Yesterday we had news of the SJ Giants-led citizen group making its comments. Today we have the City Attorney of San Francisco, Dennis Herrera, expressing “grave concern” over a change in territorial rights and how it could affect the city financially (letter in PDF). What’s really happening is that the SF Giants have launched a [...]

Update 10:35 – The Merc has an editorial rebutting the “Stand for San Jose” group. The brief opinion also references Astroturf. Note: My comments will be in italics. Principals are making their introductory statements about the purpose of the meeting, EIR/CEQA process and other factors that are germane to the City Council eventually coming up [...]

Shooting Dirty Pool – The Repl… Word out of the South Bay is that the Giants have gotten their own community group together to challenge the San Jose ballpark effort and the EIR, which is due next month. The group is being led in part by the San Jose Giants and team president and Chief [...]

That’s right, 50 acres. I’m not sure if Chip Johnson’s gone off his rocker. After all, the Chronicle’s Oakland muckraker’s last column was titled, “Oakland mayor – pompous, not politic.” Mayor Dellums has been Johnson’s whipping boy pretty much since he took office, yet Johnson’s newest offering suggests that Dellums could save his reputation and [...]

My mom used to always be on me about reading the books I was assigned and not just faking the book reports with the help of Cliff’s Notes.  As I studied these sites in Oakland and reread the old HOK study, I was reminded of this past summer and my trip to watch Rickey go [...]

Forum thread Now that we are moving on to the sites where the question of viability remains, we should do a quick refresh on the last real study of potential sites in the East Bay. Well, outside of the current MLB Expos Relocation Team Reunion Tour, that is. In December 2001 HOK presented a study [...]

Forum thread Debate may be raging on Capitol Hill about the future of America’s health care system, but in the Bay Area we have our own health-of-the-A’s debate and it clearly involves its own death panel. The three-person panel appointed before the season by MLB Commissioner Bud Selig was initially tasked with analyzing previous ballpark [...]

Viability- Capable of working, functioning or developing adequately. A common theme amongst our readers, and readers of other websites, is the definition of  “viable.” It is the key variable in MLB’s requirements for a new stadium site. The others being “aesthetically pleasing” and “owned by the city, leased to the team.”  To tell you the [...]

A couple of housekeeping matters first. You’ll see in the info box that I’ve given myself the title of editor, and a new editor-at-large Jeffrey August will be contributing feature pieces from time to time. We’ve been talking about this for a while, and I figured that with some of the news that’s going to [...]

First of all, thanks to Englishmajor at AN for getting the interview together so quickly. She was responsible for getting the brief interview from earlier in the year. I never thought I’d be able to spend an hour on radio talking about this stuff. Thanks to Dave Iverson for smoothly segueing between the 49ers and [...]