May 31, 2005
Got $300 Million
The Washington Nationals are officially up for bids. If you have a spare $300-$400 million dollars, it's MLB has a team for you. Sounds like the current MLB owners are going to make a tidy profit. The Expos were sold to MLB for $120 million dollars. If they go for $400 million, the 29 other clubs will basically get to spilt $10 million in profit each. That's enough for everyone to buy a front line starter for one year.
But if every team had an extra $10 million lying around, the price of a front line starter would probably go up. :-)
I find this amusing just because Jim Caple insisted the best thing MLB could have done was to build Montreal a new stadium. Jim, KMart is having a sale on clues...you might want to be first in line.
Hey, what happened to the old "Buy the Montreal Expos" website that everyone could pledge money to?
I pledged $20, and I'm still willing to pay that if it will mean I get a 1/2,000,000 stake in a MLB club....