This is a good thing. With all the colligate women’s sports in the bay area it will be good to have the WNBA represented there.

I voted shark tank but it’s really a tossup between Oakland and San Jose, both would be good venues.

I would love to see the WNBA set up shop in the Bay Area, my preference would be So Bay, but doesn’t matter to me. I play in a women’s rec league that is hugely popular in Campbell (there are 4 separate levels from novice to advance that play year-round), so I know the attraction is strong to follow women’s BB (most ladies I know follow the Stanford women’s team). But realistically, I don’t know if there would be much of a fanbase even among diehard Warriors fans here because do men even recognize women’s game as being competitive, or worthy of watching? If the WNBA just caters to women (straight or otherwise), I don’t think it has a chance of succeeding.

(btw, Nicole Powell, repping Stanford)

This would be the best bet to get a good enough fan base to keep the team afloat. The WNBA would be the only team in town and would benefit from a populace starved for professional teams.
Maybe pitch it to Ellison to take over the team.

That seems like a good location…even though Courtney Paris (she’s pretty fierce in the paint) is from Piedmont. WHATTUP!

But i say, they got with a regional name, like the Warriors. How about “Silicon Valley Engineers” ?

Doubtful, I’m not a big fan of women’s sports, they’re so much slower and less physical than what most of us are used to that they just seem to be too boring to watch. That’s not a knock on anyone who plays or enjoys them, I just think that’s the reason that they’ll never have the same draw or success as men’s sports. If you look all around the country, even if you have a women’s franchise who is winning, they still struggle financially and it’s because they have no where near the same financial drawing power as the 3 major sports in this country.

Perhaps they should consider a college setting, with Cal or Stanford being most likely. It’s a smaller venue and I think most of the fans really are only following college players that make it to the pro level.

by DomoKun on Nov 23, 2009 2:46 PM PST up reply 0 recs

THIS IS THE BEST IDEA YET! I hate to be so crass here, but Oakland is the self-proclaimed “dyke city”. The income differential between genders (glass cieling, etc.) has most lesbians in the bay area living in the East Bay. Considering most fans are lesbians, it seems, at first glance, like a great idea to move the team to the bay area, but the East Bay may yield more target market dollars than SF. Yes yes, I’m a lesbian, and I can tell you I’ll be first in line to buy season tickets if the team relocates to the EAST bay, not south (san jose) west (SF) or otherwise. This sounds silly, but those areas are light years away and I would NOT make the one hour+ trek to those areas from my home in Oakland, otherwise I would have just gone to more Sac games. Good luck Monarchs. Hope everything works out :)

Tha Town is preferable