The recent issue of Silicon Valley Metro had a blurb about the A’s/Earthquakes new South Bay office, which is due to open in downtown San Jose soon. The location? The ground floor of the Fairmont San Jose, of course. I wonder if the employees get free vouchers to eat at one of Lew Wolff’s restaurants [...]

The old adage, “Good, Fast, and Cheap – Pick Two!” applies to nearly everything from soup to software. In no way is stadium building spared. Design, materials, labor – all of these things cost time and money, and to get a distinctive, quality product usually requires a couple of years and a few hundred million [...]

The Trib’s Paul T. Rosynsky gets the scoop on a new Coliseum lease extension, but in addition he sheds light on the weirdly complicated political machine that exists within and around the Coliseum Authority. Consider the fact that the guy getting the deal done, Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty, isn’t even on the current Coliseum [...]

The final totals aren’t in yet, but with one week left in the A’s home schedule, the A’s have pulled in slightly less than 1.8 million fans. According to Attendance Watch (sidebar on the right), the team has averaged 24,251 per game over 74 dates. The projected total for the full 81-game season is 1,964,352. [...]

Any time it takes several months to essentially repeat a pre-existing financial arrangement, something must be amiss. And so tonight it’s being reported that talks between the A’s and Coliseum JPA over a three-year lease extension have broken down. This obviously sets the stage for the A’s last season in Oakland to be 2010. Here [...]

The A’s recently signed a four-year extension to their development agreement with the Sacramento River Cats. The key here is that the agreement runs through 2010. That’s pretty much the same year that the A’s other agreements – leases, radio, television – run out. From a strategic standpoint, it puts the A’s in an extremely [...]

One more “Choose or Lose the A’s” event is slated for this Friday at 5:00 in the Coliseum B-Lot. More info can be found at the Green Stampede and A’s Fan Radio myspace pages. In SI’s annual Fan Value Index (ratings based on surveyed attendees at various games), McAfee Coliseum came in 20th out of [...]

Remember how Lew Wolff in the beginning of the season that he expects to make an announcement about the A’s future home by the end of the season? Well, it appears that he now expects to push that date out until perhaps the end of the year. He admitted as much during Robert Buan’s interview [...]

On my way to the Coliseum over the weekend I stopped off at Pacific Commons to see if anything has happened at the site. No surprises there. Earthmoving equipment was in the same place as before. The Auto Mall is filling in nicely with a new Lexus dealership almost completed at the south end. A [...]