Andrew Zimbalist Quotes
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Baseball does have some slack here. When they were losing $20 million a year in Montreal, there was some pressure to get rid of it. But as long as they are profitable in Washington, there is less pressure. They've got eight bona fide $450 million offers to buy the team, and those offers aren't going to go away soon.
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Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy, .
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Until the L.A. market is settled, I don't think there's any other market out there that stands a chance.
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Nobody ever said that capitalism guarantees profit.
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Baseball's owners must be the only U.S. citizens whose parents never told them the story of the boy who cried wolf. Their perennial cry of evaporating profits and imminent catastrophe in the presence of of rapidly growing revenues and escalating franchise values is hard to take seriously.
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People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.
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Baseball performance is an outcome of opposing forces.
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The activity of rooting for baseball and other sports teams is one of the strongest expressions of community remaining in our society.
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The market's been soft, .. and I think that's mostly a result of the new provisions in the collective bargaining agreement.
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I don't think baseball can abandon the Miami market. If MLB does let that market go vacant, I think it'll be one of the biggest mistakes they ever made.