It’s time again for our seasonal progress report. Does it feel like the A’s are treading water, while everyone else is passing them by? In a sense, other teams are. The greatest solace A’s fans can take from the Cisco Field effort comes from the way they’re pursuing the ballpark. The three parks opening next [...]

Another 8,520 votes have been counted, and the results are: Yes – 414,308 (66.78%)No – 206,098 (33.22%) The margin is now 2,112. Or rather, if 705 additional “No” votes had been registered from the current total, the measure would not pass. 9,800 votes remained to be counted as of Wednesday evening, so this new total [...]

The big interchange project isn’t completely finished, but the bulk of it is. The northbound carpool lane opened today, following onto the opening of the southbound lane earlier in the week. That brings the freeway to at least 8 through lanes, 4 in each direction, plus at least 1 auxiliary lane between exits. Between 237 [...]

Early today, the A’s submitted their long awaited Notice of Preparation, along with a revised site plan. This time, the site plan is much shorter, as it acts mostly as an addendum to address concerns about traffic and parking: Parking for fans at The Fountains Business Park (north of Auto Mall Parkway) has been eliminated. [...]

The Merc has a piece covering the three local stadium projects: Lew Wolff’s A’s and Quakes stadia, and the 49ers’ stadium in Santa Clara. We’ve discussed at some length the impact of the economic collapse and its impact on Cisco Field. While proceeds from housing sales will have to be pushed back while the market [...]

It’s taking thousands of provisional ballots to do it, but Santa Clara County’s Measure B has now passed the two-thirds threshold that is required for it to pass. The current tally with 9,800 ballots remaining to be counted: Yes – 407,932 (66.67%)No – 203,954 (33.33%) The margin here is 24 votes, which translates into a [...]

I somehow missed some juicy info on Argus reporter Matthew Artz’ Tri-City Beat blog. The news was too good not to make it onto the print edition, so now there’s an article as well. As expected, Wolff de-emphasized the housing component of the ballpark’s financing, going so far as to finance the construction of the [...]

Measure B is mounting a comeback, now at 66.61% in favor with 17,000 provisional ballots remaining to be counted. It looks like Costco may be filling the space at the Oakland Army Base meant for the planned Auto Mall. Nancy Nadel prefers having a large truck stop somewhere on the site to keep diesel trucks [...]

Lew Wolff did his usual hot stove ballpark update, this time with the Associated Press. We’ve gotten used to these updates as part of an effort to keep the project in the public’s consciousness. While the Fremont mayoral race did this on a local scale, an AP article is much more broad-reaching. No really new [...]

Before I get into the credit scene, a word about the Holliday trade. Regardless of what the final outgoing pieces of the trade are, and regardless of how long Holliday stays (unless he’s immediately traded), this move can be attributed to one factor: relevance. The A’s, despite having been in the ALCS only two years [...]