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Other facts about the Cal grad: she has a \u003ca href=\"http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/overcoming-a-heart-condition-to-win-olympic-gold/\">serious heart condition\u003c/a>, her \u003ca href=\"http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/dana-vollmer-cap-fell-off-during-her-gold-015554165--oly.html\">cap fell off\u003c/a> during her world record, and she sports a tattoo, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/olympic-athletes-tattoos-gallery-1.1125107?pmSlide=1\">you can see\u003c/a> in this must-view New York Daily News photo feature, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/olympic-athletes-tattoos-gallery-1.1125107?pmSlide=0\">Olympic athletes with tattoos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1:15 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Adrian takes gold\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nathan Adrian of Berkeley is \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcolympics.com/swimming/event/men-100m-freestyle/index.html\">golden in the men's 100m freestyle\u003c/a>. He won a silver medal as part of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcolympics.com/swimming/event/men-4x100m-freestyle-relay/phase=swm411100/index.html\">mens' 4x100m freestyle relay team\u003c/a>. He's a Cal grad who also won a gold at the 2008 games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nathan Adrian of the United States won the men's 100-meter freestyle by the smallest of margins at the London Olympics on Wednesday. Adrian clocked 47.52 seconds to win by 0.01 ahead of world champion James `The Missile' Magnussen of Australia.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>12:01 p.m. \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Underdog Weltz finishes fifth\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose's Scott Weltz \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/olympics/ci_21209854/olympics-san-joses-scott-weltz-finishes-fifth-200\">came in fifth\u003c/a> out of eight swimmers in the men's 200-meter breaststroke. Daniel Gyurta of Hungary won the gold, finishing in world record time. Here are the \u003ca href=\"http://www.london2012.com/swimming/event/men-200m-breaststroke/index.html\">full final results\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Weltz qualified for the Olympics in June, AP described it as a \"stunner.\" The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/olympics/ci_21209854/olympics-san-joses-scott-weltz-finishes-fifth-200\">Mercury News\u003c/a>' Elliott Almond put it this way today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Weltz, 25, qualified for the Summer Olympics by dropping time in his specialty as if he were on a crash diet. [The] Bellarmine Prep graduate didn't compete at a big-time U.S. college or make a slew of national teams. In other words, his ascent is dramatically different than the Bells' other Olympic swimmer -- three-time Olympic medalist Pablo Morales who went to Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weltz twice was Big West Conference swimmer of the year for UC Davis. Two weeks after returning the 2010 NCAA championships Davis dropped the men's swim program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not that it mattered in the context of becoming an Olympian. Weltz had never made the final of a senior national meet until June. He was 38th at the 2008 U.S. Olympic trials in the 200-meter breaststroke. The London Games are his first international meet.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"disqusTitle": "Sacramento Expresses Interest in A's, But It's Not Mutual",
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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=\"alignleft 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=\"194\" height=\"194\">\u003c/a>Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/09/4617561/mayor-johnson-looks-at-bringing.html#\" target=\"_blank\">held a press conference Monday\u003c/a> to tout his city's potential as a home for the A's or another Major League Baseball team. Johnson was the major force behind a plan to build a new arena for the Sacramento Kings, \u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7810708/deal-new-sacramento-kings-arena-falls-through\" target=\"_blank\">a deal that collapsed in April\u003c/a> when the team's owners, the Maloof family, balked at the terms. On Monday, Johnson said he had instructed the task force that was working on an NBA arena project to explore the possibility of a downtown baseball stadium instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had $250 million of public investment that we were willing to put toward a $400 million project,\" Johnson said at the press conference, speaking of the basketball arena. \"As I go around the country and talk to other owners, they're just in disbelief with what our community was able to put forward as an investment. We know that we could support not just one, but two teams, given the opportunity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All well and good. But later in the day, A's managing partner Lew Wolff and other team officials said \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/10/4619869/oakland-as-say-theyre-not-interested.html\" target=\"_blank\">they're not interested\u003c/a>, even as a backup plan. Susan Slusser, the San Francisco Chronicle's A's beat reporter, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/susanslusser\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Wolff tells me: \"We are not leaving the Bay Area and that's the end of it. Sacramento is a very nice city, but not for Major League Baseball as far as our ownership is concerned.\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search/%23Athletics\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Fan support wold not seem to be a problem. Oakland's Triple-A affiliate, the\u003ca href=\"http://www.milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t105\" target=\"_blank\"> River Cats\u003c/a>, are located in West Sacramento and are considered one of the country's most successful minor league franchises. Their stadium, however, holds just under 15,000 instead of the 35,000 or so that a new MLB park would be expected to serve. Most analysts point to Sacramento's relative lack of large corporations with the potential to buy luxury boxes and season tickets as the biggest obstacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A's ownership wants to build a new stadium in San Jose, but they can't do that without permission from Major League Baseball, which previously granted the San Francisco Giants territorial rights to Santa Clara County. MLB Commissioner Bud Selig created a \"blue-ribbon panel\" to study the issue 39 months ago. On Tuesday, at his pre-All-Star-Game press conference, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/athletics/ci_21043918/athletics-selig-said-no-timetable-set-decide-future?\" target=\"_blank\">Selig said they're still working on it\u003c/a> but didn't provide much in the way of details. The Chronicle's \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JohnSheaHey\" target=\"_blank\">John Shea on Twitter\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I asked Selig what the main hangup is with A's stadium issue and he said \"The main hangup is we don't have the answers yet.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland is working on its own plans: an ambitious project known as \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/cityadministrator/documents/pressrelease/oak034963.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Coliseum City\u003c/a> that would include new homes for the A's, the Raiders, and possibly the Golden State Warriors, although that team \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/sports/basketball/golden-state-warriors-return-to-san-francisco.html\" target=\"_blank\">hopes to move to San Francisco\u003c/a> when its Oakland lease is up in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A's own lease at the Oakland Coliseum \u003ca href=\"http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Issues/2012/01/20/Facilities/As.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">expires at the end of the 2013 season\u003c/a>. But whether a new stadium is built in Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento or some other place, it's virtually impossible for it to be ready by opening day, 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As always, there's more analysis and chatter at the \u003ca href=\"http://newballpark.org/2012/07/09/mayor-johnson-press-conference/\" target=\"_blank\">New A's Ballpark blog\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fieldofschemes.com/news/archives/2012/07/5006_kj_to_announce.html\" target=\"_blank\">Field of Schemes \u003c/a>blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69754\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/stk178020rke.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/stk178020rke-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"stk178020rke\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69754\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wait a minute. William Lynch admits to battering another human being – a 65-year-old retired priest, no less – and a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/05/lynch-acquitted-in-priest-beating-trial/#more-69613\">jury lets him go free\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can understand why the jury in the San Jose case felt sympathetic. Lynch says the priest, Jerold Lindner, brutally raped him when Lynch was 7 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Lindner denied the incident, Lindner’s Jesuit order settled with Lynch for $625,000, and the prosecutor in the case agreed that Lynch had been assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was apparently enough to persuade the jury to acquit Lynch on a felony assault charge. Only 8 of the 12 were willing to convict him of a misdemeanor assault, which meant Lynch could walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even Lynch was surprised by the verdict, as he \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/05/william-lynch-after-not-guilty-verdict-i-didnt-think-i-was-going-to-walk-out-of-here-with-the-jury-making-this-decision-full-interview/\">told KQED’s Stephanie Martin\u003c/a> yesterday. “I believe that it was wrong for me to do what I did ultimately, because I'm perpetuating the cycle of sexual abuse, and it's the cycle I've lived in that I'm trying to break.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wondered what precedent this sets for our system of justice. So I called a couple of the state’s leading professors of criminal law, Evan Lee, from the University of California’s Hastings Law School in San Francisco, and Laurie Levenson of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. Here are some edited highlights of their remarks, combined from separate interviews:\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nEVAN LEE: I think there was a group of jurors who felt like “We’re here for a reason, and that’s to do justice. If the system contemplated us just sitting here and mechanically applying the rules to the facts do it, then they’d have the judge do it, or they’d have a panel of lawyers do it.” This was a specific case in which you had a human being testifying on the stand who had suffered obvious long-lasting, perhaps irrevocable harm from this very real experience. And not all jurors are abstract thinkers. Some jurors can’t get past the concrete facts of the case and the real human being in front of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAURIE LEVENSON: This does not set any type of legal precedent. It does not mean and it should not mean that there is now free reign for everybody who feels abused to take the law into their own hands. They are going to be in a lot of trouble if they do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EVAN LEE: What happened here is arguably a case of jury nullification. Jury nullification is a term that refers to juries coming back with a verdict that they know is not in line with a judge’s instructions, but they feel that something about the prosecution is so enormously unjust that they feel compelled to come back with a different verdict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAURIE LEVENSON: The problem with jury nullification is that the jurors are basically standing in and saying, \"We know better than the law.\" If this were to happen in every case, why bother having a law at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EVAN LEE: A lot of people believe it’s an important safeguard against the discretion of prosecutors to go after anybody they feel like going after. On the other hand a lot of people say that’s what happened in the first OJ [Simpson] trial and there are a lot of people who feel upset about this. A lot of people feel he didn’t get his just deserts. The harder question is whether this is going to change the behavior of future judges, future prosecutors, future witnesses. That’s really hard to say here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAURIE LEVENSON: I think it’s likely to affect whether prosecutors bring similar cases, and if they do, how hard they know they have to fight for the win. This is a real message to prosecutors, that \"Yes, this fellow engaged in battery, but we were not willing to convict.\" When prosecutors have limited resources, they will have to take that into consideration in their next charging decision. Judges may be sensitive to the idea that there might be jury nullification and decide to emphasize to the jurors they have to follow the law. 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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. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/Oakland-Athletics-logoSM.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-64410\" title=\"Oakland-Athletics-logoSM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/Oakland-Athletics-logoSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"194\">\u003c/a>Earlier today, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecloroxcompany.com/\">Clorox Company\u003c/a>, Oakland's only Fortune 500 corporation, hosted a \u003ca href=\"http://investors.thecloroxcompany.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=670184\" target=\"_blank\">press conference\u003c/a> with Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and reps from a number of other major East Bay companies to express support for keeping the A's in Oakland and for building a new ballpark. 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We're eager to work with them, and we think we've made a public display of affection, if you will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the current ownership is not committed to Oakland, we're confident we have identified a new ownership group who can and will buy the team if it is put up for sale. And that new ownership group would be committed to staying, keeping the team in Oakland, and getting a new stadium built. So we want to be clear to (Major League Baseball) Commissioner Selig and the rest of the owners, that the business community, the city, the county, and obviously the fans are very committed to keeping the A's here in their home town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\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. 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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. I don't think it's on the agenda, I'm not privy to that, but certainly after three-plus years, I would think a decision's got to be made sometime in the near future.\u003cbr>\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, many people have thought a decision on the A's territorial rights issue was imminent over the course of the last three years. So far, they've all been wrong. Back in February, A's managing partner Lew Wolff sounded an impatient note in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/09/weve-got-that-lew-wolff-san-jose-rotary-club-address-youve-been-wanting-to-check-out/\" target=\"_blank\">talk to the San Jose Rotary Club\u003c/a>.\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\". 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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. I don't think it's on the agenda, I'm not privy to that, but certainly after three-plus years, I would think a decision's got to be made sometime in the near future.\u003cbr>\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, many people have thought a decision on the A's territorial rights issue was imminent over the course of the last three years. So far, they've all been wrong. Back in February, A's managing partner Lew Wolff sounded an impatient note in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/09/weve-got-that-lew-wolff-san-jose-rotary-club-address-youve-been-wanting-to-check-out/\" target=\"_blank\">talk to the San Jose Rotary Club\u003c/a>.\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. After that, though, I think I have to -- I can't even continue to come to these wonderful lunches, I'd feel like (Bernie) Madoff, or somebody.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Did that signal a level of impatience that could lead Wolff to sell the team if he doesn't get permission to move to San Jose soon? According to a post on the blog \u003ca href=\"http://newballpark.org/2012/05/03/oakland-press-conference-at-clorox-hq/\">newballpark.org\u003c/a> just after today's press conference, no:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>11:30 AM - I just got off the phone with Lew Wolff. 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"content": "\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>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the A's return to the Oakland Coliseum on Friday for a six-game homestand that will include \u003ca href=\"http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120416&content_id=28844050¬ebook_id=28844528&vkey=notebook_oak&c_id=oak\">a celebration\u003c/a> of Oakland's first World Series victory, in 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Parts \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201204030633\" target=\"_blank\">one\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201204120633\" target=\"_blank\">two\u003c/a> of the A's ballpark series here.)\u003c/p>\n\n",
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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. 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(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? 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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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