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2. I hope so, but we're dealing with billionaires here.
Thu Oct 10, 2024, 06:19 PM
Oct 2024

I'll admit to not being much of a baseball fan anymore (I hate the rule changes, and I've come to like cricket better), but I grew up a Twins fan (Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, Rod Carew, etc.), and I have vivid memories of Selig's contraction move and his becoming commissioner when owners weren't supposed to do that. That power-play also moved the Brewers from the American League to the National so his Brewers could have more (and better attended) games with "rivals" the Cubs (who Milwaukee hadn't played since the Braves moved to Atlanta). I trust the Lords and Masters of Baseball to honor agreements about as much as I trust the current SCOTUS to preserve our rights. I trust the Pohlads about as far as I can throw them, perhaps because I remember the Midwest Federal S&L scandal and their purchase and dismantling of the Hamm's brewery on the East Side for copper scrap.

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