{"id":2057,"date":"2008-05-13T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2008-10-04T12:55:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T16:55:32","slug":"rich-white-guys-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/rich-white-guys-rule","title":{"rendered":"Rich white guys RULE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Official Newspaper of Gil Roth<\/a>, Tim Marchman has an article today on how the “corporate ownership” wave in baseball never came to fruition<\/a>, looking back on the 10th anniversary of the Piazza trade from LA to Florida. Marchman makes the key point that, as the decade has passed, the ranks of MLB ownership includes more smart, rich, white guys (and hispanics) and fewer Belgians. And that’s a sentiment we can all get behind.<\/p>\n

(BONUS! Today’s ONGR also has an obit for Irena Sendler<\/a>, the righteous woman who helped smuggle 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto. I got choked up while reading her story at the lunch table, but no one else was in the room, so I didn’t have to kill anyone.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Official Newspaper of Gil Roth, Tim Marchman has an article today on how the “corporate ownership” wave in baseball never came to fruition, looking back on the 10th anniversary of the Piazza trade from LA to Florida. Marchman makes the key point that, as the decade has passed, the ranks of MLB ownership … <\/p>\n

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