Hey I'm from the UK and have got into baseball quite heavily the past couple years after liking films like the Sandlot and Fieleld of Dreams among others growing up. I've got a couple questions about what's happened in Oakland and other franchises in general. Hopefully this isnt a massive ramble of my internal thoughts and makes sense

I've seen comments on posts re the Athletics leaving Oakland blaming fans for not showing up and also the city for not funding new stadium. Why would fans not turn up? As a primarily soccer fan in the UK fans turn up even if owners are partocularly bad. I personally support a fairly small provincial team in Scotland which gets an average of 20% of the town's population despite not winning anything since the 90s.

Also why do people stand for billionaire owners getting tax subsidies for new stadia? The idea of an owner just moving a franchise still blows my mind a bit but I don't understand why a city should pay for a new sports stadium. The Mayor of Manchester this week just said they wouldn't pay for any new stadium bar potentially moving a train line and they are the 13th most valuable sports team in the world (2nd in Europe).

I've seen accusations of owners running clubs to get profit instead of really trying to win e.g. Pirates. If A's fans would stop showing up why do other fans with no realistic hope of doing anything bother to show up? I mean going by some posts here it looks like loads of fans arent happy with owners and 4 franchises have never won a world series not including the ones that have enormous gaps in between wins.

Would like to get some more info from you guys