Monday, February 8, 2010
BREAKING NEWS: Report on A’s Move Delayed
Politics / Business / Sports Robert Gammon — Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:30 PM
Major League Baseball has delayed for one week a report from a blue-ribbon panel on the Oakland A’s planned move to San Jose, according to Mayor Ron Dellums spokesman Paul Rose. Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig had been scheduled to receive the report today. However, it remains unclear when and whether the report will be made public.
Selig convened the task force last year after receiving a letter from Dellums and Oakland City Council President Jane Brunner, asking the league to take another look at possible ballpark sites in Oakland. Dellums, Brunner, and club boosters then put forward two new stadium sites in Jack London Square. Baseball’s task force also examined possible sites in San Jose and at the former NUMMI auto plant in Fremont.
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Still believe the Coliseum makes the most sense, especially if the 49ers would share an upgraded stadium there. The Yorks have more of a sense of style than the Fisher / Wolff cabal and a better understanding of the never-realized retail potential of the complex, the most transportation-centric location, location, location after all in the entire Bay Area.
If Tom Cambell can jump over from the Governor's race to the Senate race, why can't Larry Ellison forget the Warriors (where the owners aren't the problem) and buy the A's instead. Wolff is probably ready to throw in the towel by now (is there a more churlish kid in the region?) and the Fishers obviously don't know a thing about what goes where, QED their ego-boostiing attempt to uglify the most historic part of the Presidio with a museum straight from hell.
Actually, all it takes is someone with imagination and vigor like Ellison to make the Coliseum work so much better than a worn out Wolff could ever do – even if he got his way and was through some miracle able to move the A's all the way down to San Jose, where, incidentally, OUR taxes for extending BART must go. Which one would Chuck Reed give up, BART or the A's?
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Forget Fremont, they will not sit still for it no matter what the council thinks they can get away with. Recall and serious litigation is just a beginning and these folks are in the money bracket to do it without hesitation.
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