It's Tuesday-- Do You Know Where Your Team Is?

Okay, here's today’s team on a move recap:

The city of San Francisco is being a bit pissy over the team name and is contemplating telling the 49ers what they can do with the words "San Francisco" and if they move to Santa Clara. Oh, would a football team by any other name would smell as sweet? That would mean the 49ers would have to call themselves the "Santa Clara 49ers" or the "Silicon Valley 49ers" or hell, even the "Take the 280 to the 101 and get off at Great America Parkway" 49ers. Legal experts are dubious that would work and say the 49ers can call themselves whatever they damn well want. Of course, there are always new laws to be threatened and Mark Leno is on it, calling for a bill that would say a team could only call themselves "San Francisco" if they actually play in San Francisco. As is DiFi who's threatening to take it to a higher authority.

As for things in Oaktown, the repercussions of the A's possible move to Fremont has mainly been a shrug and a cry of "so whadda you going do about it?". Most Oakland officials said they did their best but were stymied by Wolff and his desires on what he wanted to do, mainly develop a whole bunch of crap around the stadium (you can't take the developer out of some people). The plan needed land and there was no land to give. Said Jerry Brown: "God creates land, not the Tribune, not the mayor." True dat. In fact, Jerry made a half-way decent point about ballparks being problematic in urban environments due to congestion, a problem not faced by many other cities who built stadiums in urban environments. But still, he apparently got into a fight with City Manager Robert Bobb because Bobb wanted the stadium and Brown wanted housing. Wanting housing over a new stadium is a toughy.

The announcement of the move to Fremont and the birth of the "East Bay A's of Fremont" is to come today. Try putting that on a jersey.