March 30, 2009
We Are Leaving Oakland…a Lew Wolff timeline
Remember E.F. Hutton? When he talked, people listened.
Well, Watch Dog has been keen to point out that Lew Wolff is the Bay Area’s version of E.F. Hutton. And E.F. Hutton is talking.
Check out this recent timeline and progression of Lew Wolff’s (obvious) goals…:
- March 13, 2009 – We Are Leaving Oakland: Wolff let folks know that he doesn’t want to stay in Oakland, but he does want to stay in Northern California. (Remember his “shot across the Oakland bow” statement?)
- March 26, 2009 – We Are Leaving Oakland, and We Heart San Jose: Wolff speaks to a group in SF, and officially adds the word “San Jose” into the conversation.
- March 30, 2009 – We are Leaving Oakland, We Heart San Jose, and So Will MLB: Wolff got his friends at MLB to give him some breathing-room. Wolff is in the firing line with his current City, Oakland, because he doesn’t want to be there anymore. And now, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig had appointed a 3-person Commission to look at the A’s options. This will sound like San Jose boosterism (which Watch Dog is generally not prone to), but San Jose is going to look really, really good for this MLB Commission, especially because Corey Busch is on the Commission and who had a love affair with San Jose when he worked for the SF Giants.