Baseball Prospectus authors Steven Goldman, Kevin Goldstein, Jay Jaffe, and Ben Lindbergh showed up in DC to host an event at Politics and Prose last night. Also appearing unbilled was Clay Davenport, who jumped into the group and helped field questions.
If you love online baseball chats (I do) and you aren’t afraid to leave the house (I’m not) than this is the kind of event for you. It was a little cramped in the room, thanks to a ton of people showing up, but it didn’t detract from the great atmosphere. After introductions, and an entertaining dinosaur story by Goldman, they got right into answering questions. People lined up at microphones, asked away, and they answered away as a group. I thoroughly enjoyed it, here are some highlights that I remember:
- A question was posed about relegation a la primer league soccer, to make a team have to work their way back to the majors. Jay Jaffe brought up the point that the capital required to have real major league baseball facilities would make this difficult. And most cities wouldn’t put up the money for a stadium if they thought their team might be relegated to the minors in the next decade. Goldstein chimed in that baseball probably shouldn’t do anything that soccer does.
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