It's true. Name something terrible about baseball, and it's the Giants fault...
The Dodgers & Giants left New York, so New York worked to get an expansion team, the NL expanded with the Mets and Colt .45s.
Houston built a brand new stadium for baseball and football, but grass wouldn't grow in that dome, so they created Astroturf. Giants fault.
Oakland can't get a new stadium built. After the 1989 earthquake, the state of California was passing their aid/rebuilding budget and the Giants could get funds for a new stadium allocated in it. But their site was in San Jose, outside their designated area, and needed a league vote. But the commissioner had just died, the CBA was about to expire and MLB couldn't get to that. So the Giants got the A's permission to include Santa Clara county in the Giants home territory and the league amended the NL-AL agreement so the Giants could build there. That language did NOT limit Oakland from building in San Jose: It just prevented a THIRD TEAM from entering that part of the bay area. The AL and NL merged into MLB in 1999, and the consolidation of the NL & AL constitutions and working agreement screwed up the language, accidentally giving San Jose exclusively to the Giants, even though that wasn't the intent. So now the A's can't build where they wanted. Giants fault.
Miami and Tampa's terrible situations. The Giants were negotiating a sale to move to Tampa in the early 1990s. MLB awarded Miami an expansion team. Then the sale fell apart. Because Tampa had been teased with a "build a stadium, you'll get a team" and still lost out three times, Florida politicians held Congressional hearings on MLB's anti-trust exemption. To get Congress off their backs, MLB quickly announced an expansion committee and awarded a team to Tampa and Arizona.
That expansion caused a realignment war, which cost one commissioner his job, made the owners see dollar signs about interleague play; led to a ridiculous 5-6-5 NL / 4-5-5 AL alignment where the Brewers had to switch leagues; made the schedule maker's lives a nightmare, which ultimately led to the Astros switching leagues and year-round interleague play. All the Giants fault.
