Guy Baldwin
Dave Zirin books are entertaining and an influence of me in my sports writing on various websites. I think politics and sports should mix and we should take to task who actually owns these sports teams we pay our money too. David Zirin often points out how all these sports owners now days are these are all these hedge fund financial guys. I think they help overinflated the actual value of these sports teams to make a profit from this difficult business.
The only profit they make is from a sale of the team to the new owners who somehow manage to get the hard funding it takes to but a sports team. it is a ponzi scheme. Zirin and others need to point this out more often as you know jagoffs in the corporate sports media never will. I was disappointed to hear Zirin's podcast and how bad it is. The guy seems to be more interested in hip hop music in background than with the socialist writings that you can fins in his books. he is loud and often obnoxious on his podcasts especially when he talking to black dudes. Plus after seeing pictures of him he is creepy looking. Looks too much like Jay Mariottti. Anyway this guy is pretty cool and I will try to emulate him as a sports socialist.
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