Quote:Khan dosent need to open the books to prove financial loss, all he needs to do is just request a new stadium, get push-back from the local municipal to justify him needing to relocate.

 

There is a specific reason the cities of San Diego, Oakland,  and St Louis haven't asked the respective owners to show their financial losses because there is none. They know that it, and it would be a pointless argument, That's the angle the League has pushed the owners to use. 

That's not how the lease is laid out.  There are only 2 ways to break the lease.  One is to show that the city has not fulfilled their end of the agreement to keep the stadium up to date, which is going to be impossible to sell considering the city either has a plan for future enhancements, or has already delivered on upgrade requests.  The other is to show a loss in 3 consecutive seasons.  That has to be done under the supervision of the local courts.

 

What is happening in other cities is completely irrelevant to the situation here.  The lease wording for those stadiums is what those teams negotiated.  In the case of St. Louis and San Diego, the leases have expired, and they're on a year-to-year basis. 

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