Via playbook: “A note from our own Ryan Lizza:“Because of my connection to this story through my ex-fiancée, my editors and I have agreed that I won't be involved in any coverage of Kennedy in Playbook or elsewhere at POLITICO.”
The greatest three year run in baseball history ends with beat writers finding an empty locker and the Angels declining to comment on why, possibly because the team is refusing to IL injured players to run a luxury tax scam. I hope Moreno and Minasian feel the proper shame.
The Angels got six years of team control for the greatest player in baseball history for $2.3 million in international slot money to pair him with the already present best player of the 2010s, and will not have finished within 10 games of the playoffs in any full season.
John Fisher is the worst MLB owner of the 21st century, which is really saying something. But let’s not forget all the people who helped him get to this day—his fellow owners, his allies in the league office, Nevada politicians, his handful of cronies in the media, and so on.
the people that might die from this aren’t going to be Marlins players, most likely; it’ll be the hotel concierge’s 90-year-old grandparents or the bus driver with asthma and a heart condition. And we will never even hear about that publicly.