Pro sports teams location movement

[y_p_w]

That was a gesture by the Haas Family that owned the A’s. It had previously been considered joint territory. The a hope was that the Giants would stay in the Bay Area. There had been talk that they might relocate to Vancouver or Tampa. Tampa had their stadium construction started before they had a team. I think there might have also been an agreement in place to move to Tampa, but that was after the voter measure was rejected.

That’s one thing that A’s fans hate, that a kind gesture (that at least delayed the relocation of the Giants long enough to assemble an ownership group) wasn’t returned in kind.

Looked into the history again, and it was 1990. Kind of a handshake deal, but the A's claimed it was contingent on moving to Santa Clara County while the Giants claim that it was unconditional.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id...-san-francisco-giants-odds-territorial-rights​

Late Oakland owner Walter Haas gave the Giants the OK to assume rights to San Jose in a favor of sorts to former San Francisco owner Bob Lurie when his team was considering moving to Florida. The deal basically happened with a handshake -- and "without compensation," the A's wrote -- and then was approved by baseball's owners.​

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The A's said that "MLB-recorded minutes clearly indicate that the Giants were granted Santa Clara, subject to relocating to the city of Santa Clara."​

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Said the Giants: "The Giants' territorial rights were not granted 'subject to' moving to Santa Clara County."​

 

[Pew]

As much as I loath Chicago, there is no way any team in Chicago is going anywhere. Chicago fans will pay just about anything to watch their teams play, regardless of whether they are good or not. The Cubs went 108 years without a WS win and the stadium was still packed every year. Bears have only won 1 Super Bowl and are essentially a garbage team every year at the bottom of the league. Still the stadium is packed on game days. Unless the city burns to the ground the sports teams are staying there for the money.

Whatever happened to the bears moving out to the old Arlington race track (I think?)