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Second consecutive victory over the Rockies last night. Little bit disquieting...Hicks (3-1) had to hold on for an 8-6 win after sailing to a 6-1 lead through four innings. Camilo Doval (3.95 ERA...yikes) gave up a two-run jack. Hjelle was hjellish. On the bright side, they turned three DPs and are 2nd in MLB with 39 DPs (the A's are first with 41). Sabol and Conforto had three hits, Chapman and Yaz had two hits. Soler's on the 10-day DL, and Heliot Ramos was called up, went 1 for 4. They play Colorado (8-28) again today at 12:10.

SF's attendance for the upcoming nine-game homestand should be interesting. They drew 24k, 25k and 30k for the Mets, but 37k, 35k and 36k for a weekend series with the Pirates. Not bad. But I'm concerned about future attendance. The University of Toronto, analyzing cell phone data, has found that visits to downtown San Jose (+28.2%), LA and San Diego (20%+) and downtown Oakland (+20.6%) have skyrocketed, while visits to downtown SF have (-21.6%) plummeted:

Downtown San Jose visit activity soars, Oakland jumps, San Francisco nosedives
Downtown Recovery | School of Cities

And as of April, 2025, Google is leaving downtown San Francisco, as has KPMG. 

Google to leave prominent SF waterfront office tower (msn.com)

I'll be curious to see how the Giants can increase their home attendance as businesses close in the City proper.

I hope Colorado’s 8-28 is not the real reason behind these last 2 wins.

Painful to see downtown SF sliding away. I lived in the City for a dozen years from my mid-20s to my mid-30s. It was a great place to be young and single and to have a nice job to afford the lifestyle. But when it became time to settle down and start a family, the choices were predictably clear. Hence the suburban flight we’ve seen so much of. 

And of course the snowballing homeless and generally grubby street population is the big deal now.

And first the retailers on Market St and Union Square, and now the big employers have responded.

SF is on life support, indeed.  Will it go through the rehabilitation and/or gentrification that some other downtowns have?

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Second consecutive victory over the Rockies last night. Little bit disquieting...Hicks (3-1) had to hold on for an 8-6 win after sailing to a 6-1 lead through four innings. Camilo Doval (3.95 ERA...yikes) gave up a two-run jack. Hjelle was hjellish. On the bright side, they turned three DPs and are 2nd in MLB with 39 DPs (the A's are first with 41). Sabol and Conforto had three hits, Chapman and Yaz had two hits. Soler's on the 10-day DL, and Heliot Ramos was called up, went 1 for 4. They play Colorado (8-28) again today at 12:10.

SF's attendance for the upcoming nine-game homestand should be interesting. They drew 24k, 25k and 30k for the Mets, but 37k, 35k and 36k for a weekend series with the Pirates. Not bad. But I'm concerned about future attendance. The University of Toronto, analyzing cell phone data, has found that visits to downtown San Jose (+28.2%), LA and San Diego (20%+) and downtown Oakland (+20.6%) have skyrocketed, while visits to downtown SF have (-21.6%) plummeted:

Downtown San Jose visit activity soars, Oakland jumps, San Francisco nosedives
Downtown Recovery | School of Cities

And as of April, 2025, Google is leaving downtown San Francisco, as has KPMG. 

Google to leave prominent SF waterfront office tower (msn.com)

I'll be curious to see how the Giants can increase their home attendance as businesses close in the City proper.

I hope Colorado’s 8-28 is not the real reason behind these last 2 wins.

Painful to see downtown SF sliding away. I lived in the City for a dozen years from my mid-20s to my mid-30s. It was a great place to be young and single and to have a nice job to afford the lifestyle. But when it became time to settle down and start a family, the choices were predictably clear. Hence the suburban flight we’ve seen so much of. 

And of course the snowballing homeless and generally grubby street population is the big deal now.

And first the retailers on Market St and Union Square, and now the big employers have responded.

SF is on life support, indeed.  Will it go through the rehabilitation and/or gentrification that some other downtowns have?