Stuff bouncing around my brain as I wonder how we might contract by 30 owners, not two: I’ve been reading about how the Diamondbacks are going to lose $50 million this year, and how they’re going to suffer in the future because of all the deferred money they have to pay, stretching into 2008. This…
The Arizona Diamondbacks are keeping it simple. Their philosophy of winning is not at all complicated. It isn’t predicated on some strange brand of aggressive baserunning, or a managerial zeal for sound fundamentals, or the ticking-time-bomb brand of big-inning baseball practiced by the Oakland A’s. No, the Diamondbacks’ theory on winning is this: hand the…
The contraction drums are beating. Just recently, you may have seen this trial balloon: Contraction would begin to reverse the damage done by two dumb and dumber expansions that cost nearsighted owners many times more than the relatively few pennies they pocketed. — Peter Gammons, Oct. 26, 2001. This is really a two-part statement, so…