A’s have gone all in on Oakland recently. They’re down to essentially 3 sites. Laney College athletic fields, near Lake Merritt. (Would be great if they could pull it off) Howard Terminal, likely too many hurdles and much too costly because of site cleanup and readiness issues. And finally the Coliseum site. Lots of…

FWIW the accuser you are referring to publicly made the accusation against Masterson, without directly naming him, some time ago. (a few months, maybe)

How’s the weather in Moscow?

The Bee’s beat reporter talked about this incident in a podcast. He seemed to play it off like it wasn’t a big deal, and also seemed to distance himself from his co-workers.

It can be both. I am all for massive gun control changes, but in the mean time people often go out of their way to avoid assuming the worst of others.

I live in the same area, these homemade food groups are pretty rampant here. Some people have all their info out there in the public and some are pretty tight with location/names so as to avoid something like this happening to them. One of the more popular providers in my immediate area lasted about 4 months running…

Ballmer did not fund the anti-arena initiative in Sacramento, which is what I was referring to as a disqualifier.

You make it sound like Chris Hansen did everything right and the team was stolen from him by Stern. Hansen blew it by filing the relocation paperwork months before the deadline, effectively giving Sacramento a chance to make a counteroffer. He also presented his plan as being essentially shovel ready, it is not shovel…

Rudy checked alllll the way out when he signed a 2 year extension because he liked where things were headed under Malone. Two weeks later Malone was shockingly fired (when I first saw Woj tweet I though Malone committed some terrible crime, no other reason would have been valid...) and Rudy more or less gave up on the…

From what I’ve read they would remain in Oakland for the time being.

Depends. Raiders to LV now opens the door for the A’s to get their situation figured out finally. By all accounts the current coliseum site is at the top of the list, A’s led development there could end up being anything between simple ballpark to an entirely redeveloped area. Laney College sounds like the #2 site and…

Vivek presumably has right of first refusal, so anyone trying to sell to the #2 owner has to offer to Vivek first. Not much could be done on that front. Amick also said Vivek now has closer to 18% so he apears to have the means to continue buying up shares. The Jacobs family (Qualcomm) actually owned more than Vivek…

D’Alessandro was re-hired in Denver but doesn’t even work in the basketball department. He works on the business side of things for the Kroenke group, so not even Nuggets exclusively. His months long “Isaiah Thomas is actually bad” campaign is all you need to know as to why he is working biz ops and not bball ops.

Whitmore is committed to Cal State-Fullerton to play softball next season, this has no bearing on her college eligibility. The Stompers play a short season so this is nothing more than a summer gig.

Unaffiliated ball, sure, and a lower level league at that. BUT it’s not as though MLB players don’t ever come out of indy leagues, and the Brewers just signed a player off of Sonoma’s 2015 roster to a minor league deal.

Last year Sean Conroy was the first openly gay man to play pro baseball, also for the Sonoma Stompers. A great book on the team’s 2015 season just came out, The Only Rule Is It Has To Work. It’s more about relationships than baseball. Also, the GM’s name is THEO FIGHTMASTER.