Along with questions come answers. Maybe.

Once you get even close to a million dollars, I don't compute. So, you could tell me any number about what a sports team is worth and I'll probably nod my head in agreement. Years ago (25?), a friend at that time was in negotiations to buy an NBA team. The seller wanted $80 million. My friend said that seemed like a fair price. But, for whatever reason, the deal never happened.

I don't know how much cash in hand you need to operate a Major League baseball team. We learned from Deadspin this past week that over a two-year period, the Florida Marlins made close to $50 million profit. Is that a lot to have over expenses? I don't know. The team's owners said they needed it to borrow more money as the county (Miami-Dade), city (Miami) and team planned to build a new stadium.

Supposedly, the team claimed to be poor when they went into negotiations; in debt, actually. But, they refused to open their books. What Deadspin discovered was a profit, not a loss.

Were the Marlins liars? That's the question. I say they were liars by omission -- refusing to tell their true financial situation. Maybe they did need to salt away the money, but they should have felt obligated to share the figures with the city and county and not threaten to move the team to Las Vegas, as they did.

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Next up: Is Stephen Strasburg's career over? I say, no, but I wouldn't want to bet, when he returns season after next, on Washington's young pitcher being able to have the quantity of pitches, as well as the speed on his fastball that he has demonstrated.

I think the Nationals protected him as best they could. This is a young man who has pitched in college and the minors, as well as having a pitch count restriction and a season-inning limitation.

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Will the smaller rosters hurt the Keys high school football teams? I would think by the end of the season it will. There are several players at Key West, Marathon and Coral Shores attempting to play on both sides of the ball. They might get away with that until mid-season or so, but I would not be surprised to see some very tired players in the latter stages of the season.

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What about the Key West graduates playing in the minor leagues? Catcher Ralphie Henriquez at A Advanced High Desert is hitting .283 with a home run and six runs batted in through 27 games and 99 at bats. He did not play Thursday or Friday night. Pitcher Blayne Weller, at Elizabethton in the Rookie League, has a 3-5 win-loss mark and an ERA of 4.35. Pitcher Reidier Gonzalez, who has had several poor outings this season at Triple A Las Vegas and, most recently, at AA New Hampshire, has been on the 7-day disabled list. His last appearance was Aug. 19. He has won 2, lost 4, with a 6.93 ERA at New Hampshire. Ben Harrison, at independent Southern Maryland Blue Crabs, has been starting every day in right field and is batting .234 with a pair of home runs in 14 games.

Sports Editor Ralph Morrow's Armchair Comment appears exclusively each Sunday in The Citizen. He can be reached at 305-292-7777, Ext. 264, at Rmorrow@keysnews.com and by Fax at 305-295-8016.