Perhaps nowhere more than Atlanta does the debate rage about the ownership of the professional sports franchises – individual versus corporate. The Hawks’ Tony Ressler and the Falcons’ Arthur Blank versus the Braves’ Liberty Media.
Insert your own retort here about the nameless, faceless, bottom-line oriented owners of the Braves that are headquartered in Denver and not Atlanta.
Count Ressler, the principal owner of the Hawks, as one who does not discredit what the Braves have done under Liberty Media.
“If the question is corporate ownership versus individual ownership … I must tell you if you look at what the Atlanta Braves did both for their team, which seems to be playing awfully well, as well as their developing The Battery, which I would stay is performing very well, accusing the Braves ownership, corporate or otherwise, of not making good decisions in the recent past, I would argue is not fair,” Ressler told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in a recent interview.