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May 05, 2005
Lunchtime Links
I don't know if it will ease the pain of seeing his baseball team age before his eyes, but a horse owned by George Steinbrenner is favored to win the Kentucky Derby. Don't want to know what happens if that horse doesn't win. Click here for some serious number crunching from the Baseball Crank. And JC at Sabernomics gives Questec the most thorough examination I've ever seen. Click here and here to see what I mean. Indiana's own Radley Balko has an appreciation of Reggie Miller. Soon to be added to the Blogroll: Distance Running. Sidney Crosby has yet to be drafted, yet Canada seems to have already anointed the next big thing in ice hockey. The Hockeybird is watching the World Championships, and the style of play is beginning to look all too familiar: My goodness. The NHL has now corrupted international hockey. The same cutch-and-grab crap, slashes and hooking go largely uncalled as it becomes clearer and clearer that certain referees are tilting the ice towards the underdogs. For more, always check out Jes Golbez. Look for Jes to serve as the cornerstone of my all-Blogger ice hockey squad once I put together my roster. I don't know how D.C. might handle the Wizards winning a playoff series. And in dealing with Jeff Van Gundy, has David Stern finally gone too far? Can't Stop The Bleeding seems to agree with my analysis of the Jose Reyes situation in New York: When pinch hitter Jose Reyes took his 2nd base on balls of the young season during tonight’s 3-2 Mets win over Philly, Fran Healy was heard to comment that the shortstop “shouldn’t get too obsessed with walks. You want him to be aggressive up there.” John Perricone is all over the steroid thing in a way I never could be. The stadium game continues in Minnesota. Ted responds to my thoughts from yesterday on WNBA salaries: I don't mean to put words in my friend's mouth, but it sounds like Eric believes that gender, per se, has little to do with the disparity. He suggests that the WNBA isn't as good as the NBA in the same way that the AFL isn't as good as the NFL. And thus that the players make less money. Actually, that was exactly what I was saying. And as I read the rest of Ted's post, I don't think there's a whole lot of daylight between the two positions. Where the difference lies is in the fact that Ted thinks the salary disparity is a problem that needs to be addressed, while I don't really see much urgency in the matter.
Eric
12:46 PM
Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsNot much urgency for those of you who aren't women's basketball fans... but some urgency for the rest of us, if we want women's pro ball to survive. And low salaries like this mean that good players quit early, or don't play at all, or don't try very hard to get better, or don't show up to training camp, etc... So if we want the league to both survive and improve, we need to find a way to make more money, both for owners and players. Whether it's urgent in a larger sense -- for some gender political reasons -- that's another question. Posted by:
Might be a little too simplistic, but the the disparity in salaries has much more to do with revenue than it has to do with gender. The WNBA might fill a niche for folks who are fans of the womens' game, but I'd be interested in seeing and comparing the percentage difference in both salaries and total revenues of the two leagues. Posted by:
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