Many people think that the owners came up with contraction as a bargaining chip, a way to force the players to negotiate the next Collective Bargaining Agreement at a marked disadvantage. Commissioner Bud Selig has been adamant that this is not the case, going so far as to vow that baseball "will contract." Selig was…
I’ve been mistaken. All along, I thought that the man most responsible for the Royals’ perpetual lease on the second division was Tony Muser, or Allard Baird, or maybe even Herk Robinson. How foolish of me. It’s clear now that it’s been Billy Beane all along. Billy Beane, who robbed the Royals of Jermaine Dye,…