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The Biz of Baseball: Voices on Barry Bonds

“You’re stepping on my son. Back off or I’ll snap!”

John Brattain - Columnist, The Hardball Times, MSN Canada.
Maury Brown - President and Founder, Business of Sports Network. Author, Baseball Prospectus
Fred Claire - Former VP and GM of the Dodgers, Author, and MLB.com
Ken Davidoff - National baseball writer, Newsday
Jordan Korbritz - Staff member, Business of Sports Network. Former owner of the Daytona Cubs Baseball Club, and the Maine Guides Baseball Club.
Tim Lemke - Sports business reporter for the Washington Times
Rob Neyer - Author and Senior baseball writer for ESPN
Roger Noll - Author and Sports Economist, Stanford University
Jayson Stark - Author and Senior baseball writer for ESPN
Paul Swangard - Director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center
Andrew Zimbalist - Author, consultant, and Sports Economist, Smith College

Repoz Posted: November 28, 2007 at 01:26 AM | 13 comment(s)
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1. CFiJ Posted: November 28, 2007 at 05:59 AM (#2626860)

Where's John Brattain?

2. Russ Posted: November 28, 2007 at 07:52 AM (#2626873)

Where's John Brattain?

At the bottom?

3. CFiJ Posted: November 28, 2007 at 08:45 AM (#2626887)

He wasn't there before!

4. The Bones McCoy of THT Posted: November 28, 2007 at 09:19 AM (#2626898)

Where's John Brattain?

Heh. Seeing my name on that list reminds me of Sesame Street's 'one of these things is not like the other.'

It was nice to be included at any rate--thanks Maury.

Best Regards

John

5. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: November 28, 2007 at 09:30 AM (#2626904)

I've heard of Davidoff, Swingard, and Korbritz...but who are these Neyer and Brattain fellows?

6. Edmundo, more Jules than Jim Posted: November 28, 2007 at 09:51 AM (#2626916)

Selig's greatest sin: Concocting the plan to extort billions of dollars from cities for stadii or burying his head in the sand on PEDs? Discuss.

And just like the humidor has made Coors a regular ballpark, steroid testing has eliminated all PED use, right?

I envision a Twilight Zone cum Seinfeld eternity for Selig and Fehr. Locked in a prison cell with each other for all eternity. I would write a plot* where they could cooperate and make their miserable existences better** but they spend all their time negotiating trying to one up each other and never improve their lot.

* If I could write, that is.
** I'm thinking in terms of a brimstone-deflector. Maybe an anti-pitchfork defense system.

7. bunyon Posted: November 28, 2007 at 09:59 AM (#2626919)

His biggest sin? Depnds on viewpoint. From a baseball perspective, it is the PED issue. From a health of the republic standpoint, the stadia funding. Either way, I say we burn him.

8. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: November 28, 2007 at 10:07 AM (#2626927)

Concocting the plan to extort billions of dollars from cities for stadii

This is good business. Fools and their money sometimes deserve to be parted.

burying his head in the sand on PEDs

This was--hell, is--good business, too, at least in the short term. Possibly even in the long term.

9. Edmundo, more Jules than Jim Posted: November 28, 2007 at 10:09 AM (#2626931)

This is good business.

So was Michael offing Fredo, I suppose. :)

10. Jolly Old St. Nick (now, with Screen Name history) Posted: November 28, 2007 at 10:10 AM (#2626932)

Selig could impact Bonds’ Hall of Fame candidacy by serving him a lifetime ban. But I am not aware of a single BBWAA member who planned to vote for Bonds anyway.

Of all the words that were written in that link, that last sentence by Tim Lemke popped out. Where on earth was that coming from? I know that the Washington Times tends to gather folks who spend their time hanging around the Unification Church, but jeez.....

11. JC in DC Posted: November 28, 2007 at 10:30 AM (#2626954)

So, who was Neyer referring to as his "sometime colleague?" Anyone know?

12. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: November 28, 2007 at 03:04 PM (#2627241)

So was Michael offing Fredo, I suppose.

Yup, but more like Tessio trying to off Michael, I believe.

13. robinred Posted: November 28, 2007 at 04:24 PM (#2627303)

Selig's greatest sin: Concocting the plan to extort billions of dollars from cities for stadii or burying his head in the sand on PEDs? Discuss

.

Yesterday's Larry Starr thread made Selig and Fehr et al look really bad and fit in well with my view of this whole thing. Could all be BS, but Starr seemed genuine.

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