I played around with Google Earth and put together a stadium overlay. The scale is pretty close though not exact. Here are three smaller images, and you can click on them to get the larger images. First up is the overhead view. This is just to get a sense of scale. The line indicates the [...]

Mayoral debates were held in Oakland and San Jose earlier tonight. I couldn’t make it to the SJ debate but the Merc’s Phil Yost ran a running commentary. Candidate/BBSJ member Dave Cortese (remember the Wave article from earlier in the week?) got the baseball question. His response sounded much like his stance during the 3/1 [...]

Last night Lew Wolff spoke at a Washington Township Men’s Club function, which was held at the Fremont Elks Lodge. He was there rubbing elbows and selling the plan to Fremont business and civic leaders. Merc reporter Barry Witt has a must-read recap, including greater detail of what Wolff’s vision is than what we’ve heard [...]

Tonight’s session ran for two hours. The format was explained at the beginning: Presentation of different Draft EIR findings Break – during which the public could fill out comment forms Q&A session based on responses to the comment forms While the format allowed for most comments to be addressed, there was little room for any [...]

I’m not expecting fireworks, but tonight’s first of four public outreach meetings for the Diridon South ballpark site should have some interesting and varied viewpoints. There should be representatives of the local neighborhood groups, some baseball supporters, the anti-tax watchdog group, and a contingent of Quakes supporters as well. The Soccer Silicon Valley folks are [...]

At this point Lew Wolff must be getting tired of giving the same unrevealing answers about the state of the A’s. Here’s another set of vague quotes, courtesy of SF Business Times scribe Eric Young. Young also wrote an article on how stadium enhancements are allowing both the A’s and Giants to pull greater revenues [...]

The Wave Magazine’s “The Buzz” column captured the anger of neighborhood groups around the Diridon South ballpark site, since it appeared that San Jose officials were trying the ram EIR through. It doesn’t note that there are four community outreach meetings scheduled over the next month for neighborhood groups to talk about the EIR: Tuesday, [...]

Neil Hayes’ new column in the CoCo Times has quotes from Lew Wolff. There’s no doubt that Wolff pays attention to the media and fans, as seen from this quote: “I didn’t know we needed to stay within the city limits of Oakland to serve our market,” Wolff said in a phone interview. “We haven’t [...]

In December I posted a chronology of events that have occurred in San Jose over the past year related to various developers and landowners who have property near the Diridon South site. One of the more important developments was the decision of San Jose Water Company to sell its downtown lots. A parcel on the [...]

UPDATE: Trib columnist Art Spander fired off an angry column this morning in response to the news.Out of today’s Tribune comes the following quote from Lew Wolff: “We’ve spent most of our time focused on Oakland; now the next goal is to stay in Alameda County,” he said. “We haven’t ruled out any place, but [...]