While I was travelling a few weeks ago, I completely missed out on a ballpark study session given for the San Jose City Council on March 1. Previously it was reported at this session that the EIR commenting period would have to be moved out a couple of weeks, but there was more to the [...]

An AP article I found on SI.com broadly covers the trend towards smaller stadia. The A’s are mentioned first. Towards the end is an admission by A’s officials that season ticket sales have increased “from 7,000 last year to about 8,000 so far this season.” I’m assuming that’s counting full season ticket packages or their [...]

The many-hatted Maury Brown got an interview with HOK Sport principal Earl Santee. The interview’s not up yet, but in the interim Santee provided Brown with more drawings of the Nats’ next home. The one I was most interested in was a cross-section, just to see how it compared with drawings I’ve worked up. I [...]

The next two weeks are going to be very interesting. Not just because of the prospects of a new season, but because Lew Wolff is set to make some sort of announcement around Opening Day about the ballpark effort. Beyond that, there are other key dates of which to make note, because they could have [...]

I’ve had more time to look at the drawings and the flyover (available at the Washington Post’s website). I’ll give you my amateur opinion on this HOK-penned design. I tend to concur with the mixed sentiment about the ballpark: it’s not a cookie-cutter in either the retro or retro-futuristic mode, but it’s not overwhelming either. [...]

Now that a lease has been signed and a date has been set to evict current landowners, it’s time to show conceptual drawings of the new Washington Nationals’ ballpark. The 41,000-seat stadium will have: 22,000 lower bowl seats 2,500 regular club seats (mezzanine) 12,100 upper level seats 1,800 indoor club seats 78 suites (1,112 seats) [...]

A report in this week’s Sacramento Business Journal goes over the ongoing struggle to get the A’s on the radio in the Sacramento area. Most of the article isn’t revelatory, but it does point out that a Modesto station (probably KTRB) backed out of a deal with the A’s in January. What’s discouraging is that [...]

More grist for the mill: Give Mark Purdy some credit for not spending the entire week on the Bonds saga, not that he won’t revisit it as the season goes on. In Sunday’s column, Purdy writes about a discussion he had with Wolff, and throws out some conjecture to boot. It’s no secret that Purdy [...]

The saddest thing about today’s revelations about Barry Bonds is that a day that was supposed to be meant in remembrance of the late Kirby Puckett has been completely sidetracked by more steroid news. A few years back I was in San Francisco on a day off from work. I happened to be walking through [...]

It’s time for another round of baseball business news prior to Opening Day. Sportstime Ohio is the new cable home of the Cleveland Indians. The network so far has only Indians broadcasts and related content such as pre and postgame shows. With less than a month to go before the season starts, only one major [...]