Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Inferior Stadium Has Schott on Rampage
Steve Schott of the Oakland Athletics has an interesting way of promoting his ballpark:
"[W]hen you see a decent crowd here ... you see people waiting in long lines at the concessions, you see people not being able to get around, you see the traffic backed up, you see deferred maintenance just about everywhere you go."
In the next sentence, he got to his real point, how his poor A's can't possibly compete without a new stadium:
"It's an issue, especially with all the new parks opening up, that to stay competitive -- I'll say it now and I'll say it again -- we need a new park."
I made fun of this assertion in one of my first Weblog entries, more than a year ago. Nothing's changed, except that the Athletics have now made the playoffs four years in a row.
What Schott really wants is the right to relocate to Santa Clara County, which MLB considers Giants territory. He's invited Commissioner Selig, who remarkably hasn't visited the Oakland Coliseum since Schott's group bought the Athletics in 1995, to come to town and join him in begging/threatening the locals to open their wallets and give generously.
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Steve Schott of the Oakland Athletics has an interesting way of promoting his ballpark:
"[W]hen you see a decent crowd here ... you see people waiting in long lines at the concessions, you see people not being able to get around, you see the traffic backed up, you see deferred maintenance just about everywhere you go."
In the next sentence, he got to his real point, how his poor A's can't possibly compete without a new stadium:
"It's an issue, especially with all the new parks opening up, that to stay competitive -- I'll say it now and I'll say it again -- we need a new park."
I made fun of this assertion in one of my first Weblog entries, more than a year ago. Nothing's changed, except that the Athletics have now made the playoffs four years in a row.
What Schott really wants is the right to relocate to Santa Clara County, which MLB considers Giants territory. He's invited Commissioner Selig, who remarkably hasn't visited the Oakland Coliseum since Schott's group bought the Athletics in 1995, to come to town and join him in begging/threatening the locals to open their wallets and give generously.
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