‘Looks like a garden shed’: Internet erupts over hutlike A’s press conference facility
Mar 31, 2025
(KRON) -- The online sphere has erupted over photos posted online of the facility the Athletics used for their press conference ahead of their home opener Monday. The photos, posted to X by KRON4 Sports Reporter Ben Ross, show a small white building with what appear to be tin walls and a soft canvas
roof.
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An interior photo showed cramped conditions with rows of reporters and photographers crammed in, appearing to be practically on top of one another. Responses to Ross's tweet were not kind, to say the least. The cramped looking facility was compared to everything from a porta potty to a shipping container.
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"It's amazing what you can buy at Costco," said sports journalist Joe Lago in response.
"It looks like an oversized outhouse," another X user responded.
"Who's picking up the tab? Tuff Shed?" wrote another user.
"Looks like a garden shed," said another.
"I'm pretty sure I saw this exact shed at Home Depot yesterday," wrote another user.
"yooo they didn't even get the biggest size from Home Depot," another user wrote.
"Four Seasons landscaping wasn't available?" said another user, referencing an ill-fated press conference held by former Donald Trump advisor Rudy Giuliani to contest the 2020 election.
"It looks like the sleeping quarters we had in Iraq but smaller," said another user.
"Hope they got proper approval for that ADU," wrote another user.
"This is sad," another user simply wrote.
Much was made of how life for the press would be in the hut-like facility during Sacramento's famously hot summer months.
"That tent is going to be miserable in July," one user wrote.
"That'll be fun in August," wrote another.
"Wait until the summer...that yurt will be a sauna."
The Athletics closed out their time in Oakland last year, bringing the curtain down on 56 years playing at the Oakland Coliseum. The team's unpopular owner John Fisher has decamped the A's to West Sacramento where they will play for at least three seasons ahead of a proposed move to Las Vegas.
They have refused to call themselves the Sacramento A's and will instead be known merely as "The Athletics" during their time in the state capitol. The A's will get their time in Sacramento underway on Monday at 7:05 p.m. when they begin a three-game homestand against the Chicago Cubs. ...read more read less