One of the major offseason, spring training, and early season story lines for the MLB season was how the downturn in the economy would impact baseball. The worry was that high unemployment and tightening budgets would lead to a significant drop in ticket sales, with some projecting a 20%+ drop in attendance numbers. I discussed [...]
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That’s Why They Play the Games. Thankfully the Baseball Writers Don’t Choose the Playoff Teams.
Between March 30 and April 6 each and every year baseball pundits think long and hard. They take out their cauldrons, mix in last season’s results, add in each team’s off-season roster maneuvers, toss in some consideration for player growth/regressions, add in some magic potion, and voila, they have their pre-season predictions. Some pontificators use [...]
MLB Opening Day: Welcome, and Thanks for Coming
Today is a very important day, one-seventh of a very important week. Major League Baseball’s official Opening Day, the first of many days during which 162-games will be played by each team, was yesterday. This is the first Opening Day in recent memory that has not been played a week or so early in some [...]
