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Michael Duca on A’s and Giants commentary: A’s Norris seeing everything at the plate;Giants Cain struggling and not focusing

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by Michael Duca

OAKLAND–Before we get started for those of you who didn’t know Sam Goldman, Sam was a college Sports Information Director and worked the Fight Hunger Bowl at AT&T before the game moved to Levis Stadium in Santa Clara. Sam also worked San Francisco Giants baseball in the information department and was a big asset to information for players, coaches, and managers whether it be in baseball and football.

Sam Goldman passed away Tuesday night at the age of 87 our thoughts and prayers are with his family today. Sam was more than an ikon he was a pioneer, Sam was the first to make that job truly a professional job he’s in the SID Hall of Fame.

Oakland A’s update: Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish got lit up by the A’s which is rare for Darvish who surrendered five hits, three runs all earned and walked five on Tuesday night. No doubt the A’s are in his head. Darvish beat the A’s the very first time he faced them and hasn’t beat them since. They are paitent they wait out his pitches that are out of the zone and when he’s required to throw strikes based on the count they seemed to know where it’s going to be.

Lots of offense in this series with Texas Monday night the Rangers took the series opener 14-8, Tuesday the A’s went to work and won 10-6 and when the weather warms up the A’s get their hitting shoes on. It’s just hasn’t been that way in this series. It was during the Yankees series there was a 10-5 (A’s win) and 7-0 (Yanks win) game the Coliseum is a hitters ball park when it’s warm.

A’s catcher Derek Norris has been seeing the ball hitting .359 going into Wednesday afternoon’s game and Norris hit a three run homer in his first at bat on Sunday on Father’s day against the Yankees, he hit a three run home run against the Rangers on Tuesday night and the way rest of the game went it must have been Wicked Step Mother’s day.

Also on the Texas Rangers I’m amazed that Rangers manager Ron Washington is managing this team you would think at this point in the season think Alan Alda would be needed to start a regular M*A*S*H unit for these injured players. It’s a wonder how the Rangers hang in there and it’s wonder how Wash has done it, it’s one of the greatest managing jobs that’s ever been seen how he’s able to keep this team on an even keel and keep them competitive.

Giants update: Matt Cain’s struggles in his last outing on Tuesday night at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago, Cain pitched five innings, gave up ten hits, eight runs, seven of them was earned. The Giants lost that one by six runs 8-2. That game was an absolute puzzlement. They went through the first two innings on 22 pitches and retired the first two guys in the third inning and then he gave up a scratch single to the White Sox Adam Eaton.

In a nine pitch at bat the Sox Gordon Beckham hits the ball out of the ball park for his fifth homer of the year and Cain gets away from the fast ball and starts throwing the slider, he’s not throwing strikes and the hitters wait him out and it just snowballs on Cain. His pitches were sharp his command and his control was good as they’ve been at anytime in the last several years to the first eight hitters and then everything deserted him.

Eventually his fielding deserted him, everything deserted him, the Giants Gregor Blanco made a couple of questionable plays and some misjudged balls. To Blanco’s credit it was twilight time based on the swings the guys took their first steps back and it was wrong and it was both times.

That sort of stuff seems to snowball when your winning two out every three games, everything you do like tag up and take third on a play when the Giants played the New York Mets on the last homestand on Sunday and then all of a sudden you stop doing that for awhile and some how the other team seems to be doing everything right and your whole game goes to hell in a hand basket.

Michael Duca does A’s and Giants commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Thats Amaury’s News and Commentary: Jeter visit was pulverizing almost overshadowing A’s winning series

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

OAKLAND–The New York Yankees who had trouble with the Oakland A’s in the last few years they won the first game of the three game series over the weekend 7-0 but the A’s came right back with wins on Saturday and Sunday at the Coliseum. It was a great weekend, Derek Jeter one of the greatest players that I’ve ever seen, 20 years imagine that with the same team with the Yankees.

When you talk about some of the great Yankees like in the circle of Babe Ruth, Lou Gerhig, Joe Dimaggio, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, superstars like that and he’s the only Yankee with 3,000 or more hits. That is incredible. As everybody knows every American League team is giving Jeter a tribute when he visits their park the A’s gave Jeter some fancy wines from the Napa Valley and a check for his foundation for $10,002.

The two dollar part was in honor of his number two which will be retired and he was very happy and it was a very simple ceromony and Jeter is a humble man, he’s a simple man and the A’s did the right thing with him and he’s just a terrific person and forget his hits career he’s one of the best shortstops of all time.

For Jeter to play in New York for 20 years and never to have anything negative reported about him it’s incredible and he’s just a tremendous citizen of the United States and New York and I hate to say it the Pride of the Yankees like the movie that was dedicated to the late Lou Gerhig but he’s really the pride of the Yankees in this era.

A’s and Rangers three game series: The Texas Rangers are amazing as they came into the Coliseum 34-35 with eight games out of first place and there are three teams on top of them the A’s, Angels, and Mariners. Rangers manager Ron Washington as I always tell people you can have the best jockey in the world but if the horse is limping your not going to win the race.

With all respect to former A’s manager and the Arizona Diamondbacks Chief Baseball Officer Tony LaRussa he had some great teams in Oakland. You need the talent, talent is what wins in baseball it’s not the great manager. The manager could put in all the signals he wants and do all the strategy he wants and you still need to execute. This is a sport of execution of opportunity and the Rangers just lost Prince Fielder for the rest of the year .

Tribute to the late Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn 54: The Oakland A’s paid a tribute to former Padres slugger Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn at the Coliseum before Monday night’s game versus the Rangers with a moment of silence after the announcement of his passing on Monday morning. Gwynn was very dedicated to the game and with 3,141 all time hits. Gwynn left way too early at the age of 54.

His death was led by the cancer that spread after years and years of chewing smokeless tabacco and he took a leave of absence from San Diego State where he was head coach for a time and then stepped down to be assistant batting coach. He was Mr.Padre, he was the guy in San Diego and former Red Sox all time hitting great Ted Williams wanted to talk to him years ago.

There is a lot of good stuff about this man and he left us too early and it’s been a rough year so far with the passing of A’s former pitcher Bob Welch who supposed to be at the Coliseum on July 19th for the A’s 1989 reunion who won the earthquake World Series when they swept the Giants that season. Some of the great ones who have passed away this year, former Padre broadcaster Jerry Coleman, former Yankee coach Don Zimmer, former disc jockey Casey Kasem and former Sacramento TV sportscaster Ken Gimblin.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish radio voice for A’s baseball and does News and Commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

NBA Championship Finals: Miami never had what it took to come back

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by David Zizmor

San Antonio (4) Miami (1): When San Antonio’s AT&T Center didn’t have cool air in game one of this series and it disabled the Heat to lose the first game of the series it almost set the tone for this match up. The Heat did come back and won game two and the way the Heat played it it looked like it would be a repeat of last season’s championship.

Last season’s finals was a lot closer with these same two teams but this year they traded body blows, and this series didn’t turn out that way. It was not going to be a complete loss for the Spurs as the Spurs took game three in Miami. After the Heat lost yet another game in game four the Spurs took a 3-1 advantage.

The Spurs really took it to Miami and it was the typical in the way that this series went. The Spurs flipped the script by winning game seven by a big margin. No one really believed Miami could come back, the Heat had a very good swarming defense. The Heat was not able to keep up with San Antonio’s passing. This is not the same Spurs team compared to last year.

The Spurs did have some ability to swing the ball out at the parimiter at a whole new level, last year they were able to swing at the parimiter but they were still a post up team. They would throw it down to the Spurs Tim Duncan and get it down to him whenever they had the chance and they would also throw it down to one of the bigger players like center Tiago Splitter.

This year there was none of that this year’s team is primarily a parimiter team they definitely worked some of those post up swings and the options were there but this Spurs team is all about making the extra passes. As good as the Heat defense is and let’s face it their one of the best in the league the Spurs were so good.

The Spurs passed the ball around and they had that extra guy to move the ball and the Heat just couldn’t keep up the Spurs were always one pass ahead of them and over the course of the series the Heat just couldn’t hang with the Spurs speed on passing and working the ball outside the arc. The Heat were just not deep enough.

Miami just could not keep up in this series, they don’t have back court guys like the Spurs have, the problem is everybody thinks that Miami is all about the Big Three but the fact of the matter is that Dwayne Wade has really fallen off. He got a lot of rest this season, this is not the same guy who lead the Heat to the finals in game six over Dallas.

Wade has had knee injuries, he is just simply sapped, he doens’t have the speed to run the parimiter and he doesn’t have the agility anymore to hang with some of the top players and at times he became a liability for the Heat. LeBron James and Chris Bosh played well but Wade definitely took a step back.

David Zizmor covered the NBA for the 2013-14 season for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: Lights out Coliseum truly an embarrassment for baseball

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

OAKLAND–A 38 minute power light failure during the game this Saturday at the Oakland Coliseum made news. The Coliseum makes news often, a dilapidated place that is not worthy of Major League Baseball. A’s second baseman Eric Sogard says that is one of the things he likes about the place, that “you never know what’s going to happen next”.

Well, the fans, the people that pay Sogard his salary, obviously do not love the Coliseum, if they did, they would have sellouts every day every night. Because they have won two-consecutive Division Titles,and could be under way to a third one, so they are winning, but the place they play is far from fan friendly. The place is a toilet, an embarrassment to this organization and to Major League Baseball.

I never take anything “serious” a player says, they are just ballplayers, not philosophers. Many times they are not honest, they give you the company line, the truth is that every A’s player would love to be playing in a brand new ballpark, a ballpark that would provide them with a spacious dressing room, instead of the Motel 6 type of accommodations they have at the OCO.

I have been covering the Oakland Athletics since the mid 1970’s, only a handful of sports media people that are alive today can claim that, and trust me, the Coliseum was never the issue back then. The issue where the fighting A’s, fighting with themselves, with their former owner the late Charlie O Finley, but at the end they were also winning, consecutive World Series.

The Athletics were the pride of the Bay Area back them, the San Francisco Giants were dying at the box office at Candlestick Park, who was much worse than the Coliseum today. The wind at The Stick would even knock down pitchers on the mound, the freezing wind in the middle of July made Candlestick Park the worse park to play baseball in the Major Leagues for decades.

Anybody who knows the story of Candlestick Park understands what happened there. The Mayor of San Francisco at that time and some contractors built that park on what was land filled by the bay, but they got a sweet deal, a deal that is regarded as “dubious” in nature.

Joe Torre was present at the OCO this Saturday night, he who has the ear of the Commissioner, but this Commissioner has no ear for the A’s, he is concluding his tenure and he could never make a decision about the Athletics wishes on moving to San José. So for me, this Commissioner is not even worth of mentioning as far as this case is concerned. Yes, he made money for the owners, but so did Hayman Roth in The Godfather.
What would happen next at the OCO? Only God knows.
Play Ball!

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish radio voice for A’s baseball and does News and Commentary each week on http://www.sportsradioservice.com

NHL Stanley Cup commentary: L.A. should be known as the “Miracle Kings” for their many comebacks

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by Larry Leavitt

Los Angeles (4) NY Rangers (1): Game five between the Kings and Rangers was one of the most exciting game that I ever witnessed, it was fast, it was furious, the shot off on goals went off the pipes were numerous. Either team could have won game one, either team could have won game two, either team could have walked away from game three, either team could have won game four and the same could have been said for Friday night’s game five.

The Kings may have won four games to one but both teams showed up and wow the Kings and Rangers played an awesome series. The Kings just got that lucky goal that they needed. The Rangers goalie Henry Lundqvist stopped 48 goals in game five in the double overtime. It tells you that the Kings are relentless. They have four lines that they are all going be supporting each other.

It doesn’t matter whose in the penalty box, whose hurt, they’ve got other players they can depend on.The Kings have a top line of Anze Kopitar, Dustin Brown, and their second line is deep and their third and fourth lines have depth. The Kings have the total package. Lundqvist had a great game five for New York. That last goal was kind of high that the Kings Alec Martin shot for the game winner in double overtime.

When you saw the shot you could see it was going to be a good chance, because of the way the rebound was going right to Martinez and it was amazing how this comes down to one play. In overtime either team had fantastic chances to bury the puck and the Rangers couldn’t do it in double overtime. I feel for the Rangers but I’m happy for the Kings they deserve the cup.

The Kings were the deepest team and the best part about this series is that it’s over and the day after the Stanley Cup Finals the new season begins, this is day one of next year’s season right here. Martinez got that winning shot and the shot went off the pad of Lundqvist and he jumped up and the rebound was going to be a good chance and the way it was going to Martinez and he was in the right place at the right time.

The interesting thing after the game the Kings Dustin Brown said he was glad it was over and the level of play was so high that he wasn’t even sure how they were going to keep it up. Kudos to the LA Kings, they won the cup they lifted it up and it’s time to start the next season.

The Kings have 17 players left from the Stanley Cup they won two years ago and they came back with this year, they knew how the playoffs go, they knew they could count on each other. They knew they could count on each other until the final buzzer of the last game, they came back in game seven in the first round against San Jose, they came back and won game seven in the second round against the Ducks, they came back and won game seven against the Chicago Blackhawks.

The Kings played the most games in a Stanley Cup and it all had to do with experience of playing together and experience speaks volumes and they really found each other and stuck to the system and they knew they could count on each other, if one was having a bad day the others would pick up that player, so with the Kings you could never count them out.

Larry Leavitt did NHL commentary this season for http://www.sportsradioserivce.com

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: Why Yoenis Cespedes is the impact player in Oakland

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

OAKLAND–When you hit a walk-off Homerun, you make the Major League Baseball highlights with another bunch of walk-offs that day, but when you make a throw like the throw that Yoenis Céspedes made to the plate on the recent series in Anaheim against the LA Angels, you stand alone. Over 300 feet on the air to Norris the catcher who put a tag on Howie Kendrick for the out. Now, we do not see this very often, do we? After I called the play in Anaheim, my broadcast partner looked at me and said “what was that?”

Céspedes is leading the major leagues in assists from the outfield. During a previous series, also against the Angels at the Oakland Coliseum, he threw two Angels runners out at the plate, in the same inning, first Angels catcher Chris Iannetta, who is not very fast, and then Kole Clahoun who is really fast. By-the-way in that same game Yoenis drove in five runs.

Josh Donaldson is having a great season, although the last series in Anaheim was his worst, fielding and hitting, Josh is having his best season so far and will be the starting third baseman at the July 15 All Star Game for the American League; yet it is Céspedes who is making baseball news around the country.

It is very simple. With all the changes in baseball today, true baseball purist still love to see an outfielder with a great arm throwing a runner at the plate or at any base. Granted hitting a 500 foot home run is something to admire, same can be said about a great throw to the plate that negates a run to your adversary.

It is one of the real talents of baseball (to have a great throwing arm)that is now-days basically forgotten. And for the new baseball fans, the younger crowd, they are not used to see throws of that
sort. Could be that in the US many kids that have a good arm, are immediately converted to pitcher.

Yoenis told me in Spanish; “I just threw the ball”, he is a man of few words, he is not playing to make Sportscenter, he plays hard all the time and loves the big stage, so if it happens it happens, he never changes his approach, because he came from Cuba, where if you play baseball you play hard all the time, and in Cuba you are playing basically for free, for what in the US it is called “perdiem”type of money.

In Cuba there is no free agency, agents or owners, it is all own (everything) by the Cuban government, in Cuba there is only one employer, the Government.

I remember vividly what Céspedes told me during the first time we met, at the A’s Spring Training facility in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2012, when he had not played a game yet during a regular season: “Yo quiero que la gente sepa quien soy yo” trans: “I want the people to know who I am”. He was a star in Cuba with the Granma team for close to a decade. And by the way, they know who you are now Yoenis.

So, no, I am not surprised at Yoenis Céspedes, he is a complete athlete, not just a baseball player.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish radio voice for A’s baseball and does News and Commentary on http://www.sportsradioservice.com

NBA Championship Finals: Game five goes back to San Antonio with the Heat on the ropes

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by David Zizmor

Miami (1) vs. San Antonio (3): These past two games (games three and four) both played and lost by host the Miami Heat was a surprise. It was assumed that the Heat was going to come out swinging and sure enough it was the complete opposite as the Heat were blitzed by the San Antonio Spurs 107-86 on Thursday night.

The Heat just stunk it up in game three and in game four it wasn’t even close and LeBron James (28 points) did everything in his power to keep Miami in this game but it wasn’t enough and the supporting cast didn’t come through as Chris Bosh looked terrible 12 points, Dwayne Wade did nothing ten points on three rebounds and 3-13 shooting.

There was no help for LeBron and that’s ultimately the story here, nobody from Miami showed up on their own home floor. LeBron is a great player there is no doubt about it that he’s been the best player in the last five to ten years but you cannot win an NBA Championship all on your own.

When former Bulls player Michael Jordan won those titles yeah he was the biggest part of the puzzle but keep in mind he had a cast around him, he had Horace Grant, Scottie Pippen, Steve Kerr, Dennis Rodman and head coach Phil Jackson. There were so many different players who contributed to those winning Bulls teams.

Were not seeing that all with this year’s Heat club in this championship, last year’s Miami team had contributions all over the place and on the other side of the ball you have to give praise to San Antonio and they have been playing fantastic basketball. Everybody kind of assumes that the Spurs Tim Duncan who is approaching 40 years old is going to get tired and because a Tony Parker and a Manu Ginobili have been around forever these guys are just going to be slowing down.

It’s true their not as fast as they used to be and they might have lost a step but these guys are fantastic. The Spurs have the best coach in the NBA with Greg Popovich who can be one of the best of all time. He’s selected the right players to play in the right amount of minutes and kept them in the game and his X’s and O’s paid off in this series.

The Spurs succeed when their out on the floor and their smart what they got from a lack of a step from their ages, their still incredibly effective. You look at Duncan he didn’t have to do too much he had only ten points, 11 boards, Parker had 19 points, Kawhi Leonard was the top scorer with 20 points.

David Zizmor is covering the NBA Championship Finals for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

NHL Stanley Cup Finals: Rangers really need more Lundqvist heroics;game five in L.A.Fri nite

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by Larry Leavitt

NY Rangers vs. Los Angeles: If you had to watch the third period of game four in New York of the New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings Stanley Cup Final battle at Madison Square Garden first you would be wondering what the heck was going on. The Rangers really came out explosive, they came out with fire in them. The action in the first period was back and forth and they really capitalized on some good shots.

In the third period they weren’t just trying to hold onto the lead but it ended up being a 15-1 shots on goal differential, the Kings had that many shots and the only one person who saved that game was Ranger goalie Henry Lundqvist. Lundqvist kept them from being defeated in four games.

It was exciting, it was hard fought, there was a lot of close calls and I never seen twice in one game the puck sit right at the goal line and not go in. The Kings had done it twice on Wednesday night. Earlier in the series the Kings were getting some lucky bounces obviously the Rangers are getting payback because they play hard, they deserved to win, and they got a few lucky bounces going their way and came away with the victory.

The Rangers won’t be swept in four but wow now they see they can do this and the Rangers are hoping they can make this a second series starting in L.A. on Friday night for game five. Lundqvist saw a lot of shot on goals and he blocked 39 of 40 shots on Wednesday night in the Rangers 2-1 win. There were a lot of shots on goal and a lot of blocked shots earlier in this series hurt him because the puck ended up getting deflected into the net instead of being blocked.

The Rangers in game four were really outworking the Kings and playing harder than they did in the first couple of games and in the first couple of games they played really good. They just were getting those little breaks here and there. When a goalie goes down and can’t even see where the puck is and it hits a pad you have to look at that as really good goaltending.

Lundqvist was in the right place at the right time and knowing the puck is going to be there eventually and looking for the bottom of the net and trying to stop the puck with your glove or stop the puck if the puck goes up high. Great goaltending will always come through and Lundqvist played great in game four to save the Rangers for another game.

I noticed right away at the start of the game, the Rangers were collapsing right into the slot right in front of the goalie area between the two the two circles. They were taking away the cross passes, they were taking away the key area where you need to get through to make sure that the puck doesn’t get near that net and they really collapsed well in their defensive zone and as soon as they realized the Kings had the puck they all broke out quickly this is one of the other reasons why the Rangers and Lundqvist were able to save game four.

Larry Leavitt is covering the NHL Stanley Cup Finals for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Michael Duca on A’s and Giants: A’s Abad non suspension good;Giants Panda out with flu cold

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by Michael Duca

SAN FRANCISCO–A’s reliever Fernando Abad who was not suspended for throwing inside to Baltimore Orioles hitter Manny Achado last Sunday but was ejected from the ball game unlike Orioles pitcher Wei-Yin Chen who actually hit A’s hitter Josh Donaldson a couple of games earlier. Abad didn’t hit anybody.

Yoenis Cespedes: The glove, there’s a famous cartoon character named Orphan Annie in which the character arrived and it talked about things that go bump in the night and I would have to say that sometimes Cespedes’ glove goes bump in the night however whenever you’ve got litterally a guided missle at the end of your shoulder that you can launch it at will talk about compensation.

That throw by Cespedes to nail down the Angels Howie Kendricks at the plate that’s the best right field to catcher throw I’ve ever seen, it’s purely beautiful as the throw. Former M’s outfielder Ichiro made a spectacular throw from the rightfield corner to throw out former A’s runner Terrence Long at third base years ago. It was amazing in it’s own right it was 320 feet in the air.

Basically Cespedes throw he rainbowed it and part of that play a lot of people don’t give enough credit to is A’s catcher Derek Norris who deaked the runner until the last second and just sort of laid the glove out in front of him and Kendrick tagged himself out and it was just an amazing thing to watch. It should be a play that should make Yasiel Puig of the Dodgers proud but it probably won’t he’s got a huge ego but he’s a kid we were all kids at one time.

San Francisco Giants update: Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval who missed Wednesday night’s game at AT&T Park against the Washington Nationals due to sickness. There’s a cough going around and that’s a fact because I’ve got it. Sandoval was reportedly coughing in the clubhouse before the game and he had the cough for about a week and he thought this was a good time to take time off.

He was replaced by Joaquin Arias at third just before Wednesday’s game, the virus that Pablo has, coughing is a part of it and you feel pretty run down. Keep in mind it doesn’t beat you up like the winter time flu does but you would notice it out there if your standing out there in the cold.

Giants pitcher Matt Cain who struggled in the first inning giving up three runs to the Nat’s has struggled and wasn’t getting some of the calls from plate umpire Phil Cuzzi but Cain managed to settle down and he got a couple calls that might have changed things a little bit. You have to give credit to the Nationals for being very paitent waiting Cain out which is not a very easy thing to do considering he didn’t allow a base runner in the proceeding innings until the Nats picked up another run in the top of the fifth to increase their lead 4-1.

The job that former Giant Matt Williams is doing for the Nats: The results are good, the reports are there are things that Wiliams has some things he has to learn yet. Most rookie managers have their challenges, he had some challenges with handling the pitchers and it takes awhile to learn that. Williams had six weeks without the Nats star hitter Bryce Harper in the line up.

Michael Duca does commentary each week on the A’s and Giants for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Warriors arena at Mission Bay: Kilroy is here, real estate outfit has big plans at Mission Bay

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by Jerry Feitelberg

SAN FRANCISCO–Kilroy Reality Corp is proposing to build a 680,000 square foot campus which would turn out to be the largest commerical development in Mission Bay. After the Golden State Warriors purchased land at Mission Bay for their new arena, Saleforce who previously owned the property will now develop a campus south of the financial district for their new office development.

Salesforce originally intended to have Kilroy develop Mission Bay for over 2 million square feet for commerical use. Kilroy has built homes south of Market for Saleforce and Dropbox. The 3.1 acre property was bought for $95 million which also included 300 acres located at the former Union railway yards near AT&T Park, companies from bio tech, mediical, and high tech will mostly be occupying the properties.

The land purchase is almost the half the cost of the Warriors new arena, the cost of the 680,000 foot development which includes the project and property runs at $450 million. The Warriors who plan to build at Mission Bay are looking to spend upwards to $1 billion on the new arena a cost that is more than the original arena that they had their hearts set on at Piers 30-32.

The Warriors said the projected price for building the new arena at Mission Bay would be originally at $500-600 million but that cost has soared into their first billion. Piers 30-32 ran into neighborhood problems as neighbors said they oppose any construction development that would block or change the existing scenary of the bay, the bridge, and east bay views.

The neighbors and former San Francisco politicians former Mayor Art Agnos and former SF Board of Supervisor president Aaron Peskin helped get propositon B passed which limits any new building on the waterfront to 40 feet unless voters approve a project over that size.

The Mission Bay arena will run twice as much higher than the Piers 30-32 proposal and with more freedom to build on that property. With home properties it’s expected that the Warriors will include retail and condos a hotel on Mission Bay as well. How much of a that Kilroy will play into the project is still up for discussion with the Warriors.

Jerry Feitelberg is covering the new arena developments of the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings for http://www.sportsradioservice.com