Time to say: "No way, San Jose!"?

Do sports team owners use regional factionalism to keep fans from organizing in much the same way that Republicans use a multitude of wedge issues to keep the squabbling Democrats from forming a consensus on a party platform?   How hard would sports team owner work to discourage a national union for fans?   Would they bring in the Oakland Police Department to break up any rallies urging the formation of such a group?

 

Recently while visiting the Westwood section of Los Angeles, we noted that there were no bookstores selling new books other than the student book store at UCLA.   Westwood used to have a delightful assortment of bookstores including the Bruin Book Company (BBC) which operated on a 24/7 basis.

 

Would publishers be able to getaway with it if they could convince the politicians in Los Angeles to use tax funds to build a store where the publishers could then "do their thing"?

Would fights between people wearing Strand Books T-shirts and City Lights Bookstore T-shirts ever make the national news?   

 

We heard a report on KCBS news radio Monday about the conditions being imposed on 49ers fans who want to buy season tickets when (not if) the team moves to San Jose.   They mumbled something about an additional "$20,000 builders fee" to be extorted from the fans.   Would soccer fans in Great Britain put up with that kind of exploitation of their wallets?   Would Manchester United, Arsenal, and Tottenham Hotspurs fans put aside their rivalries and say:   "Not by the hair on our chinny-chin chins!" and cause a fuss or would they meekly fork over the blackmail fees?   We read both San Francisco papers on Tuesday morning but couldn't find any stories about the possible exploitation of the faithful fans.   Perhaps readers can do a Google news search for more about the "builders fee" nonsense called "the Stadium Builders' License" (SBL).

 

Is it an oxymoron for nudist camps to sell souvenir T-shirts?

 

When the San Francisco 49ers play in Oakland, that city usually approves extra police officers to be assigned to be on duty and monitor the game.   Do they think that somebody will try to steal home plate?

 

Are sports fans part of the one percent or part of the 99%?

 

Will regional rivalry inspire Occupy San Francisco protesters to taunt the people from Occupy Oakland with cries of:   "Our cops can beat the snot outta the Oakland PD!"?   Or "The bankers in San Francisco are meaner and more ruthless that the folks doing the foreclosures in Oakland!"?

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