If you don’t recognize the title, it’s Gertrude Stein’s famous quote about her hometown of Oakland, California: “There’s no ‘there’ there.”
- The Oakland City Council approved a proposal to build a new ballpark for the Athletics in the Howard Terminal area. However, the A’s are saying that the conditions that the city council insisted upon are “not a business partnership that works for us.”
- The A’s behavior and unwillingness to work with the Oakland city council’s conditions are not winning the team any fans among the citizens of Oakland.
- Now for a long section about the trade deadline.