This is not the first team to leave a town that loved it, and it will not be the last. Men in suits met in Texas in 2023, counted the money and the box score came out in favor of Las Vegas. Oakland will bleed for a while, then learn to live with a different kind of silence in the summer evenings. The game goes on somewhere else, but part of its soul stays behind in the parking lot where people once grilled and argued about pitching changes.