Bruce Jenkins, your A's ownership apologist

Bruce Jenkins, who wrote a few months back that Juan Uribe's signing with the Dodgers was "disturbing", devoted his entire column Saturday morning, (SFGate, paywall) to ripping the Oakland Coliseum on the A's opening night.

Jenkins called the place a dump and referred to a sewage problem that emits odors at the field level. Gees, Bruce, thanks, as if we already didn't know that the Coliseum was hardly Fenway Park.

Jenkins spends about 500 words to tell us the stadium smells to high heaven and quotes an A's employee that indeed the facility is...what it is. How thought-provoking.

Jenkins neglects to mention that, according to Forbes, the A's made $23 million last year. Seems the "dump" was rather profitable. Poor Lew Wolff.

This is not new ground for Jenkins, who loves the rather lazy method of knocking Oakland. He's the typical provincial SF scribbler who relishes the Herb Caen handbook of repeating the "no-there-there" crap.

That Jenkins would pen this on the A's opening night is a perfect illustration of his tone. How disturbing, indeed.

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