First off, I need to apologize to Brewer fans, to the state of Wisconsin, to anyone who has ever eaten cheese or watched more than two episodes of "Laverne & Shirley." Thursday, I mentioned that San Diego was the only place where I’d witnessed tailgating at a baseball game. When the article was posted, Chris…
A few months back, I was a guest on a radio program, and the topic of conversation was "the problem of baseball economics." This topic quite naturally came about because the evil Alex Rodriguez had decided to sign a mammoth contract to spend the next decade in Arlington, Tex. Terms like "competitive imbalance" and "small…