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The few times I have watched even part of a Raiders home game on TV, I've found that baseball diamond cut into the middle of the field to be the ugliest thing I've ever seen during a football game. High School fields look a ton better than that.
This was pretty standard 30 years ago. San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, Anahiem, San Diego, Houston, St. Louis, Miami, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Baltimore all had multipurpose stadiums that housed both NFL and MLB teams. As new stadiums got built over the years, both the NFL and MLB wanted sport specific stadiums. Oakland was the last city with a multipurpose stadium. The fact that they couldn't get a sport specific stadium built for the Raiders and wouldn't kick out the A's led directly to the Raiders moving to Vegas.
On a side note, the A's would have moved to San Jose years ago but the SF Giants blocked them by claiming territorial rights over Silicon Valley. MLB sided with the Giants. Now, the A's are in a position to build a baseball only stadium on the current Coliseum site. If they can't get it done in the next few years they would also be a serious candidate to relocate.