@jcigroc LA doesn’t have grass. Just concrete. You know, that stuff you drive everywhere on. What’s the point of grass when you basically live inside your cars all day? Just touch carpet mat.
@MargBarAmerica You can have your opinions on the beauty of LA. I’ll respectfully disagree. But the traffic is bad. It’s unproductive and leads to aggressive and unsafe behavior. Perhaps necessary is a large suburban area like LA, but true cities have reliable public transport.
@NateSilver538 Worst airport in the worst major metropolitan area (can’t call it a city because a city is actually a city, not a collection of suburbs).
@geneburrus@noahcamras Rare? 😂 Let me guess, you’re one of the homers who call the Dodgers’ FO “geniuses”? Friedman may have learned from a real group of geniuses, but figured out it was easier to build a squad with a blank checkbook.
@MikeRegaladoLA The map makes it look like a tapestry but LA is just a bunch of segregated enclaves. People don’t mix because they don’t have to. They sit in their isolated cars in traffic getting from point A to point B. Not a truly diverse city like NY.
@yankeesfan13579@BucsBounty Which demonstrates that teams are willing to spend money. They just can’t spend a seemingly unlimited amount of money on everyone else. The Dodgers can. That’s a problem.
@EB21122@KevinWheeler94 Because each franchise has a monopoly on its territory, and some territories have greater revenue potential than others, some significantly greater.
@JonPgh Libertarian here. MLB teams operate as monopolists; there is no free market. Teams cannot enter others’ territories even if the profit-making opportunity in Market A exceeds that of Market B. Regulatory mechanisms are the only means to promote competitiveness across markets.