Flotsam and Jetsam

by craig on Apr 18, 2008 9:16 AM EDT in News and Rumors

I didn't want to do this but I am so out of time.

So here is the Friday edition of Flotsam and Jetsam.

Dave George tries out the rush hour trip from Palm Beach County to the Orange Bowl. His conclusion: it wasn't too bad. My suggestion: get the public rail system to stop at the site and get the stinkin' cars off the road.

It's just like clockwork, the Forbes study comes out and David Samson bashes it. I really wish he wouldn't do this. I mean, I don't have much faith in the analysis by Forbes but when Samson joins on my side, it makes me want to switch teams.

Nothing like being told the Marlins are interesting to watch but rarely competitive by a writer for Baseball Prospectus. And oh, I guess they didn't hear that a new stadium for the Marlins is more likely than not. It only brings to mind the quote from Lou Brown: "I'm for wasting sports writers time..."

And that concludes the Friday edition of Flotsam and Jetsam.

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re: Samson

Boooooooooooooooooooo.

There is no reason to take the Forbes valuations at face value, but there is even less reason to listen to Samson or any other MLB owner/employee rail against them despite not opening the books. Of course Forbes has “no information of any kind on which to base that article” David—because neither you nor any other owner has ever opened his or her franchise’s books to public scrutiny.

And that tells you all you need to know about how teams are run.

by dan 2.0 on Apr 18, 2008 11:51 AM EDT reply actions

Forbes

Forbes has very good macro information for all of baseball and they work backwards from that.

Of course there might be some specific issues and costs with the Marlins that they are not aware of.

But Samson is an asshole. Anyone can tell they are using their revenue sharing to cover their team contribution to the stadium. If they were doing so bad they would open their books. They won’t because people would be staggered by how much the upper management and ownership is being paid, directly and indirectly.

by elricsi on Apr 18, 2008 1:16 PM EDT reply actions