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sports.yahoo.com - 11/20/2008
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NEW YORK (AP)—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 ...
sports.espn.go.com - 11/19/2008
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Lew Wolff has a way to shorten baseball's
postseason: Make the first round best-of-one.
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A's owner suggests one-game playoff in first round
seamheads.com - 11/14/2008
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Baseball is a $6 billion dollar business that
has boomed during the reign of current Commissioner Bud
Selig. How will the deepening recession impact the blossoming prosperity of the sport? Will it undermine the current state of labor and ownership harmony? Will marginal franchises fail? Noted ...
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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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... said Wednesday. “It would be exciting. It would be great.”
Begun in 1995, the division series has been a best-of-five competition. Some people have advocated it be expanded to best-of-seven, matching the league championship series and the World Series. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has repeatedly said he favors the current format.
Wolff said he hasn’t brought up his concept with Selig.
“No, I’m afraid to do that,” he said.
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