I've seen 10-12 games at San Josè Municipal Stadium. It gets packed for SJ Giants games because of its affordability for pro baseball, MLB affiliate, and unique promotions like the beer batter (If a designated opposing player strikes out before the 7th certain beers are half price for a limited time.) What is pretty neat is that the outside of the ballpark is decorated with pictures of notable SJ Giants alumni like Brandon Belt and Brandon Crawford.

Also, there are funny quotes on the walls from baseball immortals. There's one from Hall of Fame manager Tommy LaSorda claiming that if Mike Sciosia (former Dodgers catcher and Angels manager) got in a foot race with his pregnant wife he would finish third. It's a pretty old park-built in the 1940's.

So it's a nice place to see a minor league game but looks like a ghost town for the Spartans. They are the secondary tenants, and from looking at the Spartans schedule it looks like they play a lot of day games, and some of their games end early not due to weather (time crunch w/the Giants' practices?) It's a city ballpark just a couple of blocks from the football stadium.

I would recommend for anyone thinking of going there to see an SJ Giants game instead of SJSU, so as to see the place at its best.

Also, and this is important, you pretty much need to drive there. There is no public transportation whatsoever that will take you within even 1/2 mile of the place + you definitely don't want to walk/bike there. I thought I was clever just walking from the America's Best Value Inn (closest lodging), avoiding parking. Do not do this ! Like other parts of San Josè there are missing sidewalks + you're forced to walk really close to a large homeless encampment on E. Alma Ave. each time-garbage everywhere.

The America's Best Value is actually very clean + nicely maintained but there's just this thing about reasonably-priced (and reasonably-priced in SJ means under $200/night for even a motel room) lodgings there. You have to watch out for ladies of the night. I was kept awake for a bit by one of them talking outside my room with a client on her phone. Earlier, her pimp gave me a nasty look when I left my room. Not a nice part of town either. Stay in a nicer area + drive there.

I have been to Peecole Park (Nevada), but it doesn't really have anything on Dobbins Stadium. If Greater Nevada Field (where the Triple-A Reno Aces play) is any indication, the altitude definitely thwarts pitching. The other day the River Cats played an 11inning game there. After 10 innings it was tied 7-7. Sacramento won in the 11th by a score of 15-13 ! Greater Nevada is a nice stadium, but I thought the food sucked. Better just to eat and gamble at "The Row", which is maybe 2 blocks from Greater Nevada and about a mile from the UNR campus.

UNLV's ballpark looks sharp. I was going to include it on a visit to LV during COVID-19 but wound up cancelling it + going to El Paso, where I was able to eat inside Applebee's while all the losers in CA had to socially-distance outside or get take-out. Getting away from CA made the whole trip worthwile UTEP doesn't have a team but the AAA El Paso Chihuahuas have a really neat-looking park, the interior of which you can completely view from the pedestrian path behind the third base side. One could hypothetically set up a lawn chair + watch a game as well as anybody in the park It has a much smaller capacity (only 7-8,000) than Sutter Health Park but still has two decks. I saw a guy there who looked just like Dale Gribble on "King of the Hill"-that is to say a very skinny caucasian man with an orange hat and glasses who smokes a lot.

Black student enrollment at Salt State in 2024 was 7%

Is Salt State a typo or a new nickname for CSUS ? If it's a new nickname I would be very interested to hear about the origin. Are the students over-seasoning their food ? If a typo you should contact UCD about a potential side job in sports information/marketng because this is better than Bog Biggs Field. When are we going to see IC Davis or UC David from them ?

I wouldn't mind if UCD and Sac State even just stopped playing each other in all sports (assuming no future common conference membership). The temptations to save on travel costs and fill the football stadium once a year are too great to make this happen. It would be nice to get rid of the toxic nastiness around the Causeway Classic. That is a tradition that doesn't need to continue, but people will insist on it sticking around because of history. Maybe this will happen organically if Sac State finds a way to FBS or their current effort fails. bankrupts the athletics dept.

Actually I think they will continue to play each other in Big West men's soccer, right? Well, get rid of it in football, basketball, softball, women's soccer, and baseball at least. It would be nearly impossible to avoid Sac State in gymnastics, track and golf. (Golf is not a real team sport so it should just be cut) If it's a money issue finding a new opponent, just play 1 fewer contest

The next time one of you guys makes a remark about the length of my posts I will refer you to this topic thread, to remind you I'm not the only one. Yeah, sorry-just can't do max. three word reactions to every single football play like some of you because absolutely no one else is watching the game . The reminder may not be necessary though, as half of us will probably be pushing up the daisies before the topic's run its course at this rate. By then Aggie Sports Talk will be mostly ads in Vietnamese about how to properly clean office light fixtures.

I don't agree with the way Sac State is doing things, but I do know they need to do something, so it's good that they at least recognize it. As it stands Sac State is a junior college with more rigorous classes (I'm assuming)and a bigger parking lot. It needs something to set it apart in order to stop being a nothing university. Its selling point right now is that it is located in Sacramento and there are college degree-seeking people in Sacramento. In that sense it is the university equivalent of Denny's, a location of which is just a couple of blocks away if memory serves.

As TrainingRm67 has reminded us, the CSU's primarily exist to serve the communities where they are located, as opposed to private schools, which exist to serve the people who have the wherewithal to purchase exclusivity. For example, Sonoma State, a public school, serves people who like to pay way too much for housing near wine (OMG WINE!!!!!!), but who care way too much or not at all about sports. By canceling sports it is serving its community.

I just wanted to dump on SSU for a moment. Anyway, if Sac State decides to deviate from the CSU model it can have negative consquences. I'm not going to get into the consequences because someone else has/will.

@FullertonBaseballFanThat's disappointing. I was hoping with his coaching record he would be up for a head coaching position somewhere, but at least it's Division I job. He really turned around SF State baseball, which was no small task. Back in the common CCAA days the Golden Gators had a bad team that only seemed to put it together when they played UCD.

I don't think Schifano would have been an upgrade to Tommy Nicholson if the Aggies were in a position to make a coaching change.

I believe Nicholson advanced the program pretty close to its ceiling in 2024, and very few other coaches would have done better. Baseball is one of those D-I men's sports where a lot of potential recruits have serious designs on playing in the pros, not necessarily pursuing a four-year degree. Some go to junior colleges to get drafted early (Bryce Harper). UCD (in baseball) can't really get the athletics-first/only players some of the other Big West programs can and UCI/UCSB have location advantages when pursuing the academically-minded talent. This situation will not get better in the Mountain West.

With the elimination of their baseball program, SF State will likely fulfill its goal to remove the baseball field in favor of green space.

https://goldengatexpress.org/83963/sports/sf-state-to-remove-baseball-field-tennis-court/

Sac State should just cancel all the football nonsense. This is stupid. There is little merit in spending what will turn into hundreds of millions of dollars in the hopes of the football team someday generating enough revenue to justify the expenses.

It looks like they found him an extra year he didn't know about.

What I saw on UCSB's website was he played 2-3 games in 20-21 (COVID-19 season bonus ?), did not play in 21-22, and first played for UCD in 22-23.

Football isn't going anywhere at Cal Poly.

This is true. BOOM ! Tough Actin' Tinactin !

I think he was using sarcasm, friend.

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