Do you know who's the worst with this shit? Fucking Michael Wilbon, that’s who! Anyone who disagrees with him is instantly dismissed:

Stadiums for the Browns and Indians, plus the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, revitalized Cleveland’s center city financially, culturally and psychologically. All those restaurants and bars and nightspots don’t employ people permanently? Please.

Or how about this quote from one Thom Loverro?

The pencil-neck geeks who write economic reports and participate in panel discussions, such as the one held Monday by the CATO Institute, have no clue about that identity or the economic benefits — or much else for that matter.

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For a dude who understands both sports and economics, y’all motherfuckers need to check out my man Skip Sauer, who blogs about sports and economics from South Carolina’s upstate at http://www.thesportseconomist.com .

You’ve got to be freaking kidding about the bad-faith negotiations thing. First, the Mayor is not empowered to just reach into our pockets, which is what his negotiated deal does. Second, as above, there is no deal until the council says so. Third, if an elected representative “agrees” to do something that is in principle immoral (“I can assure you that the City of Washington will exterminate everyone whose last name begins with ‘G’ in exchange for a baseball team”) one is no obligation to go ahead with the agreement simply because someone (who doesn’t have the authority to do so) has already negotiated a deal.

There is no bait and switch. Williams was trying to force this down the city’s throat, in part by going to the press and touting his triumphant agreement with baseball, as if it was already a lock, in order to engender a sense of inevitability and acquiescence. The council simply did its job.

There is no possible way to be a libertarian and in favor of even the REVISED deal. See Henley, J., 2004.

Are you seriously approving of this kind of bait-and-switch?

I mean, you can call the original deal “extortion”, but the city did consent to it. Bad-faith negotiations are even more abhorrent to the libertarian in me.

Are you seriously approving of this kind of bait-and-switch?

I mean, you can call the original deal “extortion”, but the city did consent to it. Bad-faith negotiations are even more abhorrent to the libertarian in me.

You’ve got to be freaking kidding about the bad-faith negotiations thing. First, the Mayor is not empowered to just reach into our pockets, which is what his negotiated deal does. Second, as above, there is no deal until the council says so. Third, if an elected representative “agrees” to do something that is in principle immoral (“I can assure you that the City of Washington will exterminate everyone whose last name begins with ‘G’ in exchange for a baseball team”) one is no obligation to go ahead with the agreement simply because someone (who doesn’t have the authority to do so) has already negotiated a deal.

There is no bait and switch. Williams was trying to force this down the city’s throat, in part by going to the press and touting his triumphant agreement with baseball, as if it was already a lock, in order to engender a sense of inevitability and acquiescence. The council simply did its job.

There is no possible way to be a libertarian and in favor of even the REVISED deal. See Henley, J., 2004.

Do you know who's the worst with this shit? Fucking Michael Wilbon, that’s who! Anyone who disagrees with him is instantly dismissed:

Stadiums for the Browns and Indians, plus the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, revitalized Cleveland’s center city financially, culturally and psychologically. All those restaurants and bars and nightspots don’t employ people permanently? Please.

Or how about this quote from one Thom Loverro?

The pencil-neck geeks who write economic reports and participate in panel discussions, such as the one held Monday by the CATO Institute, have no clue about that identity or the economic benefits — or much else for that matter.

~

For a dude who understands both sports and economics, y’all motherfuckers need to check out my man Skip Sauer, who blogs about sports and economics from South Carolina’s upstate at http://www.thesportseconomist.com .