And, again, as apbaguy notes, Lew was brought in to the A’s ownership group specifically for his development acumen, to build a new stadium (on the back of public financing) — a task at which he’s failed twice/repeatedly/continuously, for both Fisher and the previous Schott/Hoffman ownership group.

Craig, I urge you — please read up more on the A’s situation w/r/t ownership/ballpark/finances. It’s the one subject you are continually underinformed on. You come off like an idiot, frankly, to anyone who knows anything about the franchise.

Check out newballpark.org. I don’t always agree with the proprietor’s conclusions/biases, but he is THE single most informed and completist blogger on the A’s stadium search.

That said, it would be fun if Wolff/Fisher sold the A’s to Larry Ellison, then bought the Dodgers. I’m not sure Ellison would be into baseball, it’s a little slow moving for him, though I know of a former Raiderette that was linked to Ellison so there you go. Maybe the A’s could use cheerleaders to boost attendance, with giant scarlet A’s on their unis.

Larry would no doubt try to move the team immediately as a way of generating leverage, like his creative flirtation with Newport RI over the America’s Litigation Cup. Knowing Larry, we’d be seeing mock-ups of the Mumbai A’s ballpark in a few weeks.

I don’t think Scrooge McLoria and the Chihuahua would welcome a move here. Oakland is way too downmarket for Scrooge. And I would personally have to plant sonic devices in OG’s abode that intoned passages from Clive Cussler, James Patterson and various romance novelists whenever OG was within earshot. We’ll have him sitting in front of the tv eating bagel chips in no time. His ideas are simply becoming too dangerous, which I attribute to an excess of Cormac McCarthy. Danielle Steele, an SF resident, is the sure cure.

(I put my computer on a time delay before posting this, to give myself enough time to get away from my monitor before APBA Guy reads this).