Nice Summary Article Regarding Stadium Situation

[Providence A's]

You may have seen this already, but it sums up the situation for anyone unaware of all the details. The whole thing is pretty ridiculous.

Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants locked in a turf war over San Jose - ESPN

[realmofotalk]

Yeah, good luck with that. The Giants' owner was Microsoft's general counsel. This is not a guy you want to get into a fender-bender with.

[Providence A's]

They'll play from purgatory!

[love_that_reefer]

Yeah I don't get it one bit. The Giants aren't going to magically lose fans if it happens. I wish it would for the good of the game.

[cjkalt]

Its all about the almighty $... I wounder what cities they could move too...

[realmofotalk]

The irony is the late Walter Haas relinquished the A's share of the territorial rights to Santa Clara so that the Giants could stay in the Bay Area for the good of the game. But, of course, none of that matters today. The Giants ownership will just argue they bought the team with rights to the South Bay as part of the package, end of story.

[Providence A's]

Exactly. Money, money, money....money.

[Tobywan]

I guess now that the Astros and Dodgers problems seem to be in hand MLB turns to the A's.

Commissioner Bud Selig plans to meet with the San Francisco Giants within the next two weeks about the move. The Giants hold territorial rights to the San Jose area, the top obstacle MLB would have to clear to get the move approved.

I wonder if Don Selig will make the Giants an offer they can't refuse?

[Providence A's]

A's move from Oakland to San Jose can't get traction because the Giants prove slippery - Yahoo! Sports

"This might be the most difficult decision in baseball history because of the circumstances," said one MLB executive.

A baseball source said the Giants aren't even negotiating the issue, although talks could restart any time.

So on one hand, the A's need to move to survive – they already have the second-lowest payroll in baseball. On the other, the only place that makes sense for them to move is off limits.

"We're talking about two immovable objects," the MLB executive said.

That's why it's taking so long. Commissioner Bud Selig appointed a committee in 2009 to come up with a plan for the A's to move, but 41 months later the committee isn't close to a decision. It would take a vote of 75 percent of the owners to overturn the Giants' claim to San Jose. And Selig is uneasy about what the Giants would do if a vote was taken and it went the A's way.

The article goes on to say that Giants could/might sue MLB if the A's move there. I remember reading in another article a while back suggesting the city of San Jose should sue MLB regarding the antitrust exemption.

Just make it stop already. Do what is in the best interest of baseball. Let the A's go there and MLB compensate the Giants in some fashion. This is beyond ridiculous at this point.

[love_that_reefer]

I agree! I hate seeing all those empty seats in Oakland. That the Giants aren't even negotiating pisses me off.

[realmofotalk]

We all know that once the A's are free to move to San Jose, they'll just rename themselves the San Francisco Athletics of San Jose ten years later, a la the Gaylos of Anaheim.

[HollywoodLeo]

Except San Jose is its own metropolitan area and is actually a larger city than San Francisco.

[realmofotalk]

But San Jose is part of the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

At least that was the argument you made for your Gaylos.

[HollywoodLeo]

Right, but being their own larger entity they have no need to latch on to their metropolitan name anymore than the Padres would latch onto Chula Vista.

[realmofotalk]

Right, but being their own larger entity they have no need to latch on to their metropolitan name anymore than the Padres would latch onto Chula Vista.

Except the Padres aren't based in Chula Vista, like the Gaylos are based in Anaheim.