The Miami Marlins won public support for a $515 million stadium by saying they couldn’t compete without it. Now, after the team capped its worst season in more than a decade by trading high-priced players, taxpayers on the hook for ballpark costs are angry.
“It looks like they just looted the city,” said Michael Cramer, director of the sports and media program at the University of Texas in Austin and former president of the Texas Rangers baseball team. “It doesn’t smell right, but as a business person looking at that team, I probably would have been real tempted to do the same thing.”
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