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San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed steps into recent talk about moving the Oakland A’s. Despite his desire to relocate the A’s since 1968 Athletics co-owner and managing partner, Lew Wolff had already abandoned his negotiations in February for making Fremont the A’s future home stemming from the opposition of many local area businesses and residents near the proposed stadium sites.

Reed’s recommendation hopes to influence the MLB’s decision making process in the interest of all parties involved, including San Jose, “indicating that San Jose supports MLB in the City and requests to be freed of restrictive territorial rights.”

Although San Jose is 50 miles down interstate 880 the Giants maintain their position and rights, describing San Jose as teh heart of their fan base. Already home of the San Jose Giants minor league team, the Giants major league team may in fact have some merit.

Reed however feels that the Bay Area, one of the largest in population, deserves to have its own Major League team, “As the Capital of Silicon Valley, the World Center of Innovation, San Jose is a place where people act boldly when opportunity presents itself,” stating the urgency in this matter, “we are prepared to take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity. We must be ready should the team and Major League Baseball make a decision to allow the Oakland A’s to pursue development of a stadium in San Jose”.

This could in fact mean a lot to the Silicon Valley local business owners but each team is taking a stand on their own interests in San Jose. However the SF Giants may have already made a move towards thwarting such plans by obtaining 25 percent of the Giants Minor League club with the option to purchase an additional 30 percent in 2010 constituting a controlling interest in the minor league ball club.

Giants already looking to the future of their expanded interests want to increase their brand and allow the Class A Advanced ball club to make some much needed ballpark improvements.

San Jose team president Jim Weyermann looked at the partnership for obvious reasons, “We had some real facilities issues here. We needed some major improvements. We’ve made some major improvements, and this deal is going to allow us to make a lot more.”

Other immediate changes include the possibility o fteh San Jose Giants airing their games on local cable television.

San Jose team officials insist that this partial purchase is not and should not be seen as a calculated move in hindering the Oakland A’s plans. “What people who aren’t in San Jose day in and day out don’t understand is that the A’s conversation has been going on since 2005. To say this is a direct response to that is totally ridiculous,” Weyermann said.

Also of note is negotiations between the Giants and their minor league counterpart having started back in 2005. It may be, “business-as-usual,” for Weyermann but I have to point out the long negotiations now finally all falling into place to hopefully solidify their claim on San jose as an integral part of San Francisco Giants Territory.

“For us, this partnership just makes sense,” But in more ways the Weyermann may be explaining.