Despite all signs pointing toward the Oakland A’s relocating to Las Vegas, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao hasn’t given up the fight to keep the Major League Baseball team that has called the Bay Area home since 1968.
Giving up is not how she has lived her life and not what she wants for her city.
Oakland is “a community where we fight for what we believe in and we fight for our values, and it’s damn well sure we’re going to fight for our team,” said Thao, 38, who became Oakland’s mayor in January and took over the city’s 10-year effort to replace the aging Oakland Coliseum, the team’s home ballpark.
But that quest, in which the team stated its intention to vacate the crumbling, 57-year-old stadium that Major League Baseball deemed unsuitable, seemed to end in late April.
