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baseballprospectus.com - 11/24/2008
Economy to Stall Fremont A’s Plans?
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Matt Holliday had better love Mount Davis : The San Jose Mercury News reports this morning that the ongoing economic cataclysm could put the kibosh on the Oakland A’s plans for a new stadium in Fremont, at least for now. As I reported for BP last year , A’s owner Lew ...
A’s Inch Closer on Environmental Impact Report for Ballpark Development
bizofbaseball.com - 11/20/2008
A’s Inch Closer on Environmental Impact Report for Ballpark Development
— bizofbaseball.com — Over a year and a half in the making, the A's have finally seen some movement on... the long-awaited Environmental Impact Report process for the proposed 32,000 seat facility located on 226-acres of land in the Pacific Commons area in Fremont. (see details and computer renderings of Cisco Field) (more) A’s Inch Closer on Environmental Impact Report for ...

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2008 Season Review: AL West
seamheads.com - 11/30/2008
2008 Season Review: AL West
— seamheads.com — For the second season in a row, the AL West became a one-team division. Though the first... half of the season was close between the Angels and the Athletics, it was the Rangers that made a surprising run to inch closer to competitiveness. All the while, the Seattle Mariners had promise with their ... (more) 2008 Season Review: AL West

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athleticsnation.com - 11/25/2008
Rickey
— athleticsnation.com — "If you could split him in two, you’d have two Hall-of-Famers." - Bill James, on Rickey Henderson... I ask you, how does one turn down a request like this ?  Short answer: one doesn’t. Long answer: keep reading. Rickey ... (more) Rickey

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6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog:  A's Stadium Plans On Hold?

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A's Stadium Plans On Hold?
6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog — Neil deMause thinks the economy will stall the A's stadium plans: Cisco has already announced plans to buy the naming rights to a Fremont stadium, for $4 million a year - that’s enough to pay off at most $60 million in stadium costs, and probably less given today’s extortionate interest rates. That would leave something on the order of $25 million a year to come out of concessions and parking money - new concessions and parking money, if the A’s don’t want to take a loss on what they’re currently bringing in at the newly de-corporatized Oakland Coliseum. Given that ...

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