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Glass is half empty

By Rob Neyer
ESPN Insider

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Nearly every man who owns a baseball team was wildly successful in some other business. So I suspect that when owners fail, many of you suspect that it's because baseball is so different from computers or retail or class-action lawsuits, etc. But that's not it. Owners fail because they think baseball is so different from all of those things, and they think baseball is so different because that's what everybody tells them. The local columnist says, "You can't run your baseball team like you run ...

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