Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for January 18, 2025

Reminded me of an old editorial cartoon during MLB negotiations where an owner was on the mound pitching money bag after money bag across the plate while the player there was just leaning on his bat watching the bags pile up behind him while saying “Strike!, Strike!, Strike!, Strike!…”

Jets

Falcons

US Men’s Soccer

Team Trump

Cleveland Browns

Chicago Cubs

Vancouver Canucks, these days

The Colorado Rockies are a dumpster fire, for sure, but you can’t accuse their ownership of throwing money at it.

The Washington Native Americas during the Daniel Snyder years.

(insert names of nearly every NFL team owner/management team here)

Money isn’t working, so YA THINK?

The space is not large enough to list all the appropriate teams…

Cleveland Browns definitely. Poured money into a quarterback with legal troubles and multiple injuries. Still stuck for two more years. Goodbye salary cap.

Kalyn Kahler, ESPN, How agents impact coaching searches, and why the NFL cares.

More proof on how owners don’t know anything about their sport. Or how to hire someone who does.

Toronto Blue Jays … Strike THREE! (Ohtani, Soto and Sasaki don’t want the Jay’s money).

I pick the Illinois Sports Facility Authority. Team owners, who are millionaires and billionaires, claim to be poor. The millionaires then threaten to move their sports teams out of Illinois (Please do: I can’t afford the total expense of paying for a game visit because my tax money already supports the teams). The State begs them to stay, “lends” them money and signs a contract that states that the team’s payments are based on gross gate receipts , if they are a certain amount. If the gross receipts are less than the amount stated in the contract, skip the payment forever, which they do. (>

So many teams – so little space to write them all. :D

The New York Football Giants

or an organization, like say, NASCAR, or NBA, just to mention 2

The Browns should be declared the all time winners and then retire the dumpster fire award

The Mariners would be sitting in the dumpster with the This is Fine dog doing nothing

‘tRump Transition Team’

Ar we including Las Vegas, St. Louis and other cities that spend billions of dollars building stadiums for professional sports teams?

Very, very loyal sports teams?