March 23, 2004
With your nose cut off, how does your face smell?
Derek Zumsteg of Baseballprospectus.com (article for paid subscribers only) estimates that the other 29 MLB teams will end up spending at least $130 million running the Montreal Expos once their third straight season as wards of the state is through. "That probably wouldn't build a stadium anywhere near a metro market that could support a team well," writes Zumsteg. "It almost certainly would have allowed them to complete the financing to fill the gap in Portland, though, and probably in Northern Virginia as well. If baseball had gone to D.C. with that kind of money, they could almost certainly have gotten that deal done, too. It might even have been able to revive baseball in Quebec for that matter." The way his Plan A is going, maybe Bud Selig should have just tried the CD trick.
