{"id":516,"date":"2024-05-18T08:14:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T08:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=516"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:37:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:37:16","slug":"meet-the-private-equity-firm-squeezing-america-for-baseball-stadium-subsidies-boondoggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/18\/meet-the-private-equity-firm-squeezing-america-for-baseball-stadium-subsidies-boondoggle\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMeet the Private Equity Firm Squeezing America for Baseball Stadium Subsidies\u201d &#8211; Boondoggle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cAfter all, a few years ago, Major League Baseball nuked the old minor league system, and, as part of its restructuring, kicked more than 40 teams out of the world of officially sanctioned minor league baseball entirely \u2014 and in the process, weakened previous rules that capped the number of teams any one owner could control, opening the door to Diamond Baseball Holdings\u2019 takeover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bunch of those suddenly unsanctioned teams ended up folding, and no one wants to be next in line for a relocation or elimination if the major league overlords aren\u2019t kept happy and decide to, once again, arbitrarily rework part of the system\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boondoggle.substack.com\/p\/meet-the-private-equity-firm-squeezing\">https:\/\/boondoggle.substack.com\/p\/meet-the-private-equity-firm-squeezing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter all, a few years ago, Major League Baseball nuked the old minor league system, and, as part of its restructuring, kicked more than 40 teams out of the world of officially sanctioned minor league baseball entirely \u2014 and in the process, weakened previous rules that capped the number of teams any one owner could&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}