[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Jay Random

The Montreal group is not asking MLB for public money. They have to have public money already committed (by at least two levels of government, it appears) as a condition of being granted a franchise. If they were going to the City of Montreal and the Province of Quebec to ask for public money, it would be entirely idiotic of the city and province to make that public money conditional on the owners having already secured a commitment of public money.

The situations are not comparable in any way.

What?