In San Diego, we learned all about bad owners when Tom Werner and his band of men thought it would be nice to run a team. They didn't realize that the price of baseball climbed an alarming rate just to stay competitive. And it will be higher in 2001. I don't know any other way to say it. The game is so popular and has so much going for it, but we have to solve the disparities.
Revenue sharing is a joke.
So is competitive balance. Maybe they ought to put small market teams such as San Diego, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and Montreal in one division so at least one of them would look good. I'm willing to bet a beer right now that the Padres will finish dead last in the National League West in 2001, losing between 93 and 100 games. That's not balance. That's greedy ownership who cares only about what is good for their teams, not what is good for the game.