The tweet (report is a stretch) says he refinanced $200 million, that could easily mean he took out a new debt worth $200 million - again, we'll never know- it's not like the nats file accounting reports with the sec
A Tweet is a report, no less than a blog entry or article, Forbes put their name on it.
As far as the numbers go, sure it is impossible to be certain unless the Nats open their books (or they get leaked), but $30 million per year pulled out of the team matches up nicely with the numbers that were being released years ago when the Nats were ranked at the top of the league in operating profits. That was what fed the Lerners are cheap accusations, winning teams were pulling out much less money, content to profit from increasing the franchise value rather than combining revenue sharing with low salaries to fill their bank accounts. I remember Stan Kasten claiming that the money they weren't spending in 2007 and 2008 would be available later when the team improved, yet somehow they have managed to pull a quarter billion dollars out of this team without winning a single playoff series.
They are a much better team then they were five years ago and the payroll is much higher, go deep in the playoffs and I'll be happy, but I'm not going to excuse them for not doing everything it takes to win based on the MASN deal after they've used this team as a money machine for the past nine years.
