coyotes22;419130 wrote:Ohio people are funny.
The guy didnt want to play here any more, what the fuck does he owe you people? Why should he stay here and be miserable, because he lived in Akron? He doesnt care about all you, obviously, so get over it!!!! God forbid he move on, and try to better himself!! You Cleveland people crack me up.
Are you that blind and deaf? You didn't see the insulting display of ego and arrogance he put on for the world; you know, the one that basically gave a huge middle finger to his hometown, home state and the fans who were his supporters growing up through high school and beyond?
It wasn't that he left -- it was HOW he left, for most of us.
Had he handled this matter with even a little bit of class (apparently a foreign concept to him), people would be bitter and complaining, but they wouldn't be vilifying him as they are now. Wander around the Internet a little and read some of the columns being written and some of the things being said by other NBA executives. He's almost universally getting fried for how he handled all this.
As for the topic: NOBODY will ever replace Modell as the most hated man in Cleveland sports history. What he did was not forgivable. He lied and lied and lied -- and then he stole out of the city like a thief in the night when it was clear his own inept business sense had all but bankrupted the franchise.
Anyone who doesn't understand this needs only to do a bit of research about how the move came about.
The fact that Modell, even after getting a huge windfall of tens of millions of dollars from the State of Maryland and the city of Baltimore, tells you just about all you need to know about his business "expertise". He STILL ended up being forced to sell his majority shares in the team (what he was trying to avoid by moving), anyway, because he once again took the team to the edge of bankruptcy and needed bailing out.
