Quake Has Hurt Bay Area Sports Dreams
The earthquake that hit the Bay Area damaged and may have destroyed two local sports dreams.
The proposition for a new downtown baseball park for the Giants in San Francisco, already trailing narrowly in early opinion polls, faces even longer odds in the Nov. 7 election with voters reeling from the estimated $2.5 billion in damages that the city suffered in last week’s quake.
The drive to bring the Raiders back to Oakland from Los Angeles also faces a cloudy future.
Both proposals, hinging on strong last-minute pushes by officials of the cities, have been shelved while the task of rebuilding crumbled roads, bridges, buildings and neighborhoods takes priority.
“It is certainly a very difficult time to convince the public to support investments in sports when clearly resources need to be invested to rebuild the two cities,” San Francisco political consultant Paul Ambrosino said Tuesday.
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