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[CameronFrye]

At least in this case

Oakland A's, San Jose move: Forget the West Coast. The A's should move to New York. - Slate Magazine

 

[gp956]

Nice article. And he's right - moving another team to the New York market will help balance revenues across all of baseball. Although it would take a generation or two to be fully realized.

That said, this was a bit of a clunker:

According to Forbes, the Giants pulled in $230 million in revenue last year compared to the A's $160 million. Let's say that the San Jose market is strong enough that the A's are able to turn themselves into Giants Lite, giving them $210 million a year. That $50 million-a-year bump would be enough to pay off Wolff's $35 million in annual mortgage payments and checks to the Giants and give him $15 million to spare.

That's a tribute to the size of the San Jose market, and shows why most cities touted as relocation sites (Portland, Las Vegas, San Antonio) shouldn’t be taken seriously: They'd have a tough time generating enough added revenue to pay off a stadium, even without territorial payoffs.

He's saying his made up revenue stat is a tribute to the San Jose market? And then also uses his ass-pulled fact to say other markets would have a tough time generating that much.