The Chronicle’s A’s beat writer Susan Slusser confirmed the drop of View level season tickets, exactly for the reasons I cited in Tuesday’s post. What was not clarified was the status of the View level for single game tickets, to which A’s VP of marketing David Alioto said, “It would be premature to talk about [...]

Merc sports columnist Mark Purdy weighed in on the San Jose plan. Like his employer, he endorses it, though he uses a different rationale: From the day I moved to San Jose in 1984, I was mystified about one thing. I could never understand why city officials had never set aside land for future big [...]

Not surprisingly, the San Jose Mercury News came out in favor of the Stephens Meat site acquisition and other preparatory work being undertaken to secure the Diridon South site for an offer. In the op-ed is a mention of the progress brought on by the Arena project. The paper argues that it is of utmost [...]

The San Jose City Council approved the purchase of the former Stephens Meat plant and a $600,000 environmental impact study to be done by HOK on the Diridon South site. This is expected to be one of many steps that need to be taken for San Jose to secure the entire site. Share this:

All of the posts at Athletics Nation and other boards reek of overreaction. There’s a lot of information going around, and it’s important to keep everything in perspective. First, the only ticket prices that have been posted and verified are those for which season tickets will be sold. This is largely a marketing decision that [...]

Update: The A’s ticket office has told me that there are no plans to sell any season tickets in the View level, because they say it is difficult to provide the same level of service there as they do in the lower two levels. No decision has been made on whether single-game seats will be [...]

A new report in the San Jose Business Journal estimates that the cost to acquire the 14-acre, 12-parcel site could reach the $80-100 million range, based on a value of $125-130 per square foot. And for the first time, at least one property owner has expressed reluctance to sell his property. The city has budgeted [...]

The Merc’s Barry Witt describes the problem facing San Jose: How exactly does it go about attracting the A’s when the team hasn’t wavered in it’s position that it’s not looking in San Jose? Witt lays out two options: San Jose puts out a speculative ballpark plan based on the idea that a “Yes” vote [...]

Reports from both the Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times indicate that no decisions on the A’s broadcast team will be made until after Thanksgiving. Negotiations will start on a new contract for long-time broadcaster Ken Korach, who would presumably fill the late Bill King’s #1 spot. I remember King also holding a “Director of [...]

In a rebuke of this past June’s Supreme Court decision ruling eminent domain for private entities legal, the House just passed a bill (H.R. 4128) that would deal out severe penalties to states and municipalities that would choose to use eminent domain in that highly controversial fashion. The bill passed with astounding 376-38 tally, which [...]