Good morning.
- Tragedy struck in the baseball world yesterday as the wife, son and mother-in-law of Rays minor league pitcher Blake Bivens were all killed in their rural Virginia home. The brother of Bivens’ wife has been arrested in connection to the deaths. The Montgomery Biscuits game at Chattanooga was understandably cancelled.
- I don’t quite know how to transition off of that story, but Neil deMause looks at all the explanations of “Why is attendance in baseball declining?” and evaluates which ones make sense and which ones don’t.
- There’s a report that the Royals are close to being sold to local businessman John Sherman for $1 billion.