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Joe Lacob’s pursuit of the A’s isn’t over. He remains interested in buying the team — priced at $1.18 billion in Forbes’ franchise valuations, 27th out of 30 teams in MLB — if Fisher, whom Lacob calls a friend, ever agrees to sell. Would that happen if Fisher strikes out at Howard Terminal? We don’t know because Fisher never wants to be interviewed. “I’ve had a standing offer to buy the A’s from John Fisher for I don’t even know how long. Over a decade,” Lacob said. “It’s up to him; it’s his business. It would have been smarter to sell to me a long time ago because we would have been partners, and he would have been able to own a part of the Warriors as well. I tried to tell him that. I would have done a ratio deal.”

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Tim Kawakami: Lacob also confirmed that he has asked John Fisher about the A's and that Fisher has said the team is not for sale.

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Tim Kawakami: Multiple sources: Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob has had talks with A's owner John Fisher about Lacob's interest in buying the A's... But the sources indicate that Fisher has to this point told Lacob he is not looking to sell the A's. There are some indications that Lacob would be interested in building a baseball stadium on the Howard Terminal site. It's not just Lacob. Several big-money types are eyeing the A's. Most, I'm told, believe the first/best option is to keep them in Oakland. I'm told that any Lacob interest in the A's is now on the back-burner. But Fisher knows that he'll have a nice market if he wants to sell.

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