Former baseball commissioner Selig made a few decisions that showed he never was Oakland’s bud.
Still, there’s no avoiding what Selig’s misguided belief that Fisher and Wolff were more qualified than Lacob did to the A’s, Oakland and the team’s fans. Can you put a price tag on what 17 years of mostly missteps and miscalculations under Fisher and Wolff has already cost?
One thing’s for sure: The old commissioner’s denial of Lacob was one of a string of decisions showing Selig never really was Oakland’s bud. During his 23-year commissionership, Selig also created a pair of Blue Ribbon panels, each portending doom for the A’s. Then things turned magical in Oakland as the 2000 A’s team began a four-year stretch of playoff appearances that created the “Moneyball” brand which eventually led to the movie starring Brad Pitt.
Long story short, Selig pondered the panel’s long-awaited findings and quickly put up a permanent roadblock preventing the A’s from moving there. He decided to honor the rights once given to the Giants by the A’s as a goodwill gesture when San Francisco was searching for a new home in the early 1990s.
“I knew the city-owned land well enough to know the A’s would flourish there,” Schott said. “I was in talks with the Santa Clara City Council, which was on board.”
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