Yahoo Sports national MLB insider Russell Dorsey reflects as the organization has its final days in the Bay Area before a temporary stop in Sacramento on way to its likely new home in Las Vegas.
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After 58 seasons, the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum will be closing its doors this week.
And after a long fight between A’s owner John Fisher and the city of Oakland, the A’s will be moving to Sacramento and playing there for the next several seasons before a tentative plan to move to Las Vegas.
The A’s moving out of Oakland and leaving the East Bay is a true sports tragedy because for the third time in six years, the people of Oakland will see one of their professional sports teams leave with the Golden State Warriors moving to San Francisco in 2019 and the Raiders moving to Las Vegas in 2020.
The A’s are looking to follow suit.
The people of Oakland have once again found themselves in a situation beyond their control.
It’s the people that make the Coliseum what it is from the Vuvuzelas to the drums that ring throughout the ballpark.
The people have made the Coliseum what it is over the last 58 years, that culture, those people won’t be found in Sacramento and they definitely won’t be found in Vegas.
Who knows if the A’s ever actually move to Vegas or if their relocation to Sacramento becomes a semi permanent thing.
But what we do know is one of the most iconic franchises in all of major league baseball has alienated their fan base.
Sorry Oakland, you deserve better.