Could it be bay vs. SF....with SF the loser?

If all the pieces fall in place, the epicenter of the world of San Francisco Bay sports is titling southward. The older cities to the north would lose the 49ers (from SF to Santa Clara) and the A's (from Oakland to Freemont). The lure is clearly more open land, but flater land as well: South Bay with the areas's largest city (San Jose), one of its two most prominent univrsities (Stanford) and the miracle that is SIlicon Valley is very much in assent. These areas would be hot without either MLB or NFL. Other cities, shift teams from city to suburb (Dallas-Irving, Buffalo-Orchard Park, New York-Meadowlands...twice!), but there may be a difference: The Bay Area is more of an accumulation of adjacent regions (SF, Peninsula, South Way, East Bay, Marin, WIne Co, etc.) that a unified metropolitan area. That big bay in the middle splits it apart and its mountainous and hilly terrain help separate. Besides, what other metro area contains an incredible three (SF, Oak, SJ) major cities???? So, that leaves me to wonder if San Francisco, for all its inernational and domestic power and image, is in the oddly ironic position to be weakened by the very metropolitan area it calls home? Simply put, the Bills can play in Orchard Park and still be Buffalo because the Buffalo metro area is more unified than the Bay Area. The San Francisco 49er, playing in Santa Clara, could as easily be the South Bay or Santa Clara 49ers. Much of SF's business hub was effected by the .com growth in Silicon Valley. In addition, the city has long since lost its port to Oakland. Lack of affordable housing has made SF family unfriendly. In other places, this may just be looked at as internal changes in one, relatively solidified metropolitan area. But not in the Bay Area, where each subregion is its own sphere. And each are competitve. Could San Francisco be hurt by this type of Bay Area structure and could it be even more hurt by reacihing a point where it will cease to be the center of the bay, and a quaint afterthought. I hope it never happens, but....>