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Update 12/22 09:00 - David Pollak has a wrtiten an article on the complexity of the soccer-baseball relationship. Ever the ballpark advocat...
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When certain San Jose supporters privately told me several months ago about a possible November ballot measure for an A's ballpark, I wa...
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Tonight was the first Opening Night I've missed since college, going back 15 years. Instead, I was with family and friends across the pl...
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Merc sports columnist Mark Purdy has always been an unabashed San Jose partisan, and his column in Sunday's edition will start many mor...
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Previous Polls
5/25 - The SJ Giants should...
Stay in SJ - 16 (17%)
Be reborn as the SJ A's - 7 (7%)
Move to North/East Bay - 27 (29%)
Move to Salinas/South Co. - 25 (27%)
Move elsewhere in CA - 16 (17%)
4/5 - At a game I usually eat...
Stadium fare - 81 (64%)
Food I got from another establishment - 11 (8%)
Tailgate grub - 8 (6%)
Something I brought from home - 19 (15%)
Nothing - 6 (4%)
3/15 - Projected '09 Attendance
17,500 per game - 37 (31%)
20,000 - 33 (28%)
22,500 - 25 (21%)
25,000 - 10 (8%)
27,500 - 3 (2%)
30,000 - 9 (7%)
3/8 - Ideal Ballpark Capacity?
30,000 - 13 (5%)
35,000 - 83 (33%)
40,000 - 114 (46%)
45,000 - 28 (11%)
50,000 - 8 (3%)
3/1 - The A's will end up in:
Oakland - 90 (32%)
San Jose - 153 (55%)
Sacramento - 17 (6%)
Elsewhere - 15 (5%)
Stay in SJ - 16 (17%)
Be reborn as the SJ A's - 7 (7%)
Move to North/East Bay - 27 (29%)
Move to Salinas/South Co. - 25 (27%)
Move elsewhere in CA - 16 (17%)
4/5 - At a game I usually eat...
Stadium fare - 81 (64%)
Food I got from another establishment - 11 (8%)
Tailgate grub - 8 (6%)
Something I brought from home - 19 (15%)
Nothing - 6 (4%)
3/15 - Projected '09 Attendance
17,500 per game - 37 (31%)
20,000 - 33 (28%)
22,500 - 25 (21%)
25,000 - 10 (8%)
27,500 - 3 (2%)
30,000 - 9 (7%)
3/8 - Ideal Ballpark Capacity?
30,000 - 13 (5%)
35,000 - 83 (33%)
40,000 - 114 (46%)
45,000 - 28 (11%)
50,000 - 8 (3%)
3/1 - The A's will end up in:
Oakland - 90 (32%)
San Jose - 153 (55%)
Sacramento - 17 (6%)
Elsewhere - 15 (5%)
Selected posts
- Tuesday with Lew
- The post-Fremont strategy
- A's move to KTRB
- CSN California it is!
- Updated Ballpark Transit Comparison
- Lucky? San Jose
- Don't want San Jose info? ...
- KTVU: Selig letter surfaces
- A Territorial Rights Primer
- Finally, Oakland responds
- Fall 2008 Progress Report
- Reconstructing the Coliseum
- Oakland: Let's try Plan B
- Deconstruction the Coliseum Part I
- Deconstructing the Coliseum Part II
- Hope for Sacramento?
- What about Sacramento?
- More Market-Related Food for Thought
- Expect to go over budget
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- Fremont FAQ (old)
- SJ Redevelopment Ballpark Page
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- Baseball San Jose blog
- Free Kraut!
- scout.com A's Msg Board
- Oakball message boards
- Ballpark Digest
- Ballparks.com
- CapeFish's Marlins Ballpark Newspage
- 511 - Bay Area Transit links
- Field of Schemes
- The Biz of Baseball
- The late Doug Pappas's BoB site
- Team Marketing Report
Attendance Watch '09
- Last game: 16,591
- 2009 avg. (81 gms): 17,392
- 2008 avg. (78 gms): 19,938
- Difference: -2,530 per game
- Median (2008): 19,287
- 2009 total (81 gms): 1,408,783
- 2008 total (78 gms): 1,555,192
- 2008 total (w. Japan): 1,663,262
- 2009 Std Dev: 6,718
- 2008 Std Dev: 7,094
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6 comments:
I don't know about that, but I will say this, There will definitely be a there, there.
Earlier I said this would be one of those things where in 10 years we're scratching our heads and wondering why. If this vision comes to fruition, we'll be wondering why every team doesn't do this. I know the artist renderings are always more magical than the real places are, but in this case they'll actually be controlling the surrounding area.
Is it fake? Sure. But Santana Row is fake too, and I've come to appreciate that place. Would I rather have this in a real downtown? Sure, but that was never going to happen. This is a pretty nice compromise.
Dave, like JRBH; you don't have to go to A's games any more. When Bonds retires there will be plenty of room at ATT Park for every demographic group from corporate hacks to meth addicts to buy tickets on game day, see their friends in the stands, and sing Kumbaya during the seventh inning stretch.
And all you neo-Giants fans can revel in "being together" just like Cubs fans do. For just like the Cubs, the Giants won't be able to win squat.
Unless of course Senator Feinstein introduces a resolution requiring MLB to award the Giants the World Championship every ten years as an addendum to her bill to strip "SF" from the 49'ers if they leave the city.
So much for getting our troops out of Iraq.
Herb Caen used to call San Francisco "Baghdad by the Bay" that nickname is now more fitting for Oklnd. The nightclub "Mingles" in Jack London Square has voluntarily closed after a recent murder and numerous calls to the police about violence. Who in their right mind would build a ballpark and village in Oklnd? Nobody in their right mind.
IDLF said Oklnd made more money from the Rolling Stones concert than they did from the A's last year. Good for Oklnd, they can put the additional money to better use (Schools, crime prevention etc.).
It was only a couple of weeks ago that Chip Johnson reported that people in Oklnd were terrified of Halloween "Halloween is in trouble in Oakland neighborhoods hard hit by crime, where residents are debating among themselves whether it's wise open their doors to strangers in costumes. ...On the other side of the debate, police and apartment managers warn that -- whether handing out candy or not -- creating dark spots around a building is an invitation for trouble. " http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/10/31/BAGHVM343H1.DTL
Build a Ballpark and Ballpark Village here? Yo've got to be kidding
BD, I admire and commend your loyalty to your hometown alas I think it's a fait accompli
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