“There’s absolutely nothing positive about Oakland.”
Oakland has really nice weather, actually. And there are some good restaurants... and some surprisingly beautiful homes up in the hills. So “nothing positive” is too strong. But, like San Francisco, four or five decades of hard left politics have taken a toll.
I grew up as an Oakland A’s fan, and I particularly loved the Billy Martin era, so it’ll be sad to see them move to Vegas. With that said, the “Howard Terminal waterfront ballpark” that the teams has been pushing for years was an asinine boondoggle. The Coliseum site has freeway, parking and BART. Howard terminal has none of those three, and was a disastrous idea. Better to let the team go to Vegas than to bankrupt the city on a costly, inaccessible, half-baked copycat of the Giant’s park across the bay.
My wife got me one of those musical birthday cards this year. The song was “Celebration” by Kool and the Gang. Boy did that bring back memories from A’s games. LOL.