The Merc’s Mike Swift has a good overview of the 27-page term sheet released by the City of Santa Clara earlier tonight (more here). New cost is $937 million, which includes the PG&E substation relocation and the parking garage across Tasman from the stadium. I gave the term sheet a quick look. Here are the [...]

Of course, I’m referring to the rare bird that is the natural doubleheader (one admission, two games), not the commerce-driven bastardization known as day-night. The old fashioned double dip was often reserved for lazy midsummer Sunday afternoons. For A’s games it usually meant a matchup with a low-draw Midwestern team. Those were the days of [...]

When discussing an A’s move south, it can be easy to ignore the fact that a professional baseball team already lives down there. Plenty of people from outside the region don’t know the team exists, yet the San Jose Giants have been an institution at venerable Municipal Stadium that goes back over two decades. They [...]

It’s been a quiet couple of weeks on the A’s ballpark front. That doesn’t mean there hasn’t been news elsewhere. The good news as that MLB’s economic status isn’t as bad as originally feared, and there’s even a chance of eclipsing the $6 billion revenue threshold (first done in 2007). Bad news? Owners tabled the [...]

They worked well into the night, but they got the deal done. Terms are now defined for a stadium that could permanently bring the 49ers to Santa Clara. Ah, but there’s a catch! The City isn’t going to release details of the deal until May 29, only 3 days in advance of the City Council’s [...]

There’s a special election today, in case you haven’t heard. Rosie Rios, who Robert Bobb hired to work on the Uptown Ballpark plan, may be the next U.S. Treasurer. Both Rios and Bobb were fired by Jerry Brown. Brown was termed out, Bobb became D.C.’s hired gun to get its ballpark deal done, and Rios [...]

Baby steps, everyone. Baby steps. It’s officially Day 1 of the A’s life on an all-sports radio station. The move to KTRB-860 had the promise of additional sports-related programming, and that promise is starting to be fulfilled. For the time being, all of the non-A’s programming is syndicated and not from Bay Area-specific. That makes [...]

True to form, Mayor Dellums’ office is talking up Howard Terminal as a ballpark site. Only they’re not. Sorta kinda. A KRON report reveals that the Waterfront near Market Street and Embarcadero West is a preferred site. While officials could not confirm the exact location, Mayor Dellums’ spokesperson David Chai says a recent meeting between [...]

While I was walking an always enthusiastic JoJo on Tuesday morning prior to the Wolff chat, Wolff was having breakfast with San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed. (So that explains why he wasn’t hungry…) Perhaps they were exchanging info, perhaps not. It was a busy day for Lew, as he mentioned that he was headed up [...]

A few hours ago I met with Lew Wolff at one of the restaurants inside the Fairmont San Jose. It was a fairly casual meeting, and I didn’t take notes. For the purpose of focusing on a single post, I’ll only discuss a certain topic that came to my attention. Guy Saperstein’s letter to Barbara [...]