The Kafkaesque Journey of the Oakland A’s

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Louisa Thomas writes about the Oakland Athletics and the efforts of the team’s current owner to move the major-league baseball franchise to Las Vegas.

For nearly twenty years, the owner of the Athletics, John Fisher, has been agitating for a new stadium. “Our fans deserve a great ballpark, and that was always my North Star,” Fisher told ESPN last year, in a rare interview. Fisher maintained that the Coliseum could never be that ballpark—that it was, as Dave Kaval, the president of the Athletics, put it in a letter to fans, in 2021, “at the end of its useful life.” And perhaps this was true.

” The plan, it seems, was this: the team would be welcomed into Las Vegas, as the Raiders were; immediately sell out every game; attract hundreds of thousands of fans who would not otherwise visit Las Vegas, boosting the economy; and win so many World Series! But not everyone was convinced. Fisher’s plans “didn’t make sense,” the mayor of Las Vegas, Carolyn Goodman, told the podcast “Front Office Sports.

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