Not so fast with the San Jose A’s talk, even if the whole San Francisco Giants territorial rights thing gets worked out, says the San Jose Mercury News. For one thing, any attempt to sell the A’s land at anything below market value would trigger an automatic voter referendum; and San Jose councilmember Sam Liccardo says a referendum might be needed anyway, just because of the scale of the project. Given how the last attempts at a baseball stadium referendum went in San Jose, that doesn’t seem a likely recipe for success – though a lot would likely depend on the financing plan, which, as in the case of the A’s Fremont stadium proposal, is currently an utter mystery.
