Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
December 19, 2005
San Jose Athletics?

Ray Ratto reports on a potential soccer deal that may lead to the Athletics building a stadium in San Jose:

Then suddenly, the A's put out a news release announcing that (you cannot make up this stuff, I swear) they would be very interested in owning said expansion team.

So you ask yourselves, "What? Who? Why?" That leads to the next question, "How unspeakably dim are these people?"

But because Fisher is nobody's yutz, and Wolff can hear a piece of re-bar hit a snowbank at 1,500 yards, "unspeakably dim" isn't the question at all. Earthquakes IV (after the indoor and outdoor Quakes of the old NASL, and Earthquakes III of MLS) need a stadium. The A's want a stadium. The land for both is right near Sharksville.

Connect the dots, Marmaduke. The A's are playing the leverage game.

You see, MLS teams make no money whatsoever. It's a loss leader for Anschutz, who is so loaded that he has first call on money that hasn't been printed yet, but as an investment for newbies, it's right up there with soaking your cash with lighter fluid and rubbing two sticks together.

So Fisher couldn't care less about the soccer team. But land, in San Jose, there for the stadiumizing ... that, he could care about.

Buy a soccer team, get a stadium, knock it down and build one for your baseball team. Looks like the owner plays Moneyball, too.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:58 AM | Team Movements | TrackBack (0)
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re: the Philadelphia-Kansas City-Oakland Athletics

Maybe they just want to be the first baseball franchise in history to move to a fourth city.

Too bad they didn't win the World Series in Kansas City.

So far the Braves are the only Team to have moved to Three Cities and Won the World Series in each of those cities (Boston, 1914, Milwaukee 1957 & Atlanta, 1995).

An intriguing trifecta.

The Milwaukee win was the hardest given the limited number of years they had there.

--arthur john kyriazis

Posted by: arthur john kyriazis at December 20, 2005 06:06 PM
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