Oakland Athletics’ Tony Kemp dives safely into third on Esteury Ruiz’s single against the Tampa Bay Rays during the seventh inning at the Oakland Coliseum on Thu Jun 15, 2023 (AP News photo)

On the Oakland A’s podcast with Daniel:

#1 The Tampa Bay Rays Luke Raley belted the game winning 4-3 go ahead home run in the top of the eighth inning to hand the Oakland A’s their second loss and a split in the four game series Thursday afternoon at the Oakland Coliseum.

#2 The Rays got help from their rookie starter Taj Bradley who struck out the first A’s six hitters and set the tone early in the contest. Bradley finished with 11 strike outs for the game. Bradley did give up a home run to the A’s slugger Seth Brown in the bottom of the fifth inning.

#3 Daniel, during their seven game win streak and even in their last two loses to the Rays to close out the four game series the A’s were always in the game. On Thursday down 3-0 the A’s came back with three runs in the bottom of the fifth to tie the game that was a character that the A’s lacked until reason.

#4 The Rays are going well with their win on Thursday they became the first team this season to win 50 games. Taking that in consideration the A’s got a split against the Rays for the A’s to battle back it’s been a real mind over matter series for Oakland.

#5 Daniel just to get some updates the owners are preparing to vote on the relocation of Oakland to Las Vegas. If eight owners vote to oppose that would stop the relocation how much does MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred have influence on the owners vote for the A’s move to Vegas?

#6 Daniel, Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo who signed off on SB1 which moves the stadium forward for construction and the park would sit in a “sports and entertainment improvement district” put together by the Clark County Commissioners. The way the park would be paid off by tax increment funding that would use all tax revenues in the district to pay back the $380 million in bonds.

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