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A’s set to negotiate to buy Oakland’s share of Coliseum site

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The A’s may not have to worry about paying rent at the Oakland Coliseum in the future. Instead, the team could be months away from dealing with mortgage payments on the property.

Facing a $122 million budget shortfall this year, the Oakland City Council authorized negotiations to sell the city’s half of the 155-acre Coliseum property to the A’s, multiple sources confirmed to the Bay Area News Group Monday.

In a closed session meeting last Thursday, the council reversed its thinking on how to deal . . .