so-lair

we’ll find out when his name’s being announced at the new a’s stadium, hitting 3rd for us ;)

it would be the latter.

“Please be approved please be approved pleasepleaseplease.”

all i know is what I can piece together from what I’ve been told by front office people with the horrible results we’ve had with the A’s and Quakes in areas that he is in charge of: marketing, attendance, and public relations. I don’t have a problem with keeping the payroll in line with revenue but I do have a problem with the way he’s run the other parts of the business. The results have been quite frankly disastrous in terms of attendance for both organizations. I understand attendance will be lower when your results on the field are poor, but it should not this low.

With the Quakes, they had a very successful year in 2010 but still couldn’t do well in attendance under Crowley. Then Crowley left after the 2010 season, Dave Kaval came in and took over, and voila, even though the Quakes had horrible on-field results in 2011, they still sold out their last 6 home games in a row.

Thankfully Crowley is no longer involved with the Quakes but I don’t want him ruining things for the A’s either. And really, how does being an accountant qualify you to make decisions regarding marketing and PR stuff for a professional sports team? He brings in a different skill set from a different background that is entirely unsuitable for the role he’s been given.

and improving their media presence and casual fan awareness, I would hope Lew would consider replacing Crowley with Kaval in charge the A’s. Kaval came from a baseball background before coming to the Quakes and he has a lot of connections with Silicon Valley corporate headquarters. For example, the Quakes just announced a couple months ago they would be adding luxury suites to the new stadium in SJ and they have sold 9 of the 12 of them at this point in time thanks in large part to Kaval’s rolodex.