Originally Posted by Anonymous
Nationals were booted from the FL tournament because they poach (or try to poach) from True, Hawks, ML, NL, Legacy among many others. If you add these clubs together they control many of the tournaments on the East Coast. Blocking them hits their bottom line. If your entire model is to play in big tournaments against the best teams (which are pretty much enumerated above) then you are ticking off the guys that throw said tournaments and are just asking for trouble. It has to be the worst business model ever....and explains the Dukes divorce a ways back. You don't need more proof than this: Nationals charged $2k for 3 fall tournaments this year. A friend on an older Nats team got a letter earlier this week saying it is down to 2 because of FL. Now they want a refund. The club was told months ago they were out and have only alerted paying customers this week? Sketchy.

That's what this lawsuit is about...money. It's not because the clubs named in the lawsuit are part of the Klan. That claim is almost too daft for words.

It is about money. It is about the ability of Nationals to provide the exposure for their players that they promise for the price. It is bad for their brand. What is the reason for their exclusion? It really depends on whether ML acknowleges on the record that they know True (or anyone else) does the same thing, constantly, and did not exclude True from the event.

If Nationals' hastily written lawsuit actually proceeds and ML can't prove equal/fair treatment, and if anybody on the ML staff has texted, posted, or "liked" a single racist thing in the last 10 years, there you have it.

But this is a huge gamble for Nationals......if they lose this suit, their brand is done. Nobody will want to scrimmage them, let alone place them in tournaments.