You know, we normally hate bus-line disruptions, but we can ALMOST make an exception for this weekend's: "On Saturday, March 15, San Francisco Little League Baseball will open the 2008 season with a parade from the Presidio to Marina Middle School." A parade! A cute little baseball parade! TOO ADORABLE! This makes us want to have a baby so we can raise it for 8 years and then buy it a little pinstripe costume and one of those big leather mittens and have it march down the street waving to all the enchanted onlookers. more ›

with this one for his own blog -- the Chronicle Local News Blog gleefully reports that, at Sunday's Celebrity All-Star game at AT&T Park, former college baseball player Mayor Gavin Newsom: more ›

This weekend, inter-league play rears it's ugly head as the Giants travel cross the Bay Bridge to take on the A's in Oakland. Shouldn't Gavin and Jerry be making bets on these things, like they always do during big sporting events? Like maybe Gavin can send burritos to Jerry if the A's take the series and Jerry would send ribs to Gavin if the Giants take this year's series. Or maybe, if the Giants win this year's series, we can send all of our homeless people to Oakland but if Oakland wins, they can send all of their homeless people to us? more ›

A new neighbor has moved into an old house in the 'hood, renovated the place and promises to be part of the community -- going to PTA meetings, Little League games, community centers and talking to local activists. But the guy you know and love will still come back and visit. Vienna, Virginia's Backfence has acquired Dan Gillmor's Bayosphere, garnering further citizen-media cred and a new market! Susan Mernit scooped the blogosphere yesterday morning, beating even the press release and Dan himself to the news. The Mercury News offered full coverage, with no fewer than three items. more ›

Some might suggest that the A’s only took two of three at the Coliseum this week from the of-all-things-still-major-league-leading Chicago White Sox because the Sox played two games like a Little League team whose coach missed the draft. They would probably go on to suggest that the two wins, which evened the home team’s record out at 11-11, don’t mean much with respect to its April slide, because again: major league baseball players aren’t going to give up that many games on errors at shortstop. The White Sox managed to drop two in a row in exactly that fashion, though, opening the door for eighth-inning heroics from Jason Kendall on Tuesday and an RBI single in the bottom of the ninth for Marco Scutaro, SFist’s utility infielder of the month, on Wednesday. more ›