Joe Lacob’s pursuit of the A’s isn’t over. He remains interested in buying the team — priced at $1.18 billion in Forbes’ franchise valuations, 27th out of 30 teams in MLB — if Fisher, whom Lacob calls a friend, ever agrees to sell. Would that happen if Fisher strikes out at Howard Terminal? We don’t know because Fisher never wants to be interviewed. “I’ve had a standing offer to buy the A’s from John Fisher for I don’t even know how long. Over a decade,” Lacob said. “It’s up to him; it’s his business. It would have been smarter to sell to me a long time ago because we would have been partners, and he would have been able to own a part of the Warriors as well. I tried to tell him that. I would have done a ratio deal.”