Second, to further quote from the Baseball Primer discussion:
Finally, I’ve not yet found a MLB apologist who is willing to answer the following set of questions:
When was the last time that a major league baseball team was sold at a loss?
If baseball teams are in such dire financial straits, why are there no shortage of potential purchasers any time a team is put up for sale? More to the point, why are past team owners eager to get back into the ownership biz–see Loria, Harrington, etc.–if it’s such a losing proposition? Hmm?
Selig’s lying is reaching levels of surrealism even I would never have believed possible. I absolutely cannot fathom how he can spew such ridiculous fictions and keep a straight face. Honest to God, you would have to be retarded to believe the man. Selig is openly blackmailing municipal and state government; he has lied to Congress; he has used a conspirator to destroy one franchise and is now using the same man to destroy another; he lies almost every time he saying anything.
I love baseball, but I’m losing interest in MLB; the owners are, for the first time in 40 years, successfully driving fans away. And we’re at the beginning of that trend; another strike and cancelled World Series would probably drop attendance by 25% and maybe more. The idiocy apparent in this industry is on par with the dumbest corporate strategies in the entire history of industralized nations.
Now, despite being a NY teams fan, I’m all for a Minnesota Twins–Montreal Expos World Series. What they gonna call it–The Bankrupt World Series? Anybody with me?
Admittedly, it can be difficult to feel sympathy for either side in this little upcoming war but I don’t get the feeling that every time he opens his mouth Don Fehr is lying.
Don’t get me wrong, he’s going to paint his side in the best light possible. But he hasn’t actively lied.
Me? I’d love to see the Players agree to the bankruptcy of 6-8 teams. Just to see the hubris taken down a step.
