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A's owner shows he's far removed from fan base

By Rob Neyer

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

ShysterBall points to a canny column from Ann Killion about A's owner Lew Wolff picking a bad time to trash his product: Wolff interrupted the building anticipation of spring training with a dismissive snub to his team's hometown. In a news release, Wolff complained about having "no interest in covering old ground" with Oakland and included a withering description of the Coliseum as an "aging and shared facility." A few days later, Wolff backtracked and said his "real intent wasn't to insult O ...

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