Fact: DuPuy exaggerated MLB’s operating losses by at least 22%.
The Baseball America website
features transcripts of lengthy interviews with the protagonists
in the current labor dispute:
Bob DuPuy,
MLB’s president and chief operating officer, and
MLBPA head Don Fehr. Editor Alan Schwarz sat down with each man for an hour, asking tough questions and following up as appropriate. Each transcript runs over 6,500 words.
Unfortunately, not all of those words are accurate.
While both men used the interview as a forum for presenting their positions
to the public, one went further. DuPuy made several unambiguously false
statements about the economics of Major League Baseball.
So how come every time it looks like there might be some sort of a labor stoppage in baseball, some group of people feels the need to put together some sort of “fan organization” with a bad acronym, with no apparent purpose except to whine?
Major League Baseball is a product. It’s packaged and sold in a number of ways. You can buy tickets and attend the games in person. You can sit through commercials and listen to the games on radio. You can either pay for a broad selection of games on TV, or settle for a more limited…
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards.
It just goes to prove anybody with a bat in his hand at this level is dangerous, even Hideo Nomo.
MANAGERS AND EX-MANAGERS "You never expect the pitcher to get a base hit, especially against a guy like Randy Johnson, and especially after the swing he put on the pitch before that. It just goes to prove anybody with a bat in his hand at this level is dangerous, even Hideo Nomo." —Bob Brenly, Diamondbacks…
The greatest thing I’ve found this year, though, is that in attending games you can see things you don’t see on television.
I’m seeing a lot of Raul Mondesi/Jesse Barfield comparisons from Yankee fans. I guess there’s a resemblance: both are right fielders with great arms and high strikeout rates who came to the Yankees in midseason trades.