Carlos Ruiz

This is John -- -- reporting for foxsports.com. At the Major League Baseball owners meetings last week. I asked commissioner Bud Selig if there was anything new to report on new stadiums for the Oakland Athletics and Tampa Bay Rays. He answered simply that there were still discussions going on but there was nothing to report. I also asked Bud Selig if perhaps there might be a time when baseball could go back to Montreal because Montreal would be a more viable market for the sport. Right now. He really wanna answer the question and he said basically that wasn't something that was being talked about at that point. But in my opinion it should be because right now I can't see how Montreal is any worse of a baseball market. The Oakland intent today and frankly I think he'll be much better baseball market than Oakland or Tampa Bay at this point here are few reasons why. Number one what is the single greatest driving force behind it franchise value in baseball spending right now. Television media rights and walked into the Montreal that you can't do it any place in the United States.

long time and frankly were regulars -- sentences in Oakland -- something baseball needs to look at we cannot have many more years passed by where simply the large market teams are subsidizing the smaller