Legal Commentary

YEAH, yeah yeah, I know the Sox took the first series. Lousy pitching all around last night. (Sorry about Ortiz --- NOT). That's just the first 3 o' 18, and the Yanks always suck in April. Nuttin' to worry 'bout.

Meanwhile, my colleague Geof Smith, editor of Law Firm Inc., gave me a terrific magazine, Forbes' SportsMoney: Baseball (available until June 23). It's flat out awesome, edited by Michael Ozanian, and I read it cover-to-cover on my flights home from Minnesota last week. Terrific analysis of the business of sports, with articles analyzing everything from TV and radio franchises, MLB team valuations, women in baseball (including the Yankees' Jean Afterman, a fellow University of San Francisco Law School alum) and more.

But my favorite article was an analysis of the Sox/NYY rivalries, as they develop their global brands, by Monte Burke, and a great line: "If the Yankees were a corporation, they would be Microsoft. The Red Sox would be Apple."

So true!