[nathanbedford]

I have been disillusioned about baseball and professional sports in general since the Dodgers decamped Brooklyn for the left coast. I think baseball should be returned to the purity of the game as it was in my youth (but not in my father's youth) so no designated hitter and the Dodgers should be forced back to Brooklyn.

The main thing about professional sports, however, is that at all costs no matter how many congressional hearings it needs, no matter how many federal laws required, the main thing is to make baseball and all professional sports safe for gamblers.

[Misterioso]

I thin the Braves should go back to Boston, don’t you?

[TBP]

Brooklyn should have a team. They’ve waited longer than DC waited for the injustice to be corrected.

Besides, a third team in New York would mean the market is split three ways, not two, and thus mitigate the New York advantage, while at the same time causing higher TV revenues for the sport in general.

And it could give the Mets a rival similar to the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, which would also be good for the game.

So of course, they’ll never do it.