New Document Discussion

The article "The Trading Desk" by Micheal Lewis and the discussion I participated in pertaining to it taught my a lot more about baseball.  In the previous document almost no jargon was used and I didn't have to research anything to understand, at least on a basic level, what was happening in the court transcript.  However, in this document I had to look into how several processes, especially trading, worked within the Major League Baseball system.  While I'm not positive who longdm123 is, their comments about the article were extremely useful to me, helping me to learn about the comparison between baseball and other sports as pertaining to team salary caps, understanding what the importance of a pitcher is within baseball, and through his conversation with Joecathytesta, I learned a lot about baseball and player ages (which I later researched more thoroughly).  I was also rather surprised to find out that baseball team salaries have multiplied by more than one hundred times since the 1919 document was created.  When I first began reading "The Trading Desk", I assumed that since it was supposed to be connected to Joe Jackson's confession, that it was likely to pertain to the topic of cheating in baseball.  As I began to read, this assumption was backed by the entire first paragraph, which describes Mike Magnante and a list of almost ridiculous mistakes he had made during a season.  As I read further though it became evident that the article was less about cheating in baseball and more about the system of trading as adopted by baseball.