Do You Know The Way?

Well, we'd been waiting for some actual baseball news to report, but in the meantime wacky San Jose mayor Ron Gonzalez is at it again.  This time, he went all the way to Phoenix, where he held a news conference outside Municipal Stadium and discussed his plan to bring a major league baseball team to San Jose.  Guess who plays Cactus League games at Phoenix Municipal?  The Bay Area, Mayor Gonzalez says, can't support three major league teams, and the Giants aren't going anywhere—he seems a little less wacky and a little more wack-ass now, as he sets his sights on your Oakland Athletics.

Feel free to make your own "there isn't any there there" jokes; we here at SFist try to avoid cheap shots at our sprawling stepsister to the south. San Jose is the eleventh-largest city in America (click on it; it's wild), and we guess that's cool.  The self-proclaimed capitol city of Silicon Valley would have the highest median income of any MLB city, and we guess that's cool, too, because we know the dot-commers in the expensive seats can really make or break the ballpark experience. We do remember when another Oakland-based team played a season in San Jose, though, and we have to wonder if Mayor Gonzalez does, because it sucked.  The Warriors sucked, which we can't blame on San Jose, but traffic sucked too, and so did parking, and we checked, and BART still doesn't run to San Jose.

SFist Jake, contributing.