Oakland A’s groundskeeper Jack Tanner fills up cups of dirt from the playing surface to give to A’s fans at the Oakland Coliseum on the last day of MLB baseball in Oakland history ( AP News photo)

On the Oakland A’s podcast with John Shea:

Coming down to the last few weeks and days has probably been the most taxing of any season that I’ve ever covered. I’ve covered seasons since the early to mid 80s. On both sides of the bay there are all sorts of stuff happening, news developing.

Tears shed especially it’s kind of powerful, sad, and it’s really all unnecessary. I really thought it wouldn’t happen but the baseball owners and the commissioner would come to their senses collectively and realize that Sacramento is bogus and going to Las Vegas is silly.

You have the largest TV markets here in the Bay Area and your just handing it over to the San Francisco Giants to have a one team market of this size west of the Mississippi and their just going to dominate the revenue stream while three teams are in Southern California it makes zero sense and I hope the team stays forever in Sacramento.

John Shea is a baseball writer for the San Francisco Chronicle in the Sporting Green