DEVELOPING: San Jose Suing MLB Over A's Move

Or, to be more accurate, a lack of a move...

The San Jose city council is suing Major League Baseball and taking them to court over the perception that MLB is dragging their feet over the team's proposed move to San Jose- and this weekend's sewer issue at the Oakland Coliseum can't be sitting well with the A's or MLB at present, either...

San Jose is maintaining that MLB is "conspiring to limit competition" by not allowing the team to move...

From KGO-TV:

Peninsula attorney Joe Cotchett to file a lawsuit. "This is all about economics. And, you have a city like San Jose, the tenth largest city in the United States, cannot get a baseball club. I can name you other cities that are pulling for San Jose for the same reason. They want the right and the chance to bring a baseball team to their city, their county, whatever it might be," he said.

The city has always wanted a team, knows that having a team will pump in nine figures of income, and will build a new ballpark to suit the A's. But San Jose has always deferred to A's owner Lew Wolff- a frat brother of MLB Commissioner Bud Selig.

The only other issue is that San Jose is considered part of the geographic footprint of the San Francisco Giants...

Here's what the A's have been up to recently... when the sewage pipes worked...
((HT: MLB/YES))