In one breath, John Moores, one-time owner of the San Diego Padres, advises Oakland A’s ownership to be patient in the pursuit of a new downtown ballpark. In the next, the driving force behind the construction of Petco Park gets real.
“I don’t think I’d do that project again,” Moores told Forbes contributor Barry M. Bloom in a recent profile. “It was just too hard.”
Conceptually, Moores sees the value of a new A’s ballpark in Oakland (as do A’s managing partner John Fisher and president Dave Kaval).
“I would be hard-pressed to leave the San Francisco Bay Area to that one super team,” Moores said, referring to the Giants.