From Yahoo! News

It's pretty sad when a sedentary elephant still gets more exercise than the average U.S. child.

Bah!

By the way, we're back from Arizona and there are enough issues right now to make a steam engine melt. I have to concentrate on that pesky day job thing for another few hours, but then I'll have oodles of time to relay information and let you ponder questions.

One of the many you should be asking yourself as an A's fan is; "Do I REALLY think a new baseball only facility in Oakland will make a difference?"

I do have a novel solution to the A's gravitational pull toward San Jose.

Ready?

The city of Oakland, the Coliseum Board and county of Alameda just lost $150 Million in the last several years trying to appease Al Davis and the Raiders. Now, because of their inability to manage themselves, the A's might be lured away to the South Bay.

How about this - the city of Oakland, Coliseum Board and County of Alameda recoup all of their loses and expenses by selling San Jose the rights to the Oakland/Los Angeles/Irwindale/Sacramento/Hollywood/Oakland Raiders. The $200 Million or so would be just about enough to match costs to refurbish the coliseum or begin construction in Jack London Square.

Yah, I know. Making too much sense causes problems. But, ridding Oakland of Al Davis seems like a noble exercise. Further, it's one thing to ask a Raiders fan to drive 45 miles (90 minutes on the freeway) to San Jose for a Raiders home game 8 times in an NFL season - it's quite another to ask an Oakland A's fan to cover that same ground 81 times for A's home games in an MLB season.

An NFL franchise give San Jose and it's poor, deprived and egocentric mayor the label of "professional" he seems to think it needs. As if being the backyard of Silicon Valley were not enough. Plus, it gives people in Oakland less of a reason to wonder where their tax dollars are being spent.