Add Forbes to the ever-growing list of those who don’t believe MLB’s cries of poverty.
I don’t mean to defend the actions of certain fans, which went well past the rules of decorum, but the emotion displayed by those people struck me as a large one-finger salute to those who want to say that the Montreal Expos can be eliminated and no one will care. Many people will care; perhaps not enough to make this destroyed franchise viable again, but certainly enough to make the point that the Expos didn’t die: they were killed by an ownership group content to collect welfare rather than compete.
You had to like the scene in Montreal last night, where 34,000 people showed up to express their displeasure with the visiting Florida Marlins. The Marlins, of course, were what Jeffrey Loria upgraded to after selling the Expos to Major League Baseball. I don’t mean to defend the actions of certain fans, which went well…
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Add Forbes to the ever-growing list of those who don’t believe MLB’s cries of poverty. The April 15 issue of Forbes contains the magazine’s annual survey of MLB’s finances. Michael Ozanian has been compiling these surveys since 1991, first for the…