakland A's proposed ballpark in Las Vegas earlier this week, and they were met by rave reviews the way team president Dave Kaval talked about the reception they've received. It's hard to tell how he's getting his input lately since his comments are turned off on Twitter and he's been quite busy blocking A's fans on social media of late. 

The A's began their two-day stay in Las Vegas for Big League Weekend, playing at the home of their Triple-A affiliate in the aptly named Las Vegas Ballpark. On display was a 3D rendering model of the proposed ballpark, and boy howdy was that...something. 

The opulence. The elegance. The green-ness. 

If you're wondering why it glows, well it's because the team plans to have an 18,000 square foot scoreboard that goes across the entire field of play, and oh yeah, it's green. 

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The A's haven't announced naming rights for the ballpark yet, so if you own a bug zapper company, there's still time to submit your bid to have your company's name plastered across this spherical armadillo. Glow in the Dark Ballpark has a nice ring to it as well, so we may end up with a bidding war between the bug zapper people and the glow stick people. 

Some fans have had fun with the unveiling of the green lighting in recent days. 

For a ballpark that had no lighting in the renderings, it sure provides lots of illumination. Playing a game at Glow Life Field is going to be the same as when we were younger and would going bowling when they turned the lights off for "disco bowling." The balls would glow, loud music would be playing, and not a lot of points were scored because we couldn't see what we were doing. Maybe they'll use some of Charlie Finley's orange baseballs.

Vegas is known for the lights, the casinos, and putting on a show. A's owner John Fisher is definitely nailing one of those three. 

Hey, maybe I'm wrong here. Maybe Fisher is truly a visionary and we're all just too small-minded to see his genius. Or, and hear me out, Fisher is on his seventh ballpark rendering and needed something flashy (perhaps literally) that would get someone to plop down $500 million to buy into the franchise. 

It's Vegas, baby! Maybe some lucky person will hit the jackpot and end up owning less than half of a baseball team. On the bright side, they'd be included in a very exclusive club. The downside here would be the damage done to their retinas. 

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Jason Burke
JASON BURKE

Jason is the host of the Locked on A's podcast, and the managing editor of Inside the A's. He's a new father and can't wait to take his son to his first baseball game at the Coliseum. 

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