San José’s Rules Committee just passed a motion to have the A’s on the April 7 Council meeting agenda. The timing, as pointed out here and by Michael Mulcahy just a few minutes ago, coincides with the start of the regular season. The preliminary steps will look like this: The Agenda language for a joint [...]

San Jose’s Rules and Open Government Committee will have its weekly meeting on Wednesday, March 11, at 2 p.m. The meeting will be held in City Hall’s wing, rooms W118/119. The A’s portion of the agenda is as follows: 10.1a A’s Stadium in San Jose (Campos/Pyle/Herrera)Recommendation: (1) Add an agenda item to the March 24, [...]

It’s hard not to remember the late 80′s fondly as an A’s fan. Rickey in left, the Bash Brothers, Stew dominating Clemens, multiple ROY wins, Eck, the list goes on and on. While the team only went 1 for 3 in the World Series, the idea that the A’s were at the top of the [...]

I’ll start off with an excerpt of a post on the SkyscraperPage forum: 11/27/2006 In response to your question regarding Raley Field, it was not built expressly to be easily expanded in the future. The stadium was designed specifically for its current tenant, Triple-A Baseball, and all of the comfort and intimacy that makes Triple-A [...]

The latest attempt to improve things in the enormous Coliseum Redevelopment zone comes courtesy of City itself. CEDA is buying 6.3 acres for a cool $7.7 million – chump change as far as urban Bay Area real estate is concerned. The land will apparently hold a new grocery store, as Oakland is brokering a deal [...]

Well, since no one took me up on my offer from February 20, I took it upon myself to figure out a unique way to reuse the Coliseum in a cost-effective, yet modern (in ballpark terms) manner. I’ve been in nearly every inch of the Coliseum as a fan or media person, yet there’s always [...]

Remember when the residents of Warm Springs got their pitchforks and torches polite signs and protested the A’s invading their neighborhood? If you thought that San Jose was somehow immune from NIMBYs because it’s downtown, think again. Merc columnist Scott Herhold writes about residents of the Shasta/Hanchett neighborhood west of downtown. They’re getting ready to [...]

During Sunday’s radio pregame show, A’s broadcasting veep Ken Pries addressed how CSNCA was going to be carried on various systems. It doesn’t completely clear up the confusion, but it’s progress. On DirecTV, the channel will carry the broadcasts with no blackouts. CSNCA currently exists on a non-basic tier, so CSN and DirecTV are trying [...]

First off, the SF Business Times reported on Friday that the City of Oakland and the A’s will start talking about the team’s future in Oakland in a few weeks. The talks will be headed by new City Administrator Dan Lindheim. Lindheim was also Oakland’s head of CEDA, so he should have all of the [...]

It’s been nearly 4 years since I started this blog, and for a while I’ve felt it needed a change to its rather generic, stale look. To that end, I’ve started using a template normally used for WordPress but adapted for Blogger. The only major change is that it’s a wider template, better for use [...]