A’s to Sell Priority Access to 2028 Las Vegas Season Tix

• The Athletics are selling priority access to season tickets for their 2028 season starting Friday
• 2028 will (they hope) be their first season playing in a new stadium built on the site of  the imploded Tropicana casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip
• For the three seasons they will spend in West Sacramento, Calif. until then, the A’s will be the first major-league team in baseball history to refuse to adopt their playing location as part of their name

The Athletics are officially city-less in name right now because they’d prefer not to focus on the three years they’re playing in Sacramento, Calif. In fact, they’re so focused on where they’ll supposedly be playing in 2028, they announced on Monday that priority access to season tickets at their $1.75 billion Las Vegas stadium will go on sale starting this week. (That’s priority access, not the tickets themselves.)

Construction on their stadium isn’t due to start until April on nine of the 33 acres comprising the site of the imploded Tropicana, but fans can join a priority list to purchase season tickets, three seasons in advance, for $19.01 starting on Friday.

That price is a reference to the Athletics’ founding in Philadelphia in 1901. The team’s first relocation was in 1955 to become the Kansas City Athletics. They relocated again 13 years later to become the Oakland Athletics, who ceased existing last year.

The A’s, who play their first home game on March 31 against the Chicago Cubs, will share Sutter Health Park for the next three years with its current tenants, the Sacramento River Cats of the Pacific Coast League.

Perhaps they’re embarrassed by the association with the minor leagues. Perhaps they’re shy of bonding with another city they will need to leave. Perhaps they’re trying to save the entire $1.75 billion on new merch design. Perhaps all three.

Fans can sign up for the priority list at athletics.com/vegas beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, March 7. Current season ticketholders for the A’s and for the Las Vegas Aviators minor league ballclub, and all residents of Clark County, Nev., who sign up for the list will be given priority over others who also sign up.