The Merc’s Tracy Seipel just got wind of a new poll conducted by SJSU’s Survey and Policy Research Institute. This time, the poll doesn’t ask a fuzzy “Do you favor the A’s moving to San Jose?” question, it asks if voters would approve giving city-owned land (Diridon South) to the A’s for their privately financed [...]

This summer, my wife and I are taking our little monkies on a trip to visit one of her favorite cities: Portland, Or. In preparation, I have been reading about all the fun things to do up that way. Personally, I am excited to see the Portland Beavers in PGE Park. Sadly, my web search [...]

To keep things light, here’s a classic fauxmercial from the late 80′s era of SNL, featuring the dearly departed Phil Hartman. Okay, let’s dive right in. I read this morning that some folks over at OAFC are complaining that San Jose partisans keep touting the city’s size, while claiming that Oakland’s population density is as [...]

My geekery of sports architecture goes well beyond the well trodden area of ballparks. As much as I love the diamonds and uniqueness of baseball stadia, I love sports arenas just as much. While it’s true that arenas don’t have as much character or defining attributes because of their multipurpose nature, there is plenty of [...]

Let the bidding begin. Here are several links for you to peruse: Tim Kawakami looks at several bidders besides Larry Ellison ESPN’s Marc Stein has the national take SI’s Frank Hughes brings up Jerry West as a GM candidate SF Business Times article The Golden State Warriors surprised everyone today by announcing that they have [...]

I rarely get to these things early. Just so you know how rowdy the place is, here’s Council Chambers 3 minutes before they were set to begin. 6:37 PM – Wow, there are as many city employees here as attendees. This should be fairly quick. Darryl Boyd briefly went over SEIR process, followed by Dennis [...]

Fans out in force, want Wolffs to “Build It Now!” (pic from BigSoccer) Quakes supporters packed San Jose City Hall’s Council Chambers last night, and they left knowing that the City has at least done its part, unanimously approving the Quakes’ stadium and rezoning plan. That leaves Quakes/A’s ownership to finish the deal by building [...]

Not sure why this took so long, but here is SVLG’s endorsement, courtesy of Mayor Chuck Reed’s office. Silicon Valley Leadership Group endorses San Jose’s effort to bring a privately built baseball stadium in downtown San Jose Board of directors vote was unanimous San Jose – March 11 – The board of directors of the [...]

On Monday night, I found myself outside the Coliseum at the nearby Amtrak Station. It was part of a commute experiment spurred by some vehicle maintenance. Not to digress too much, but it was a bit too time-consuming to do on a regular basis. Regardless, while I was sitting in the cold waiting for a [...]

I’m crafting a post about one more Coliseum re-use idea that, astonishingly, could be done relatively cheaply. Also, to the guy who keeps trying post crap in the comments – stop. Your comments are marked as spam. Which means you’re wasting your time (not mine) and embarrassing yourself. It’s not happening for you. Go somewhere [...]