One of the more interesting questions the owners faced in today's Washington Post Live "Business Of Sports Q&A" centered on the worst money that they had spent. Will Chang -- locally the owner of D.C. United, but also the owner of baseball's world champion San Francisco Giants -- was pretty explicit. "126 million dollars to one of my players that was not even on the playoff roster," he said, a fairly clear reference to pitcher Barry Zito.
Marla Lerner Tannenbaum and Robert Tannenbaum of the Nationals demurred, saying that their team is young and that they might have a better sense of this with a few years' perspective. Ted Leonsis pointed to Jaromir Jagr, although he made sure to clarify that he viewed the problems with Jagr as "an organizational failure, not a Jaromir Jagr failure."
And that brought the question around the panel to Daniel Snyder. "You know, I don't need to answer this," Snyder said wryly. "You all know." The line got a good laugh from the audience, but it's also not particularly precise.
