Cut to James Earl Jones.

Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.

Wolff says on the one hand he's gauging market interest based on increased 2006 ticket sales, while on the other hand proposing to shut down the Upper Deck and reduce Coliseum capacity by 25% or more.  I'll leave my conspiracy theories aside for now, but basically challenging the region to buy more tickets while making ticket buying more difficult doesn't quite add up on my abacus.

(Reference for the younger crowd:  the legendary blues singer Howling Wolf was perhaps best known for his version of the Willie Dixon classic "Wang Dang Doodle."  A wang dang doodle is a rockin' party.)

However, if the stands remain empty, he'll say, "Look at all I've done for you and you guys still don't show up!  That's it, I'm moving."

is Wolff gonna be stalked by the AN ladies now?  haha.