Last in the National League

Over at Fox Sports, Ken Rosenthal has a fairly comprehensive round-up of the wretched state of the Washington Expos. The franchise obviously needed time to recover from MLB's tender mercies, but it seems the new regime isn't a significant upgrade over Loria the Destroyer...

Shorter Baron Budhausen

With all the competitive balance we've got nowadays, everything's hunky-dory for MLB. And all the revenue-sharing has money pouring into the coffers of teams like the Twins, Expos, and Marlins. But despite of all that revenue-sharing money, there's no way those teams can survive without taxpayer-funded stadiums.

The Least They Could Do for the Guy

Good to see that Baron Budhausen has found Frank Robinson a new gig in the MLB Executive Offices. F. Robby will be a Special Advisor to the Executive Vice President, Baseball Operations.

No, I have no clue what that means, either. But given the amount of crap that Robinson had to deal with -- crap that was dealt to him as a direct result of Baron Budhausen's decision to ignore the obvious conflict of interests and allow MLB to run the Expos (giving former owner Loria the Destroyer a sweetheart deal in the process), giving Robinson what I hope will be a cushy job to ease into retirement with is literally the least MLB could do for one of the all-time greats.