Gosh, he's been a part of every major decision we've made since he came over here (in 2001). The better question is, what hasn't he done?
But we've always been obsessed in Oakland with not being the cute small-market story that came and went.
It's something we didn't know about, but he came forward with the information, so I commend him for that.
When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.