Your local teams' bottom lines

Published April 27, 2009 at 3:42 p.m.

Last week, many readers lauded Mark Cuban for his willingness to lose $137 million during his first nine years as Mavericks owner.

When I told Cuban I doubted many other owners, including Jerry Jones and Tom Hicks, would accept such a bottom line, he disagreed. "Jerry would. And I think if you told Tom, 'You're going to lose money but be in position to win a championship,' he'd do it in a heartbeat."

That caused me to wonder about the operating incomes/losses of our other three major sports franchises since 2000, the year Cuban purchased the Mavericks. Thanks to the fine work of Forbes, it's rather easy to find out. In fact, the magazine's yearly baseball report came out last week. Follow the jump if you, too, are curious.

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