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"content": "\u003cp>The A’s made a surprise move yesterday by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/13/as-sign-cuban-defector-yoenis-cespedes/\">signing Yoenis Cespedes\u003c/a>, a highly sought-after outfielder for the Cuban national team until he defected last summer. We turn to sports journalist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/RickTittle\">Rick Tittle\u003c/a> for a little analysis:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rick Tittle \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56426\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/02/cespedes2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/02/cespedes2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cespedes\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yoennis Céspedes batting for Cuban national team in 2010 (boomer-44/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cespedes is a guy who the baseball world has seen in the Olympics and the World Baseball Classic. He defected and got his citizenship with the Dominican Republic, which unlocked him with our State Department. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He flew to Miami and people thought that he was probably going to be signing with the very ambitious Miami Marlins, but apparently he didn’t want to play in an area with such a large Cuban population; he thought it might be a media circus. Plus, the Marlins were offering him $36 million for six years, while the A’s were offering $36 million for just four years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of people around baseball are shocked that he picked Oakland, because the direction of the team has not been to win right now. But the A’s have put a lot of money into their overseas scouting recently, signing a young shortstop out of Venezuela named Renato Nunez, and, a few years ago, a young pitcher from the Dominican, Michael Ynoa. Ynoa has the same agent as Cespedes, so that may have had something to do with the signing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cespedes is a five-tool player coming to Oakland in probably the darkest off-season for the A’s since the 1970’s. This is now a bright light.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Tittle says team ownership may have been too successful in talking down the Oakland Coliseum as a way to get permission from Major League Baseball to relocate the team to San Jose. Last year’s attendance in Oakland was the worst in the major leagues. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\n\u003cstrong>Rick Tittle\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy if they say that no one comes here because the stadium is terrible. That doesn’t really bring in a lot of the fringe or fair-weather fans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you add a guy like Cespedes, who the fans can get excited about, that at least will give your team some value. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people see this, along with the extensions of general manager Billy Beane and team president Michael Crowley to the year 2019, as signs that the stadium in San Jose will finally be approved. But what this means right now is that the A’s have a good player coming in, something that they have not been able to say for a while. All we’ve had are prospects and journeymen coming in. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, having Billy Beane sign you to a long-term contract does not mean you’re going to be hanging around. Look at A’s pitcher Trevor Cahill. Just as he was about to start earning money under his deal, jumping from $500,000 to $3.5 million, he was dealt to Arizona. So some A’s fans may think Yoenis Cespedes will be gone by the trading deadline, but let’s hope that the Cuban superstar will be the real deal and hang around for more than the proverbial cup of coffee. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/02/Oakland-Athletics-logoSM.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-55982\" title=\"Oakland-Athletics-logoSM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/02/Oakland-Athletics-logoSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"194\">\u003c/a>Oakland A's owner Lew Wolff had an informal on-stage conversation at the Rotary Club of San Jose on Wednesday. He answered questions from Santa Clara County assessor Larry Stone, who's been active in the effort to get the A's to move from Oakland to San Jose; and later from the audience. A's ownership has been waiting for the last three years for Major League Baseball to give them permission to relocate the team. There's been a flurry of speculation in the last few months that permission will come before Opening Day 2012. Although Wolff said he is optimistic, he was quick to diminish any hope of news his audience might have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Thank you all for coming. I see a lot of press here. And I really wish I was here with a fantastic announcement for you. I commend you to the parable of the tortoise and the tortoise.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The tortoise Wolff is waiting on is MLB Commissioner Bud Selig. The A's can't move outside their territory of Alameda and Contra Costa counties without the permission of Major League Baseball. Selig appointed a committee to examine the possible Bay Area locations for the A's -- as of today, they've been at it for 1,061 days. And Wolff sounded slightly testy about the so-called \"blue-ribbon\" group's pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If one more person calls it a blue-ribbon committee, I'm gonna throw up. It's a committee. It's not a blue-ribbon committee. The gentlemen on the committee are good guys but they are doing the bidding of the commissioner. Baseball's gone from a $1 or $2 billion industry under Bud Selig to $7 or $8 billion. He's a deliberative person. But that deliberation, when you view the balance sheet -- he's done such a fabulous job. We're following the process. It's excruciating. But I think we're getting there. We have ways of being a belligerent owner. It's just not in me to do that.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The A's are restricted from moving to Santa Clara County because MLB has assigned that territory to the San Francisco Giants. Giants' ownership contends that a large part of their ticket sales and corporate support comes from Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, so a team in San Jose would cut into their support. As yet they haven't been amenable to making a deal to give up their rights to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Wolff: The Giants are trying to stonewall it, which is certainly working -- for them. And we're saying \"tell us what we can do.\" We think the facts are on our side. We don't want to hurt the Giants, in fact we think the end result will be a great result for everybody, a great new venue here as well as there, and competition for them. So it's just sort of strange, and it's hard to answer the question of why this has gone on so long.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Oakland, Wolff said when he bought the A's he had planned to build a new stadium there:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We really wanted to stay and figure it out in Oakland. At the time we started looking, we had the ability to get residential zoning or entitlements. The market was much different than today. Had that moved along, we would have had a ballpark there. Because that's the fan base, we have very loyal fans there, terrific people -- 99% of our fans are terrific, the others hate me.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Even if MLB grants Wolff's San Jose wish, there are a few other steps to go before work on a stadium can start. The city of San Jose has acquired most of the land they'd need, but not all of it. And the ballpark plan would have to pass a public referendum. Wolff said he didn't have a problem with putting the ballpark up for a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We'll do whatever is necessary. And if for some reason the community leaders, or elected officials, are persuaded that this is not good for the community, then we'll understand that too. If we did nothing else but just build the ballpark and it employed people and it had construction work, that would be a plus today. And whether that ballpark is in Fremont, Oakland, or San Jose, I just think it's obvious that we would add to the community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The A's traded or failed to re-sign many of their best players over the off-season. Wolff told the San Jose audience that's because the team doesn't make enough money now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> If you don't want to lose millions of dollars, the rule of thumb is that your major league payroll should be half your revenue. Simply put, we need more revenue. We're going to be playing against three teams in our division, all three will be over $100 million in salary. One I know is $170 million and one is close to that, I think. That's up a great deal from when we bought the team, when there were,I think, six or eight teams with $100 million in salary; it's double that now. So the quality of what we put on the field has to be based on our revenue, which puts us in the $50-$60-$65 million salary range. That isn't an excuse, you know, maybe we're David against Goliath for a couple of years. But once we move and have a new venue we'll be able to be similar to the other teams.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Wolff announced that he's negotiated a contract extension with his team's general manager, Billy Beane, that could last through 2019. Beane's relative success with lower payrolls is the basis for the recent film \u003cem>Moneyball, \u003c/em>which ends with the words \"Billy Beane is still trying to win the last game of the season.\" But not at any price, according to his boss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He (Billy Beane) would feel, and I would too of course, but he would feel for sure that if we got into the playoffs or even won the World Series and we lost $30 or $40 million doing it, he wouldn't consider that a victory. He would consider that buying a victory. And that's great for us, because we don't want to be in a deficit situation. Frankly, the Haas family had to sell the team because while they were winning, they were losing. And Billy's had the opportunity to go any place he wanted. He wants to win here. I want to win here - here meaning the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Wolff signaled that his willingness to wait on Major League Baseball to give the go-ahead for the San Jose move has limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I'm not going to continue this (waiting for permission to move) much longer. What we want is an answer. We want a \"Yes, you can relocate, share the district, share the territory\". Or \"You can't.\" We have a way of demanding a vote (from MLB) but that isn't our nature. So the best thing for us to do in the next couple of months is see where we go. 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Why? The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/12/29/ca-supreme-court-permanently-dissolves-redevelopment-agencies/\">termination of funding\u003c/a> coming through its \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19844539\">defunct-as-of-tomorrow redevelopment agency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Nina Thorsen talked today about this latest development -- or lack of it -- with Oakland Tribune reporter Angela Woodall. She has a wealth of info on the Oakland ballpark sitch, so we present to you an edited transcript of the entire conversation...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does the elimination of Victory Court mean in terms of the A's ballpark situation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Angela Woodall \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing that the redevelopment agency going away means for the ballpark in Oakland is that it will not be at Victory Court. It's been talked about here and there that Victory Court would no longer be an option, but yesterday was the first official confirmation of that. It wasn't an announcement to the public, it wasn't a press conference, it was just said in the meeting at an Alameda County Supervisors' retreat by the head of the redevelopment agency, Gregory Hunter, who will soon no longer have a redevelopment agency to preside over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second thing it means is that they're going to have to find ways to fund the environmental impact report (EIR) for the Coliseum. The focus has shifted to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/12/09/city-of-oakland-as/\">redevelopment of the Coliseum\u003c/a>: building two or three new sports facilities for the Raiders, the Warriors, and if the A's stay in Oakland, that would include a separate ballpark for them. And it would also include retail, restaurants, entertainment, maybe an arcade, a convention center, at least one hotel. The development would extend all the way to the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the vision they have. So they have to find a way to pay for the EIR, which they were going to use redevelopment money for. what they've done is shift the money -- $4 million -- from redevelopment into a city fund, I'm not sure if that's a general fund or not. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now at that meeting a few months ago where \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/12/09/city-of-oakland-as/\">Mayor Quan introduced the idea of Coliseum City\u003c/a>, she said this wouldn't need as much of a review process because there's already a ballpark on that site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Angela Woodall \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is correct, that's what she was saying. And Coliseum City is something that was in the air for a while before that; I think the first time I reported on it was eight months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EIR process is less involved, less extensive, because there would be fewer surprises. In terms of the environment, there's a creek, but all of the things that might come up are already in place. The people that live around there, the impact to them, the noise -- they already have a handle on what it's going to be like to have a very large sports and entertainment facility in that space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it'll be hard for people to say this is going to create a lot of new noise and traffic problems in the neighborhood because there's already a ballpark and stadium there...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Angela Woodall\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's right. And there's only a handful of land parcels that have private owners in an area -- I think it's outside of the primary area, in what they call Area 2. But that's the last land they have to buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victory Court had several private owners, including Peerless Coffee. If you know the history of Peerless Coffee, George Vukasin Sr. was very involved in the Coliseum in prior years, especially during the Raiders' return. He wasn't very interested in selling the land his business sits on and moving it. So they were looking at a pretty big fight costing a lot of money at Victory Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems like people have shifted fairly easily to the Coliseum idea, even though there were people who really loved the waterfront ballpark idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major League Baseball had indicated that in general, they really like the idea of waterfront ballparks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Angela Woodall\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've indicated that by their choice of ballpark sites elsewhere in the country. But I've never heard a confirmation or denial from the three-member Major League Baseball committee that they liked the Victory Court site. I've heard from others that it was actually the developers in that area who really liked that site, so I'm not really sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I did hear yesterday was that the city has been in contact with MLB -- I think that means they've communicated that Victory Court's not going to happen -- but that they have not communicated with the A's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the A's ownership, Lew Wolff and the other partners, have indicated that they are interested in the San Jose option -- which requires the approval of Major League Baseball to change the territorial rights, and there's also some issues with that site as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Angela Woodall\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's correct, there are some unresolved issues with the San Jose site. Lew Wolff has been on record for many years that he wants to move to San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do you see as being the next steps in what Oakland will do to move forward with Coliseum City?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Angela Woodall\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing they're going to be doing is working with Alameda County a little closer. And that might not be a good thing because it's another bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, they could leverage that very, very large bureaucracy. That's the first thing the county supervisors are going to be discussing in the next month or so, how they want to proceed, and all the options are on the table. They could get out of \"the sports business\" as they say, altogether, or they could support this project wholeheartedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Number two, in March, there's going to be an NFL meeting, and it's my understanding that at that time they're going to be talking about the money that's going to be available for a shared or single stadium for the 49ers and Raiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third thing -- and probably the one that'll happen soonest - is that the EIR has to be voted on by the City Council. They have to finish negotiations with the three-member EIR team that includes architects and environmental consultants and so forth. They expect that to be 15 to 30 days to come before the council, then the council will have to vote, and after that they expect 14 to 15 months to roll out the EIR. That goes back to what you were asking about the conditions -- that's not an unusual amount of time, 14-15 months, but they are trying to expedite it as soon as possible. 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So they have to find a way to pay for the EIR, which they were going to use redevelopment money for. what they've done is shift the money -- $4 million -- from redevelopment into a city fund, I'm not sure if that's a general fund or not. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now at that meeting a few months ago where \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/12/09/city-of-oakland-as/\">Mayor Quan introduced the idea of Coliseum City\u003c/a>, she said this wouldn't need as much of a review process because there's already a ballpark on that site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Angela Woodall \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is correct, that's what she was saying. And Coliseum City is something that was in the air for a while before that; I think the first time I reported on it was eight months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EIR process is less involved, less extensive, because there would be fewer surprises. In terms of the environment, there's a creek, but all of the things that might come up are already in place. The people that live around there, the impact to them, the noise -- they already have a handle on what it's going to be like to have a very large sports and entertainment facility in that space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina Thorsen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it'll be hard for people to say this is going to create a lot of new noise and traffic problems in the neighborhood because there's already a ballpark and stadium there...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Angela Woodall\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's right. And there's only a handful of land parcels that have private owners in an area -- I think it's outside of the primary area, in what they call Area 2. But that's the last land they have to buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victory Court had several private owners, including Peerless Coffee. 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