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This column originally appeared in Read & React, Yahoo Sports' daily newsletter. To subscribe,On April 1, 1996, the Oakland A’s opened their season at home … in Las Vegas. Their true home, the Oakland Coliseum, was undergoing renovations at the tip of a spear held by Al Davis, who demanded more seats or else he wasn’t moving the Raiders back north.
While it was curiously captivating at the time, it turned out to be the beginning of the end for professional sports in Oakland, which after 66 years will no longer exist beyond the 2026 MLB season. The A's announced late Wednesday that, where they expect to begin playing in 2027. The construction of 20,000 extra seats back in the mid-1990s, eventually dubbed Mt. Davis, stripped the Oakland Coliseum of its most precious asset — the picturesque view of the Oakland Hills beyond the outfield wall — and replaced it with seats so terribly far from the action that no one wanted to sit there. By 2006, the A’s were covering all the extra seats with a tarp; by 2013, the Raiders were doing the same.
This is the environment in which the city and A’s ownership tried to negotiate the construction of a new stadium, which involved a $12 billion revitalization project of a mostly unused plot of land along the Oakland waterfront. The city of Oakland was willing to go far to keep the A’s, but it wasn’t going to compromise itself like it had in the ‘90s for Mt. Davis.
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