Tony Tavares Quotes


You want to be selling good news. With this whole hullabaloo about the stadium and the uncertainly about the stadium, it provides a challenge. There's a pall over the franchise. - Tony Tavares



We've got to get the accounting department here. We've had too many problems with getting bills paid, bills getting paid late, and what got lost in the mail between Montreal and here. - Tony Tavares



We're trying to be patient... But unless we start getting a sign real soon that a decision [on an owner] is imminent, I think you got to start moving on. - Tony Tavares



We're going to knock these ideas around. - Tony Tavares



We want to re-establish that tradition. We understand that the National League has a commitment to opening the season in Cincinnati, but we'd like to share that tradition. The commissioner [Bud Selig] has been very supportive, and now he and Katy Feeney have to work out the logistics. - Tony Tavares



We pretty much go with the flow. Even if everything moves right, my guess is that we don't have a firm deal with the city in place until the end of March, beginning of April. It'll take 60 to 90 days to bring the sale to closure. My guess is the All-Star break [for a new owner], and that's a best-case scenario. And a new owner's not going to come in here at the All-Star break and say, 'OK, I want that GM out of here. - Tony Tavares