It’s one… two… three strikes and out for the city’s efforts to keep major league sports in Oakland.

The Oakland Athletics Major League Baseball team this week announced the signing of a binding agreement to buy land for a future ballpark in Las Vegas, prompting Oakland to cease negotiations with the A’s on plans to build a new waterfront ballpark.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.