Towards the end of Susan Slusser’s Chronicle article about the A’s hiring Mike Gallego as third base coach is a blurb about the A’s opting out of their current deal with KICU. This appears to be another step towards the rumored deal with Comcast SportsNet California (formerly CSN West). KICU had been broadcasting A’s game [...]

The baseball village is not the only development happening in Fremont. Almost 5 miles south on 880, at the county line, is a planned big box/retail center called Creekside Landing. While the merits of having yet another set of big box stores on this stretch of freeway is debatable, Fremont is certainly interested in the [...]

Sports Business Journal reported earlier in the week that MLB’s ratings slipped compared to last year. The hit was taken for both national and local broadcasts. Some of this can be attributed to the Yankees’ on-field performance. Typically, they’re a massive ratings grabber that pulls the league’s weight, but as it became clear they wouldn’t [...]

Georob writes: As awful as this sounds, this may be a good time to revisit the subject of contraction and why it could or could not happen. I know you and others have stood by the theory that the only reason it was brought up last time was as a premptive threat leading up to [...]

This week’s East Bay Express has an article on the three (four?) -man race for Fremont mayor, and how it maps out in terms of the baseball village issue. The piece was penned by Robert Gammon, who also co-wrote the excellent “How we got to this point” article from two years ago. This comes on [...]

While looking through my Comcast onscreen program guide this weekend, I noticed a channel name change. Digital channel 400, which was previously abbreviated CSNW (Comcast SportsNet West), is now CSNCA. As you might guess, that CA stands for California, making the new name Comcast SportsNet California. Curious about this, I immediately hit the CSN home [...]

You may notice that, on some of the wide shots of Tropicana Field during the Rays-Pale Hose series, there are tarps on the uppermost seats along the first and third base lines. This is despite the fact that this is the Rays’ first ever postseason adventure. Local opinion has largely been for removing the tarps, [...]