May 16, 2006
The Fantasy Fight
Ben Kabak links to Alan Schwarz's latest on the legal battle between MLBAM and small fantasy baseball operators. I hope you'll read both. Ben's position is one I agree with; MLBAM should be doing everything to encourage as much fantasy play as possible. They should be encouraging competition among the small providers with licenses based on the number of players. That way, the good ones will grow, and MLB will reap the profits from that growth. The path MLB is going down might very well kill the golden goose.
My guess is that MLB will screw this up, the same way they screwed up baseball for the Xbox and PS2.