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dailybaseball:

sportsvault:

Top salary teams are not cutting it so far this MLB season. 

being in first is overrated~~~

The two teams I hate the most in sports are the Yankees and the Phillies.

dailybaseball:

sportsvault:

Top salary teams are not cutting it so far this MLB season. 

being in first is overrated~~~

The two teams I hate the most in sports are the Yankees and the Phillies.

posted 3 days ago | originally from sportsvault | reblogged from dailybaseball

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Morgan Stanley’s $2.4 billion Facebook short

I could read this another 5 times and I’m not sure I’d understand it any better, but I love this stuff. At this point in life I wish I’d went into finance and not engineering but at 18 coming from a poor family the world of finance was foreign to me.

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The War Against Youth

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Why Baseball Players Are Actually Underpaid

Two of my favorite hobbies, baseball and economics. Quick read, nothing mind blowing in the article, but the comparison with the NFL and NBA was interesting. Baseball players can play longer than their counterparts in other leagues but also start later and make less while in the minor leagues.

posted 1 month ago

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