You can bet that tomorrow casual fans will be complaining about the slow pace of play in tonight’s All-Star Game. But the relatively slow pace of the game in this ever-changing world is what makes the game so great. A baseball game is a ritual, a sporting exercise largely unchanged for the last century. It’s […]
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Acquiring Ichiro brilliant financial move for Yankees
Acquiring Ichiro Suzuki for the remainder of the 2012 season may have helped the New York Yankees on the field, but the Japanese star should help the team’s bottom line for the rest of the season — unless something goes dramatically wrong. The Wall Street Journal looked at the financial impact of the Ichiro trade, […]
WSJ: Tear down Wrigley Field now!
Though we’re not seeing the logic besides the need to generate flamebait, a writer for the Wall Street Journal is calling for the Chicago Cubs to tear down Wrigley Field so the team can win a World Series. We pass along the article by Rich Cohen not because we agree with its central premise (no, […]