We are certainly pleased with the decision by the jury stating that we were not in breach of the existing lease with the city and, in fact, are in compliance with the lease. This was a business dispute. We worked through the 2005 season and we've worked on the World Baseball Classic. We just reached a point where we didn't agree.
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It's really a business decision based what's the best representation of being in the nation's No. 2 media market.
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The feedback initially was very harsh. But we knew we were not going to reap immediate dividends from this name change. It's a long term venture.
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You have an owner who wants to spend what it takes to compete. You don't want fans to foot the entire bill. So you want to come up the other sources of revenue that it takes to put a perennial contender on the field.
Strongly believes in providing 100 percent, undivided attention to the game and the issues and decisions involved.
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He could remember things that happened 40 years ago better than you or I can remember what happened last year.
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I don't think history will be as fair to him as it should be.
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He's recently taken the stance that he would rather have the focus on the team and not on himself.
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We continue to feel very strongly that we have not breached the contract. But more important, it is business as usual. As an organization, we are getting ready and looking forward to Spring Training and the regular season.
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In three years, Arte Moreno has written.5 million in checks to the city. That's more than the 00,000 (in ticket revenue) they got in seven years from Disney.
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