Letter to David Shimer via C. H-L

Dear Chris Hawkins-Long,

Please forward the following letter to David Shiner. Tell him it is a question about baseball. Here is the question in two parts:

Given the “Hoop Dreams” like focus of young ball players in the Dominican Republic, the expansion of the internet into third world countries, new concepts of the global economy as being “flat”, (meaning that the internet has made the third world a serious competitor in the world market place) what has been the influence of the exploding global economy on Major League baseball?

Will Shimer have a baseball team in Chicago?