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No way, San Jose for A's?
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10:24 AM ET 03.04 | The "Moneyball" film came up empty with the Academy Award voters, and the same fate beckons for Billy Beane and Oakland A's owners Lew Wolff and John Fisher in their determined effort to move to a new stadium in Hi-Tech haven. The latter prospect, in which, for a variety of reasons, MLB is going to uphold the San Francisco Giants' territorial rights in San Jose, will be especially disheartening for Beane. The man behind "Moneyballl" essentially blew up his pitching staff, trading his 1-2 starters, Gio Gonzalez and Trevor Cahill, to the Washington Nationals and Arizona Diamondbacks, respectively, and shipped closer Andrew Bailey to the Red Sox -- for a bushelful of prospects and young players. All the deals were designed to have a contending-ready team in three years when, presumably, the A's would be liberated from the gloomy, outmoded Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum and on their way to San Jose.
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The A's need something. Their stadium sucks, their team sucks...move to San Antonio, and the A's would compete with the Rangers and Astros in the AL West.
...the best policy
Harrodsburg, KY
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San Jose would be perfect, they can call themseves the Bees instead of the Aaaaaaaa's
Not4Nutten
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That area can't really support two teams successfully. Not for a 162 game season in the Norther CA summer where there's so much else to do.
jdeek
Issaquah , WA
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As a Yankee fan, I can say this with no problem whatsoever...comments like yours make Yankee fans sound excessively arrogant. Was it law of averages that gave them Lincecum and Cain on the same staff? No...it was doing what teams do...scout good players and sign them. Their pitching was head and shoulders better than Philly and Texas...so they won. Please, they won 5 World Series and 17 NL pennants in NY...they have 4 pennants and a WS since moving...they are doing just fine.
Leemorr
Canyon Country , CA
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Riiiiiiiiight. Lincecum, Cain, Bumgarner, Wilson...
One of the best staffs in years had nothing to do with it. And the Giants are making it fine in SF, selling out nearly every game at A.T.&T.
smart alec
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You seem to do exceedingly well at not making valid points.
.ChiSoxFan.
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The Giants Made 1 Mistake, Candlestick Park was a disaster, it really didn't give Giants the showplace for The Great Willie Mays, they locked themselves into a bad deal and that's a shame.
They would have been almost an unbeatable Team had chose another park or City. They got it going now, & shouldn't worry about the fan base in San Jose, they still have a lot of Giant Fans here in NY! Good Luck to them, if they can talk to that air-head Pagan & manage him, they might be pleasantly surprised, but the guy is a loose Cannon, he played in Chicago as well!
Not4Nutten
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maybe the A's should be moved to hawaii, or to puerto rico, perhaps one of this two states can develop the A's franchise to higher and competetive team!!!
alacran
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It may be time to contract this pathetic franchise.
THE BISHOP!
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When did Puerto Rico become a state?
...the best policy
Harrodsburg, KY
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If you live in Northern California, you'd know that Oakland-Alameda area is less desirable than San Jose. That's were the billionaire's are in Silicon Valley.
Coco
San Marcio, CA
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Over here in Europe, people invariably claim that the US has 52 states (?????). Puerto Rico must be one of them, I guess.
dkredsox1
Aarhus, DK
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Obama unilaterally made it one of the 57 States.
hbomb
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San Antonio is the 7th biggest city in the U.S. It wildly supports the Spurs in the NBA. It would be a wonderful place to relocate and re-focus for the A's. Remember -- they've moved before.
RFD
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Move the A's to Las Vegas and into a domed stadium. We've got plemty of open land, 2.5 million residents as a potential fan base and more than 40 million annual tourists.
DrJoe
Las Vegas , NV
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That's sure to work since there's not much else to do in Vegas + knowing how much MLB loves rubbing shoulders with the casino business.
GasHouse Ghost
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