Re: moneyball

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L] moneyball

>Which is why I say we boycott baseball.<

there was a movement awhile back to shun major league baseball, but to go to minor-league games.

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Campbell [mailto:kkc@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 6:49 AM
> To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PEN-L] moneyball
>
>
> 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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