Oakland looking at minor league ballparks for a temporary home

[RpR]

They should go to the Field of Dreams.

[tony&rodney]

1 hour ago, Riverbrian said:

Your comment will get no substantial argument from me on the surface under the simple consideration of fair is fair. I really wish things wasn't so but... they have indeed been so... to my knowledge for as long as I have been alive.    

We all know... let me rephrase that... we all should know by now that this type of thing happens all the time and it isn't just sport franchises.   

If Oakland, Alameda County or the State of California doesn't want to provide incentive to the A's to stay. Some city, county or state without a team will. If you own a team and Oakland isn't willing to entice you to stay and Memphis is willing to give you the sun, the moon and the stars. Why would you stay in Oakland and get nothing? Why would you give up the Sun... The Moon... The Stars?    

When Amazon wants to build a massive distribution facility in a certain area. Local officials of every population center in the footprint are going to compete against each other to get that facility built in their home town. Cash Grants, Rebates, Tax Credits and whatever sweet thing they can offer on the table or under the table. Those decision makers at Amazon are not stupid. They are going to build in Beloit Wisconsin because they are providing significant financial incentive to build in Beloit meanwhile down the road in Janesville... they are taking your stance and offering nothing... because fair is fair.

Beloit gets the facility, 1,000 plus jobs, they grow their tax base, they have nicer schools and roads. while the residents of Janesville move to Beloit, because all the jobs are in Beloit, the schools are better and the pot holes in Janesville are ruining the suspension on cars they already can't afford because they are unemployed since the cheese factory closed down and moved to a brand new facility in Oconomowoc subsidized by local officials who are deciding how to spend that tax money.     

We can all sit back and applaud the decision makers for taking a hard stance against the MAN. I mean fair is fair after all. However, when it is all said and done. Oakland will be team less, Amazon is going to build in Berkeley. There will be no reason for anyone to visit the garbage strewn streets of Oakland unless they entice Disney to build a massive theme park and the economy just keeps sinking and sinking and sinking and sinking.  

 

 

Too much of this is all so true. Every single time i hear someone belch about "socialism, socialism" I'm dumbfounded anew at the paradox of the bazillions going to corporate raiders, the massive amount of tax free/tax exempt organizations and tax exempt property all smiling while a comparative pittance goes to a couple of bowls of soup.

Maybe i need to read a little more, but hasn't Oakland made some near 50/50 or so offers that were rejected? I have read too many articles and stories about that putrid franchise, it is beginning to jumble in my brain because some part of me just wants to forget it.

[Riverbrian]

1 minute ago, tony&rodney said:

Too much of this is all so true. Every single time i hear someone belch about "socialism, socialism" I'm dumbfounded anew at the paradox of the bazillions going to corporate raiders, the massive amount of tax free/tax exempt organizations and tax exempt property all smiling while a comparative pittance goes to a couple of bowls of soup.

Maybe i need to read a little more, but hasn't Oakland made some near 50/50 or so offers that were rejected? I have read too many articles and stories about that putrid franchise, it is beginning to jumble in my brain because some part of me just wants to forget it.

I've read things here and there. The battle for San Jose, Etc. Etc. but... a lot of the information (if not all) that gets out to us mere mortals should be taken as grains of salts because public relations is crafting those messages for our consumption. Both the city and team will want us on our side as part of the game. 

The real details are not shared. It Money vs Money. 

[tony&rodney]

58 minutes ago, Riverbrian said:

The real details are not shared. It Money vs Money. 

The truest words yet on this topic.