Thats where the people are, thats where the money is.

And I really don’t think the Coliseum is going to return to the way it was.

Sorry.

That said, I’ll probably have to stick to peeing myself from drinking excessively.

would require public money, I’d think. If the economy is making the Whiners amenable to a joint stadium deal, it is certainly also a factor in tax dollars being available from either Oakland or Alameda County. Which is to say, it isn’t going to happen. Because Oakland will probably be the second city to file for bankruptcy in California. It’s that poorly run.

but I do wish that the A’s were staying in Oakland. Fremont is going to be a headache for me.

With the limited number of Football games played anyways, combining the schedules would fill up many more dates for the venue.

I’d be happier if the A’s shared Pac Bell with Giants than if they moved to F-mont. My first choice is for them to be in Oakland (downtown preferably, riots be damned), of course. But, taking BART to SF and walking along the Embarcadero to PacBell or taking a ferry there, is more fun than BART+(something from BART to F-park) or driving down the hell known as 880.
How hard would it really be to build up improved ferry infrastructure?
The Jets & Giants share a stadium, the Yankees played at Shea for 2 yrs in the 70’s when they were renovating Yankee stadium..
I don’t see how Lew Wolf’s dream of building a stadium combined with other real estate development can happen in the next 5 yrs or so.

First, the most likely site for the Raiders and A’s to make a bombad football stadium is the coliseum.

Second, the A’s move South is due to demographic changes… the bay area is no longer an east and west place. It is more north and south. The economic engines are san francisco and santa clara counties.

It makes sense for the baseball teams to be targeted to the north and south power centers due to the higher frequency of games. Football, with the 16 home games a year makes sense for a mroe central location, like Oakland.

Lew Wolffe hands out the Fremont ‘kool-aid’ and AN’ers ask for seconds!

The economy ain’t gettin’ no better, anytime soon.

Yes, there is money in San Jose, but they also are facing massive layoffs in Silicon Valley, and Fremont will have just as hard a time providing incetives, as Oakland would.

Oakland is a ‘Major League’ city. I was just in Fremont before Xmas. I don’t see any growth and the people i was hangin’ with said they were looking to move up to Hayward!

I guess we can agree to disagree … Fremont was a nice idea, when the property bubble was still in e-f-f-e-c-t. Now, that time has past.

Get used to it:

O-A-K-L-A-N-D Athletices!!!!

I would rather our heroes leased space at the Big Phoney for the next five years than continue to play at the Collie. I just don’t think the Giaunts would entertain it, with a Microsoftie/architect-of-their-exclusionary-marketing-practices at the helm.

The stadium won’t be huge but big enough to draw revenue to compete with the angels every year.

Yes the coliseum is outdated, but it honestly isn’t that bad if fans would go out to watch them. If the park was full, its fun and we forget about the outdateness. For example, the playoffs a couple years ago. Seeing the Coliseum jam packed totally made it seem like the Coliseum was a great ballpark. I love the Coliseum!

It would be a judicious use of resources. And honestly I have nothing against people or money but San Jose is only slightly less vapid than Fremont.