“Through the press, we have heard that Manfred has stated there was no proposal. We wanted to dispel that notion.”
Even under baseball’s brightest spotlight over the All-Star weekend, some things can slip through undetected.throughout the weekend in Seattle, Oakland mayor Sheng Thao was able to quietly get a face-to-face meeting with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred.
According to multiple reports, Thao and several workers from her office flew up to Seattle for a one-hour meeting with Manfred and MLB deputy commissioner Dan Halem on Sunday, where Thao detailed Oakland’s effort to build a ballpark at Howard Terminal.’, Thao said the impetus for working to have this meeting — her first ever with Manfred since taking over as Oakland Mayor in January — was to bring transparency to the A’s attempted relocation to Las Vegas.
“Through the press, we have heard that Manfred has stated there was no proposal. We wanted to dispel that notion,” Thao told The Athletic. “If people were misinformed, we wanted to make sure everybody had all the real-time information of how close we were to a ballpark.” Thao brought 31 printed packages — one for each of MLB’s 30 owners, including A’s owner John Fisher, and one personally for Manfred — with the details that would directly refute Manfred’s claim that the city hadn’t done anything.after baseball’s most recent owners meeting. “They never got to a point where they had a plan to build a stadium at any site.”
Thao had her office’s chief of staff Leigh Hanson, chief of communications Pati Navalta and Howard Terminal project manager Molly Mayburn
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