Andrew Zimbalist
Andrew Zimbalist
Andrew S. Zimbalistis a U.S. economist. He is the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College...
direction opposite performs team
You also then have to acknowledge that when the team performs poorly, it'll go in the opposite direction.
baseball thinking people
People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.
baseball team eight
Baseball does have some slack here. When they were losing $20 million a year in Montreal, there was some pressure to get rid of it. But as long as they are [profitable] in Washington, there is less pressure. They've got eight bona fide $450 million offers to buy the team, and those offers aren't going to go away soon.
baseball mistake thinking
I don't think baseball can abandon the Miami market. If MLB does let that market go vacant, I think it'll be one of the biggest mistakes they ever made.
thinking chance
Until the L.A. market is settled, I don't think there's any other market out there that stands a chance.
crazy tables sides
Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy, .
thinking agreement provision
The market's been soft, .. and I think that's mostly a result of the new provisions in the collective bargaining agreement.
everybody excited round threw time water
Everybody got excited in 1997 and then they got smacked in the face, ... They won't go back for another round when that happens. ... If every time you went to McDonald's there was someone there who threw water in your face, you wouldn't go back, either.
tourists
You are substituting one set of tourists for another.
area cannot economic expect level raise stadium team
You cannot expect a new stadium in your area or a new team in your area will raise the level of economic development.
believe correct
I don't believe that that's correct at all,
brink push reluctant sides until
I think at the end of the day, the two sides are very reluctant to push this to the brink or over the brink. It just makes no sense. But until you get to the brink, there is going to be jockeying and posturing.
agree behind bud closed clubs fine greater lie mean owners revenue salary sit smaller sure talking threat whip
I think they will have to be some greater revenue sharing, reinstitution of a salary tax. But I don't think the big-market owners will agree to everything the smaller clubs want. I'm not sure Bud has got more of a whip than he had in the past. Just because he's been able to keep owners from talking under threat of a fine doesn't mean when they sit behind closed doors, they lie down for him.
optimistic press rhetoric sucked
I think the press has been sucked in by the rhetoric of brinkmanship. I've been optimistic all along.