In Milwaukee, a Bookkeeping Brouhaha
"I see our model similar to what Minnesota's is."
- Milwaukee Brewers General Manager Doug Melvin, regarding the need to develop the team's conerstones - including the farm system - instead of signing costly free agents
Well, well. Less than a decade after the people of Wisconsin largely made a gift of a new stadium to Bud Selig's team, with promises that the team would raise its payroll and perform better, now we find out that the Brewers are actually $100 million in the hole, have lowered their payroll drastically, and have tied for the longest streak of losing seasons in major league history.
And Uncle Bud wanted to contract the Twins.
As much as I've loved watching the Twins these last few years, I have to conclude that the ownership of Major League Baseball, by and large, is hopelessly corrupt. They take advantage of their anti-trust exemption to extort stadiums out of the taxpayers through threats of sale or contraction and promises of wonderful things to come. But, right to the very top, they're mostly just sleazy, cynical businessmen who want to own expensive toys like teams as a status symbol, but would rather someone else pay for the playthings.
Gee, contracting the Twins was a great idea! It would have been a gift to Carl Pohlad, the Twins' owner, who wants a new stadium on the public's dime, or else he wants out. And it would have been a gift to Selig's team, the Brewers, when some of those newly-bereft Minnesota baseball fans drove a few hours over to Milwaukee to get their fix.''
The Twins are wonderful. I feel for the Brewers. But Bud Selig and Carl Pohlad, along with all the other corrupt owners, can go jump in a frozen Minnesota lake as far as I'm concerned.
And then we'll send some publicly-financed EMTs to save their sorry butts one more time.
- Milwaukee Brewers General Manager Doug Melvin, regarding the need to develop the team's conerstones - including the farm system - instead of signing costly free agents
Well, well. Less than a decade after the people of Wisconsin largely made a gift of a new stadium to Bud Selig's team, with promises that the team would raise its payroll and perform better, now we find out that the Brewers are actually $100 million in the hole, have lowered their payroll drastically, and have tied for the longest streak of losing seasons in major league history.
And Uncle Bud wanted to contract the Twins.
As much as I've loved watching the Twins these last few years, I have to conclude that the ownership of Major League Baseball, by and large, is hopelessly corrupt. They take advantage of their anti-trust exemption to extort stadiums out of the taxpayers through threats of sale or contraction and promises of wonderful things to come. But, right to the very top, they're mostly just sleazy, cynical businessmen who want to own expensive toys like teams as a status symbol, but would rather someone else pay for the playthings.
Gee, contracting the Twins was a great idea! It would have been a gift to Carl Pohlad, the Twins' owner, who wants a new stadium on the public's dime, or else he wants out. And it would have been a gift to Selig's team, the Brewers, when some of those newly-bereft Minnesota baseball fans drove a few hours over to Milwaukee to get their fix.''
The Twins are wonderful. I feel for the Brewers. But Bud Selig and Carl Pohlad, along with all the other corrupt owners, can go jump in a frozen Minnesota lake as far as I'm concerned.
And then we'll send some publicly-financed EMTs to save their sorry butts one more time.
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