MUST READ: Matt Artz's Blog on "The A's"

The following excerpt from Matt's blog is worth reading. Note the point he makes about Weibel people are not really NIMBY in this case. Click here to read his full blog entry titled "The A's".

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I don’t think the Weibel residents are being NIMBY. NIMBY is when you oppose a nearby affordable housing project or want a proposed four-story building knocked down to two stories even though it’s on a major street. You can’t expect people to support a baseball stadium when the fans heading to the stadium are going to use the same freeway exits that they take to get to their houses.
Right now if the stadium was put on the ballot in Fremont it would probably lose. There still might be a majority of residents who support it, but the anti-stadium people have a lot more energy and passion than the pro-stadium forces. They would have hundreds of volunteers going door-to-door and standing outside of supermarkets. And they would all vote.
When I asked Keith Wolff about San Jose, he said the team wasn’t allowed to consider it yet. If the Fremont ballpark dies, last night’s protest would be good ammo to make the case to baseball owners that the A’s gave it a decent shot in Fremont and they should get the territorial rights to San Jose.
The reason most of the anti-stadium folks in Warm Springs have it in for the mayor (who unlike at least one council member actually prefers the Pac Commons site) is that they think he duped them. A lot of them probably voted for him thinking there might be a stadium at Pacific Commons and three weeks later they find out it’s probably going to be much closer to their homes.

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Hope this helps throw some light on this issue from an independent journalist's perspective.

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Comment by RonK on February 10, 2009 at 9:31pm: A's Wolf said the A's stadium could be funded by building and selling new housing in Fremont
This is odd to me seeing that housing inventories at a all time high and
foreclosures Ads are in the news paper every day

Lew Wolff's full time job must be selling refrigerators to Eskimos

If the Fremont City council buys this sales pitch,
I have a bag full of magic beans I would like to sell to the City of Fremont