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Originally Posted by slidekellyslide
Uh oh..does that mean we should move Toronto's franchise to the US? How about foreign players? Should we kick them out? Or force them to live in the US full time?
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Dan, no need to get sarcastic. MLB makes money on a team in Toronto - ticket sales, jersey sales, tv deals, etc. Foreign players (like Ichiro) brings in more money from outside and brings more interest from Asian citizens in America and product sales to Asia.
I'm not saying its bad for a team to be owned by a foreign gov't, but if the end result is US dollars leaving the country then that I don't see how that is good. Feel free to make some points to sway my opinion but I feel a foreign player playing in the MLB is different than a foreign gov't owning American industry.