Monster comes to Bay Area ballpark
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The 49ers reached a four-year, $6 million agreement late Monday with Brisbane-based Monster Cable following a competitive bidding process that began in July, said Sam Singer, a spokesman for the 49ers.
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Candlestick Park, home of the San  Francisco 49ers NFL team, was renamed "Monster Park" on Tuesday  in a $6 million deal with an electronics cable company.
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BOSTON - The media is gathering in larger numbers at Fenway Park, and it&#39;s not because the Tampa Bay Devil Rays are in town. Pennant fever and an upcoming weekend series with the Yankees is the buzz.
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The competition for the final spot in the Metsâ rotation figures to intensify, with Mike Pelfrey eclipsing Chan Ho Park.
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OAKLAND, Calif. Texas reliever Frank Francisco has been arrested by Oakland police on a charge of aggravated battery. He threw a chair into the stands during the ninth inning of last night&#39;s game in Oakland, injuring two spectators.
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Don't expect Matt Holliday and the Colorado Rockies to be intimidated by the Green Monster. Back in June, long before their historic surge to an unlikely NL pennant, the baby-faced Rockies roared into Fenway Park and took two of three from the Red Sox
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Los Angeles developer Lewis Wolff, who has an option to buy the Athletics, wants to get a baseball-only stadium in Oakland instead of moving the team to San Jose.
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By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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Corporate America has taken a pass on Barry Bonds. But the Giants slugger was on his way to ignominy before his name was linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.
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By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Dustan Mohr of the San Francisco Giants sat in front of his locker with his head buried in his hands. Even in a new ballpark, right field in San Francisco remains treacherous territory.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Oakland general manager Billy Beane has spent most of two days here sequestered in his hotel suite. Maybe there will be a puff of white smoke signaling a trade for right-handed ace Tim Hudson
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By David Pollak, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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It doesn&#39;t get any better than this. The Red Sox visit Yankee Stadium, the Giants and Padres battle it out for the NL wildcard, while the Cubs try and keep pace and are leaning on a kid to do so.
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Miguel Tejada can't wait to hit in Houston and Aaron Rowand has a new home in San Francisco.
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In the aftermath of his 2-0 loss to Oakland Tuesday night, Daisuke Matsuzaka was asked about his chances of being selected an All-Star. It's a topic of some interest in the Bay Area, given that the All-Star Game will be played in AT&amp;T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants.
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(InfoWorld) - To understand the Boston-based high-tech community, it seems you must understand baseball: Bostonians' signature neurosis over being second-best flowers in both arenas. And when financiers and technology executives met recently to talk about creating a climate for Web 2.0 startup success here, they used the language of the operatically accursed, beloved Red Sox, invoking RBI more often than ROI. It was clear at the MIT Enterprise Forum Wednesday that whatever game they're playing here, they're not used to winning. Even the eclipse of the homegrown minicomputer giants like Digital Equipment Corp. still rankles. "There's a cultural challenge here; we perceive ourselves as the lesser, smaller coast," said Michael Skok, partner with North Bridge Venture Partners. "We live in the shadow of DEC, but there's no reason for it." While Skok counseled Boston-area entrepreneurs to be power-hitters who can rack up home runs, Fox Interactive Media's Adam Bain said he looks for steady players who reliably get on base. Bain invoked the strategy followed by Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics, who couldn't compete with the big-spending Yankees to hire star players, so instead concentrated on what had been an overlooked statistic -- players' on-base percentage -- to build a winning team made up of unglamorous but strong players. "If the goal is to swing for the fences, you'll have a lot of strike-outs," Bain said. "Guys like us look for on-base statistics." Jeff Taylor is certainly a local home-run hitter: He co-founded job-listings site Monster.com and boasted that he was able to retire in August of 2005 and start a new company. His new venture, Eons, is a Boston-based Web venture targeting the 50-and-older demographic. Eons' first round of funding was bicoastal, with $10 million raised between Silicon Valley's Sequoia Capital and Cambridge's General Catalyst Partners. But Taylor notes that the tech giants are no longer based in the Northeast. "We're missing the companies that will buy us and keep us here," Taylor said -- no doubt mindful that the most realistic exit strategy for Web 2.0 era entrepreneurs and investors is the acquisition, not the blockbuster IPO of the last decade. Taylor thinks Boston firms need to do a better job of promoting their strengths, particularly in what he called "deep technology" -- even though the glamour these days is not in technology as much as in the services that ride on top, such as those provided by Google and Yahoo, he acknowledged. North Bridge Venture Partners' Skok also thinks Web 2.0 can let area entrepreneurs play to Boston's traditional advantage. "There's a phenomenal amount of infrastructure under Web 2.0," he said, adding that it is "very much happening on the East coast." And despite the local inferiority complex, Boston's cultural values do give it an edge in some respects, Skok said. If he were a CEO choosing a company location, he would pick Boston "in a heartbeat," he said, because employees are more loyal and hardworking. While denizens of Silicon Valley drive themselves hard, Bostonians are less motivated by money and more by love of the work itself. So it's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game?