The Florida newspaper that broke the Anthony Bosch/Biogenesis scandal will not be handing over files to Major League Baseball after all. The Miami New Times cited several reasons for this decision, including journalistic ethics, history, a previously unreported criminal probe into Bosch, and… Jeffrey Loria.
In a scolding piece of sorts, the Miami New Times blasted commissioner Bud Selig and name dropped just about every baseball scandal from the last 100 years as reasoning for abstaining from cooperating with MLB. The kicker, though, are the shots fired toward Loria.
“One of our most significant motivations for denying baseball is right here in the tropics. His name is Jeffrey Loria, and he owns the Miami Marlins, who start regular-season play in just a few weeks. A March 1 story in the Atlantic called the pudgy art collector’s stewardship of our baseball team, which has twice won the World Series, “the biggest ongoing scam in professional sports.” The magazine’s article describes, as New Times has in the past, how Loria hornswoggled $515 million in public backing for the stadium and parking facilities, then delivered a losing season and sold off all his best players.”
