Comments on: Poll dancing

By: LeAndre

LeAndre — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:09:14 +0000

Tony, I’ve never said on this blog that I am “anti SJ”…I just simply prefer a ballpark in Oakland, SJ is second…and like I just said…

“even if its privately financed. Bottom line is, there are citizens who simply didn’t sign up for that living in SJ.”

Nothing about that is untrue, and even though the poll was obviously biased, I think you shouldn’t over estimate the support of the average SJ citizen over this issue

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:25:42 +0000

This is completely off subject but man do I wish they would make a decision already The A’s The MLB The Gaints and every one in between. At least then the keep the A’s in Oakland and San Jose A’s people would at least be able to move on win or lose either way but life is not that easy.
The last four years has been exhausting.

By: thisplanetsux

thisplanetsux — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:50:36 +0000

Jeez, ease up on the joe, or maybe switch to decaf. Holy cripes what a pointless emotional outburst ;)

By: Tony D.

Tony D. — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:38:37 +0000

Look, unless you have cold-hard facts, taken a Bay Area survey of where fans of a certain team reside, then you shouldn’t be stating crap like all South Bay baseball fans are Giants fans or no A’s fans in the East Bay will travel to San Jose. And for the record sucky planet, 75% of Silicon Valley corporations don’t do any business with the Giants; so much for your Giants corporate sponsorships statement. Facts people! Not assumptions!

By: thisplanetsux

thisplanetsux — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:37:12 +0000

Don’t the Giants have some of those Junior Giants leagues in SJ? I think they build or improve fields, and donate all the uniforms and equipment for the whole league.

By: Nam Turk

Nam Turk — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:25:10 +0000

For many in the south bay, the Coliseum has long been the shorter trip.

By: GoA's

GoA's — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:13:48 +0000

TPS–when the gints arrived in the Bay Area SCC was an agriculture community of not many people–when the A’s arrived in ’68 not much had changed down in SCC—

relative to radio/tv broadcasts—agree on this point but recognize that the gints have done ZERO marketing in SCC—until the past year or so—-ZERO—A’s over the past several years have been much more agressive in promoting their product in the southbay—my kids little league scoreboard is sponsored by the A’s with their logo—you will not find a field anywhere in SCC where the gints have done the same

Where I do agree is that a new stadium has attracted south bay fans—and that happens to be in SF—put one of those in SJ and you will have the same effect–minus the hour plus train ride to SF

By: thisplanetsux

thisplanetsux — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:56:13 +0000

The Giants likely have much better support in the South Bay for a variety of reasons. When the A’s arrived, they had to “convert” Bay Area fans from the Giants, and that process works a lot better on the fans near the ballpark (eg. the East Bay). So I think you find, as you move farther away from Oakland, you tend to have a bit of a tendency for old school, traditional ties to the Giants. And the Giants have probably also done a better job at keeping their outlying radio/TV type fans than the A’s have, by their stronger, more consistent media presence. Plus with Caltrain service up the peninsula, there’s better access to SF than Oakland. Then there’s the new ballpark they built, and the corporate partnerships it helped them establish in Silicon Valley…

By: Marine Layer

Marine Layer — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:34:33 +0000

2,000 unique visitors. Reading comprehension.

You don’t need to post e-mail to read, only to comment. My numbers come from actual statistics and logs. You are going off wild-ass guesses. Again, stick to stuff you understand.

By: OAKLANDathletics

OAKLANDathletics — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:16:41 +0000

That may be true ML, but getting hits can’t really judge anything. You can have the same group of people commenting on your blog hundreds of times a day and I’m not sure it would show much. Maybe now with your new site you’ll really be able to tell how many regular readers you have since everyone needs to use an actual email address. But again it’s fairly new so we shall see. I was trying to gauge the number of individual readers based on your most recent polls which only had about 100 or so. I could be wrong on that so my apologies in advance if that also doesn’t count for anything.