Notes on the Ongoing Death of Parody

This is excellent news for everybody running a pyramid scheme in the United States and Canada:

Incoming commissioner Rob Manfred has begun swinging the ax, installing his preferred owners in positions of power and shunting Bud Selig’s confidants to the side. But one of those Selig allies, Mets owner and CEO Fred Wilpon, isn’t just being put out to pasture: he’s been appointed chairman of MLB’s finance committee.

I hope Michael Brown has already sent in his cv — there has to be some important job he can get with MLB…