This partnership will best serve the loyal fans in Washington, Maryland and Virginia. We are excited that all of our fans will be able to tune into our games from March until the season's last pitch. |
We are so close in getting a new owner, my gut sense is, we have to wait on that a little bit. As I told you guys before, I have to work within certain limitations. There's nothing I can do about that. The new owner can write his own script. We have told Jose this. The owner doesn't have to fully take over, but we would like that person to talk to him about the contract. |
We pretty much go with the flow. Even if everything moves right, my guess is that we don't have a firm deal with the city in place until the end of March, beginning of April. It'll take 60 to 90 days to bring the sale to closure. My guess is the All-Star break [for a new owner], and that's a best-case scenario. And a new owner's not going to come in here at the All-Star break and say, 'OK, I want that GM out of here. |
We want to re-establish that tradition. We understand that the National League has a commitment to opening the season in Cincinnati, but we'd like to share that tradition. The commissioner [Bud Selig] has been very supportive, and now he and Katy Feeney have to work out the logistics. |
We're going to knock these ideas around, |
We're trying to be patient, ... But unless we start getting a sign real soon that a decision [on an owner] is imminent, I think you got to start moving on. |
We've got to get the accounting department here. We've had too many problems with getting bills paid, bills getting paid late, and what got lost in the mail between Montreal and here. |
You want to be selling good news. With this whole hullabaloo about the stadium and the uncertainly about the stadium, it provides a challenge. There's a pall over the franchise. |