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Man, how quickly and gratefully do we forget. Whatta pair. Whatever else we can say about the Lincoln-Armstrong era, it's been a step up from those two.
Argyros was actually the easier to deal with of the two. He was cheap; he was a jerk; he was arrogant, the kind of guy who because he had made a great deal of money thought that made him a great man. More to the point, a great American. But he was at least straightforward. Smulyan, well, what can you expect from a guy who names his company Emmis (Hebrew for truth). If you have to advertise it, you probably don't have much.
My favorite Smulyan bit occurred after private bank documents were unearthed by an intrepid reporter that, counter to everything Smulyan was saying publicly, showed him agreeing to an explicit plan to break the M's lease and move the team to Tampa. Confronted with the documents, Smulyan looked at me like I was an imbecile. You going to believe me or the documents, he said, then continued: he dismissed the documents, saying: Everybody lies to their banker.