Co-blogger Skip Sauer at The Sports Economist has some thoughts on the recent announcement that the Florida Marlins have been given permission to seek to relocate:
The raid on local taxpayers continues. If I were a city in search of a team, I might inquire whether more than one team at a time gets such "permission." If the policy is one at a time, can there be any explanation other than wilful and deliberate exploitation of monopoly power?
Well, the Twins still are trying to get public money for a new stadium. But do we really expect Bud Selig et al to let cities play the Twins and the Marlins off against one another?