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A fan's return to baseball after the Athletics' departure from Oakland

Patrick Redford

9d ago· 4 min readenOpinion

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Summary

A fan recounts attending a Giants game after the Athletics left Oakland, expressing frustration with the sport's rising costs and the A's current nomadic, unmoored existence. The piece blends personal nostalgia with criticism of MLB's business practices and the emotional void left by the team's departure from the Coliseum.

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I have all but stopped paying attention to the sport, less in active protest than as a casualty of no longer being able to pay like nine dollars to be inside of a major-league ballpark

the existence of the geographically unmoored Athletics is omnidirectionally repulsive

On Wednesday night I attended a Major League Baseball game for the first time since the final game the Athletics played in the Oakland Coliseum

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SAN FRANCISCO — On Wednesday night I attended a Major League Baseball game for the first time since the final game the Athletics played in the Oakland Coliseum. I have all but stopped paying attention to the sport, less in active protest than as a casualt

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