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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mlb-oakland-athletics-may-leave-city-for-las-vegas-stadium-lawsuit-2019-10-08/Gist of the situation is that the A's are trying to acquire land for a new ballpark, and the city is saying that any land deals must first make room for public space and affordable housing. Given the housing crunch in that area, it seems that bulldozing both the Colosseum and the Oracle Arena next door to build housing might make more sense than building a new A's ballpark. The crazy part is that the owner isn't asking for public funds to build the stadium.
It's a shame the Giants didn't let the A's move to San Jose. That would have made a lot of sense. Moving the A's to Las Vegas also makes a decent amount of sense, aren't they the most popular team there already?
Especially considering that, back in the day, the A's agreed - as an uncompensated gesture of goodwill - to a territorial division that gave San Jose to the Giants because the Giants wanted to move there.
I don't know how 2010, 2012, and 2014 have changed things, but all the tech nerds I knew in college who went on to work in Silicon Valley were big Billy Beane fans who appreciated how the A's saw and ran things and started going to A's games as soon as they moved to Northern California. The professional gamblers I know also all love Billy Beane, though.