Great news for Oakland A’s fans!

Maybe.

Or maybe not.

Either way, get ready for another loop-de-loop ride on the A’s roller coaster (not to be confused with the A’s gondola).

The news: Majority owner John Fisher got richer last week. Fisher’s family owns the Gap, and Bloomberg News reported Friday that Gap stock shot up when the company announced it would split into two businesses.

The soaring stock, per Bloomberg, “lifted the family’s fortune by $786 million to at least $8.9 billion.”

That’s not all Fisher’s money. He shares the pie with his mom and two brothers. John Fisher has about a 14 percent stake in Gap, worth roughly $1.5 billion. The family is also the 26th largest landowner in America, with 440,000 acres of California timber, enough to make about a trillion Khris Davis bats. This land is their land.

Plus, the A’s are worth $1.02 billion (per Forbes in 2018).

So the big question is: Does Fisher’s latest financial windfall make it more likely that he will build the new ballpark that his people have been promising since he bought the team in 2005?

Or does this simply mean that Fisher will be a wealthier miser, continuing to run a low-ball, shoestring baseball operation in a joke of a ballpark?

One other lurking possibility: Fisher will now be more likely to sell the team.

The A’s big annual revenue-sharing check, over $30 million per season at one point, will disappear completely after this season. MLB is stripping Fisher of this annual bonanza partly because he was putting too much of it in his own pocket and too little into payroll.

Fisher is way more businessman than sportsman. The Gap is easy money, the A’s are a cash cow that is drying up, unless the team can be used as a centerpiece to a massively complicated real estate deal and development project.

Will Fisher put his new money into an A’s ballpark, continue on the path to nowhere, or take the money and run?

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