Their new ballpark is more than 50 miles from San Jose. Most of their fanbase is closer to San Francisco, even though they have a minor league team in SJ.

Moving the A’s to SJ makes sense in every way. It will help raise fan interest across the Bay Area, which will help the Giants in the long run.

They’re just being pigheaded.

Selig and Wolfe have a history (positive), plus staying in Oakland is not an option, so there is little doubt the owners would not vote to allow the A’s to move to San Jose.

The A’s want to move to SJ because there are more people (SJ is the largest city by a wide margin in NorCal), there is more money in the South Bay, the A’s owner (Wolfe also owns the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team and is building a new soccer only stadium in the city) wants to be there (he has said Oakland is not an option) and the city gov wants them (the same cannot be said of Oakland). The city pretty much has all the land lined up for the new ballpark, so all that is left is for MLB to give the A’s the green light to move south.

In San Francisco

The city’s revised EIR report was released this week—revised only because they shrunk the ballpark capacity. Over half of the downtown future ballpark site is already owned by the city. If it weren’t Giants territorial thing—rights given to them so they could build a ballpark in SJ, they’d have started construction two years ago. This is gonna happen.

is to avoid commenting on things you know nothing about.

In the world of Blue Mike, it makes sense.

that’s complete BS. Never heard that in my 10 years here. It’s the 49ers fans that are known around here as the white wine sippers.

Correcting some misinformation:
1. The proposed Fremont stadium would have been much closer to SJ than Oakland, even though Fremont is in the same county (Alameda) as Oakland. Wolfe was seriously considering Fremont as the site to get around the Giants South Bay rights. One could almost throw a rock and hit Santa Clara County from where they were talking about building the stadium in Fremont. This site would put the A’s would be outside of Giants’ territory, yet much closer to the baseball fans and the corporate money of the South Bay. The stadium in Fremont fell through when the city bailed out of the project due to concerns about noise and traffic from residents. Also, Wolfe always wanted to build the stadium in San Jose, Fremont was at best a fall back option.

2. Since there is no real definition of Silicon Valley, that comment is pretty useless. Fremont does have more than its share of high-tech industry and is as much a part of Silicon Valley as most other cities.

3. “People knock Sharks fans as ‘red wine drinkers’.” Never heard of that one, so I assume it is something you just made up. Now if you are trying to say there is a world of difference between Oakland and San Jose, then I would say your command of the obvious is working.