San Franciscans Are Almost Blase About Move : Giants: After all, it’s not as though the 49ers were leaving Candlestick Park for San Jose.

First baseman Will Clark of the San Francisco Giants stops in occasionally for lunch on game days at Perry’s on Union Street.

That’s one piece of business that could head south if San Francisco’s baseball team finds its way to San Jose.

“This stupid city, which I love, is so narrow-minded to have let the Giants possibly get away,” Perry Butler, the restaurant’s owner, said Wednesday after San Jose Mayor Susan Hammer and Giant owner Bob Lurie announced a deal to send the team to the South Bay.

“If they leave, it will make me unproud to be a San Franciscan.”

Of larger concern to Butler, however, is that his Butler Catering has for the last five years held the food and beverage contract for Candlestick Park’s 90 luxury suites and its in-house Stadium Club and Hofbrau restaurant. Baseball is worth about $1.5 million a year in revenue, Butler figures, not to mention 60 or so jobs.

Butler is just one of many San Francisco businessmen wondering how the Giants leaving would affect the city economically.

Clearly, some individuals will feel pain, but experts said the impact would be far greater in prestige than in dollars. They also said a relocation would help San Jose more than it would hurt San Francisco.

“The subliminal message is that San Jose is a major league city, and when it comes to corporate relocations, for instance, San Jose might come to people’s lips a lot sooner than it does now,” said Dean Baim, economics professor at Pepperdine.

The Giants are a good source of tax revenue and a boost to service businesses, but San Francisco’s image wouldn’t be badly shaken by the team’s departure, added Kevin O’Brien, assistant director of the Public Management Program at the College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University.

Unlike some other cities, San Francisco has more going for it than just baseball, he said.

“Brooklyn is the sixth-largest city in America,” O’Brien said, “but it has never been taken seriously since the Dodgers left.”

Jim Lazarus, a spokesman for the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, refused to get too hot and bothered by the prospect, noting that in recent years the Giants often have seemed perilously close to leaving.

“We’ve been down this road before,” he said.

Besides, he added graciously (if through gritted teeth), The City’s main goal always was to keep the team in the Bay Area. “If the final solution is San Jose, we hope it succeeds,” he said.

He acknowledged, however, that hospitality businesses such as hotels, restaurants and car rental agencies would suffer from the team’s departure. Although no study has been done on the monetary effects, he said, “a reasonable range” for indirect economic benefits would be $30 million to $60 million a year.

“The most important benefits,” he added, “are intangible,” such as the positive image created by the blimp shots of San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge.

At Bus Stop, a sports bar on Union Street, a bartender said the consensus was that if the San Francisco 49ers were leaving, it would mean something, but because it might be the Giants, “nobody seemed to care.”