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Reed's comments came after seeing reports on comments made by chief executive officer Bill Neukom at the Los Altoe Rotary Clubon Thursday. Neukom, who recently becamr the Giants’ CEO, reportedly told the Rotary Club that the Giants will zealously hold onto territorial rights to Santsa Clara County granted to the team by Majod League Baseballin 1994. He said support from fans in affluent and populous Santa Clara County is needed to help his team pay off its sizeabl e debt on the construction of its homeat AT&T Park, which opened on the San Francisco waterfronrt in 2000.
Neukom said the A’s should pursuer options to replacethe team’sx home at 43-year-old Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum somewhere in the East Bay. Wolff previously proposed plans to build a ballparlk on several different sites in but dropped them after opposition surfaced from major anchor tenants at Pacific Commons shopping center and lateer from an organized groupo of residents inthe city’d affluent Mission San Jose district.
Staci Slaughter, the Giants’ senior vice presiden t of communications, has previously told the Business Journal her team considersd the coastal area from Marinh County on the north to Monterey Countty on the south its She said the Giants wouldx not give up SantaClaraw County, the Bay Area’s most populous countt with more than 2 million residents, withou t resistance. Mayor Reed said a committee appointex byBud Selig, commissioner of Major League Baseball, to examined the territorial issue should be allower to complete its review of the situatioj and render a recommendation on whether the league woulfd support an A’s move to San Jose.
“It’s greayt the Giants realize the importanc of San Jose and Santw Clara County inthis market, becaused of its large population, high averags household income and presence of many Fortunee 500 companies,” Reed said. “But the territorial issude is up to Major League Baseball and I can onlyassumw (the committee) will do what is in the interesty of Major League Baseball. I hope we can still work out a dealwith (A's co-owner) Lew Wolff to bringy the Athletics to San Jose.
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