Is it bad that I think that guy is awesome?

toasted sandwiches, ranked:

Know who was one of the best pitchers of all time? Pud Galvin. Why doesn’t anyone talk about Pud Galvin?

But will this simple trick help you understand what a monopsony market is?

The whole “I don’t like something, so I am utterly baffled that anyone else in the world could possibly like it!” frame of mind is so odd to me.

Unless your ability to come up with an interesting insight is located in an intellectual desert somewhere, why on earth would you resort to the tired cliche of asking “why do people eat at [fast/casual chain] when there are [better/more authentic] versions of [fast/casual chain’s style of food] everywhere????” when…

Ummm, how does Uber break monopsony power when the purchase of the ride and its pricing has to be filtered through Uber, who can change that price for Uber drivers without any renegotiation?

I don’t go out of my way to watch the Cubs, but I watch them when they play the Pirates and you are right about the fact that they were unbelievable this year, but baseball is a fickle game. I just looked up the stats (I am really bored at work) and our ace (Cole) faced the Cubs twice this year (May 2 and May 15). In…

until I see his taxes, I doubt he’s a billionaire

It’s unbelievable that you can’t correctly define the term your fucking article is about.

I’m genuinely embarassed for you that you wrote an entire article about a term and you got the definition literally completely wrong. Google, my friend.

I’m totally okay with The Concourse (this is not Deadspin) regularly covering current events as it always has. But the bulk of HamNo’s “analysis” lately has indeed been lazy and sketchy on facts. Which is a shame, because sometimes there’s a good point hidden under all the nonsense, but I’m facepalming too hard to dig…

I toured a public middle school yesterday where students were studying issues and positions of the presidential candidates. They openly admitted that no one picked economic issues, because they’re boring. The irony, though, is that I don’t hear the presidential candidates talking much about economic issues either. …

It’s funny, because I don’t think most of us necessarily disagree that the situation itself is bad, or that things suck for some or a lot of us right now, but rather on how to go about doing anything about it. HamNo would have you think that having a central planning government doling out fairness and benefit checks…

You didn’t get the memo, The Concourse is now Neo-Gawker. HamNo needed some place to publish his woefully simplistic and in no way realistic socialist screeds.

The correct view of an employer as monopsony is that it is difficult for you to quit and find another job, so in the short term your current employer is the only one buying your services. This applies to any employer, not just big ones; in fact, “sharing economy” services like Uber break the employer’s monopsony hold,…

In economics, a monopsony (from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) “single” + ὀψωνία (opsōnía) “purchase”) is a market structure in which only one buyer interacts with many would-be sellers of a particular product.

Thank you — you saved me the time I would have spent typing all that out.

I mean, dude is a Cy Young winner. He was great last night, but he’s been great lots of nights.

1) It’s incredible that UNC staff and fans will still insist that they are fully cooperating with the NCAA and being totally transparent, and have throughout the multiple investigations. This despite the mountains of evidence that say otherwise and the fact that they continue to try every trick in the book to squirm…