Two surprising things happened last week. The A’s won a game, and I saw a good idea on Twitter.
The tweet came in reply to someone else. It got no engagement. I have no memory of how I found it. But it made an excellent suggestion. “You shouldn't be allowed to relocate your team unless you had a winning record the previous season,” wrote someone going by the username @brohubs. “First make a team worthy of moving.”
Such a rule would neatly solve Major League Baseball’s most shameful problem: One-thirtieth of the league is openly mocking other owners, players, fans and the entire history of competition. A’s owner John Fisher wants to move the team from Oakland to Las Vegas, if there’s even a team left by the time he’s done with it. You can’t make us try, he seems to be saying.
