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sports.espn.go.com — Lew Wolff has a way to shorten baseball's postseason: Make the first round best-of-one.
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Athletics Owner Has Horrible Idea
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog — ... Lew Wolff is the sound I make when someone punches me in the gut. Lew Wolff is also the owner of the Oakland Athletics. Lew Wolff thinks it would be great if baseball’s League Divisional Series were a one-game playoff rather than a five-game playoff. ...

PM Roundup: So Hot
The Big Lead — ... is gay. Huh? (You Been Blinded) Somebody thinks Nick Saban is cute isn’t a horrible person. (Rivals) Golf blogger is looking for a pink dress. (Golf Girl’s Diary) Dude stole a bathtub. (The Buffalo News) “The type of sandwich hurled was not specified in the report.” (TC Palm) The A’s owner suggests the first round of the MLB playoffs should be best-of-one. (ESPN) Big Papi threw a white party in the Dominican Republic. (Red Sox ...

Athletics Owner Wants One-Game Playoffs
Bucs DugoutOakland owner Lew Wolff: "I'd make it one-game-and-you're-out for the first series," the Oakland Athletics owner said Wednesday. "It would be exciting. It would be great." You can cut the irony with a knife. Michael Lewis famously quoted A's GM Billy Beane as saying, “My s**t doesn’t work in the play-offs... My job is getting us to the play-offs. What happens after that is f**king luck.” Changing the first round of the playoffs to a one-game series would, of course, increase the role of f**king luck in ...

LEW WOLFF: MLB’S “OFFICE SPACE” GUY
Zoner Sports — ... A’s owner Lew Wolff has come up with the MLB equivalent of Office Space’s “Jump to Conclusions” mat. He has an idea that I don’t think anyone will like. By anyone I mean vendors, other owners, players, fans, broadcast giants, children, animals and Tim McCarver. Here it is: ...

Oakland A’s Owner Has an Idea
The Scores Report - The National Sports Blog — ... Lew Wolff, owner of the Oakland Athletics, has recently suggested making the first round of the MLB playoffs a best-of-one competition. ...

The Week That Was: November 17th-21st
The Arena — ... If only Oakland’s other owners were as intentionally humorous as Lew Wolff. The A’s owner claims to be “scared” of proposing something to Bud Selig, but it’s more telling that Oakland baseball employees color-code Scott Boras clients on big boards. ...

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zonersports.com 11/20/2008 — A’s owner Lew Wolff has come up with the MLB equivalent of Office Space’s “Jump to Conclusions” mat. He has an idea that I don’t think anyone will like. By anyone I mean vendors, other owners, players, fans, broadcast giants, children, animals and Tim McCarver.
A’s owner Lew Wolff has come up with the MLB equivalent of Office Space’s “Jump to Conclusions” mat. He has an idea that I don’t think anyone will like. By anyone I mean vendors, other owners, players, fans, broadcast giants, children, animals and Tim McCarver.
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