by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

Anybody that has lived in the Bay Area for a long time, realizes that to build anything in San Francisco its always an adventure. Mr Joe Lacob and Mr Peter Gruber owners of the Golden State Warriors want to move the Golden State Warriors to San Francisco, from the Oracle Arena in Oakland.

I believe in free enterprise 100X100, If I didn’t I would be happy to go back to Cuba, where my family’s business they built from a whole life of hard work, was taken away by a despost communist government. So I can appreciate the Warriors owners plan to move to a thriving city, where everything is happening now days.

The City of San Francisco has a height limit of 84 feet on all bayfront construction. Basically nothing higher than a bus bench can be built here. maybe a lemonade stand. Today UCSF Nurses and the California Nursing Association voiced their opposition, to the Warriors Arena in San Francisco, they have other concerns, and there will be meetings and meetings, and townhalls and all of that in the future. Other groups in San Francisco are not as happy to have a new building in the bayfront area of the city. Giants fans remember(the ones that used to go to Candlestick Park and weather July nights games with 40 mile per hour winds and 50 degree temperatures, (not the ones going today to “the party” dude at the AT&T game tonight)on the trials and tribulations of getting a sports venue built in the city by the Golden Gate.

We all witnessed the civic pride that Oakland experienced during the recent Warriors Victory Parade, Champions of the National Basketball Association.

God knows that Oakland needs these type of positive gatherings where thousands of people gathered to celebrate in a positive fashion and not to destroy businesses windows, or to occupy parks for extended periods of time.

Oakland was once called “City of Champions” During the 1970’s and 1980’s Champion Warriors, Athletics, Raiders, Oakland was the hub for sports in the Bay Area, But (like we all know)things change.

Silicon Valley is now moving north to San Francisco, people pay $4500 a month for a one bedroom studio in the city. Like the “old timers”during the gold rush would say “there is money in them hills!!!”.

So, of course there makes perfect sense for the Golden State Warriors to move to San Francisco and become the San Francisco Warriors; after all that was their name when they first moved from Philadelphia in the early 1960’s.

Will it happen? Will the Warriors move to San Francisco? First Oakland A’s owner Charlie O Finley used to say “money talks and BS walks”. Ay Caramba… Oi vey, said one of my good friends!

Well, there is a lot of money involved here and also a lot of BS.

I think money will eventually win at the end. You can bet on it.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish TV voice for the Angels and the Spanish radio voice for the A’s and does News and Commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com