BEN BRAUN always has to be in control, and that personality trait will prevent the Cal basketball team from reaching its full potential this season.

Braun can’t take even the slightest criticism. When I’ve written that he needs to get an assistant who could fix his offense, he always makes a comment about that the next time we meet.
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Tonight we will have Inside Baseball here in the Bay Area on 1550 AM beginning at 6 PM live from Crogan’s Montclair.

Shooty Babitt will join Carl Foster and Steve Kroner writer from the SF Chronicle on the show. We’ll talk some Cal hoops too.

How does Jeromy Burnitz fit into the picture in Pittsburgh? Can his signing impact the A’s?

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With the announcement scheduled for Tuesday January 10th of the class for Baseball’s Hall of Fame, check out my podcast of the history of the Hall of Fame selection process plus my choices for induction into the Hall in 2006.

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If you are in Northern California you will be able to tune into “Inside Baseball. The Winter Version”, tonight Thursday on 1550 AM beginning at 6 PM.

Shooty Babitt and I will talk about the stories of 2005 plus speculate on the other moves which are sure to happen next month.

Carl Foster joins us previewing the Pac 10 basketball game between Cal and USC.

We can take some calls tonight at 1 888 610 4627.

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by Glenn Dickey
Dec 14, 2005

THE A’S TRADE for Milton Bradley was a shocker, and the combustible Bradley brings a potential for trouble, but it also shows that A’s general manager Billy Beane is putting together a team which could contend seriously for the World Championship.

Meanwhile the Giants. . . well, they’re still playing the Barry Game. [Read more →]

Marty Lurie interviews A’s pitcher Huston Street. The A’s closer won the Rookie of the Year Award in the American League Monday. The young 22 year old closer talks with Marty about the honor in a very down to earth interview. Don’t miss it.

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by Glenn Dickey
Nov 01, 2005

THE GIANTS made a bold move by signing Barry Bonds as a free agent in late 1992 that ensured their success for more than a decade. Now, the A’s have a chance to make a similar move by signing Paul Konerko. Will they step up to the plate – or whiff on their opportunity?

The Giants ownership team, then headed up by Walter Shorenstein and now by Peter Magowan, had been told by National League owners in 1992 that approval for the sale from Bob Lurie was contingent on getting a new park to replace Candlestick. There was no chance to build support with the dispirited team that finished the 1992 season. Adding Bonds gave the Giants the shot in the arm they needed. [Read more →]

Not satisfied with the Chicago White Sox vs.Houston Astros World Series ?
I strongly recommend you take a peek at the “Baseball As America”exhibit and the
companion exhibitions, like The Latino Experience,
at the Oakland Museum of California.

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by Glenn Dickey
Oct 26, 2005

ALTHOUGH THE A’s will have more payroll flexibility this year as they drop the contracts of Erubiel Durazo and Octavio Dotel, it will be very difficult for them to get a right-handed power hitter, because the market is so limited.

Paul Konerko will be out there, for instance, but he’s priced beyond the A’s budget; the latest reports have him leaning toward the Angels, whose hitting is at least as suspect as the A’s. Carlos Lee was an intriguing possibility, but the Milwaukee Brewers picked up his $8.5 million option and would trade him only for a young front-line pitcher like Dan Haren. Since pitching has been the strength of the A’s, that’s not going to happen. [Read more →]

by Glenn Dickey
Oct 19, 2005

BILL KING was a remarkable broadcaster and an even more remarkable man. We will all miss him terribly.

More than anyone I’ve ever known, King lived his life as he wanted, oblivious to what others thought. Away from the park, he drove a battered car and lived on a houseboat, and he seemed to feel that anything invented after about 1950 was of no consequence, a category that included inter-league games.
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