[JRios1968]

...do you think his decision would have been different had it been a major league football or baseball team?

Which one would provide the city a larger return of investment? A stadium that regularly gets 40, 50 or even 100,000 souls on the stands...or one that might get 20,000 (and even that is stretching it...)?

[antiRepublicrat]

Which one would provide the city a larger return of investment?

Why is a city playing investment banker with the taxpayers' money in the first place?