google.com - 11/19/2008
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2 hours ago 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 ...
bizofbaseball.com - 11/20/2008
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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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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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Your Dumb Idea of the Day
ShysterBall —
A's owner Lew Wolff has a fairly dumb idea: 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."This coming from a guy whose team, perhaps more than any other, has been harmed by the depth-penalizing format of short-series playoff baseball.
Boston Red Sox trade Coco Crisp
SmackCaster SmackBlog —
... Oakland Athletics owner Lew Wolff thinks the way to shorten the season is have a one-game playoff in the first round. Would be exciting, but would they go for it? Would you go for it? Talk about a roll of the dice! ...
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