Sale of the A's: Updates

In Tuesday's SF Chronicle, Matier and Ross wrote about a poll of 400 Oakland Residents as to which of a group of pressing issues were most important to them:

-- Keeping libraries open (98 percent).
-- Maintaining parks (96 percent).
-- Attracting new business to Oakland (95 percent).
-- Building a new ballpark for the Athletics (38 percent).

It should be noted that this group is extremely small as it is less then .1% of the population of Oakland as of 2000. But the A's are going to have be tough sell in Oakland so we'll see what happens there.

As for San Jose, according to NBC11 news, the City Council is close to acquiring the location best suitable for a new ballpark. Of course it won't matter so long as baseball has anti-trust exemption.