Dig this article by Nate Silver as part of the free BP: it’s called Lies, Damned Lies — Shrinking the Ballpark and concerns the fewer number of seats being built in most of the planned ballparks. With the opening of the new Yankee Stadium (which has 6,000 fewer seats than the original), Dodger Stadium will […]
Is This Place Getting Smaller or What?
July 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Baseball
Sushi, Sports Bars and Me (And Not Me)
July 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments
This will probably be one of those posts that a lot of readers in America could care less about and won’t find the slightest bit novel, but when I was recently in Sacramento around my sister’s house a sign caught my eye advertising a sushi sports bar.
I like sushi and I have an soft spot […]
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Minor Leaguer Muses on Player Wages
July 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I found this early today on Baseball Think Factory, a blog written by a player for the Angles Class-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. It’s pretty well-written and insightful — this post I found on TBTF concerns the salaries of players in minor leagues. I think most people have some idea that minor league players don’t make […]
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