Bay Area Sports Rumors Flying That the A’s Might Stay in Oakland for Another Year, or Even Longer One of Major League Baseball’s most prominent agents has stirred the pot about the possibility of the A’s staying in Oakland for another year or longer, and it may be significant that the players’ union has still not signed off on the deal for the A’s to play in Sacramento.
Bay Area Sports This Weekend Is the Last-Ever A’s-Giants ‘Bay Bridge Series’ Before the A’s Leave Rich with history, the SF Giants and Oakland A’s ‘Bay Bridge Series’ will play out its final iteration on Saturday and Sunday, as the A’s will play in Oakland for only another six weeks.
Bay Area Sports Giants Set to Use Facial Recognition on Fans, Privacy Advocates Say It’s a Slap in the Face Like it or not, facial recognition cameras are coming to gates at Oracle Park, in what Major League Baseball calls “hands-free” ticketing, but others call a “nuclear bomb of privacy.”
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Are Officially Moving to Sacramento for the Next Three Seasons This will in fact be the final season that the Oakland A’s play in Oakland, as the team officially announced Thursday morning that they’re moving to Sacramento to play in a rinky-dink minor-league ballpark while their Las Vegas stadium gets built.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Offers the A’s Five-Year Lease Extension for $97 Million to Keep Playing In Usually Empty Coliseum The Oakland A’s need a ballpark for the next three years while their proposed Las Vegas stadium is getting built, but the City of Oakland hopes to charge them nearly $100 million if they want to play those three years at the Oakland Coliseum.
Bay Area Sports Giants Season Preview: The Melvins Hope to Rock Harder Than Their Mediocre Expectations New SF Giants manager Bob Melvin has some freshly added weapons in reigning Cy Young winner Blake Snell and Korean superstar Jung Hoo Lee, as the Giants start their 2024 season Thursday against the San Diego Padres.
Bay Area Sports ‘Voice of the Giants' Renel Brooks-Moon is Leaving the Giants' Announcing Booth After a 24-season run as the Giants' PA announcer, legendary local radio personality Renel Brooks-Moon announced Monday she will no longer be the voice of the Giants at Oracle Park.
Bay Area Sports Las Vegas Mayor Comes Out Swinging Against the Idea of the A’s Moving to Vegas In a stunning podcast interview published today, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman seemed to square up against the A’s moving to Las Vegas, saying their proposed stadium site “doesn’t make sense,” and “they’ve got to figure out a way to stay in Oakland.”
Bay Area Sports MLB Owners to Vote This Week on Whether Oakland A’s Can Relocate to Las Vegas A’s owner John Fisher faces his biggest hurdle yet this week, as Major League Baseball owners will vote on whether or not to approve his scheme to move the team to Las Vegas, but his plan still faces many potential curveballs even if the owners vote yes.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Had Secret Meeting With MLB Commissioner To Keep The A’s, But Struck Out Swinging Tuesday night’s MLB All-Star Game heard A’s fans chanting “Sell the team!,” but we’re also now learning of a secret meeting between Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred before the game, though Manfred balked at Thao’s case.
Bay Area Sports Giants to Play a Game on Willie Mays’s Hometown Field In Alabama Next Season It’s not the Field of Dreams game, but Major League Baseball is planning some “Specialty Games” to honor the legacy of the Negro leagues, and one of them will be the Giants playing on the very field where Willie Mays played for the Birmingham Black Barons.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Fans Plan ‘Reverse Boycott’ At Tuesday Night’s Game To Protest Possible Las Vegas Move The elephant of Oakland Athletics fandom will roar Tuesday night, as an A’s-Rays game will see a “reverse boycott” intended to show Major League Baseball that Oakland has better fans than Las Vegas ever will.
Bay Area Sports The MLB Lockout Is Over! Giants Likely to Play Ball Starting April 8 We will still get a full 162-game season after all, as the MLB and the players’ union strike an unexpected and sudden tentative labor agreement, and the Giants' Home Opener looks likely to be April 8 against the Miami Marlins
Bay Area Sports Giants Opening Day Looks Likely to Be Delayed, as MLB Lockout Hits Its ‘Doomsday’ Date In negotiations described as ‘millionaires versus billionaires,’ Major League Baseball says they’ll start canceling regular season games if there’s no deal by February 28. It is now February 28, and there is no deal.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A's Once Again Threatening to Leave Oakland as New Stadium Subsidy Comes Up for Vote In a not-very-veiled threat via a statement from Major League Baseball, the Oakland A's are following a familiar playbook to coerce the Oakland City Council to approve an $855 million payment for new infrastructure around the Howard Terminal site.
Bay Area Sports Two New York Baseball Fans File Suit Against MLB For Ticket Refunds; MLB the Show Premieres on TV The Major League Baseball season is officially still postponed, not canceled, so no one has talked about any refunds yet — and games still might get played to empty stadiums with ticketholders credited for next season.
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Seahawks 24 Niners 0 -In light of the news of the death of Dick Nolan, we feel a little icky about being negative and snarky about the Niners. Poor Mike Nolan. So, instead,
SF News It's All-Star Time Of course, it wouldn't be any sort of baseball event in the city without it becoming, at some point, not about the Giants or about the ballpark or baseball, but about Barry. First
Arts & Entertainment Netroots Powers, Activate! Now that Netroots have slowed down on the Tauscher hating, they've moved onto another subject to which their ire is drawn, KSFO. One of the diarists on Daily Kos is telling the story
SF News The Barry Problem If you just looked at the stats and the numbers, which is all the rage these days, Barry is just a 42 year old dude with two bad knees, a .270 batting average,
SF News Who Reads Yesterdays Sports Papers? First, onto baseball: The Giants are now on a three-game roll after taking two from the Cubbies and beating the Reds in ten innings Monday. Your Black & Orange hero? Shea Hillenbrand who
SF News Yeah, It's Always Sunny in San Francisco-- What Of It? This morning while drinking our coffee and surfing the Web, we went to Deadspin and saw this little blurb about Giants' fans treatment of Phillies pitcher Brett Myers. Myers was cited for taking
SF News Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition The big question is why? The fact that major league baseball sponsors are bailing left and right on any sort of Barry home run celebration could have something to do with it. Then
SF News A's Brand Baseball: The Big If Frank Thomas has hit 448 home runs, and has hit .307/.427/.568, over his 16-year career. That's pretty impressive, but in the last 2 seasons, Frank Thomas has been mostly injured: he's
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Game Over, Man We've come to bury Ken Macha, not to praise him . . . 2005 was a down year for the A's, and they won 88 games. That's 3 fewer than they won in 2004--a year when
