My dad didn't know what to do with me, so he brought me here, and we used to walk across that BART bridge to games and it was like magic. I watched Dwayne Murphy and Rickey Henderson out there, running the outfield, stealing bases, hat flying off it was beautiful. And that's what made me fall in love with baseball. And then I had a little brother who is 13 years younger than me, and I didn't know what to do with him. So what did I do? I brought him here.
And when I went away to college, I would send him tickets to opening day every year, and he would call me for the national anthem, and he would call me for the seventh inning stretch, and he would call me for Jason Giambi's first at-bat as a Yankee so I could hear the boos.
My kids are so at home here. They come in here and they take off their jackets and they drop them in a corner and they run off because they feel like they're at home not like they're in a place with 20,000 strangers or 4,000 strangers. And so that's what baseball in Oakland is. This is generations.
You're ripping that away for what? You're trying to fill a stadium with 70% visiting fans? That's ridiculous.
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