An AP article tonight says that the Cisco stadium will be the home of the A's and the MLS team. That's gotta be a reporting mistake, right? I can't find it on any Websites other than AP's (which is password-protected), but it's written by Greg Beacham and is about the 49ers and A's stadium situations. Two main excerpts: "Meanwhile, the A's have reached a deal with Cisco Systems Inc. to build a new high-tech ballpark in Fremont, about 25 miles south of Oakland. The field is expected to be the home of a Major League Soccer franchise as well." ... "The A's will make a formal announcement Tuesday of their plans for a stadium _ dubbed Cisco Field _ in Fremont. City officials there have many of the same questions about financing and resources. That field also is expected to be home to an MLS franchise if the A's ownership group follows through on its plan to move a club to the Bay Area. There's even been quiet talk that the NBA's Sacramento Kings would consider a move to San Jose if they can't get a new arena in California's capital, though other areas seem more likely."
Yeah, bad reporting. IF Lew Wolff intended to put the MLS club in the Baseball park, he'd have said so last night. Also, baseball and soccer in the same stadium is a bad idea. You have to take the bases in and out of the field surface, and you have to reconfigure the park between games. No, terrible idea. The Timbers share a stadium with a baseball team and it sucks. Lots of date conflicts too. Lew Wolff isn't that dumb. QUAKES FOREVER!! GO WOLFF!! GO SSV!! fuaeg! fumls! - Mark
YES! WOO HOO!! The Maloofs are just what we need to liven this city up! But it'll never happen. So it must be bad reporting. Seriously though, who knows? We'll have to wait for an annoucement to know for sure. Mark, the article didn't say the same stadium. It simply said the same site.
Bad reporting (and being an ex-journo, I think I can be an informed critic of bad journalism, a lot of which happens in Australia). Besides, with the goals to build SSS's across the board notwithstanding, it's been MLS's policy from Day One that its teams do not groundshare with baseball teams. Definitely bad reporting, for sure.
Can't imagine it's true. If it is true, I'll be happy enough if the plan is to start playing sooner while the SSS is built.
Well, they were the lone tenants of RFK first, before the Washington Nationals came in. And, if memory serves, they had very little say in the matter (although I'm sure some DC Utd fans could clarify this).