Citing Crime, In-N-Out announces closure of Oakland location

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60. And it doesn't matter.

Neither does it matter whether I attended a game there or not.

If the community there would have offered a better package, they would still be there.

As this thread indicates, organizations love blaming crime on the reason why they close up shop, regardless of whether or not it actually applies. And we know the reasons why those teams left Oakland from contemporaneous reporting at the time. Back then, it wasn't as chic to blame crime on everyday business decisions they would be making regardless, so it's not surprising that they didn't blame crime -- the way you are now doing for them, after the fact -- as their reason for leaving.

Just a reality check here: do you think the teams that relocated would have still done so had they been offered the same or better deal from the Oakland community that they got from Las Vegas/Nevada?