It’s Good News for Baltimore, Too : Pro football: If Raiders can go home, there is hope for the Colts to do the same.

The Raiders are moving back to Oakland. (Sigh)

You try it.

The Raiders are moving back to Oakland... .

(Sigh)

It’s darn near impossible to say the words without conjuring up another move and images of trucks rolling in reverse, back in time, back in space, back from Indy, back to us. If the Raiders can move back to Oakland, couldn’t the Colts ...

No. They couldn’t. They’re not. They won’t (unless you see Bob Irsay is negotiating with Irwindale; then, maybe). Go ahead: Sigh.

But at least truth and justice reside somewhere in the world, if not in our particular part of it. Like sweet Loretta Martin, the Raiders get back, get back, get back to where they once belonged. You see, people will occasionally do the right thing. All you have to do is give them a $600 million nudge, which is what Al Davis was given to bring the Raiders back to their rightful home.

OK, it wasn’t romance. You want romance in the sports world, you get a date and rent a baseball movie. And don’t look for any trend developing here. The Donald’s not going back to Ivana. The Dodgers aren’t returning to Brooklyn. Rob Lowe’s not going back to Atlanta.

This is just business. Whatever anyone says, you can go home again, if the price is right, and $600 million over 15 years is so right it’s what we used to call righteous.

Most of the money is in ticket guarantees, just so the team doesn’t have any incentive to do any sales work of its own, and the rest comes in improvements to Oakland Alameda County Coliseum, including the building of luxury boxes which rich people can lease and then write off on their taxes. There are some city councilmen in Oakland who have expressed concern over the size of the guarantee for a city that has too many homeless people in the street and not enough teachers in the classroom. But at least they’ve got football.

Sure, 37,000 seats in the revamped stadium will cost at least $30. And a lot of ticket-holders are going to have to commit in advance to pay a premium ranging from $2,000 to $16,000. And, for Oakland just to break even, the Raiders will have to average 57,000 fans over the next 15 years. It’s a great deal.

Why didn’t Los Angeles see the obvious advantages of such a bonanza? Funny you should ask. It seems the folks in L.A. were so sick of Davis and his will-he-or-won’t-he stance on a home for the Raiders that, according to a recent poll, 83 percent of the people said they didn’t care if the Raiders left or buried themselves in an Irwindale gravel pit.