http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...s/11305824.htm

Though, at first glance, he acts more like an avuncular university don than a showboat CEO, things do always seem to happen quickly and decisively when Lewis Wolff is involved.

Quickly, decisively . . . and surprisingly, I might add, which is the only way to predict the feel, style and potential success of the A's new Wolff Ownership Era.

The team opens 2005 play today in Baltimore and still desperately needs a new stadium plan. But so much has happened with the franchise already, all with Wolff's touch, though we hardly know him here.

For instance: He went from A's stadium-site adviser to potential part-owner to prospective managing partner to major-league-approved owner more rapidly than most of us can complete our résumés.

Blink, and you missed it, which I think is sort of how Steve Schott felt.