(Gus Chan, The Plain Dealer)
CLEVELAND -- On deck: the Indians.
Don't think for a minute the taxpayer-financed feast for sports facility money will end when the Cavaliers' request for $70 million of tax money is resolved.
The dirty little secret is that the Greater Cleveland market is becoming too small, our demographics too mediocre, to forever justify being home to the big three of professional sports franchises - baseball, basketball and football.
And because the region isn't growing, we will always have to overpay to keep them.
Leaders in parts of the country with growing populations and better economies will always eye Cleveland as a place from which they might someday steal a team.