June 30, 2008
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A California Reader Thinks San Francisco Giants May Have Learned Lesson About Multicultural Madness
From:
Toby Atwell (e-mail
him)
Re: Joe Guzzardi’s Column:
Immigrant Baseball—The Bubble Bursts
The most interesting thing about the 2008 baseball
season isn’t the highly paid New York Mets collapse.
Guzzardi’s blogs last summer foretold of their
imminent demise.
Instead, the big and underreported story is the
success of the teams with the lowest budgets.
The Oakland Athletics, as one example, pay less than
$100 million in
salaries to players than
the Mets. But surprisingly to everyone, the A’s are
in
second place in the American League West.
Ironically, and even more significantly, the evening
that Guzzardi’s column posted (June 27th) the
A’s hosted the San Francisco Giants—-one of targets of
his disdain for its
multicultural-driven baseball madness.
Looking at the
two teams' line-ups, Guzzardi may be right in his
prediction that better things are ahead for American
players. And, at the same time, the Giants may have
learned a lesson about how to put together a better,
less diverse team.
With baseball’s
designated hitter rule in effect, ten men played.
From the A’s squad, nine were American-born; from the
Giants, eight.
Atwell
lives in Los Angeles. He notes that the Dodgers haven’t
benefited from their
multicultural pitching staff, which includes a
Dominican, a Korean, two Japanese and a Taiwanese. The
team is five games under .500 as of June 30th.
