“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,” Rickey Henderson told @JohnSheaHey. trib.al/sFYhRrE
@SportingGreenSF @JohnSheaHey You should be prefacing this by the fact that Rickey works for the team and Stew has monetary incentive (Nashville expansion) to tow the MLB position in this matter.
@oaklandamerican @SportingGreenSF @JohnSheaHey False. You should check your facts: Dave has been speaking out against City Council/Thao for years; Dave is in Nashville because his efforts to help Oakland were thwarted by City Council/Thao who have continued to make a bad situation worse. Documented facts.
@SMPLonnie @oaklandamerican Would love to learn how the mayor since ‘23 and councilmember since ‘19 has thwarted plans for years…
@DangerVenture @oaklandamerican Did you actually read what you wrote? 🤦🏽♀️ most of us define “years” as more than one.
@SMPLonnie Yep. And no negative tone here, a genuine question.
@DangerVenture All public record: Full community redevelopment plan, w/incentives for A’s to remain in Oakland & WNBA at Oracle. Instead Kaplan-led AASEG alongside Thao pushed the opposite direction claiming “A’s weren’t leaving/blustering” & they would “force A’s to negotiate w/AASEG”. 3yrs=0.
@DangerVenture You should listen to the open sessions and look at what was submitted to Council. Reason Dave supports A’s is cuz experienced firsthand the b.s. behind closed doors of all but Kalb & City Staff who acknowledged what he was warning would happen - now it is so they get NO sympathy.
@SMPLonnie @Dsmoke34 @DangerVenture Helpful info, and both sides have made errors. But we also need to examine how they have acted as owners, tearing down the team repeatedly, making NO concerted upgrades to the baseball-watching environment. I guarantee you Joe Lacob and Walter Haas wouldn’t operate like this.