Baer and Wolff actually agree on something

As part of "newsmakers week" on 95.7 The Game, the biggest executives in Bay Area sports joined The Drive with Tierney & Davis. Monday's guest was Giants CEO Larry Baer, on Thursday they had A's owner Lew Wolff on. While the heads of the Bay Area's two professional baseball franchises can't seem to agree on sharing the disputed territorial rights to Northern California, they did agree on one thing: That MLB commissioner Bud Selig and his appointed Blue Ribbon committee are taking too long to make up their minds. It has been 1,181 days since MLB started reviewing the A's stadium situation. Here are their comments on Selig's process:WOLFF: He certainly would like to have both teams in the market cooperating with each other. We have a difference of opinion as you know. He's surrounding this issue -- which I think it is an issue that can be solved pretty quickly -- but he's surrounding it both in a socratic way, a research way, and also a subjective way. Everything he is doing I am not sure. It is taking longer that I had hoped. He knows how I feel about it. I am not mad at him. He is deliberative in all his decisions. BAER:It's the call of the commissioner. And I think Lew Wolff has said the same thing. That it's the commissioner's call and it's the committee that is advising the commissioner. And I don't want to get into a debate on the air, because the commissioner has asked us not to. So I am going to have to basically defer to the fact that it is an issue that Major League Baseball has to handle. And it is not an issue for the Giants to get into a debate on. WOLFF: The issue is this, that if we and the Giants can't come to an accommodation, then as Larry clearly pointed out, it's up to the commissioner. Because that's his job. It doesn't have to be about moving. It can be about any issue. There's a couple of other issues that have been going on in baseball. The commissioner would like the two sides to get together and figure out something. Sometimes that, I guess can't happen. So I am sort of glad to hear Larry feels the same way. That if we are at a point where we can't figure out something that works for both of us, then we have to leave it in the hands of the commissioner. BAER: A: We believe that the A's do need a new ballpark. And B: We believe that the A's will stay in the area. We have no problem with the A's staying in the area. There is no assumption on our part that the A's are going to go somewhere else. And the effort should be made to find the right new ballpark for the A's. WOLFF: I really don't feel it's a matter of dollars and cents with either side. I think the real key is that we'd like to have a new venue. And Larry and I have spent a lot of time independently on this. And it sounds like Larry agrees we are both in the hands of the commissioner. My instinct is we'll be in a new ballpark in San Jose. I truly believe that because it is our only option.