Tag Archives: Daniel Gluskoter

BY RYAN LEONG The 2017 Oakland Athletics are not a playoff team. If you like home runs, they’ll provide plenty of offense. Unfortunately they don’t offer much in the way of pitching and are terrible defensively. Wednesday’s homestand finale provided a sample of what the team offers. They got a ...

BY RYAN LEONG Memorial Day is best known as a time to remember and pay respects to all those who have died while serving in the armed forces. But It seems to have a different meaning for Giants reliever Hunter Strickland. Strickland has not forgotten that Nationals phenom Bryce Harper ...

BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER The fifth annual BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival concluded with a bang Sunday night as the Foo Fighters brought the Memorial Day weekend event to a boisterous close with over 120,000 fans attending the three day event. With temperatures consistently milder than during last years festival, the ...

BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER Multifaceted French artist and composer Jean-Michel Jarre continued his first ever U.S. concert tour with a stop at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on Friday night as part of a brief nine city North American trek. Jarre, the 68 year old son of concentration camp survivors from ...

BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER The legendary English rock band The Moody Blues is preparing for their rapidly approaching two month North American tour that will see them celebrate the 50th Anniversary of their epic album “Days of Future Passed” by playing it in it’s entirety for the first time with early ...

BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER Legendary French musician Jean Luc Ponty, one of the finest and most esteemed violinist in the world is coming to the Bay Area. Long renowned as one of the premier virtuoso performers of his time, Ponty and his band will be at the Regency Ballroom in San ...

BY RYAN LEONG As well as the A’s played against Boston in this four game series, Sunday’s game was forgettable unless you’re a Red Sox fan. After outscoring the Sox 19-8 in the first three games, the A’s were routed in the finale 12-3, eliminating any hope for the first ...

BY RYAN LEONG As good as the Giants home stand was, it wouldn’t be remembered as great unless they could find a way to knock out Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw. The Giants had their rotation set up with their current ace on the mound as Johnny Cueto was on the ...

By DANIEL GLUSKOTER The daily schedule for the fifth annual BottleRock Music Festival May 26-28, 2017, at the Napa Valley Exposition has been announced as follows: May 26: Maroon 5, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Modest Mouse, Silversun Pickups, Fitz & The Tantrums, Bob Moses, Catfish and The Bottlemen, Saint Motel, ...

BY RYAN LEONG In the classic movie Bull Durham, catcher Crash Davis implores rookie phenom “Nuke” Laloosh to relax and have some fun out there because baseball is a fun game… Fun g-dammit! Well the young A’s have certainly gotten back to their magical fun ways of winning games in ...