It took me a little more than a year to get cynical. In December, 2019 I implored against the inherent cynicism of so thoroughly anticipating baseball to behave like a cold-hearted business that you barely bother to wish it wouldn’t. Save some earnest outrage — the kind that’s only possible if you get your hopes up — for owners who aren’t trying, I reasoned. Otherwise you’re just giving them preemptive cover not to. After all, fans didn’t force billionaires to buy sports franchises when Bitcoin or Google stocks or whatever else are right there. Even if it becomes expected to treat a public-facing facet of community culture like an investment in your portfolio, it still shouldn’t be accepted.
The Francisco Lindor trade is a brazen example of baseball's broken economic system
