Loria isn't in Dan Snyder's stratosphere of awfulness and villainy. Snyder started his reign of error by mandating that one and all refer to him as "Mr." Snyder (*), and it's gone downhill from there.

(*) Including, we have it on B/B+ authority, in his first meeting with Steve Biscotti. The reported line is, "You can start by calling me Mr. Snyder."

Snider has made plenty of mistakes, but he was more than willing to spend his own money to improve his team, and not for just half a season. Loria hasn't been willing to do that. Miami is a perfectly viable MLB market - they finished in the middle of the pack in attendance this year, despite waving the white flag in mid-season. If they ever get ownership that settles in for the long haul, they'll do fine.

Since Loria took over the Marlins, they're five games over .500** and have at least won one World Series. I'm not defending Loria's sleaziness, but this is like one of those Johnny Bench to Thurman Munson comparisons. Nobody can descend to the all-around depths of Dan Snyder since the days of Bob Irsay.

**and have been over .500 in 5 of Loria's 10 years, as opposed to Snyder's 3 in 14.

If the Nationals can run off a string of championship seasons over the rest of the decade, they can leave the Redskins in the dust. The 'Skins won their "king of DC status" by default, as from their arrival from Boston in 1937 Washington baseball was either dreadful or nonexistent. You can note the change beginning in the metro area this fall. The Redskins currently are a mediocre franchise that's anything but fan-friendly, a rather low bar for the Lerners to clear despite the Redskins' far longer tradition in town. It's sort of the reverse of the other end of the B-W Parkway, where the well-run Ravens quickly wrested Baltimore dominance from the Orioles and haven't surrendered that status.

It's hard for me not to consider Dollar Bill as the worst, but that could be some Chicago homerism.

Still, the guy ran one of the original NHL franchises into the ground. He took their games off TV, and IIRC they were even without a radio outlet briefly. He tried to get Hawks fans to pay $30/mo to watch home games.

And, of course, the Hawks sucked for some time under his ownership.

After he dies, the games are suddenly back on TV, and in short order the Hawks are hoisting the Cup.

And someday, Milwaukee will have an NHL team, something Wirtz declared would happen over his dead body. Well, that body is now dead, so...

Nobody can descend to the all-around depths of Dan Snyder since the days of Bob Irsay.

If only Irsay could have been an upstanding civic leader like Art Modell. I guess the depths one sinks to depends largely on the direction the Mayflower van is heading.

I thought that only players were greedy, That's what sportswriters tell me. :<)