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Originally Posted by Jason14h
And as a fan this annoys me ! I am not taking about as an investor, or whether it makes sense to maximize profits.
As a fan you want your team to win. You accept budget constraints.
However when the corporation is using the baseball teams revenue to offset their bad hockey investment, yes it annoys me.
When most other teams are owned as toys and status symbols, being run by a corporation leads to exactly what had occurred in Toronto. 25 years without playoffs. And then when they finally start to be successful they don't exactly open the purse.
They want to suck one or two more years out of the cash cow run to help their balance sheets and then hopefully hockey will rebound and some Canadian teams can make the playoffs so they can continue to hit their profit targets as a company .
Again, I am not ignorant of this fact , or don't get it . But it sucks to be a fan of a team owned by a corporation who needs to report to a board and shareholders
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I guess I feel your anger is misplaced.
I direct my anger towards MLB how allow there to be such a competitive disparity when it comes to approach. I would dispute that most teams are run as a toy - at least to the magnitude that only a handful are: Yankees, Boston, Dodgers, etc. Most teams are managed on a budget.
Those top major market teams are put in a very advantageous position and they use it very well. And MLB doesn't care because those markets drive the league.
I don't blame Rogers as I believe they are operating the team in a responsible manner.
More than that if this is the thing you are frustrated with - it isn't going to change! You are going to be bashing your head against the wall.