The A’s press release is available now. For some part of the next four years, A’s games will be broadcast on 95.7, KBWF-FM, a.k.a. “The Wolf.” It’s a country station, broadcasting with a Class B license atop San Bruno Mountain at 6,900 watts. The coverage map from radio-locator looks like this: While 6,900 watts is [...]

The word from the Capitol tonight is that budget talks have broken down. Governor Brown took to YouTube to explain his side of things, laying blame on the Republicans for holding out for more cuts. Brown says he’s not given up on the process, but it sounds more and more like the Democrats are going [...]

Updated 7:00 PM – The Merc’s Tracy Seipel has a Q&A on the A’s-to-San Jose effort. I went to the A’s ticket office to pick up some extra seats for this weekend, and while I was there, I figured I’d check out a little eatery I’d heard about, Homeroom. Located at 400 40th Street in [...]

The weekend came and went with no movement on the KTRB front. Strangely, the Bay Bridge Series will be broadcast on former flagship KFRC-1550 AM. Why? I don’t know, but I guess it doesn’t hurt to have a Plan B. Still holding out for a final resolution, which Rick Tittle suggests could be coming today. [...]

Apparently, playing hardball extends to the board room when you’re the A’s. They started the offseason haggling with Hisashi Iwakuma, now they end it haggling over a radio station. BANG’s Joe Stiglich reports tonight that the A’s and Comerica Bank are still duking it out over the final price to buy KTRB. The bank, which [...]

At the end of last season I wrote about how MLB’s lightly-enforced debt rule might impact the A’s in the future. Now that the Mets have been practically sunk by the Madoff scandal and the Dodgers handcuffed by the McCourts’ divorce proceedings, Bud Selig may be looking to actually monitor the situation more closely and [...]

The following nuggets were too big to relegate to the end of the last post, so they’re getting their own. Former Oakland fire chief and San Diego city manager P. Lamont Ewell was named Interim Oakland City Administrator. That interim tag means five months, as Ewell was brought in to take care of the budget. [...]

Quick housekeeping note: If you were not aware, this blog is a self-hosted WordPress site. Ever since I moved to this platform in November 2009 after years with Blogger, I have been astonished at the rapid pace of third party development for WordPress. One feature came out today in the form of a server-side plugin [...]

It’s late March, and you know what that means: the new Forbes MLB franchise valuations are out. With a few notable exceptions due to debt problems (Mets, Dodgers), things in baseball are going quite swimmingly. The A’s are back above the $300 million mark with a $307 million valuation, up 4% from 2010. The team [...]

It’s all starting to get a little unseemly at this point. The Merc’s Mike Rosenberg and Lisa Fernandez report that the City Santa Clara, in its haste to lock in the 49ers stadium deal, gave the team $4 million for the project. That’s a huge turnaround from what was intended a few weeks ago: the [...]