Everyone saw it coming. The Bronx Bombers, who need to fill their new palace in 2009 every night and get back into the playoffs, had to make a big splash. So they made three in signing C.C. Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, and M.C. Teixeira. Yes, we will now take our customary roles of railing against the [...]

In an effort to resolve the impasse between the A’s and the big box triumvirate of Costco, Lowe’s, and Kohl’s, Fremont Mayor Bob Wasserman spoke to the retailers last week. The A’s were not directly involved in the discussions. Via Matthew Artz in the Argus’s Tri City Beat blog: Wasserman said he and ProLogis talked [...]

Are you looking for little baseball fix? If so, tune to Comcast Digital channel 412 or DirecTV channel 213. MLB Network is now broadcasting there in preparation for its official launch on New Year’s Day. The programming is all pre-recorded, including season retrospectives for the most part. I heard a while back that MLB worked [...]

We’ve Lew Wolff and Steve Schott grouse about the age and condition of the Coliseum. The Furcal chase, however, may be the first time we’ve heard about someone actually complain about it. Ken Rosenthal wrote last night: Upon learning that free-agent shortstop Rafael Furcal was deciding between the Dodgers and Braves, one prominent agent expressed [...]

Robert Gammon, who co-wrote the “Fremont Athletics” cover story in the East Bay Express two years ago, just finished a scathing analysis of Oracle Arena. It’s been well known for some time that HP Pavilion gets more events, but on the surface it would appear that the two venues are otherwise on par. Gammon dug [...]

Despite San Jose SaberCat owner John Fry’s efforts, the AFL is canceling the 2009 season. League officials believe the AFL can return in 2010 with a new business model. AFL’s minor league, af2, will continue play in 2009 in large part because it has a different business model. Two things jump out with regard to [...]

Merc sports columnist Mark Purdy has always been an unabashed San Jose partisan, and his column in Sunday’s edition will start many more San Jose partisans’ minds a-wishing. It’s not only an affirmation of San Jose’s potential, it’s nearly a call to arms: In a recent phone conversation with Wolff, he was relentlessly prudent when [...]

Now that San Jose has suddenly become a topic of discussion and Warm Springs has become a hotbed of its own, it only makes sense to do reset on the original Fremont plan at Pacific Commons. You remember that one, right? The plan with the 3,000+ homes and high-end retail meant to create a “walkable [...]

What you see above is what San Jose Economic Development honcho Paul Krutko might call a “baseball city.” Therein lies the promise of San Jose’s Diridon South site. It’s at the future nexus of Caltrain, BART, High Speed Rail, Light Rail, and bus service. It’s in a downtown locale. And perhaps most important of all, [...]

In case you’re interested in seeing what a completed ballpark environmental impact report looks like, I’ve made the 2006 San Jose Ballpark EIR available online. It took some work to find and organize it. The Draft EIR was distributed in numerous pieces. The first file contains the body of the document. The appendices are in [...]