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July 30, 2004
Hope springs eternal in the swamp
New Jersey sports czar George Zoffinger was in Houston for the baseball All-Star Game earlier this month, schmoozing MLB officials with this counterintuitive come-on: "I am the last guy anyone should come to if they want a good deal on a stadium." Zoffinger insists that getting a piece of the New York media market would nonetheless make it worth a team's while to build their own home in the Jersey swamps; if you're a baseballprospectus.com subscriber, you can read my take on why Zoffinger could be right, but only if the incoming team didn't mind a giant helping of lawsuits from the Mets and Yankees.