BYOB

Saw a blurb in this week’s Baseball Weekly that the Oakland A’s will not be supplying beer to the clubhouses at Network Associates Coliseum. A’s GM Billy Beane made the decision after Esteban Loaiza’s alleged DUI.

Beane said, “I don’t want to wake up in the morning and have to hear about something worse happening. There will certainly be internal grumbling, but this one’s too easy.”

Given the business relationship between MLB and the breweries (I mean, the teams must rake in a healthy pile of cash for all the advertisements and naming rights beer companies buy), one wonders if there will be some external grumbling as well. Props to Beane for making this call.