Owned a nothing franchise for about twelve years, turned them for a period of that time into a team battling for major honours, got a new stadium built for them, was forced to sell effectively as part of the results of his divorce settlement.
the team when he left was no worse off than prior, had a much better infrastructure, had its profile in the game raised hugely, had a new stadium. how exactly where they bad owners mate?
the equivalent to what they did at the Padres would be - redeveloping Goodison, or building a new state of the art ground, turning Everton for 5 years out the next twelve into a team that won a few cups and maybe the domestic league, played in the CL 4 times and reached a European cup final, and in twelve years when they sold we'd be sat around 7th - as in back where we started.
Would you take that now?