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I'm a second=generation Raider fan. I'm an Oakland taxpayer. I really want the Raiders to stay, but I don't want Oakland to provide more than land and limited infrastructure for a football stadium project. I would love to see a new football stadium on the site of O.Co, and a baseball park near Jack London Square; in fact, I'd be okay with limited public money for the latter.

The bay area is the nations' sixth largest media market, and has the highest per-household income of any metro area in the country. It would seem foolish to leave that market for Portland or San Antonio.

I'm an Oakland resident, but not a Raider fan. I wouldn't be sad to see the Raiders go, for two reasons:

1) Better football on broadcast TV (with streaming getting better this is steadily becoming less of an issue, also with the Raiders getting better it might be less of an issue too).

2) Raiders fans scare the shit out of me.

3) Probably no more taxbase extortion, and we sure have better things to spend the money on.

I'm partly with you about the stadia, but I'd be worried about a ballpark in Jack London, the logistics of that seem like they could turn into a nightmare (BART is pretty far away from the sites I saw proposed) and I think the land around there would be better used as housing. But definitely no goddamn public money for any billionaire owners.

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I'm a second=generation Raider fan. I'm an Oakland taxpayer. I really want the Raiders to stay, but I don't want Oakland to provide more than land and limited infrastructure for a football stadium project. I would love to see a new football stadium on the site of O.Co, and a baseball park near Jack London Square; in fact, I'd be okay with limited public money for the latter.

The bay area is the nations' sixth largest media market, and has the highest per-household income of any metro area in the country. It would seem foolish to leave that market for Portland or San Antonio.

I'm an Oakland resident, but not a Raider fan. I wouldn't be sad to see the Raiders go, for two reasons:

1) Better football on broadcast TV (with streaming getting better this is steadily becoming less of an issue, also with the Raiders getting better it might be less of an issue too).

2) Raiders fans scare the shit out of me.

3) Probably no more taxbase extortion, and we sure have better things to spend the money on.

I'm partly with you about the stadia, but I'd be worried about a ballpark in Jack London, the logistics of that seem like they could turn into a nightmare (BART is pretty far away from the sites I saw proposed) and I think the land around there would be better used as housing. But definitely no goddamn public money for any billionaire owners.