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Video: Local News Anchor Slams A's Owner John Fisher over Farewell Letter to Fans

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A Bay Area news anchor had no interest in Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher's goodbye letter to fans as the team prepares for its final home series of the season before the franchise leaves the city after 56 years.

Larry Beil of KGO-TV called Fisher's letter a "great work of fiction," criticized him for surrounding himself with "incompetent yes men" and being "a serial penny-pincher"

Fisher's letter touched on the history of the franchise in Oakland before stating it "proposed and pursued five different locations" over the years to build a new stadium that would keep them in the Bay Area, but a binding agreement with MLB to find a new home by 2024 forced ownership to explore a move to Las Vegas.