It’s only the second week in March. The Giants and A’s aren’t even in Northern California yet. But already there is enough headlines to keep your humble blogger busier than Brian Wilson’s barber.

The biggest story of the spring so far isn’t new Giant Melky “The Melk Man” Cabrera’s explosive start, or the A’s debut of Cuban phenom Yoenis Cespedes. And it certainly isn’t Barry Zito’s string of decent starts (don’t look now!).

The buzz around the Bay has to do with a childish feud between a few millionaire businessmen over who gets the right to rake in even more dough. If you had been living in a cave, you might think I was talking about Wall Street and I was writing in the wrong blog.

But no, baseball has devolved into just another argument over money amongst old white guys in suits. I’m referring to the territorial dispute between the A’s and Giants over who has the right to Santa Clara County.

The A’s want to leave Oakland for the assuredly greener pastures of San Jose, while the Giants feel this would infringe too much upon their fan base and corporate sponsorships.

The A’s definitely need the help, as they suffered from the worst attendance in baseball in 2011, while the Giants sold out every game. The Coliseum in Oakland where the A’s play their home games bears a greater resemblance to its namesake in ancient Rome than to a modern baseball facility with its crumbling concrete and outdated scoreboard. Heck, maybe if the roster of mostly unrecognizable players had to battle lions during the game, more California residents would take notice.

But even if the Green and Gold can’t relocate to San Jose, all hope is not lost.

First of all, minority shareholder John Fisher is among the game’s wealthiest owners, with Forbes estimating his net worth in 2010 at $1.1 billion; his family made its fortune by opening a little chain of stores called “The Gap.”

If push came to shove and the team decided it could once again flourish in Oakland as it has in the past, Fisher could theoretically build a new ballpark out of pocket. To put the situation in perspective, the Giants’ AT&T Park, which opened its gates before the 2000 season, cost $357 million to erect. The Giants financed its construction privately, taking no money from the City of San Francisco.

There is another option for the league and potential investors in a new park to mull, however.

The Oakland City Council last week voted to move forward with a project called Coliseum City, which could pool public and private resources to construct new homes for the A’s, Raiders and Golden State Warriors, all of whose current facilities are dilapidated by any measure and who are all threatening to abandon ship.

Fisher and majority shareholder Lew Wolff have made it clear they probably will not be interested in remaining in Oakland even if they don’t have to write a check for the total cost of a new stadium. But if they decided to sell the team and move out of the baseball business, the potential collaboration with the city could help avoid a potential takeover by the league, like what happened to the Montreal Expos before their eventual move to Washington, D.C.

Even though I am a die-hard Giants fan who bleeds orange and black, it would still sting something awful were the A’s to leave the area. Hopefully a deal can be struck to either allow them to move to San Jose or build a new place in Oakland.

Maybe then the older millionaires can stop fighting off the field so the younger millionaires can duke it out on the diamond.

Alex Grotewohl can be reached at [email protected].