The Oakland Athletics play in the worst stadium in the major leagues, the last dinosaur that was built for both football and baseball and is suitable for neither. Its football tenant, the Raiders, decamped for Las Vegas two years ago, leaving the A’s to deal with the stadium’s bad sightlines, acres of unusable seats and sewage.
As a result of all that, Major League Baseball recently gave the A’s permission to look to relocate in a statement, quoted by Jeff Passan at ESPN:
“MLB is concerned with the rate of progress on the A’s new ballpark effort with local officials and other stakeholders in Oakland,” the statement said.