sports.espn.go.com - 11/19/2008
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NEW YORK -- Lew Wolff has a way to shorten baseball's postseason: Make the first round best-of-one. "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." Begun in 1995, the division series has been a ...
bizofbaseball.com - 11/20/2008
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bizofbaseball.com —
Over a year and a half in the
making, the A's have finally seen some movement on
the long-awaited Environmental Impact Report process for the proposed 32,000 seat facility located on 226-acres of land in the Pacific Commons area in Fremont. (see details and computer renderings of Cisco Field)
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A’s Inch Closer on Environmental Impact Report for ...
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baseballreflections.com - 11/19/2008
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baseballreflections.com —
The Colorado Rockies, for some strange reason, have
traded All-Star LF Matt Holliday to the Oakland A’s
for SP Greg Smith, closer Huston Street and OF Carlos Gonzalez. You can see more details of this trade on ESPN . For reactions of this move, please visit Athletics Nation posts ...
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Recent Trades May Change Your Holliday Outlook
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Maybe Beane's Sh*t Can Work In The (One-Game) Postseason
6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog —
Billy Beane's famous quote about his magic approach failing to yield desired results in the postseason perhaps gets an answer from new A's owner Lew Wolff, who recommends an abbreviation of the postseason: ...
The Oakland A's Will Do Anything They Can to Try and Win a Playoff Series
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by Josh Alper Filed under: Athletics, AL West, MLB PlayoffsAnytime a powerhouse regular season team (I'm looking at you, Cubbies) gets knocked out in the baseball playoffs, you'll hear someone say "Anything can happen in a short series!" It's true. A bad start from your ace, a mis-timed error and, whoosh, you're playing golf before the next Frank TV commercial. And that's when you've got to lose three of five games. Imagine if it were just one game? If Lew Wolff, owner of the Oakland A's, had Bud Selig's job, we might find out just how harsh that feeling would be. ...
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sports.yahoo.com 11/12/2008 — Assuming everybody is as healthy as he looks and Matt Holliday doesn’t turn an ankle jumping the chasm between his home and road splits, the public introductions of the Oakland Athletics new left fielder and the Colorado Rockies ’ new what, future? ...
