And Oakland is in no GD position to gift arguably one of the richest owners in baseball billions.
The stadium has just been sold by the county to a private owner. That could reset things later, or not.
There are billionaires who could buy the team and undo Fisher's destruction of a world class team when it was under the Hass family ownership, a team he took down the drain. He gets welfare from MLB, called the competitive balance tax (CBT) on other teams, but NO AMOUNT OF WELFARE IS ENOUGH for this billionaire robber baron.
He pays players the least +/- of any team and trades players when their dirt cheap rookie contracts expire. They are all-stars throughout the league. Elsewhere.
Someone could buy the team, as Lacob and Guber did to revive the Warriors, but a move to SF was always in their plans.
And you can't force someone to sell something.
Sacramento has a minor league park unsuitable for major league play. But that's OK with Fisher. Oakland isn't, and will LasVegas sink MORE billions of taxpayer (not gambling) money into a summer sport that plays in 110 degree weather?
It's up to billionaires, not taxpayers, to pay the freight.
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