by Michael Duca

SAN FRANCISCO–The City of San Jose’s bid for the Oakland A’s to move the team to the South Bay is very unlikely as San Jose is asking for a hearing from the U.S. Supreme Court to remove baseball’s long time exemption status so that would clear the way for the A’s to move to San Jose. San Jose is a very lovely place and it’s very diverse but I would bet you that a cricket team would draw better than a baseball team there would.

In Oakland you have a mayor there Mayor Libby Schaff whose business oriented you have a city that is in the process of becoming the Brooklyn of the west coast. There is a lot of gentrification, lot of positive energy with young people coming in. There is more of a sense that it could happen and a sense that things could be done. Oakland doesn’t have the austerity of a former Mayor Jerry Brown.

You don’t have the lunacy of the former mayor you don’t have the complete lack of interest of the mayor who proceeded Brown offer anything that involved sports whatsoever. The thing that is most likely to happen is the A’s and the city of Oakland recognize that there is not much sense in having a 20,000 seat arena to attract the occasional rock show, rap show, and the circus. Circus fans can come back now that they don’t have elephants anymore.

SF Giants update: It’s got to be ironic for Giants leftfielder Nori Akoi when he runs out to leftfield he has to stand near the three championship flags out there including the one that was taken away from him in Kansas City last year. It’s got to be as almost as interesting as the Yankees and Cardinals who met in the 1964 World Series and they swapped managers when it was over.

They didn’t really trade managers but when their contracts were up they went to work for the opposing clubs. It’s got to be a little strange for Akoi to look at the standings the Royals have yet to lose, they won 32 of their last 35 games or some ridiculous thing like that. The Royals are playing as well as the Giants are not yet the Giants do have 154 games left before it’s all settled.

The Giants are are pleased to have Akoi in left he’s proven to be a bigger offensive contributor than they are expecting and he’s a better defender based on what they were expecting. The Royals substituted for Akoi early in last season’s World Series but he proved to do well and the Giants are very happy to have him on the club this season.

Michael Duca does A’s and Giants commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com catch Miguel’s podcast below