Cold bucket news
- 01.12.10, 22:30
- 58 Comments
This ain’t the hot stove league, folks.
Owners’ meetings are scheduled to start tomorrow in the desert. While much of the focus will be on-field, an important matter may also be covered:
A committee established by Selig last year to find a new home for the Oakland A’s should be close to offering its recommendations. A’s owner Lew Wolff wants to relocate to San Jose. The Giants claim that city as part of their territory. In 2005, Selig helped broker the deal that moved the Expos from Montreal to Washington. Orioles owner Peter Angelos said the nation’s capital was part of Baltimore’s extended territory. San Jose is the 10th-largest city in the country and third population-wise in California behind Los Angeles and San Diego. So there’s a lot at stake.
Coupled with Buster Olney’s musings over the weekend, it sounds like this is all coming to a head soon.
An audit to get the final cost of Petco Park was just completed and presented to San Diego’s City Council.
The Marlins made a pledge to increase payroll in anticipation of their new stadium, could amount to MLB’s first salary floor – if the Marlins follow through on their promise to MLBPA.
The Twins moved into Target Field 28 months after construction began and 3 months before opening day.
Finally, the 49ers downsized former A’s exec Andy Dolich today, eliminating his COO position. The 49ers will be on the hunt for a chief marketing officer whose job it will be to pursue corporate sponsorships.
He can cash out and make a huge profit like the guy before him and not like the guy before him ( the Haas famil,y who sold at a reduced rate to Schottman). Isn’t that what it’s all about, the money?
“Wolff and MLB will move the team wherever they want for whatever reason they want.”
Yeah, that’s what I’m afraid of.
You’re an “A’s fan” not an Oakland A’s fan. There’s a difference. You do realize that a move to San Jose would be the end of the Oakland A’s? People from all over the Bay Area and Northern California want the A’s to remain in Oakland. It’s not about living in Oakland or convenience. It’s about history and tradition.
That’s why I will be ecstatic if they remain in the BAY AREA!
I am an A’s fan and live in Sacramento. I would love for them to move here, but realize it will never happen. The idea of a downtown park in Oak or SJ does not appeal to me. Of all the proposals the NUMMI site is the first that offers reasonably good access for fans from the Central Valley. I don’t care if Bay Area snobs think Fremont is boring. I’d go there to watch the A’s and not freeze to death. San Jose is too far to drive to on a regular basis.
The San Jose site has ACE train access making it much more accessible to the Central Valley.
That’s what I wish would happen. There is no need to have separate territories in the Bay Area. Just let the teams share both of them like the other two team markets. However I don’t think Bud is going to want to shake things up THAT much, and he’ll likely just move Santa Clara back over to the A’s.
Considering ACE is based out of Stockton, I don’t think a commuter train would be much help for Sacramento residents … unless you take Amtrak to Stockton and transfer to ACE … which of course would only be useful for weekday games …
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If anything a Sacramento resident … or anywhere in that region is better off taking the Capitol Corridor to an Oakland stadium. You have to admit, it’s a very central location.