Baseball Oakland

Wolff running out of time -- and options

posted by: Baseball Oakland

(January 22 2012)

Kudos to The Oakland Tribune for covering the elephant in the room -- the upcoming Coliseum lease deadline. The A's current lease is good until the end of 2013. What happens after that is fair game. This is where things get interesting, and Lew Wolff's statements about the A's having no future in Oakland could come back to haunt him. There is absolutely no way a new stadium anywhere can open

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Groundhog Day: Baseball Version

posted by: Baseball Oakland

(January 16 2012)

Matier Ross have squashed the runaway speculation that surrounded some vague comments made by Commissioner Bud Selig at last week's owners meeting. Here's what the S. F. Chronicle columnists wrote Monday: Despite all the huffing and puffing, no decision was reached about a possible A's move to San Jose at the just-ended baseball owners meeting in Arizona. "It remains at loggerheads, with

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NY Times: Oakland nightlife scene hot and getting hotter

posted by: Baseball Oakland

(January 9 2012)

The New York Times made news last week when it named the city of Oakland one of its 45 places in the world to visit in 2012. Placing Oakland 5th on the list -- right between London and Tokyo -- the Times credited the Fox Theater renovation as the main reason why Oakland's "revitalized nightlife scene has continued to smolder." The Times added: The city's ever more sophisticated restaurants are

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KQED Forum Show: New year, same argument

posted by: Baseball Oakland

(January 3 2012)

Today, KQED radio had an hour-long discussion about Bay Area sports teams that may be moving. (You can listen by clicking: HERE)Given that it's a 17-year-old debate for the A's, it's not surprising that the tiresome topic had, well, only one surprise during the show.Sportswriters Glenn Dickey, Mark Purdy and Susan Slusser were guests. Slusser and Purdy did their usual cheerleading for A's

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Poole and Kawakami Blast Wolff and Beane

posted by: Baseball Oakland

(December 30 2011)

Two Bay Area sportswriters published pieces this week that must have made Billy Beane throw a chair or two. The Oakland Tribune's Monte Poole wrote a scathing column that offered the harshest criticism yet of Beane and A's owners. Poole wrote:The con is kaput, the game over. A's ownership, having run out of patience, isn't even pretending to care about competing, much less pleasing its fans.

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