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Anyway, I am officially usurping Coach's prerogative, and welcoming myself to Batter's Box. Thanks Kent, for inviting me to contribute to one of the best (if youngest) baseball-related sites on the Net.

Some readers will know me from Baseball Primer as Craig B. (If you don't, what are you waiting for? "Primer" is the perfect accompaniment to Batter's Box, like donuts to our coffee. Mmmm... donuts...)

This Hamiltonian (as in the city, not as in physics) will be posting Blue Jays-related material as well as analysis and commentary on baseball as a whole... with maybe a few tirades at MLB thrown in. Having recently lost my favourite team (les Expos, nos amours) I have been in a raging mood of late.
Posted by Craig B on Friday, December 06 2002 @ 08:28 AM EST.
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_Jordan - Friday, December 06 2002 @ 09:41 AM EST (#101681) #
Welcome aboard, Craig! Glad to have you as part of this motley crew. I get to be Tommy Lee, by the way ... :-) Kent doesn't yet realize this, but lawyer-contributors (Sean, Craig, me) now outnumber non-lawyers 3-1. So...

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_Kent - Friday, December 06 2002 @ 12:03 PM EST (#101682) #
Help! Lawyers have hijacked my blog!

Craig, happy to have you with us. Kind of you to welcome yourself while I'm still catching up from a computer-free vacation.

I thought it was Los Expos now. I can't think of them anymore without the MLB association, which is quite unpleasant, so I look forward to your tirades.

Put... donut... here...
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_Sean - Friday, December 06 2002 @ 12:11 PM EST (#101683) #
Welcome, Craig.

I find that a third lawyer consultant to this blog to be a prima facie positive development.

I remember studying the RICO suit brought by some of the former minority Expos investors. I wonder what's become of that?
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_Kent - Friday, December 06 2002 @ 12:49 PM EST (#101684) #
Sean, I think BeelzeBud wriggled away to arm's length. Last I heard, it's going to be heard by an arbitrator, not a judge, and unless the ruling goes against Loria, MLB escapes unscathed.

An art dealer, a car salesman and a lawyer are on a plane...
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Craig B - Friday, December 06 2002 @ 01:11 PM EST (#101685) #
Sean, not much has happened so far on the RICO suit. MLB attempted to have the case dismissed for want of jurisdiction, which the judge threw out given that the remaining assets (the Marlins) are in South Florida.

To non-lawyers, what that means (very generally) is that MLB and Loria said that the Florida court can't judge the issue because the contract and all the events took place in other places. But in fact, a court can take a case if the defendant's assets are located there, which makes sense because that gives the plaintiff the best chance of actually collecting a settlement.
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Craig B - Friday, December 06 2002 @ 01:12 PM EST (#101686) #
Of course, I posted without looking at what Kent said. Very interesting!
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