Apologies in advance to those outside the United States.Something’s stirring in DC. I’m not referring to the continuing Clemens-Waxman staredown, or the purported stonewalling of Arlen Specter by the NFL. There’s a new ballpark in the District, and it’s causing more than a little upheaval.The still-unnamed, $611 million, publicly-funded stadium is getting its finishing touches [...]

Some of you had been asking what happened to transit comparison table I put together a year ago. Well, I inadvertently deleted it during the summer while doing some site maintenance. I took the recent down period to construct a new version of the table, so here it is in its renewed glory: The legend [...]

In a recent St. Pete Times update on the Rays’ downtown ballpark proposal, I noticed the following passage: The money would come from a private team loan, Rays senior vice president of development Michael Kalt said. The Rays previously had planned to pay the city $10-million a year in rent payments to cover a third [...]

Between commercials on the Ronn Owens Show (archive), the banter between host and guest and the Q&A bits with callers felt like a simple PR exercise, something of a Hey! We’re still alive and working! session. There were nearly as many calls from fans wanting answers about the offseason personnel moves as there were about [...]

Tomorrow, Lew Wolff will make another appearance on KGO host Ronn Owens’ show at 11 a.m. (correction: originally had this at 10 a.m.) A link for the streaming archive and a dissection of the discussion will follow. Good news on the BART front (thanks James): The Argus’s Matthew Artz reports that the $747 million Warm [...]

The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal has a piece this week covering the A’s strategy of selling season tickets at the Coliseum in order for fans to secure rights at Cisco Field. Skepticism abounds, as this excerpt illustrates: While longtime season-ticket holders have some discretion over choice of seating, those with the most fan capital [...]

As the skies cleared up earlier this week, I got a quick glance of the light dusting of snow on Mount Hamilton and the hills east of San Jose. I figured that was my cue to dust off the progress graphics and post them anew. With no further ado, here are the five non-New York [...]