February 27, 2004
Baseball Business
There are lots of great posts over at Doug's Business of Baseball Blog. Start here and keep scrolling.
To comment on a couple of Doug's posts, I find it interesting that in the article on the Minnesota stadium proposal, the extended tax isn't a new tax. The tax was going to disappear. As a voter, I would be upset if a politician tried to pull that on me.
Doug also comments on HBO's Milwaukee's Best which aired the Brewer's dirty laundry. Doug doesn't believe the Brewers management has been corrupt of venal, just imcompetent. I say, why not all three?
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The reason the Twins are looking at extending a tax due to expire is that Tim Pawlenty, the governor of Minnesota, ran on a pledge not to pass any new taxes. As a result, the state had to eliminate a $4.2 billion deficit entirely through accounting shifts and spending cuts, and a host of other things I'm very bitter about, and still faces a deficit for the next budget. With public financing for stadiums is still pretty unpopular with the voters, a new tax for stadia would be politically doomed on two fronts, hence the chicanery.
