Rogers/Bell: Thinking About Afterthoughts

With all the oxygen in the Toronto sports conversation being taken up by upcoming changes in the world of our benevolent corporate overlords I thought I’d chip in with a typical bit of contrarianism.  In the TFC corner of this discussion, beyond trying to parse out what all this means for TFC’s chances of winning in the immediate future, a not insignificant part of the conversation has centred on the unexamined assumption that TFC isn’t really an important part of the deal.  I can’t say with confidence that such an assumption is incorrect, at least in terms of the valuation of MLSE the deal implies, but there’s something that needs to be challenged:

The "afterthought" narrative is being overstated.