Are the Oakland A’s headed to San Jose? That possibility was explored today in the San Jose Mercury News in the wake of the team’s decision to kill its Fremont ballpark plans. Sports economist Roger Noll, one of the nation’s foremost experts on stadiums, told the paper that “San Jose is probably their (the A’s) last shot in the Bay Area.” Noll certainly knows what he’s talking about, but I just don’t see the San Francisco Giants giving up their territorial rights to the South Bay.
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