December 21, 2003
Brewers "scammed" Milwaukee
After promising to spend $90 million on the construction of Miller Park, the Milwaukee Brewers ended up putting just $13 million of their own money into the project, writes Andrew Zimbalist in the New York Times. Zimbalist goes on to note that the $110 million in debt the Brewers have complained prevents them from signing new talent is in fact largely an investment: loans that will be paid back by millions of dollars in naming-rights revenue over the years. Concludes Wisconsin State Senator Mike Ellis: "The Seligs just scammed the living dickens out of the people of this state."
Posted by Neil deMause
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