A report from Baseball Digest on Wednesday suggested that Major League Baseball’s blue ribbon committee is prepared to recommend that Oakland move forward with its waterfront ballpark and that the city of San Jose is not an option for the A’s.
However, A’s co-owner and managing partner Lew Wolff, when informed of the report, immediately shot down the notion, reiterating what he’s told media for months, where to buy Discount MLB Jerseys? maybe ujersy is a good choice.
“We have exhausted every option in Oakland,” Wolff said when contacted by phone. “I have not heard anything of this nature.”
In fact, Wolff mentioned that he has not heard “hardly anything” from the City of Oakland in two years. He has been awaiting a report from the three-panel committee which Commissioner Bud Selig appointed in March 2009 to study the A’s stadium options, particularly one involving San Jose that potentially broaches territorial rights.
The City of San Jose is considering asking for voter approval to build a ballpark for the A’s there, but the San Francisco Giants have publicly stated that they would oppose the move due to encroachment on their territorial rights to Santa Clara County, where they have a Class A team.
Baseball Digest proposed the idea that the condition of Oakland’s redevelopment agency finances, along with the city’s commitment to keeping the A’s from leaving the city, resulted in a decision that Wolff said he’s heard nothing of.
Furthermore, Wolff noted that “Major League Baseball can tell us where we can’t go, but they cannot tell us where to go, if you want to buy Minnesota Twins Jerseys, go to ujersy.”
Thus, the A’s — even if granted territorial rights to San Jose — are under no obligation to move to a site recommended by the MLB committee, which has been
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