Fremont A's?

The Oakland A’s seem eager to move about 20 miles to Fremont, of all places. They are expected to announce next week their intention to acquire the rights to a 143 acre tract currently leased by Cisco Systems.

The A’s would rather move to downtown San Jose, but this is currently politically infeasible, and as columnist Ray Ratto explains, moving to Fremont is a potentially horrific mistake, a third-best alternative chosen simply because A’s managing partner Lew Wolff is in a hurry to be somewhere else. The Oakland Network Associates McAffee Coliseum despite its great many faults as least has the virtue of being on the BART line; the proposed new site would be six miles from the southernmost BART station, off the worst freeway with the most godawful traffic in Northern California, I-880. There are a lot of peeved A’s fans in this thread here.