by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

OAKLAND–The hole is already dug in at the old downtown mall in Sacramento and with Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadive and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson testifying in court that the city didn’t abuse using subsidies to construct in the making of the new Kings arena the project is going to go forward regardless what the plaintiffs in that case say about how the city used public subsidies to pay of the area costs.

Hopefully everything goes right and the Kings can start winning again and Kings head coach George Karl improves his relationship with the Kings DeMarcus Cousins in a famous off season challenge where Karl wanted Cousins traded and Cousins was sought by Boston or the Lakers who both came shopping with their hats in their hands.

Karl was also on the chopping block when the skirmish was taking place when team owner Vivek Ranadive suggested that Karl should be fired if he doesn’t want to cooperate and work with Cousins. Since Kings owner Vivek Ranadive made the suggestion of firing Karl there hasn’t been any further word from either Ranadive, Karl or Cousins and who is staying or going. Karl is very good when it comes to draft picks. It wouldn’t be a surprise if he became a general manager somewhere in the NBA. Karl is someone who I got to work with when he used to coach the Golden State Warriors.

Karl is very savvy when it comes to basketball and he’s a good guy and he wants to win and he’s a very intense head coach. I have a lot of respect for Karl. The Kings and Ranadive also realized what they have and their trying to work things out to a happy medium. You have to stay with him and he knows what he’s doing and he’s not some regular coach he’s a special coach in the NBA and he knows the game inside and out.

FBI continues to investigate Cards into Astros hacking case: With former Cardinals head of scouting Chris Correa out the FBI is continuing their investigation if there were anymore Cardinals that hacked the Astros beside Correa who is accused of allegedly hacking into the Houston Astros scouting records. Hacking never was a normal thing but it seems ironically the Cards are still a first place team with a 51-28 record as of Saturday with a six game lead over Pittsburgh with the best record in baseball.

The Houston Astros have a decent record themselves leading the American League West with a 48-34 first place record and five game lead and the alleged scouting records of Houston Astros General Manager Jeff Luhnow and other possible other team scouts who might have been hacked. Luhnow says that he had changed his passwords before leaving the Cardinals to come to the Astros and had the good high tech etiquette to make the change, “I absolutely know about password hygiene and best practices. I’m certainly aware how important passwords are, as well as the importance of keeping them updated. A lot of my job in baseball, as it was in high tech, is to make sure intellectual property is protected. I take that seriously and hold myself and those who work for me to a very high standard.” said Luhnow.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish TV voice for the Angels and the Spanish radio voice for the A’s and does News and Commentary at http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to the podcast below