Comments on: San Jose’s effort to get the Athletics: one step forward, two steps back? http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/10/san-joses-effort-to-get-the-athletics-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Sun, 19 May 2013 20:25:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jkcalhoun http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/10/san-joses-effort-to-get-the-athletics-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/comment-page-1/#comment-103354 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:49:44 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=34533#comment-103354 Or back to the land of their nativity, or perhaps nearby New Jersey.

]]> By: BC http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/10/san-joses-effort-to-get-the-athletics-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/comment-page-1/#comment-103341 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:21:13 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=34533#comment-103341 Maybe they should just punt the whole thing and move to Billings.

]]> By: clydeserra http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/10/san-joses-effort-to-get-the-athletics-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/comment-page-1/#comment-103335 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:11:20 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=34533#comment-103335 I am pretty sure the redevelopment people will be re-assigned to “regular government workers” so its really not that tragic.

]]> By: Craig Calcaterra http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/10/san-joses-effort-to-get-the-athletics-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/comment-page-1/#comment-103300 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:04:46 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=34533#comment-103300 Great find! You think he wouldn’t use that as a positive thing in his bio.

]]> By: jkcalhoun http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/10/san-joses-effort-to-get-the-athletics-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/comment-page-1/#comment-103298 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:02:34 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=34533#comment-103298 They can just ask Selig’s Oakland ballpark committee (that is, if they can find them). Irwin P. Raij already knows.

]]> By: apbaguy http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/10/san-joses-effort-to-get-the-athletics-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/comment-page-1/#comment-103297 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:01:50 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=34533#comment-103297 First I’ve heard that any Local Gov entities will be abolished. Hard to do as part of a state reorg, though State funding could be withheld. I will send OG’s generous invitation to the Merc and see if they will send a team of ace reporters to Macondo for the needed insight.

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/10/san-joses-effort-to-get-the-athletics-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/comment-page-1/#comment-103292 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:58:33 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=34533#comment-103292 If the redevelopment agencies are abolished, San Jose should immediately send a delegation to Macondo to see how Scrooge McLoria, Bud Light and their troupe of Babbitt’s demons sought out and manipulated the most corrupt and impressionable among our Banana Republicans and got Macondo Banana Massacre Field built against the overwhelming wishes of the local population. It was nifty, and it proved it can be done.

]]> By: jkcalhoun http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/10/san-joses-effort-to-get-the-athletics-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/comment-page-1/#comment-103279 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:19:14 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=34533#comment-103279 It’s heartrending to think about what happened to the ballpark committee. Faulty equipment? Human error? Iceberg?

All we have are the eerily prescient words of Bug Selig upon their fateful debarkation: “”The A’s cannot and will not continue indefinitely in their current situation.” I get chills.

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