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The city of San Jose is expected to submit to Bud Selig's wishes by scrubbing plans to have a November ballot measure asking voters about building a ballpark for the A's, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. It may actually be a positive sign in the city's years-long quest to get the A's.San Jose officials had been waiting for 16 months while Selig's committee explored possible destinations for the A's. Frustrated by the lack of progress, mayor Chuck Reed said last week that the city would put the measure on the November ballot, with or without Selig's approval.
Selig, via MLB President Bob DuPuy, apparently have convinced them otherwise. Selig reportedly said that MLB would help fund a special election if it was needed in the spring. San Jose councilman Sam Liccardo said the conversations between Reed and MLB "provides us with good reason to feel confident about moving forward."
One natural inference from that is that MLB may have indicated to San Jose officials that there was hope of getting the Giants to cede their territorial rights to San Jose, but the process needed to go on MLB's timeline.
A's owner Lew Wolff, pictured above right, has claimed that he has the necessary funding to build a new ballpark, and he just needs approval of the voters and a way around the Giants' MLB-granted territorial right to San Jose. .
The Giants were given the rights to San Jose in the early '90s, when they wanted to build a ballpark there. Although they abandoned those plans and now have a 10-year-old park in downtown San Francisco, they have maintained that it's still important that they have San Jose as their territory because they have corporate sponsors there.
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