A's legends Dave Stewart, Rickey Henderson point fingers at Oakland for Coliseum chaos
Mar 18, 2024 7:47:32 GMT -8
Post by LVfan on Mar 18, 2024 7:47:32 GMT -8
From San Francisco Chronicle:
“It’s disappointing to see the A’s leaving,” Henderson said. “But we’ve gone through so much with all the teams. The city, there’s something they’re not seeing. When you have a city that had three big-name professional sports teams, and you can’t keep any of them, something’s wrong. It’s sad for the city.”
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That’s a non-starter for Major League Baseball, which eventually will expand from 30 to 32 teams but hasn’t yet started the process of identifying cities as final expansion candidates. Thao also has pushed to keep the team’s name and colors in Oakland, which also might be a stretch because they’re the property of the team, not the city.
“The mayor can say whatever she wants to, but if what I’m reading is true, it’s a wrong approach,” Stewart said. “She talked about the lack of jobs because they’re leaving, but in the meantime, you have an opportunity to keep jobs and create jobs until ’28 when they do leave. You’re going to try to force baseball to give you an expansion team? It’s not the way to go about it. “When you make that kind of thing public, I think you’re just trying to talk to your constituents in Oakland.”
“It’s disappointing to see the A’s leaving,” Henderson said. “But we’ve gone through so much with all the teams. The city, there’s something they’re not seeing. When you have a city that had three big-name professional sports teams, and you can’t keep any of them, something’s wrong. It’s sad for the city.”
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That’s a non-starter for Major League Baseball, which eventually will expand from 30 to 32 teams but hasn’t yet started the process of identifying cities as final expansion candidates. Thao also has pushed to keep the team’s name and colors in Oakland, which also might be a stretch because they’re the property of the team, not the city.
“The mayor can say whatever she wants to, but if what I’m reading is true, it’s a wrong approach,” Stewart said. “She talked about the lack of jobs because they’re leaving, but in the meantime, you have an opportunity to keep jobs and create jobs until ’28 when they do leave. You’re going to try to force baseball to give you an expansion team? It’s not the way to go about it. “When you make that kind of thing public, I think you’re just trying to talk to your constituents in Oakland.”
