RealityBytes
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- Feb 11, 2013
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Baseball is an expensive sport.
A new stadium would cost at least $700M, plus the average value of a baseball team is $700M, and the average cost of player salaries is $116M per year. Those are also in USD.
Where is the big money needed for Montreal going to come from?
Toronto can make it because the first two items are already covered as sunk costs, plus, they have over three times of a fan base density than Montreal has in order to fill the stadium. (They have close to 11.5M people within 200 miles of the Rogers center and it is accessible by commuter train and public transit.)
Even if by some miracle Montreal did get a new stadium and an owner ready to cough up $700M USD for a team, with its 3.4M people Montreal could never draw fans and generate revenue like the big cities. It would be forever a non playoff team that people would soon get disenchanted with.
Can't see it happening, it's a big gamble needing too much money up front and has too many potential financial constraints.
A new stadium would cost at least $700M, plus the average value of a baseball team is $700M, and the average cost of player salaries is $116M per year. Those are also in USD.
Where is the big money needed for Montreal going to come from?
Toronto can make it because the first two items are already covered as sunk costs, plus, they have over three times of a fan base density than Montreal has in order to fill the stadium. (They have close to 11.5M people within 200 miles of the Rogers center and it is accessible by commuter train and public transit.)
Even if by some miracle Montreal did get a new stadium and an owner ready to cough up $700M USD for a team, with its 3.4M people Montreal could never draw fans and generate revenue like the big cities. It would be forever a non playoff team that people would soon get disenchanted with.
Can't see it happening, it's a big gamble needing too much money up front and has too many potential financial constraints.