A few newsbytes as the week begins: Matier and Ross report that the 49ers are gunning for a 2014 opening of the Santa Clara stadium, even though the finances – especially the stadium builder licenses – aren’t ironed out yet. One of the reasons the CEQA/EIR process exists in California is that municipalities and citizens [...]

The reign of the SF Giants is OVER. (not so much the outdated Taco Bell ad campaign) Share this:

The Chronicle’s Susan Slusser sheds more light on the San Jose land deals, adding this tasty bit at the end: It is unlikely baseball owners would consider the A’s stadium at their meetings in Milwaukee next month because the Dodgers’ ownership situation is expected to dominate the agenda. Meetings scheduled for January might be more [...]

As part of the complex land deal the City of San Jose is trying to complete in order to assemble the Diridon ballpark site, City is selling five acres of land it has already acquired to the A’s (and Lew Wolff) for $6.9 million, according to the Merc’s Tracy Seipel. Indexed for inflation, that price [...]

Normally I do a review of the schedule immediately when it comes out. This time, I decided to step back in order to review the entire league. I’ve noticed a few things about how the schedule is put together, so I figured it would be best to take time to gear this post towards the [...]

We’re still three weeks from the winter meetings, at which the A’s situation is not guaranteed to be resolved. Until then we wait and stay informed. As noted in the previous comments thread and this thread at Big Soccer, Quakes president David Kaval gave an opening date for the new stadium: March 2013. Construction on [...]

As part of the ongoing planning process for the California High Speed Rail project, a Good Neighbor committee meeting was held tonight at the Roosevelt Community Center, east of downtown San Jose. To make the review more localized, several segments were identified and “separated” so that each could be reviewed separately. Diridon Station is not [...]

Oral arguments for redevelopment’s case against the state will happen on November 10 at 9 AM. The venue will be the Supreme Court Courtroom, Earl Warren Building, Fourth Floor, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco. The hearing will also be broadcast on the California Channel, which is available on local cable systems or via the web. I [...]

. The New York Post is reporting that Jim Crane’s price for moving the Astros to the American League is not, as I speculated, a future franchise sale price guarantee. Instead, Crane wants the value upfront, asking for a $50 million discount off the $680 million sale price. Assuming that MLB and Crane meet somewhere [...]

After a lengthy delay and a lot of questions, Jim Crane may be on his way to becoming the next owner of the Houston Astros. Word out of Houston tonight is that Crane met with his board after another meeting with MLB. It’s hard to think that any information about Crane’s bid isn’t already out [...]