{"id":10541,"date":"2007-06-07T13:33:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T17:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/06\/07\/10541.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:29","slug":"collusion-is-good-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/06\/07\/collusion-is-good-business\/","title":{"rendered":"collusion is good business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You know, YHB hasn&#8217;t written much about baseball for a long time, mostly because I don&#8217;t have that much to say, but I happened to look at <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20070607&amp;content_id=2011187&amp;vkey=draft2007&amp;fext=.jsp\">Jonathan Mayo&#8217;s last-minute projection for today&#8217;s amateur draft<\/a> and was moved to ask Gentle Readers all: if you were MLB (the business entity), and you hired reporters to among other things get leaks from the constituent clubs to make news that you could report about your own events, would you want those leaks to be accurate?\n<p>On one hand, if the actual draft is now full of surprises, it makes their reporter look like an ignorant moron, and decreases the value of their news service. On the other hand, if the draft follows Mr. Mayo&#8217;s script, it decreases the value of their ESPN-televised commodity.\n<p>In other words, do you, as MLB, tell the front offices to clam up, to loosen up, or to lie?\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, YHB hasn\u2019t written much about baseball for a long time, mostly because I don\u2019t have that much to say, but I happened to look at Jonathan Mayo\u2019s last-minute projection for today\u2019s amateur draft and was moved to ask&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18046,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions\/18046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}