I have to say that after today, Miles Wolff has perfected the presentation of his Can Am League proposal - today he spoke with five City councillors, did a radio interview with the Team 1200, radio and television with CBC, television with CTV and print interviews with the Sun and the Citizen.  Before I go any further, I think its important to thank Mr. Wolff for his efforts to keep baseball in Ottawa.  Likewise for Jim Baba of Baseball Canada - this is the second full day he’s taken out of his schedule on our behalf.

Our meetings went well with all parties and some of the issues I had going in have been clarified.  We still don’t know how or why things changed over the summer, and perhaps that’s not important.  We do know that the lawsuit is a major stumbling block; council can’t consider any proposals until there’s a resolution of the legal issue - and it’s important to be clear here: The City has not yet sued the team.  My understanding is that until the team “breaches its contract”, the City has nothing to sue them for.  We do know that it’s likely that they intend to hold out for the $2.77M they say the team owes.

Fortunately, we weren’t just spinning our wheels today and there’s optimism that the issues will be resolved in time for the Can Am League to know - one way or the other whether they will field a team here in 2008.

There should be good coverage in both papers tomorrow and I will keep updating the blog as information becomes public. 

*** UPDATE ***

I missed this earlier - Neate posts up on Miles Wolff’s visit and what it should mean to council and others.  With respect to the media, today was the best response we’ve had so far.  (I forgot to mention that CFRA also had a reporter interview Miles.)  Radio, television and print - just about all we could ask for.

I know the blog is short on detail, but what I’m going to have to ask everyone to understand is that much of what was discussed has been done with the expectation that it would be kept confidential.  Certainly many of the people on the other side of the table would be far less inclined to speak freely if they thought what they said would be reprinted in the papers or here on the blog.  I want to respect that and not jeopardize what we all want to see happen - baseball here in 2008.