All eight teams have billionaire owners willing to spend whatever it takes to win.

According to this Forbes list from last year, baseball boasted eight billionaire owners in 2010.

He knows the public is sickened by what it considers as bickering between millionaire players and billionaire owners.

Conversely, if the criterion is not satisfied, hiring makes no economic sense, even for billionaire owners.

And he is not a billionaire owner.

But the public no longer cares to draw distinctions between billionaire owners and millionaire players.

But if Snyder does fire Schottenheimer after this year, it would be at great cost to the billionaire owner.

Mustering sympathy for a billionaire owner is a tough sell.

Why spend nearly $1 billion of public money to subsidize facilities for a private industry in which billionaire owners pay multimillion-dollar salaries to average players?

It is obvious these candidates haven't thought of these ideas, but are trying to please their billionaire owners.