That was MLB's last franchise relocation, and Commissioner Bud Selig would like to keep it that way. Speaking in an interview with the Washington Post , Jeffrey Loria, the Expos' majority general partner, said the team's financial troubles run far deeper than he thought when he bought it about a year ago. You have an exchange rate, which is 40 cents on every dollar. We get killed. And there's no competition in television dollars.
TV is basically a monopoly in Canada.
You get the number they give you.