I’ve just been told by someone in the commissioner’s office that contrary to what a New York newspaper suggested yesterday, the A’s proposed move to San Jose is not on life support. And, it is not true that Commissioner Bud Selig and baseball owners have all but decided to uphold the Giants’ territorial rights to San Jose, which would preclude the A’s from going there.

Commissioner Bud Selig is here at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale to watch the Giants play the Diamondbacks, and I’m told he will not be addressing reporters. But the message I’m getting is that a column in the New York Daily News, which strongly suggested that Selig cannot get enough votes from owners to revoke the Giants’ territorial rights, does not accurately reflect the current situation.

The column quoted an unnamed baseball lawyer as saying other owners are reluctant to strip those rights and allow the A’s move to San Jose for fear of the precedent it would set in respect to their own teams.

A committee that supposedly has labored for nearly two years to divine a solution to this issue continues to meet. It’s also clear to me that Selig is engaging in shuttle diplomacy between the A’s and Giants to try to forge a negotiated settlement, which undoubtedly would be the best way to end the stalemate.