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Outside The Confines: So long, Oakland.

Thursday afternoon, the Oakland Athletics played their final game in Oakland, and it was the end of an era. The A’s have not always been an Oakland-based team (they started in Philadelphia before heading to Kansas City), but they’ve been in Oakland since 1968. Now, mismanagement and other frustrating motivations will see them move to Las Vegas... eventually. First, they’ll head to Sacramento.

A nice bonus, they won their final home game of the season.

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The end of the Coliseum era has people sharing a lot of thoughts, so here’s a lengthy list of people putting in their two cents.