Re: moneyball

[Kenneth Campbell <kkc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carrol wrote:

>How much money do the TV networks, the advertisers, and
>the makers of the products advertised make off of
>them.

Which is why I say we boycott baseball. (What a stupid waste of money,
anyway. They ain't neighborhood heroes anymore.)

In terms of another sport, hockey, I agree with Ted Lindsay's 1957 or so
struggles against the Red Wings, for unionization, and stopping the
flushing of marginal players down the shitter. Likewise, Andy
Messerschmidt's free agency case is fine by me, too.

Also... I agree with the concept that the top players are only produced
through a long process of labor, in which many souls are discarded...

But if you are suggesting that the farm players who never make it, and
their collective wasted years, should then accrue to the back-up second
baseman on a team getting $2.5 million... can't see that.

Ken.

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