30th
My Kind of Team
Rob Neyer provides some perspective on the Yankees’ consideration of adding “non-disparagement” clauses to future contracts in order to prevent tell-all books like Torre and Verducci’s:
As a sometime historian, I can’t help thinking that nondisparagement clauses would be a terrible thing. As a sometime consumer of baseball books, I can’t help thinking that this is the greatest idea in the world, if only because it might significantly chop the number of books about the Yankees that are published every year.
This is also a good time to throw out Old Man Bizzinger’s great line (yes, he did write them, once, before he was driven crazy by those damn intertubes) about a pair of famous rivalries:
The Red Sox and Yankees is a tabloid-filled soap opera about money and ego and sound bites. But the Cubs and Cardinals are about… geography and territorial rights
Which reminds me: stay classy, St. Louis. I hope you enjoy every one of your 83 wins.
