If you need a good laugh, take a look at Mark Purdy & Tim Kawakami's columns from Tuesday, each addressing the possibility of the 49ers moving to Santa Clara.  Kawakami guarantees that the Yorks won't be able to accomplish the stadium deal.  Purdy, on the other hand, calls upon Niner fans need to pray the Santa Clara deal goes through, claiming that if it doesn't work out the Yorks will end up moving the team to Los Angeles.

Each columnist finds the other's position ridiculous, and each makes it a point to insult his colleague in print.  It's the mediocre sports journalism equivalent of the out-of-the-blue insults being thrown back and forth by Hillary & Barack.

You can find links to the two articles on my blog from yesterday:

http://www.sfbaywatching.com/2008/01/around-bay-tues-115.html

While you're at it, drop a comment on whether you think either of them are on to something & where instinct tells you this might be headed.  Any Santa Clara residents out there who can tell me which direction city voters would lean on public financing of a stadium?  Where will the Niners be playing in ten years -- Candlestick, a new stadium in San Fran or Santa Clara, or (shudder) LA...