Are you going to be a San Jose A's Fan?

he is clearly doing all he can to make the move to San José happen. But as far as is publicly known there is as yet no agreement with the Giants over territorial rights, agreement with 75% of MLB owners, or approval by San José voters.

Lew Wolff, co-owner of the Earthquakes and A’s, said that sports venue design innovator 360 Architecture had been selected for both projects.

wait, so what exactly are you reading into the formal announcement of something that anyone following the ballpark issue has assumed for years?

When San Jose and Santa Clara in general were a legitimately a different market, et al, Sacramento. But due to the urbanization of the Bay Area and the Tech Boom, I don’t see a difference anymore. It’s one continuous urban sprawl. As long as the team stays in the Bay Area, I will continue to attend as many games as possible.

Where in that article does it say that they are building the ballpark in San Jose? Couldn’t 360 be used no matter where it’s built?

Does a bear sh*t in the woods?

I’ll always be an A’s fan no matter where they move. However if they move out of Nor Cal that won’t allow me to visit games anymore and I may grow ever so slightly disinterested in baseball. Never will I be a Giants fan just so I can attend games.

riding the roller coaster of proposed ballparks has lead us to such, and I think a lot of people have become disenfranchised with the city of Oakland for a multitude of reasons (poor attendance, Jerry Brown, the Raiders, etc…)

I don’t think this means what some are reading into it. 360 has been working with Athletics Baseball, LLP (or whatever the A’s ownership group is called) on the Coliseum North renderings/plan, the Fremont renderings/plan and the San Jose renderings/plan.

The part that intrigues me, and I might be able to read as a “showing of the hand” if i squint real hard, is this line at the end :

The implementation of the proposed 32,000-seat A’s venue is dependent on a decision from Major League Baseball, according to Wolff.

Oh wait, nope… That is actually the same thing we have all known for a looooong time.

My answer to the poll is “Yes.” I will be an A’s fan as long as they are in the Bay Area (Or Sacramento). If they leave altogether, I will find something else to do with my time. There is no appeal to following the Las Vegas A’s for me.

One that never attends games, anyway.

…and an extra 30(?) minutes of drive time has you on the fence? Wow.

I live in Vacaville. It takes me almost an hour to get to the coliseum. San Jose is about as far away as you can get from me and still be considered “Bay Area”…New ballparks in either Oakland or Sacramento would be my first choice, from a convinience standpoint. From a practicality (and I guess, real-life standpoint), I can not wait until they break ground on Cisco Field. I look forard to the day that the A’s are able to keep their homegrown players and vie for free agents. I’ll be there opening night and beyond.

Anyone living in the East Bay that gives up on the team because they move a few miles south sucks.

Even though it’s 95 miles from here to Oakland and 114 from here to San Jose, not to mention about 20 minutes longer, if I went to San Jose I could just go down 5 or 99 to 205 and 680 instead of dealing with 80, which often stinks to get through.

A two-hour drive to get to a game is tough no matter what, though. That’s one of the negatives about moving away from an area where I was three BART stops from the Coliseum. For what I’m doing, the positives are pretty good though.

I’ll be sad, but they are my team for life.

then I’ll stay a fan of the A’s

since I’m an A’s fan in SJ, I’d be going to lots more games.

Shit, maybe we could just slap a mod’s sig on this poll and post it on the front page! Weeeeeee! San Jose is teh awesome!!!

And yeah, I’ll still support the A’s in San Jose. Isn’t this the fanhood that has been trained to “root for the laundry”? How about the name on the front of the jersey?

but I think the real question will be the next generation of fans. For me, the reason I became an A’s fan is because I grew up in Concord and my parents (neither of whom are from the Bay Area) took me to A’s games because Oakland was closer than SF. I think that if the A’s move to SJ, we’ll see a shift in the fanbase to where there’s more A’s fans in the South Bay and less in the East Bay where it’s easier to get to SF than SJ.

I really hope it will happen. Not that I mind so much heading up to Oakland for a game now and then, but I think in San Jose I’ll at least get partial season tickets. I think any new ballpark for the A’s I’d attend more games as it’s just sad somedays to go out to watch the A’s. I want to support them more, and would hope others would too, but just seems like it’s not happenning in their current situation.

I’m a little skeptical though about the team maintaining a competitive budget, even with a move. Seems like the team won’t spend any money. Maybe they just don’t believe Oakland is a draw for free agents, but it’s tough to see so much turnover to the point where I recognize so few players when I do go (yes I’m more of a casual A’s supporter than a fan).

Almost seems like they’ve been on cruise control for at least 5 years waiting for something to happen.

If there is no more Oakland, it just won’t be the same.

One of my best friends was a diehard Expos fan, he became a Red Sox fan because he was living in Boston at the time when the Expos moved and changed names. He hates the Nationals with a passion. I won’t hate the “whatever” Athletics, but they won’t be my team. I have no idea what team I’ll follow, maybe no team and just pick a team to support when Im watching whatever game is on, but Oakland moving is not something I’m looking forward to. 25 years of fandom, that’s not something you can walk away from easily…..

…beyond that, my interest in the AL will go back to where it was before moving back to Oakland; that is to say, about zero. Other than the handful of years in Oakland as a kid, I’ve only had access to the NL.

There should be an option for “Gee, a salary cap would make this suddenly discussion irrelevant.”