San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed Discusses City's Efforts To Attract A's
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San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed Says City Would
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San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed appeared on CSN Bay Area's "Chronicle Live" Monday to discuss his city's efforts to "free San Jose from the territorial restrictions imposed a long time ago to put San Jose into the Giants' territory," allowing the city to pursue the A's. Reed: "We'd like to see the A's come to San Jose and other cities would as well." Reed said city officials are "taking a public stand in support of trying to let San Jose make some sort of an arrangement," which is why city officials in April sent a letter to MLB Commissioner Bud Selig detailing their desire to host the A's. Reed: "We're not trying to get into the middle of the discussion within (MLB), so we're not trying to negotiate with the Giants. That really is a job for the ownership of the A's. ... We're going to let that play out." Reed: "We're working to be prepared so that when we get the sign from (MLB), we're ready to go." However, S.F. Chronicle columnist Ray Ratto noted there are a "number of owners who are not convinced even now that San Jose is a better place to have a (MLB) team than Oakland." But Ratto said if the A's "can get a shovel in the ground, the deal is done, and the only question is whether the Giants want to go to court and turn this into a bloodbath or whether they'll take the quiet check that baseball would like to give them to make the problem go away." San Jose Mercury News columnist Mark Purdy: "There's a way to settle this. It's money." Meanwhile, when asked about the 49ers' efforts to build a new stadium in Santa Clara, which could appear on the same ballot as an A's initiative, Reed said, "Whether or not it would be good to have a baseball measure on in San Jose and a football measure on in Santa Clara, we'll have to do some political analysis to figure out when is the best time to do that. Personally, I think that the best possible time for an election would be in November of 2010" ("Chronicle Live," CSN Bay Area, 6/29).
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