If any other team was playing in the World Series, Bud Selig's latest spin cycle known as the Athletics' quest to relocate to San Jose would have been somewhat big news (though there is never actually news when Selig talks about the Oakland-San Francisco-San Jose love triangle).
So here was Major-League Baseball's head honcho once again technically saying something but really saying nothing about the A's and their new stadium soap opera prior to Game 2 of the World Series Thursday night in San Francisco. Heck, if the Bay Area media wasn't the dominant representation during Selig's expected bayside chat and he was meeting the press in St. Louis, he probably would have barely been required to speak about the A's and Giants territorial tug-of-war for Silicon Valley, because the St. Louis Post Dispatch and Detroit Free Press couldn't care less.
Selig spewed out terms like "very productive" (in terms of progress made) and "complex" (with regards to the red tape he'd have to wade through to find a solution). But as the San Francisco Chronicle's Susan Slusser reported, Selig was also nonchalant about the idea this issue will have a resolution before Lew Wolff's former Wisconsin Badger fraternity brother (insert Douglas C. Neidermeyer joke here if you like) before he's scheduled for retirement at the end of the 2014 season.
"I don't feel any pressure. The only thing that will guide me ultimately on every issue is what I think is in the best interest of baseball."
Fair enough, and even fair enough on not feeling any pressure jazz. The A's got by more than OK in 2012 with their less than tony crib. The fans even showed up at the end of the season, filling up the old house and looking like a rabid baseball market again. Surely that impressed the commish enough to make sure A's fans get what they and their team deserves and frankly desperately needs: A baseball-only home in the Bay Area, conveniently located with plenty of parking and with access to public transportation. (Wait, the Oakland Coliseum parking lot already provides some of that and maybe the Raiders will.... oh, never mind).
And his Greek brother Lew should have felt like, "Well, as long as I can -even on the cheap- throw out a competitive, exciting, gregarious and ultimately playoff-participating team, Oakland can indeed be a place where baseball thrives again. Maybe we shouldn't give up on building a stadium here."
But in reality Lew offered a no comment on Thursday. So.......
So here was Major-League Baseball's head honcho once again technically saying something but really saying nothing about the A's and their new stadium soap opera prior to Game 2 of the World Series Thursday night in San Francisco. Heck, if the Bay Area media wasn't the dominant representation during Selig's expected bayside chat and he was meeting the press in St. Louis, he probably would have barely been required to speak about the A's and Giants territorial tug-of-war for Silicon Valley, because the St. Louis Post Dispatch and Detroit Free Press couldn't care less.
Selig spewed out terms like "very productive" (in terms of progress made) and "complex" (with regards to the red tape he'd have to wade through to find a solution). But as the San Francisco Chronicle's Susan Slusser reported, Selig was also nonchalant about the idea this issue will have a resolution before Lew Wolff's former Wisconsin Badger fraternity brother (insert Douglas C. Neidermeyer joke here if you like) before he's scheduled for retirement at the end of the 2014 season.
"I don't feel any pressure. The only thing that will guide me ultimately on every issue is what I think is in the best interest of baseball."
Fair enough, and even fair enough on not feeling any pressure jazz. The A's got by more than OK in 2012 with their less than tony crib. The fans even showed up at the end of the season, filling up the old house and looking like a rabid baseball market again. Surely that impressed the commish enough to make sure A's fans get what they and their team deserves and frankly desperately needs: A baseball-only home in the Bay Area, conveniently located with plenty of parking and with access to public transportation. (Wait, the Oakland Coliseum parking lot already provides some of that and maybe the Raiders will.... oh, never mind).
And his Greek brother Lew should have felt like, "Well, as long as I can -even on the cheap- throw out a competitive, exciting, gregarious and ultimately playoff-participating team, Oakland can indeed be a place where baseball thrives again. Maybe we shouldn't give up on building a stadium here."
But in reality Lew offered a no comment on Thursday. So.......
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