There’s no comparison.
The Lerners are worst owners than Snyder and the Nationals are a worse run team than the Redskins and I’ve been a Redskins fan for 30+ years, never been a fan of another NFL team, so I KNOW how bad they are now!
The advantages to owning a MLB team over an NFL team are considerable, particularly for billionaires, which both Snyder and the Lerners happen to be, btw. Dan Snyder operates in a sport where there had been a salary cap. The Lerners operate in a sport without one. That makes it easier to get better players where the only loss to the owners would be money. That’s not the case in the NFL during the cap era, yet Dan Snyder was still willing to do it, even if it was foolhardy most of the time.
The Lerners have and continue to show no willingness to spend what it takes to put a winning product on the field. Dan Snyder has ALWAYS shown a willingness to spend what it takes to put a winning product on the field, even though, in the Redskins’ case, it usually doesn’t work.
I fault Lerners for lack of desire. I fault Snyder for lack of execution. I’d rather have the money spent and hope for better execution because you’re more likely to stumble into being good if you have good players, which is hopefully what you paid for. If you don’t spend the money, you won’t get the best players and you’ll consistently be bad, by design. Come to think of it, the Lerners had Kasten and his terrible plan and now they have Rizzo and his, even worse, plan, so the Lerners are bad on the execution front too, which makes them even worse, a badly executing, low payroll team.
