The Oakland A’s will soon become the Las Vegas A’s.
However, a stadium will need to first be built.
Justin Walker and Chris Maathuis of ktla.com report that the A’s could soon have a temporary home in Southern Nevada ahead of “their billion-dollar stadium west of the Las Vegas Strip.”
“We have an agreement with the Aviators … to play at their stadium temporarily,”A’s president Dave Kaval told KTLA.
The Aviators are the Tripe-A affiliates of the A’s that play in Summerlin, “We’re really deferring to Major League Baseball to kind of help us make that decision.”
The A’s yet-to-come stadium will also feature one, perhaps two Hyperloop stops courtesy of Elon Musk’s company.
“We spoke to Steve Davis at The Boring Company,” Kaval said. “And yes, a stop is in our future. Maybe two.”
The Hyperloop is a “proposed high-speed transportation system for both public and goods transport,” according to Wikipedia.
Elon Musk picked up the idea “to describe a modern project based on the vactrain concept.”
It features long, pressurized tubes in which single cars travel on magnetic rails at high speeds. Though it works in theory, it has yet to be made into a reality on the scale that Musk and The Boring Company have promised.
Only time will tell how this deal works out for the A’s.
[KTLA]