Jamal Greene: evaluation

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…Using law and economics reasoning, how would you improve the current organization or laws surrounding baseball? Well, I wish I could answer that question better than I can, and part of it is I don’t pay much attention to baseball anymore. I do think that sometimes — and I’m also not the best law and economics reasoner, but I can try — I think sometimes baseball’s incentives are misaligned, as far as I can tell, at least. I used to be a baseball reporter, and I worked for a magazine that was doing exactly what major league baseball is doing, which is having its audience get older and older. There are a couple of strategies one can employ in response to that. You can change the product so that you try to attract younger people and different people, or you can cling to your old subscriber base in some sense. The structure of baseball is not really well suited to the modern age, and they should hold on as long as they can to the people who really care about it. I don’t think you’re going to move second base a little bit or put in some robot umps, and then you’ll get 18-year-olds getting into baseball. You have to see the writing on the wall. Does that mean it’s a bigger problem than it used to be that baseball has its historic exemption from antitrust law?…

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