Taxpayers’ group: We won’t play ball

A taxpayers’ group has put up a sign at the Tampa baseball field saying Quebec taxpayers don’t want to pay to return baseball to Montreal.

Incidentally, on his doorstep visit chez moi last week, Guillaume Lavoie tried to convince me you could have a baseball stadium and a team without it costing the city a cent. I made the case that it is simply not possible, that the city would always be called on to provide infrastructure, transportation, security and – most important to major league sports – tax breaks. He had some nitpicky remarks, but it’s inevitable.