AP Photo
Last week the L.A. Times created some Bay Area baseball buzz when they reported commissioner Bud Selig had given the Oakland A’s tentative guidelines for a potential move to San Jose. The story said Selig could decide to let club owners vote on approving the move if the A’s can satisfy the concerns of the commissioner’s office.
The words that jumped out to me were: tentative, potential, could, if and concern. That doesn’t exactly sound like a road map of certainty to me.
The A’s have been trying to move out of Oakland for the last six years. Initially they were going to build a new stadium in Fremont. When that failed they looked further south to find a way to San Jose.
Four years ago after the A’s made their initial...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Dodgers and Giants have been in each others' faces -- and minds -- forever. Their embattled history on two coasts, running just as deep as the Yankees and Red Sox, would fill cyberspace. The Angels... more »
PHOENIX -- What do the Oakland Athletics do for an encore? Actually, that may be the wrong question. Is an encore even possible for a team that rode waves of youth and energy into the playoffs in a 2012 season in which so little... more »
Scottsdale -- , Ariz. - One of the Giants' best moves of the offseason was to secure a nostalgia piece, an authentic time traveler by the name of Hunter Pence. He walks among us as a 21st century man, but everything about him... more »
There they were, side by side last weekend, two close-cropped, successful 20-somethings joking with their fans and poised to go after another World Series together. You want Giants symbolism? You got it: Buster Posey and Tim... more »
Pitches were thrown, balls were struck, things happened, but the Giants' first exhibition game officially began in the fourth inning at Scottsdale Stadium on Saturday after Angel Pagan bounced a single to right. This is a man... more »
Email
Print
Share