Ballpark coliseum mcafee oakland

This is an informational guide for those who wish to watch a game-and have all the information to do it. Oakland is only a 40 minute drive away from the ballpark and SFO is slightly faster at 20 minutes. Always figure out the best price. You may even find that flying into either SFO or OAK is cheaper flying in-and cheaper flying out of the other airport. You must consider the one-way car rental option as an expense if its cheaper in aggregate cost. If possible, try and fly with Virgin America or Alaska as they are the best airlines.

If you are flying anywhere else pick the cheapest flight. This is key because they are the only airline to offer free luggage checked.

SFO is one of the more expensive places to rent your car fromthe car rental facility is also located a TRAM ride away from the main terminal in the car rental facility. The best option here is to bid on your car on www. Strategy here is too low ball the offer and gradually increase it until it is accepted. If your bid is accepted then Priceline takes full payment from you right there on the spot--if it is declined they make you alter your class of car to re-bid within 24 hours.

Don't be discouraged to wait the 24 hoursbidding in anger is not the answer. If you do have a car you are going to pay a parking fee-even at hotels. This can be quite pricey. This will eliminate traffic. There are any stands outside PIER In SF, most car rental companies offer a gas deal if you drive less than 75 miles--you don't have to refuel at all-they do this for you at the best gallon rate.

The Light Rail service lasts long in to the night--however return trams to the SFO airport are less frequent. Notedo not try to walk to the Fisherman's Wharf from downtown sector unless you wish to walk about 3 miles of hills. I stayed there for 2 nights with my girlfriend and it was perfect--they offer lots of packages with built in tickets already. The hotel is also a 20 minute walk from AT T-and is closely situated to the trolley's for a historic ride anywhere.

San Francisco has 3 of these such hostels. Most of them have communal student center's to which there is a decent price for internet--and vending is always good. Lots of these hostels have built in deals with restaurants and entertainment facilities around the city to save a few dollars. Last visit I ate parts of a mushroom burger-rib sandwich-chicken burger and garlic fries. To lure him back, the county removed all the outfield bleachers and built a huge edifice in center field — usually referred to as Mount Davis — to accommodate football fans.

For the Raiders have moved again, this time to Las Vegas. That would be a cool souvenir. That got old by and the team moved again to Oakland. Many foul balls that would be fan souvenirs in any other ballpark wind up being caught for outs. The only run in the game was a David Ortiz solo home run in the first inning.

Lots of cheers on that one. My daughter Caitlin had just graduated from Providence College and my wife Kathy , as a graduation gift, wanted to take her on a painting tour in Province, France , which rhymes and also sounds similar to Providence. Oakland was stop one. Curt Schilling threw a one-hitter. Kara and I were both scoring the game — both noting the line of 0s in our scorebooks — but not mentioning it so as not to jinx.

When Schill he came out for the 9 th with a no-hitter on the line there was a standing ovation. On the plus side, the outfield fence did acquire some interesting angles with a high foot section in the power alleys where the out-of-town scoreboards are. The foot distance to right center field "power alley" is shortest of all current Major League stadiums, by the way, while two stadiums -- Sun Life Dolphin Stadium and Minute Maid Park -- have virtually the same distance to the left center field power alley.

The new upper-deck outfield seats added for the Raiders in are not normally sold for baseball games and are thus excluded from the "normal" capacity figure, but these seats are made available for postseason games when attendance surges. New upper-level concourses and exit ramps were part of the expansion, and fans were able to enter the upper deck along a level surface rather than the stairways. Those stairways remain intact behind the sections of the upper deck near the respective foul poles.

Finally, a few extra rows of box seats were installed behind home plate and between each dugout and respective bullpen. Foul territory remained enormous, nevertheless. In late this facility was renamed "UMAX Coliseum," but a legal dispute annulled the naming rights contract only a few months later. Beginning in it was formally known as "Network Associates Coliseum," and in late it was changed again to "McAfee Coliseum," reflecting the change in the corporate name of that software maker.

The five-year naming rights contract with McAfee expired in September , and for a while, the original name was back in use. To cap the absurdity, in March it was renamed "Overstock.

After further legal disputes erupted, the original name "Oakland Coliseum" was restored in , until another naming rights deal was signed in , but that change was put on hold pending legal disputes, and the new name "RingCentral Coliseum" finally became "official" in -- when no fans were allowed to attend due to the coronavirus. See the Stadium names chronology page. Prior to the season, the A's announced that the entire upper deck of the Coliseum would be closed for the season, covered with a huge olive green tarp that shows yellow Athletics logos.

This modification artificially reduced its capacity for baseball games from about 44, to about 34, Those tarps were removed in mid-April , raising the capacity of the Coliseum by 12, seats. Desperate to restore his team to its former glory, the Oakland A's lead owner Lew Wolff spent years trying to get a new stadium deal elsewhere in the Bay Area, where the demographics are more "upscale.

After that, they began negotiating with the city of San Jose, even farther to the south, but the the territorial rights of the neighboring San Francisco Giants have rendered that option virtually null. Hopes rose in , with discussions about a new baseball stadium along the waterfront near downtown Oakland. Thus far, however, nothing has come from these talks. One short-term improvement suggested by the hypothetical baseball diagram above would be to rebuild the lower deck so as to bring the seats much closer to the infield.

On March 27, , the National Football League finally announced that the Raiders would move to Las Vegas as soon as a new stadium was completed there. After a year's delay in construction, this finally came to pass in -- the year of the covid pandemic.

This negated the possibility that Oakland Coliseum might be upgraded and made into a football-only venue, as I had proposed. NOTE: The diagram thumbnails have been continually replaced since , so the images seen in the older blog posts do not reflect how the full-size diagrams looked at that time. Roll your mouse over the adjacent thumbnail to see a pre version. Have you been to this stadium?