IT’S A MADD MADD WORLD. . .

No one is quite sure what’s behind the Oakland A’s announcement last week that they’ve reached an agreement ement on a 10-year lease with the dilapidated, plumbing-challenged enged O.co Coliseum, other than the fact that it’s one more bucket ucket list item removed from commissioner Bud Selig’s farewell ewell agenda and probably ends any prospect of the A’s relocating cating to San Jose. The whole purpose of the lease agreement — especially since it was accompanied by A’s owner Lew Wolff ff confirming he and MLB had rejected a proposal for a new w stadium in the Jack London Square area of Oakland — would seem to be to pressure the Coliseum authority and Oakland bureau bureaucrats to build a new stadium for the A’s on the present coliseum site. At any r rate, there are said to be numerous “out “out” clauses in the lease and there is still no end in sight regarding the A’s search fo for a permanent home. That continuing baseba baseball thorn, and the perpetually stalemated San Jose territorial rights dispute between the A’s and Giants, have now successfully been pass passed off by Selig to his successor. Next up? Tam Tampa Bay.