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These are the same Rangers who twice came within one strike of the franchise's first World Series championship before losing Games 6 and 7 to the wild-card St. Louis Cardinals. It was Texas' second near miss in as many years after losing the 2010 World Series to the Giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoenis Cespedes punched his bat, apparently thinking he had recorded the last out before the ball glanced off Hamilton's glove. Manager Ron Washington stood with a stunned look in the dugout, then had an animated chat with Hamilton once the inning ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murphy's two-run single highlighted a five-run third inning that put Texas in prime position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moss drew a leadoff walk from starter Ryan Dempster and Josh Reddick followed with an RBI double. 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That's coming on top of the World Series losses the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 30, the A's were 13 games behind Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, that gap has narrowed to zero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoever wins this final game of the season will take the division title -- no small prize, considering the wild card winner this year is actually one of two that will compete in a one-game playoff to advance further into the post-season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Nina Thorsen is at the big A's-Rangers game this afternoon live-tweeting. 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General manager Billy Beane found ways to get a blue-collar franchise back to the playoffs for the first time since being swept by Detroit in the 2006 AL championship series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was all part of the plan,'' Beane said before the game, planning to watch alone from the weight room in his usual routine. ``It's a good day.''\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coco Crisp hit a tying two-run double in the fourth against Derek Holland (12-7). Brandon Moss drove in three runs, including a two-run single in a four-run eighth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rookie Evan Scribner (2-0) left the mound to a standing ovation from the sellout crowd of 30,067 and wound up the winning pitcher. He allowed two hits and struck out two in three scoreless innings after replacing struggling starter A.J. Griffin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Blevins relieved Scribner and struck out Hamilton to end the sixth before allowing a leadoff single to Adrian Beltre in the seventh. Ryan Cook, pitching for a fifth consecutive game, replaced Blevins and gave up a double to Nelson Cruz before retiring the next three Texas hitters with strikeouts of David Murphy and Mike Napoli. Catcher Derek Norris pumped his right arm as the Coliseum fans jumped to their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norris then homered leading off the bottom of the eighth for his second RBI. It was his seventh homer and Oakland's majors-leading 112th since the All-Star break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A's join the NL West champion San Francisco Giants as division champions. The Bay Area is already buzzing about a possible Bay Bridge World Series like the 1989 championship swept by Oakland, one interrupted by an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamilton's miscue might haunt the to-be free agent if his Rangers don't get past their wild-card game. These are the same Rangers who twice came within one strike of the franchise's first World Series championship before losing Games 6 and 7 to the wild-card St. Louis Cardinals. It was Texas' second near miss in as many years after losing the 2010 World Series to the Giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoenis Cespedes punched his bat, apparently thinking he had recorded the last out before the ball glanced off Hamilton's glove. Manager Ron Washington stood with a stunned look in the dugout, then had an animated chat with Hamilton once the inning ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murphy's two-run single highlighted a five-run third inning that put Texas in prime position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moss drew a leadoff walk from starter Ryan Dempster and Josh Reddick followed with an RBI double. Josh Donaldson singled and Seth Smith's base hit made it 5-3 and chased Dempster with none out and runners on first and second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Washington turned to the lefty Holland, a starter who was tagged for four runs in the first inning of the second game of Sunday's doubleheader with the Angels before working into the seventh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He retired the first two batters before Crisp's double down the right-field line. The A's batted around in the inning after Texas sent 10 to the plate in the third. And the A's kept adding on until the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only other teams to come back from at least 13 games down to win the division were the 1914 Boston Braves, the 1951 New York Giants, the `78 Yankees and the `95 Seattle Mariners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland accomplished all this with an ever-changing roster managed by Bob Melvin in his first full season as A's skipper. 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If approved by the City Council on Tuesday, Bisexual Pride Day would be celebrated on Sept. 23 when there are bisexual pride events in Los Angeles, Boston and other cities.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/occupy/ci_21570447/san-francisco-occupy-protesters-dismantle-tents?IADID=Search-www.insidebayarea.com-www.insidebayarea.com\">San Francisco Occupy protesters dismantle tents\u003c/a> (Bay Area News Group)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Protesters in San Francisco took down tents overnight to meet a 6 a.m. Tuesday deadline set by police, according to media sources. Police are keeping an eye on a small group in Justin Herman Plaza, according to KGO-TV. The protesters had marched Monday evening in the Financial District to mark the anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. As many as 500 marchers blocked streets and rallied for an end to financial inequality.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Fight-over-Oakland-trees-views-not-over-3872894.php\">Fight over Oakland trees, views not over\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>By the time Phyllis Bishop won the right to trim and clear her neighbors' trees and regain the panoramic bay view from her Oakland hills home, 25 years had passed, her husband Lloyd had died, and she was living in a retirement home. Bishop, 95, sighed with relief at the victory of an epic legal and political battle with her neighbors that went all the way to the state Supreme Court. Yet, once the neighbors' trees were cleared this year, Bishop noticed that city trees blocked the view from her property, violating a city ordinance.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/johnson/article/Forgotten-fans-embrace-surprising-A-s-3872840.php\">Forgotten fans embrace surprising A's\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The spirit of the 2012 Oakland A's has been captured in a Hollywood movie, but it's not \"Moneyball.\" It's \"Major League,\" the fictional account of a Cleveland Indians team owner who must lower attendance to activate a contractual clause that allows the team to move. And just as in the 1989 movie, in spite of A's managing partner Lew Wolff - and the trading away of the team's top players and the filling of the roster with unproven rookies and veterans considered past their prime - this team is dazzling its fans. 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If approved by the City Council on Tuesday, Bisexual Pride Day would be celebrated on Sept. 23 when there are bisexual pride events in Los Angeles, Boston and other cities.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/occupy/ci_21570447/san-francisco-occupy-protesters-dismantle-tents?IADID=Search-www.insidebayarea.com-www.insidebayarea.com\">San Francisco Occupy protesters dismantle tents\u003c/a> (Bay Area News Group)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Protesters in San Francisco took down tents overnight to meet a 6 a.m. Tuesday deadline set by police, according to media sources. Police are keeping an eye on a small group in Justin Herman Plaza, according to KGO-TV. The protesters had marched Monday evening in the Financial District to mark the anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. As many as 500 marchers blocked streets and rallied for an end to financial inequality.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Fight-over-Oakland-trees-views-not-over-3872894.php\">Fight over Oakland trees, views not over\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>By the time Phyllis Bishop won the right to trim and clear her neighbors' trees and regain the panoramic bay view from her Oakland hills home, 25 years had passed, her husband Lloyd had died, and she was living in a retirement home. Bishop, 95, sighed with relief at the victory of an epic legal and political battle with her neighbors that went all the way to the state Supreme Court. Yet, once the neighbors' trees were cleared this year, Bishop noticed that city trees blocked the view from her property, violating a city ordinance.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/johnson/article/Forgotten-fans-embrace-surprising-A-s-3872840.php\">Forgotten fans embrace surprising A's\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The spirit of the 2012 Oakland A's has been captured in a Hollywood movie, but it's not \"Moneyball.\" It's \"Major League,\" the fictional account of a Cleveland Indians team owner who must lower attendance to activate a contractual clause that allows the team to move. And just as in the 1989 movie, in spite of A's managing partner Lew Wolff - and the trading away of the team's top players and the filling of the roster with unproven rookies and veterans considered past their prime - this team is dazzling its fans. 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"content": "\u003cp>After more than three years of study, Major League Baseball still hasn't acted on the desire of Oakland A's ownership to move the team south to San Jose. But while the larger issue of territorial rights is up in the air, there is a court date -- September 21 to be exact -- to address one small part of the dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62095\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/sanjoseas.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-62095\" title=\"sanjosea's\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/sanjoseas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still a fake logo...\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_21468134/san-jose-gets-tough-move-opponents\">The Mercury News\u003c/a> and the\u003ca href=\"http://newballpark.org/2012/09/03/city-of-san-jose-seeks-to-depose-stand-for-san-jose/\"> blog newballpark.org\u003c/a> report that the city of San Jose and the A's want a group known as \"Stand for San Jose\" to produce more information about their financial supporters and membership. Stand for San Jose filed a legal challenge to a proposed new ballpark near Diridon Station last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question behind this legal maneuver is whether the members of Stand for San Jose have legal standing or it's just a front for the San Francisco Giants, a relationship that would peg the group as more \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing\">Astroturf\u003c/a> than grassroots. The Giants currently hold MLB's territorial rights to Santa Clara County, and have not shown any interest in relinquishing them to the A's, who had actually \u003ca href=\"http://www.athleticsnation.com/2012/4/18/2958535/territorial-rights-a-not-so-brief-history\">granted them to the Giants\u003c/a> in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There isn't much dispute that Stand For San Jose is at least partly supported by the San Jose Giants, who are in turn owned by the San Francisco club. The group’s own website, in addition to including \u003ca href=\"http://www.standforsanjose.org/\">stock photography of a happy young family\u003c/a> apparently rejoicing in their city's lack of a major league ballpark, links to an AP story that describes the group as \"concerned residents financially backed by the Giants' Class-A San Jose club.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stand for San Jose shouldn’t be confused with \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.bettersensesanjose.org/\">Better Sense San Jose,\u003c/a>\" which is a volunteer group of San Jose residents who are concerned about traffic, parking and budgetary impacts of a baseball stadium in their city. (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/12/the-as-to-san-jose-san-joseans-speak-out-pro-and-con/\">I spoke with their leader, Marc Morris,\u003c/a> earlier this year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, back in Oakland, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/warriors/ci_21412135/oakland-rallies-keep-teams\">city has declared September 10-15 \u003c/a>\"\u003ca href=\"http://www.saveoaklandsports.org/\">Oakland Loves Its Sports Teams Week\u003c/a>\" and is sponsoring a number of events to demonstrate support for the A's, Raiders, and Warriors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ownership groups of the A's and Giants may not see eye to eye, but the teams are moving on a parallel course toward a green and/or orange October. They have \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/standings/index.jsp?tcid=mm_mlb_standings\">nearly-identical win-loss records\u003c/a>, and both teams are taking orders for postseason strips from their season ticket holders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of this morning, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseballprospectus.com/odds/\">the wise statheads at Baseball Prospectus\u003c/a> believe there is a 59% chance that the A’s will make it into the postseason, almost certainly via the wild card. They currently lead the American League wild card race, and are 4 games behind the Texas Rangers for the AL West title. BP gives the Giants a 94% chance of postseason play, with a 90.7% chance of winning the NL West. They are 4.5 games ahead of the Dodgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time both Bay Area baseball teams were in the postseason together was 2003, when both won their respective divisions but lost in the first round of the playoffs.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73706\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 230px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/788px-Bill_Neukom_2010_CROP.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-73706 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/788px-Bill_Neukom_2010_CROP-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Giants Chairman Emeritus Bill Neukom\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giants Chairman Emeritus Bill Neukom at the 2010 World Series parade. Photo by Mike Deekoski/Wikipedia\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tonight the San Francisco Giants will take the field against the Los Angeles Dodgers in what could be a bitter battle for \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/standings/\">first place in the National League West\u003c/a>. Off the diamond, however, some in the teams' front offices are on the same side - at least when it comes to politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giants Chairman Emeritus Bill Neukom and four members of the Dodgers' ownership group have made significant donations to the Democratic cause this election cycle, according to information from \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/index.php\">OpenSecrets.org\u003c/a>. A project of the The Center for Responsive Politics, the site allows users to find out more details about political donors. Our colleagues at \u003ca href=\"http://www.wnyc.org/articles/its-free-country/2012/aug/20/map-your-favorite-sports-team-romney-or-obama/\">WNYC\u003c/a> have combed through that data in an effort to find out \u003ca href=\"http://www.wnyc.org/articles/its-free-country/2012/aug/20/map-your-favorite-sports-team-romney-or-obama/\">which parties and candidates are supported by sports team owners\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their work shows that Neukom has donated a total of $27,900 to the Democratic candidates and organizations this election cycle, including $12,900 to the Democratic National Committee and $10,000 t0 the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Meanwhile, Magic Johnson, Todd Boehly, Robert Patton and Mark Walter - all members of the Dodgers' ownership group - have given a total of $178,200 to the Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A closer look at the OpenSecrets data also finds owners of Bay Area sports teams on the other side of the political aisle. Peter Magowan, a member of the Giants' ownership group and the team's former managing general partner, has donated $61,600 to the Republican National Committee. Magowan also has given $5,000 to U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland A's owner Lew Wolff, meanwhile, has given $2,500 to GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Wolff also is the co-owner of the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, baseball and soccer aren't the only professional sports played in the Bay Area. Here's a look at contributions made by owners and players from other local teams:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Football\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>49ers tight end Vernon Davis was among team's leaders in yards and touchdowns last season. This year he's leading the team in political contributions. Davis has given $7,500 to Democratic causes, including $5,000 in donations to the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Team owner Jed York gave $3,000 to former Sunnyvale Mayor Otto Lee, a Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Raiders, meanwhile, are either staying out of politics or contributing in other ways. We searched the OpenSecrets data for Raiders employees and team owners Mark and Carol Davis but turned up no records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Basketball\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden State Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob gave $2,288 to the National Venture Capital Association, a PAC that \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00150367\">OpenSecrets\u003c/a> says gave 43 percent of its donations to Democratic federal candidates in 2012 and 57 percent to Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hockey\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Sharks President and CEO Greg Jamison gave $1,000 to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a former GOP candidate for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you a fan of a pro sports team based outside the Bay Area? Check out WNYC's interactive map of donations by sports team owners from around the country:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://project.wnyc.org/sports-contributions\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"650\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/Oakland-Athletics-logoSM1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-66126\" title=\"Oakland-Athletics-logoSM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/Oakland-Athletics-logoSM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>The way to San Jose? It ain't through Major League Baseball, that's for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not according to Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone's interpretation of some remarks MLB Commissioner Bud Selig made last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding baseball's interminable process (1164 days and counting according to \u003ca href=\"http://newballpark.org/\">newballpark.org\u003c/a>) of deciding should they stay or can they go when it comes to A's owner Lew Wolff's fondest hope of hightailing it out of Oakland for Silicon Valley, Selig said this last Thursday, per AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Baseball commissioner Bud Selig says it's up to Oakland owner Lew Wolff to decide whether to consider additional sites for a new ballpark for the Athletics, leaving open the possibility of a move outside the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking Thursday after a quarterly owners' meeting, Selig said there's no timetable for resolving Oakland's dispute with the San Francisco Giants. The Giants are preventing the A's from building a ballpark in San Jose, which is part of the Giants' territory... Asked whether the A's would consider other relocation possibilities, Selig responded: \"You'd have to ask Lew Wolff. That's really his decision to make....It depends where they'd be. They could be all over the world, for that matter. They need approval. We have to go through an approval process. It just depends on where they're moving to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selig said last month he hoped the A's and Giants would resolve the matter themselves, but there's no indication that will happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Both clubs yesterday made a presentation to the executive council, but there's nothing new other than that,\" Selig said. He added that he can't provide a timetable and responded \"no\" when asked whether some kind of decision was approaching.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Later that day I gave Assessor Stone, who's been working on enabling an A's move to his neck of the woods since Bill Clinton was in office, to see if he'd interpreted Selig's reported comments yet. He had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I would interpret Mr. Selig's comments as meaning that San Jose's site is off the table and he's asking Lew Wolff to consider additional sites other than San Jose. You can only conclude I guess that that's a rejection of a potential move of the A's to San Jose. And that's extremely disappointing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the commissioner says Lew Wolff needs to look at other options, additional sites for ballparks, it would seem to me that puts the San Jose site closed out. I can't interpret that any other way. If there's something I'm missing here, I'd be glad to listen. I hope there's something I'm missing here. If moving the A's to San Jose is in fact dead, it means San Jose and Silicon Valley will not have a MLB team forever.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/01/31/the-tribs-angela-woodall-tells-us-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-as-ballpark-situation/\">Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the A's Ballpark Situation\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Stone wants the Giants to do the same thing for the A's that the A's did for the Giants back in the 1990s, when A's owner Walter Haas ceded to the Giants, who were looking to move to San Jose, the territorial rights to Santa Clara County. \"The mistake that was made by MLB and by the A's,\" Stone says, \"is that the territorial rights given to the Giants by the A's in the 1990s should have been conditioned on the success of the ballot measure to bring the Giants to San Jose. That measure failed, but the territorial rights remained.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of Chronicle columnists subsequently agreed with the \"Selig to A's and San Jose: \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/28/nyregion/28veto.html\">Drop Dead\u003c/a>\" subtext of Selig's remarks. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/19/SP3J1OKBQF.DTL\">Al Saracevic\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Looks like Wolff's game of chicken isn't paying off. Commissioner Bud Selig told the A's this past week to look elsewhere if they want. But the subtext was clear: San Jose shouldn't be on their itinerary...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolff and his silent majority partner, John Fisher, need to give up on San Jose. They need to partner up with city government and local business leaders on a plan that will work in Oakland. This is a city that needs all the help it can get. As the wealthy curators of this public trust, you owe the city and the team's fans that much. Find a way to get a beautiful new stadium built in Oakland. If you can't do that, sell it to someone who will.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/17/SPJL1OJL1O.DTL\">Gwen Knapp\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Asked whether the A's might consider leaving Northern California altogether, [Selig] said they could go anywhere that would win approval from the other owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They could be all over the world, for that matter,\" Selig said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One translation: Mumbai has as much a shot as San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A better interpretation: Oakland, it's your move. We can wait all decade...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No decision means \"no\" to the A's. They aren't getting the rights to San Jose, not yet, not soon, not even over Larry Baer's stone-cold corpse.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Knapp also addressed the Giants' putting up a big fat roadblock to the move, which Stone has repeatedly and bitterly complained about. Stone says, \"the Giants' plan and model has been throughout this controversy to keep the A's in Oakland, where everybody knows the A's cannot survive in that ballpark. If they can keep them in Oakland, they know eventually the team will fail financially and they will have to move the team, most likely out of the Bay Area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knapp says this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[Selig's] comment might have triggered disgust over the A's situation, and the Giants' role in it. But try to imagine how much public disgust would be needed to shame the Giants about the possibility of forcing the other baseball team out of their market. Now double it, and triple it. You'll be wrong, and the Giants will be ordering Champagne for the day the moving vans pull up to the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So what do the A's have to say? From the AP article:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lew continues to be committed to moving to San Jose, following the procedures and guidelines of the commissioner and the committee,\" team spokesman Ken Pries said. \"The focus has not changed in keeping the team in the Bay Area, and specifically San Jose. The focus is San Jose, No. 1, and keeping the team in the Bay Area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Don Knauss, the chairman and CEO of Oakland-based Clorox, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/05/03/clorox-ceo-wants-to-keep-the-as-in-oakland/\">held a press conference\u003c/a> with Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and representatives from other major East Bay companies to express support for keeping the A's in Oakland and calling on Lew Wolff and John Fisher to sell the team if something to that effect couldn't be worked out. Wolff has said recently the team is not for sale.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I got involved in the design of the new Astros ballpark in downtown Houston, and then negotiated the naming rights to change the name of that park to Minute Maid Park in 2002. And I saw what that ballpark did to the revitalization of downtown, in terms of jobs, the economic growth that came out of it, tourism, and just the general vitality it introduced into Houston. I don't think it's unlike what AT&T Park did to revitalize that part of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I've seen firsthand what can be done. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen\u003c/strong>: Can you identify those prospective buyers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Knauss\u003c/strong>: Well, we think that's premature. First, we'd like to work with Mr. Wolff and Mr. Fisher to keep the team in Oakland, it'd be a lot quicker to build a new stadium if that were to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, we want to respect the process and protocols that Major League Baseball uses with regard to ownership and ownership changes. So it's a bit premature, until we know what John Fisher and Lew Wolff's intentions are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen\u003c/strong>: So what is the benefit to Clorox in having the A's in Oakland?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Knauss\u003c/strong>: Clorox is the Fortune 500 company headquartered in downtown Oakland. We care a lot about this community and the vibrancy of this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think my personal experience helps this as well. About ten years ago I was president and CEO of the Minute Maid Corporation in Houston. I got involved in the design of the new Astros ballpark in downtown Houston, and then negotiated the naming rights to change the name of that park to Minute Maid Park in 2002. And I saw what that ballpark did to the revitalization of downtown, in terms of jobs, the economic growth that came out of it, tourism, and just the general vitality it introduced into Houston. I don't think it's unlike what AT&T Park did to revitalize that part of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I've seen firsthand what can be done. And Oakland, I think, deserves that chance, to get that kind of economic vitality brought back to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen\u003c/strong>: Is there a preference among the business community for the proposals for \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/92510/archives/2012/03/09/coliseum-city-oaklands-only-shot\" target=\"_blank\">Coliseum City\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://baseballoakland.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-we-love-victory-court.html\" target=\"_blank\">Victory Court\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Knauss\u003c/strong>: As I've had discussions with people who could potentially participate in this ownership group, I think a downtown site could be preferable. But first and foremost, we want to keep it in Oakland. There's some interesting options with Victory Court and other sites downtown, that are more difficult now with the end of redevelopment funding, but not impossible when you look at the model the Giants used to get AT&T Park built with private funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of the purchase price of that stadium was through bank loans, and the other half was basically equity generated by all the sponsorship deals and seat licenses and luxury boxes. That model could be replicated over here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen\u003c/strong>: You talked to Major League Baseball's fact-finding group about this issue three years ago. Do you expect to hear from MLB again, now that you've thrown down this gauntlet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Knauss\u003c/strong>: I certainly hope we'll hear from Major League Baseball. I think the owners are going to hear from Lew Wolff and/or John Fisher at the upcoming May meeting. 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He confirmed that the team is not for sale and that ownership has explored all options in Oakland.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For now, the impasse continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/Oakland-Athletics-logoSM1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-62812\" title=\"Oakland-Athletics-logoSM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/Oakland-Athletics-logoSM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"194\">\u003c/a>The \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201204190633/a\" target=\"_blank\">third and final part \u003c/a>\u003c/strong> of our radio series about the Oakland A's' search for a new home focussed on the appeal of the proximity of corporate tech titans in the team's preferred city of San Jose...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The owners of the Oakland A's would like them to become the San Jose A's, [a relocation] inspired not so much by the fan base or the availability of land, but by the proximity to corporations who are an increasingly important source of revenue. Baseball is changing from an escape from the workday world to an extension of the office. Jeffrey August works in network engineering for Facebook. \"I get asked to come to meetings that include a Giants game probably at least once a month during the baseball season,\" he said. \"Since 2006, I think I've been to a total of two meetings at the Oakland Coliseum.\" (\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201204190633/a\">Read more here\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Although we spent a lot of time on the stadium topic, there's even more to say about it. We didn't go into the issue of territorial rights, which is the immediate roadblock to the San Jose move that A's ownership wants to make. The rights to Santa Clara County are currently assigned by Major League Baseball to the San Francisco Giants. For the A's to get them, either the Giants have to be persuaded to relinquish them or MLB has to take them away. (A diarist at Athletics Nation just did a \u003ca href=\"//www.athleticsnation.com/2012/4/18/2958535/territorial-rights-a-not-so-brief-history\" target=\"_blank\">much more detailed history\u003c/a> on the territorial rights issue, if you're interested.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also didn't discuss the importance of broadcast revenues in baseball economics. Hypothetically a new stadium leads to a better team with better attendance, and then a better broadcast deal, and then more revenues to put back in the team, and even better attendance, and so on. This virtuous cycle is a very big factor in the success of big-market teams like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/story/2012-02-06/MLB-teams-using-lucrative-TV-deals-to-sign-talent/53032284/1\" target=\"_blank\">Yankees\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/08/sports/la-sp-angels-fox-tv-20111209\" target=\"_blank\">Angels\u003c/a>. Not so for the A's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our last segment began with a quote from the film version of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.moneyball-movie.com/site/\" target=\"_blank\">Moneyball\u003c/a>\u003c/em> -- \"How can you not be romantic about baseball?\" We feel that as fans, of course, but we also know that there are unromantic business decisions behind what happens on the field. We didn't find answers to any of the questions about the A's future. What we did find, in the course of 18 interviews and a few community and city council events, was genuine concern for the best interests of the team on the part of everyone who chimed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MLB owners have a scheduled meeting in mid-May; the question of the future home of the A's may be on the agenda, or it may not. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/sanjoseas.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-62095\" title=\"sanjosea's\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/sanjoseas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>Last week I did a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/03/as-fans-ponder-their-future-in-oakland-as-new-season-ramps-up/\">radio feature presenting some voices of A's fans who don't want their baseball team to move to San Jose\u003c/a>. While that view is contrary to that of A's ownership, the move is on hold anyway, pending a resolution of a territorial rights dispute between the A's, the San Francisco Giants, and Major League Baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are edited transcripts from interviews I conducted with Santa County Assessor Larry Stone and Baseball San Jose President Michael Mulcahy, stadium supporters; as well as an interview with Marc Morris, who heads up a citizens groups opposed to building a ballpark for the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's probably no one who's been advocating for a Major League team in San Jose longer than Santa Clara County Assessor \u003ca href=\"http://www.sccgov.org/sites/asr/Welcome%20%28Media%20Release,%20Assessor%20Bio,%20Organizational%20chart,%20more%29/Pages/Welcome.aspxhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Stone\">Larry Stone\u003c/a>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Dianne Feinstein appointed me to the \"Save the Giants\" committee when she was the Mayor of San Francisco in the early 1980's. Then as the Mayor of Sunnyvale, I chaired in 1988 an effort to bring the Giants to a new ballpark in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That went on the ballot in 1990 and it was a five-city consortium, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Milpitas, and Mountain View. And it came very close to passing; it was a 1% utility users' tax increase that the people of San Jose actually approved, but it didn't carry enough in the other four cities to pass. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Susan Hammer became mayor of San Jose, and she was so enthused by it passing in San Jose that she decided to try it one more time, just in San Jose, not the five-city consortium. But the economic situation had declined significantly, and it was a 2% user tax instead of 1%, and so that measure failed at the ballot by about a 10% margin. So I've been unsuccessful in bringing Major League Baseball to this county, and I've been trying to do it for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>There are more Red Sox or Yankees fans at A's games when they're the opponents than there are A's fans. That's embarrassing and it's disappointing, particularly for an A's fan.\u003cbr>\n-Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I began to work with Steve Schott, the previous A's owner, in the late 90's, and in fact I didn't renew my Giants season tickets when they moved to Pac Bell Park because I was convinced that the A's would be moving to San Jose soon, and I didn't want to pay the seat license fee for the Giants in a couple of years. Well, that couple of years has turned into a dozen, and they're still not here, and we're still waiting for a decision from Bud Selig and Major League Baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be a major metropolitan area with a core city like San Jose, you need a number of things. You need the arts, you need a ballet, you need museums like the Tech and the San Jose Museum of Art and the Triton and the others. You need good traffic and transportation alternatives. You need parks and recreation. You need colleges and hospitals. Professional sports are just one part of it, not the most important part, but it's part of what makes a major metropolitan area, it's why you want to live somewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are always concerned about parking and traffic, but here's what I learned from the Sharks. The way you smooth out or dilute the traffic is by having something to do before the game and after the game. People come to a Sharks game way early and eat or drink, and the same after the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most important component is the number of ways in and out. I go to a Sharks game and I'm on 280 heading north no more than 10 minutes after the game. We have excellent traffic access and opportunities -- 87, 280, 101, or Coleman Avenue to 880. And between the HP Pavilion and the ballpark is Diridon Station. BART will be there, heavy rail is there now, Caltrain, light rail goes through there as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arena (HP Pavilion) passed in the early 90's, by a very narrow margin with a lot of opposition. Today you can't find three people that'll admit they voted against it. And I think the same thing will happen with the ballpark. There's always fears about certain things that never seem to happen. There's some people that are just threatened, by the arts, threatened by sports, and they will always exist. Of course it's perfectly appropriate for citizens, particularly those that reside nearby, to raise questions, and that's what the environmental review process is part of as well. Once those things are adjusted and meaninful concessions made, I would love to see people say \"Okay, let's go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the problems with the Coliseum is there are too many seats. In the 70s, I walked up and bought a ticket at game time to the World Series. When you have too many seats, you're not compelled to buy season tickets. And when you're not compelled to buy season tickets, then the performance of the team on the field dictates your attendance. And that's the biggest problem the A's have; they have a loyal fan base, they have a rich history of success in baseball, much more so than the San Francisco Giants, but if you don't feel you need to buy season tickets in order to get a good seat at the game, it's a self-defeating prophecy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why Lew Wolff wants to build a substantially smaller ballpark. There are more Red Sox or Yankees fans at A's games when they're the opponents than there are A's fans. That's embarrassing and it's disappointing, particularly for an A's fan. I think given the issues that the A's are having with attendance and broadcast revenue, that the A's need San Jose desperately. And we will welcome them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Earthquakes are here, they're going to build a new stadium, the Sharks have been a tremendous success, the 49ers are coming to Santa Clara and will be a great asset to this city and this county and this region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the A's, as Lew Wolff has indicated, just can't sustain their current situation much longer. And I believe the Giants think if they can cause them to sustain their current situation much longer, they will control the entire baseball market in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Michael Mulcahy, a lifelong A's fan, is the president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.probaseballforsanjose.com/\">Baseball San Jose\u003c/a>, a group that supports a downtown ballpark and the relocation of the A's franchise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This is that next shot in the arm that allows San Jose to build upon its reputation as the capital of Silicon Valley, the center of innovation. And to build a community that has all the assets that are going to attract good employees, families that want to live and stay and work here.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">If you're a California baseball fan, an Oakland A's fan, you sure better hope they land in San Jose because California could lose the team entirely.\u003cbr>\n-Michael Mulcahy, president of Baseball San Jose\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>We've seen in San Jose what Major League sports can do. The Sharks are a perfect example. The spirit of our city is rising or falling depending on whether the Sharks are in third position for the playoff hunt, or eighth or ninth and out of the picture. Because our people in downtown San Jose, the business owners, the restaurant owners, know that their entire month of April and May rises and falls on whether or not the Sharks make the playoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose needs the A's as much as the A's need San Jose, and frankly I think that if you're a California baseball fan, an Oakland A's fan, you sure better hope they land in San Jose because California could lose the team entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I believe that time heals all wounds and winning heals all wounds. And I think if we're in a wonderful intimate ballpark that's accessible by Caltrain, in a downtown where there's all the services and restaurants and parking, I think we'll be able to attract not just those East Bay fans, but beyond...people who live south of San Jose who are two hours plus away from AT&T Park or the Oakland Coliseum. You add the region down to Salinas and out to Monterey and through Santa Cruz and Watsonville -- it broadens the baseball community that much more.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Marc Morris heads an independent citizen group called \u003ca href=\"//www.bettersensesanjose.org/\">Better Sense San Jose\u003c/a>, which is opposed to the ballpark deal. (The organization is not to be confused with Stand For San Jose, a group which is at least partly financed by the Giants's San Jose Class A franchise, and which has actually \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/03/stand-for-san-jose-sues-city_n_1127229.html\">filed suit against the ballpark plan\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We think of this as essentially a vanity project for the city political leaders, and to some extent the business community, that will deliver much less benefit than promised, and cost the city and the residents of San Jose much more than we're being told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's the great prestige argument (that sports teams increase a city's visibility). And I just ask people, look at Detroit. Detroit has major league baseball, major league football, major league basketball, major league hockey. What do you think about when you think of Detroit? You don't think \"prestige,\" you think \"economic collapse.\" And you don't have to look any further than Oakland to see the same thing. Oakland has baseball, football, and basketball, and while Oakland has a lot of good things, good restaurants and good neighborhoods, it does not get a great deal of respect, unfortunately. So the notion that major league sports brands your city in any way is silly.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The reason for building these new stadiums is to put in a lot more high-priced seats and luxury boxes that only corporations can afford.\u003cbr>\n-Marc Morris, Better Sense San Jose\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It's fundamentally about money and nothing but money. And the money these days, and the reason for building these new stadiums, is to put in a lot more high-priced seats and luxury boxes that only corporations can afford. And also to build all the concessions in, the places where you buy beer and food and merchandise. That negates the notion that this would generate business outside the stadium, because the whole purpose of the stadium is to capture all the money inside the stadium for the benefit of the team ownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're concerned about the impact, not only on the neighborhoods around the stadium, but to the city as a whole. Even aside from the impact on people trying to get to the game, or to downtown or out of downtown, anyone who lives in south San Jose who's commuting to north San Jose where the jobs are, or going up the Peninsula, cannot avoid that freeway traffic. It's just going to be a nightmare.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Next week's story: economic implications of an A's move for both San Jose and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/sanjoseas.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-62095\" title=\"sanjosea's\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/sanjoseas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>Last week I did a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/03/as-fans-ponder-their-future-in-oakland-as-new-season-ramps-up/\">radio feature presenting some voices of A's fans who don't want their baseball team to move to San Jose\u003c/a>. While that view is contrary to that of A's ownership, the move is on hold anyway, pending a resolution of a territorial rights dispute between the A's, the San Francisco Giants, and Major League Baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are edited transcripts from interviews I conducted with Santa County Assessor Larry Stone and Baseball San Jose President Michael Mulcahy, stadium supporters; as well as an interview with Marc Morris, who heads up a citizens groups opposed to building a ballpark for the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's probably no one who's been advocating for a Major League team in San Jose longer than Santa Clara County Assessor \u003ca href=\"http://www.sccgov.org/sites/asr/Welcome%20%28Media%20Release,%20Assessor%20Bio,%20Organizational%20chart,%20more%29/Pages/Welcome.aspxhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Stone\">Larry Stone\u003c/a>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Dianne Feinstein appointed me to the \"Save the Giants\" committee when she was the Mayor of San Francisco in the early 1980's. Then as the Mayor of Sunnyvale, I chaired in 1988 an effort to bring the Giants to a new ballpark in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That went on the ballot in 1990 and it was a five-city consortium, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Milpitas, and Mountain View. And it came very close to passing; it was a 1% utility users' tax increase that the people of San Jose actually approved, but it didn't carry enough in the other four cities to pass. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Susan Hammer became mayor of San Jose, and she was so enthused by it passing in San Jose that she decided to try it one more time, just in San Jose, not the five-city consortium. But the economic situation had declined significantly, and it was a 2% user tax instead of 1%, and so that measure failed at the ballot by about a 10% margin. So I've been unsuccessful in bringing Major League Baseball to this county, and I've been trying to do it for 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>There are more Red Sox or Yankees fans at A's games when they're the opponents than there are A's fans. That's embarrassing and it's disappointing, particularly for an A's fan.\u003cbr>\n-Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I began to work with Steve Schott, the previous A's owner, in the late 90's, and in fact I didn't renew my Giants season tickets when they moved to Pac Bell Park because I was convinced that the A's would be moving to San Jose soon, and I didn't want to pay the seat license fee for the Giants in a couple of years. Well, that couple of years has turned into a dozen, and they're still not here, and we're still waiting for a decision from Bud Selig and Major League Baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be a major metropolitan area with a core city like San Jose, you need a number of things. You need the arts, you need a ballet, you need museums like the Tech and the San Jose Museum of Art and the Triton and the others. You need good traffic and transportation alternatives. You need parks and recreation. You need colleges and hospitals. Professional sports are just one part of it, not the most important part, but it's part of what makes a major metropolitan area, it's why you want to live somewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are always concerned about parking and traffic, but here's what I learned from the Sharks. The way you smooth out or dilute the traffic is by having something to do before the game and after the game. People come to a Sharks game way early and eat or drink, and the same after the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most important component is the number of ways in and out. I go to a Sharks game and I'm on 280 heading north no more than 10 minutes after the game. We have excellent traffic access and opportunities -- 87, 280, 101, or Coleman Avenue to 880. And between the HP Pavilion and the ballpark is Diridon Station. BART will be there, heavy rail is there now, Caltrain, light rail goes through there as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arena (HP Pavilion) passed in the early 90's, by a very narrow margin with a lot of opposition. Today you can't find three people that'll admit they voted against it. And I think the same thing will happen with the ballpark. There's always fears about certain things that never seem to happen. There's some people that are just threatened, by the arts, threatened by sports, and they will always exist. Of course it's perfectly appropriate for citizens, particularly those that reside nearby, to raise questions, and that's what the environmental review process is part of as well. Once those things are adjusted and meaninful concessions made, I would love to see people say \"Okay, let's go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the problems with the Coliseum is there are too many seats. In the 70s, I walked up and bought a ticket at game time to the World Series. When you have too many seats, you're not compelled to buy season tickets. And when you're not compelled to buy season tickets, then the performance of the team on the field dictates your attendance. And that's the biggest problem the A's have; they have a loyal fan base, they have a rich history of success in baseball, much more so than the San Francisco Giants, but if you don't feel you need to buy season tickets in order to get a good seat at the game, it's a self-defeating prophecy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why Lew Wolff wants to build a substantially smaller ballpark. There are more Red Sox or Yankees fans at A's games when they're the opponents than there are A's fans. That's embarrassing and it's disappointing, particularly for an A's fan. I think given the issues that the A's are having with attendance and broadcast revenue, that the A's need San Jose desperately. 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That negates the notion that this would generate business outside the stadium, because the whole purpose of the stadium is to capture all the money inside the stadium for the benefit of the team ownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're concerned about the impact, not only on the neighborhoods around the stadium, but to the city as a whole. Even aside from the impact on people trying to get to the game, or to downtown or out of downtown, anyone who lives in south San Jose who's commuting to north San Jose where the jobs are, or going up the Peninsula, cannot avoid that freeway traffic. It's just going to be a nightmare.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Next week's story: economic implications of an A's move for both San Jose and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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