That group Stand for San Jose is at it again, choosing New Year’s Eve to write a letter to the City. In the letter, the group is demanding that the A’s guarantee revenues as defined in the September Economic Impact report. Nevermind that the A’s did not write nor commission the report; it was handled [...]

When Ted Robinson guest hosts for Gary Radnich, he will occasionally have one segment that’s very business related. Today (right now!), he has Giants Enterprises President Pat Gallagher and 49ers COO (and former A’s VP and onetime prospective owner) Andy Dolich in the KNBR studio to talk business. If/when the podcast is available, I’ll post [...]

The Gray Lady has an article on the Oakland-SF-SJ-A’s saga, which means that the local war has gone national. It’s rather unfortunate that the picture they chose for the piece is a twilight shot up from ground level, with a puddle in the foreground as Mount Davis looms with its lightly adorned concrete in back. [...]

I hope everyone’s having a good holiday break. It’s good to get away from the everyday hustle and bustle, which for me includes monitoring and posting on this here blog. But enough about me. Thanks to GoA’s, who caught the SJ/SV Business Journal’s Q&A with Cisco CEO John Chambers. Chambers was named Executive of the [...]

Ahhhh… It’s Christmas Eve. I have been tracking Santa on NORAD’s Santa Tracker since about 0430 this morning. So before I talk about my HIGHLY ANTICIPATED marketing initiatives (numbers 4, 5 and 6) I wanted to make a  Solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and everything else wish. I wish that there will be peace in our [...]

So, with so much of our discussion centering on the potential developments in the future, I thought it might be fun to take up another topic. That topic is: The Here and Now! Or better stated… If I was the A’s VP of Marketing (neither I, nor the frog in my pocket work for the [...]

A new editorial in the Contra Costa Times takes a wait-and-see approach to Oakland’s efforts to retain the A’s. Over at the Merc, Todd W. Smith, the lawyer representing the “citizens” group Stand for San Jose, outlined their rationale for rewriting the San Jose ballpark EIR. So far the response from the city has been, [...]

It was about the right time to read some righteous indignation from the Merc’s Mark Purdy, and in today’s edition he serves it up. He goes on the attack against the Astroturf citizens group and SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera. The biggest salvos are saved for the parent club, what Purdy calls the “Fraidy-Giants.” The [...]

SEVENTH AMENDMENT TO OAKLAND -ALAMEDA COUNTY COLISEUM OAKLAND ATHLETICS AMENDED AND RESTATED STADIUM LICENSE AGREEMENT This Seventh Amendment (the “Seventh Amendment”) to the Oakland- Alameda County Coliseum—Oakland Athletics—Amended and Restated Stadium License Agreement (as more particularly described in the Recitals below) is entered into as of the day of 2006 between Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority, [...]

Oh boy, oh boy. I need some comedy. I mean aside from all the quasi lawyers posting their different rationales for lawsuits, or lack of lawsuits, by the City of San Francisco, the City of Oakland, or anyone else who can afford a lawyer in these trying economic times. So a joke: Why won’t sharks [...]