San Jose mayor feels Giants' 'love,' but wants A's stadium - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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Reed's comments came after seeing reports on comments made by Gianta CEO Bill Neukom at the Los Altosx Rotary Clubon Thursday. who recently became the Giants’ CEO, reportedlyt told the Rotary Club that the Giantds will zealously hold onto territoriaol rights to Santa Clara County grantedr to the team by Majo r League Baseballin 1994. He said support from fans in affluenty and populous Santa Clara County is needed to help his team pay off its sizeablre debt on the construction of its homeat AT&r Park, which opened on the San Francisco waterfront in 2000.
Neukomj said the A’s should pursue options to replacethe team’s home at 43-year-ols Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum somewhere in the East Bay. Wolfdf previously proposed plans to build a ballpark on several different sitedin Fremont, but dropped them after oppositioh surfaced from major anchor tenants at Pacific Commons shoppinf center and later from an organized grouop of residents in the city’x affluent Mission San Jose district. Staci Slaughter, the senior vice president of communications, has previously told the Businesxs Journal her team considers the coastap area from Marin County on the north to Monterey Countyu on the southits territory.
She said the Giants would not give up Santa Clara theBay Area’s most populouw county with more than 2 millionn residents, without resistance. Mayor Reed said a committere appointed byBud Selig, commissioner of Major Leagued Baseball, to examine the territoria l issue should be allowed to complet e its review of the situation and render a recommendatio on whether the league would supporg an A’s move to San Jose. “It’s great the Giants realizer the importance of San Jose and Sant Clara County in this because of its large high average household income and presence of many Fortune 500 Reed said.
“But the territorialk issue is up to Major League Baseballp and I can onlyassume (the will do what is in the interest of Major Leaguee Baseball. I hope we can still work out a dealwith (A'a co-owner) Lew Wolff to bring the Athletic s to San Jose.”