My last piece discussed the surprisingly strong April MLB attendance figures. Number weren’t rosy for all teams, however, as the Nats, Tigers, Blue Jays, Braves, and Astros have all seen significant early season drops. Those squads are the teams most likely interested in dumping salary mid season in an effort to decrease their payrolls. The [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2009’
A Quick Blog Plug
You may have seen it on our sidebar, but a quick plug for a great blog written by San Diego Padres GM Paul DePodesta called It Might Be Dangerous… You Go First. Highly recommended. Even if you aren’t a Padres fan (not normally the hat you’d see at any random park you stumbled into on [...]
Prepping for an Awkward Weekend Gathering
Here we are, Saturday morning, I’ve been lounging, reading the paper, catching some morning cartoons and realized that I’m supposed to go to a Kentucky Derby party today. The invitation says, “Don your seersucker, your Derby hats and pastels. We expect Colonel Sanders to abound!” First of all, I’m not quite sure what that means. [...]
