November 7, 2026 - 6:32 pm

OAKLAND, Calif. — It didn’t take long walking around the area of Oakland Coliseum on Saturday to start to feel nostalgic.

Sad, too.

Maybe even guilty?

In the end, we the people of southern Nevada did this.

Even if the blame partly, or even mostly, falls on the city of Oakland for failing to make it work here. And even if the Raiders and A’s would have found somewhere else to move if Las Vegas, and to some extent Sacramento, didn’t offer a soft landing spot.

Mark Davis never wanted to stay in Oakland, and that is also a big part of what happened, but he can’t be blamed because he did what was best for him and his team financially. Same goes for John Fisher, though he shouldn’t be absolved of anything.

The Giants got in the way of the A’s finding a profitable path to staying, as well.

The list goes on and on, but you know what? There is plenty of blame to go around from leagues to fellow teams to poor ownership and on and on and on.…