"I think the Blue Jays are in a new state of being with Edward (Rogers, the executive chair of Rogers Communications Inc., which owns the team, along with Sportsnet), being where he is (and) his commitment to sports in total,» Boras said. «I think as a businessman, for his operation and communications, he's a behemoth in sport. There really are few in sport that are (at that level), I've been saying this about Toronto for years, and now with the recent (consolidation) of hockey and basketball and soccer, I would imagine that he probably wants to be involved in some other sports where they wear helmets, I don't know.
«But the idea of it is that there is really no ownership group that has that level of investment and then distribution to a nation unilaterally in 40 million people,» Boras continued. «So it's a sports entertainment juggernaut and should be viewed as such."