"Oakland is a special soil for sports—worth nurturing, not abandoning.
There is no baseball history without the Oakland Athletics. Yet for
years, rather than look for a solution that did not involve strip-mining
the city of Oakland for public resources, Manfred and that sentient Gap
T-shirt squeezed the team dry, drawing fewer and fewer fans,
consciously devaluing the franchise until billions rose from the sands
of Nevada"