Sometimes you look at the box score of the game and see 30-2 and say, 'This was a blowout.' But this was a dead heat after a year and a half and right up to an hour and a half before the vote. Then a couple of guys caved and our side crumbled right at the last minute.

The labor deal we did is very, very costly to small market clubs.

If you don't get this right, it's not going to matter whether Ralph owns the team or somebody else owns the team.

We have the least (economic) resilience (of all the states), we never built up a surplus. We don't have the momentum, and we will go backwards; the economy of Michigan will get worse relative to the other states, we will go backward 1 to 2 percent.

I think it's a general malaise and it's affecting all parts of the (Michigan) economy. Tourism will be affected; I think people are being hit and in winter, they will be hit more than their paychecks have grown. I see nothing that will help this economy, short of big tax cuts.

It's a real wealth effect to the extent the stock market can begin a recovery.