Tony Tavares
Tony Tavares
Tony Tavares is an American accountant and sports executive. He has served as the team president for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League, and for the Anaheim Angels and Montreal Expos / Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball...
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This partnership will best serve the loyal fans in Washington, Maryland and Virginia. We are excited that all of our fans will be able to tune into our games from March until the season's last pitch.
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I think that any new owner coming in here is crazy to try and change a general manager in the middle of a season. To be disappointed this quick, there would clearly be something wrong with the new owner.
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Jim is one of the hardest working general managers in the game and I have every confidence that he will improve our team this off-season while continuing to build a solid foundation that will yield a perennial winning franchise worthy of the great city of Washington.
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I was about to start having people call baseball
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He just hasn't been a big trader. He believes more in development. He doesn't make deals unless he is satisfied that he will at least break even.
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Some of the lobbying firms are getting cool feet.
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I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Jim this past season and look forward to working with him over the next several months,
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I'm the holdup, ... I didn't want people accusing me of being unrealistic by billing them for something we have no chance of and then saying, 'All you want is my money.'
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Honestly, most people in baseball would tell you that he went into a bad situation. He had a lot of money committed to players who weren't performing. A lot of people I know feel like he needs more time to put his plan in place.
If I get into that game, everybody's going to have a different opinion,
move position
I'm in a position where I have to react, not move forward,
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I'm not going to say it's substandard right now, but I think if we go much further it'll be substandard.
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The Commissioner said that anyone who is saying he received a communication from him, indicating that someone has been selected is not telling the truth. He is baffled by where something like this might come from because he has not made a decision.
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You want to be selling good news. With this whole hullabaloo about the stadium and the uncertainly about the stadium, it provides a challenge. There's a pall over the franchise.