In light of what appears to be yet another successful extortion of taxpayers to get a new ballpark in Florida, Rob Neyer ponders the question of why these irrational deals continue to be made:There has been a great deal written about the lousy economics related...
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Trend has the evidence.
While he's wrong about the filibuster, I should note today that Brien Jackson (at 10:40 A.M.) is completely right about PEDs. As I've said before, I have no problem if.
Oh, God, coverage of the now nearly-at-hand beginning of the baseball season will once again be dominated by the thoroughly uninteresting news that completely unenforced nominal rules against drug use were systematically violated, as they have been throughout baseball history except that it was cute...
With Henderson going to the Hall of Fame, now is as good a time as any to relive the greatest Rickey stories of all time. This profile in The New.
...to the points Drezner makes about this silly column, let's start with this argument from Sherdian:What’s wrong here is obvious. It’s also not really new. Unlike the NFL, NBA and.
Speaking of Drezner, he says what needs to be said regarding the "Yankees are killing America" meme.
A back of the envelope calculation indicates the New York Yankees are now committed to approximately $875 million in guaranteed salaries over the next several years. To wit (all numbers.
Perhaps Scott will have something to say about this deal from the other side. I've got some mixed feelings about it, but I think it's a small net positive for.
To follow up on Kaufman and Lookout Landing, maybe it would help if the BBWAA would just release the winners. It's sort of amazing that a group of voters that all other evidence suggests are wholly inept and unqualified managed to get both of the...
I am pleased that Jamie Moyer will receive a World Series ring. I have no idea how many games I watched Moyer start at Safeco and the Kingdome, but it's.
Congrats to Philadelphia's local athletic club for winning their professional sports competition. A few notes:The Rays seemed to spend the series proving my egregiously misplaced skepticism retroactively correct. They played.