As usual, we’re in a quiet period leaving the January winter meetings and a month before pitchers and catchers report. At least we have FanFest coming up this weekend. Speaking of FanFest, if folks would like to meetup at FanFest, I think we can meet just inside whichever entrance they use, probably the Plaza Club [...]

Two weeks ago, we laid out the possibilities for the A’s as a team-in-limbo at the Coliseum for 2014. In today’s Trib, reporter Angela Woodall got comments from principals from Alameda County and Oakland, the A’s and Raiders. Try as I might to find a proper analogy for this increasingly awkward situation, I simply can’t. [...]

Today I did an TV interview on Get Real with Brian Stuckey, a show produced out of CreaTV San Jose. CreaTV is a non-profit to whom Comcast has farmed out all of their public access programming for much of the South Bay. The segment will air January 30 on Comcast channel 15 with a web [...]

Update 8:54 PM – Doug Boxer sent me a note saying that the Let’s Go Oakland website is now back up properly with the graphics and style sheets in tow. Apparently some servers were moved recently and… you know what can happen when you move servers. Friday while I was doing some site maintenance, I [...]

I frequently look to San Diego for inspiration, whether for the weather, the beer, my brother’s wonderful Rottweiler, Jojo, or major league baseball. No, I’m not saying that the Padres are baseball’s model franchise. Instead, San Diego – the market – is a good comparison to the way the A’s are situated in the Bay [...]

On the northwest corner of West Santa Clara Street and North San Pedro Street in downtown San Jose, Baseball San Jose put up a series of Cisco Field renderings, many of which you’ve already seen. The renderings are blown up to poster size, which allows people to study them for details that may not be [...]

So the news today started off with this: Commissioner Selig says that A’s/Giants ballpark issue is “really on the front burner” + MLB is working on it “at a rather quick pace.” — Mark Purdy (@MercPurdy) January 12, 2012   More significant: Selig indicates he won’t let any SJ ballpark ballot issue proceed until Giants’ [...]

Update 11:00 PM – Mark Purdy has a recap of today’s “events”. MLB.com’s Barry M. Bloom reports that while Commissioner Bud Selig’s three-man panel made a presentation to the Executive Council today, there was nothing new to report on the Oakland/San Jose situation. The panel has presented information at different intervals, so this is no [...]

Update 5:44 PM – These tweets from Sports Business Journal’s Eric Fisher look important: Members of #A‘s stadium committee have now gone into MLB exec council – issue may at last be coming to a head. — Eric Fisher (@EricFisherSBJ) January 12, 2012 MLB exec council meeting has broken. Selig declines comment on all substantive [...]

Didn’t expect to have so much news this week, and it’s only Tuesday. Here we go. MLB Commissioner Bud Selig is expected to accept a two-year extension to his current term, which expires after the 2012 season. If Selig looks at the A’s as unfinished business, then it’s good he’s staying on instead of throwing [...]