Two news items that have been building up: Ray Ratto first wrote in his SFGate blog about the anti-ownership sign controversy last weekend. The NY Daily News, Oakland Tribune, and East Bay Express picked up the story, with Oakland City Attorney appearing as his normally indignant self. Now Giants beat writer Henry Schulman has more [...]

Perhaps you all have heard, Let’s Go Oakland commissioned an Economic Impact Analysis and held a press conference about it yesterday? Before I give you my impression, a few things… I am not going to compare this to the Economic Analysis conducted by San Jose or Fremont (Marine Layer is working on that now, stay [...]

4/29 10:19 AM – Doug Boxer has put out his Powerpoint slide deck summarizing the report. Post to be updated with data as we go through the document, prepared by Gruen Gruen + Associates. Now this is what I’m talking about! Some data to dig into. Yes, economic impact reports should be read with a [...]

From Let’s Go Oakland leader Doug Boxer: Let’s Go Oakland is hosting a press conference at 11 am to release the results of an Economic Study regarding a Waterfront A’s Ballpark. Stay tuned for the actual report. We will post it after the Press Conference. Jane Brunner will be speaking. While this is too short [...]

GoJohn10 picked this up from A’s reliever Brad Ziegler’s Twitter feed: Do people really think that boycotting baseball games in Arizona is going to eventually lead to removal of the new immigration law? All it’s going to do is hurt the D-backs. It’s not much fun to play in front of an empty stadium in [...]

With most recent poll indicating Santa Clara residents are slightly in favor of building a new stadium for the 49ers adjacent to the Great America theme park, my mind is wrought with questions. Most of them have little to do with Santa Clara. No, I am thinking about the two teams that inhabit the Coliseum [...]

Let it be said that as much as the sports and editorial sections of the Merc favor an A’s move to San Jose, the straight news side has been evenhanded the whole way through. Today this is evidenced by Tracy Seipel’s piece summarizing the remaining land acquisitions and tasks needed to get a ballpark in [...]

Hey all, I wanted to just share a quick note that this Sunday night, at 7:30 PM Pacific, I will be on the weekly webisode at prorumors.com. The show will be streaming live and they take questions/comments from the audience. They sent me a long list of stuff that I should be prepared to talk [...]

I have this thing about travel days on business trips to the East Coast. It’s always seemed like a waste to me. Given the choice I’d much rather take a red-eye, catch a few winks on the plane, and work/play when I land. Taking the red-eye saves me time and the company money, along with [...]

In an effort to bring in the younger, tech savvy demographic to the ballpark, the Cleveland Indians are creating a small seating area within Progressive Field for bloggers and social media. SportsBusiness Daily has the details, including the Indians’ motivation and new rules. The free section, part of the Time Warner Cable-sponsored bleacher area and [...]