That didn’t sit well with city leaders and certainly not with the Raiders

The Oakland A’s announced the agreement to a new 10-year lease at the O.co Coliseum.

That didn’t sit well with city leaders and certainly not with the Raiders. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the four city representatives to the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority were expected on Thursday to vote against the proposed lease. Reid and Rebecca Kaplan of the Oakland City Council are expected to present the Coliseum board a new propsoal.

“The (city) council directed us to vote against it,” Larry Reid, an Authority representative, told the Chronicle. “This process has been extremely frustrating for me. I just hope Major League Baseball and the A’s can have a little more patience with this council.”

Co-owner Lew Wolff now has officials on edge. His revelation about a new lease came barely a week after Raiders owner Mark Davis told reporters that there had been “no progress” in his talks with developers about a new football stadium.

The Raiders’ current lease extends through 2014. The A's current lease is through 2015. Wolff says he would not consider a revision of the lease.

Clearly, the Raiders have had enough of sharing a facility with the A’s.

“They like to play on the dirt infield more than we do,” Davis told Comcast Sports Bay Area.

The city, obviously, would like to appease both clubs. The A’s made a bold move without them, perhaps looking for leverage.

“We believe in our dealings with the (Joint Powers Authority that) we are 100 percent finished,” Wolff said. “We have a 14-month negotiation finished and approved by Major League Baseball and the JPA. If someone wants to do something else, we have no interest in that. … If we don’t get a positive vote, we’ll be very sad after 14 months of negotiations.”

The Raiders are already very sad.

They proposed an $800 million stadium to city and Alameda County officials last August, but the plan required $300 million of public money. The local governments are unlikely to agree to that, just as they unlikely to allow the A’s to commit to a 10-year lease that would almost force the Raiders out of town, perhaps back to Los Angeles.

Quote:Mark Davis (born December 23, 1960) is a retired American-Australian professional basketball player who played from 1985 to 2001 with the National Basketball League's Adelaide 36ers, gaining the nickname of "The Chairman of the Boards" for his record breaking rebounding achievements, though to his friends and team mates he was always known as "Pudd".