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In 2002, Dan Evans’ first season as the Dodgers’ general manager, the team won 93 games. This sounds preposterous today, but the Dodgers had not won more games since 1988, the Kirk Gibson year.

In 2003, the Dodgers won 85 games, with a minor league system on the rise and a front office Evans had staffed with Logan White, the scouting guru who drafted Clayton Kershaw, and future general managers Kim Ng and A.J. Preller.

For Evans, that was the end in Los Angeles. Frank McCourt bought the team before the 2004 season and brought in his own people, as a new owner often does. The new general manager was Paul DePodesta, immortalized in “Moneyball” and promptly tagged by Times columnist T.J. Simers as “Google Boy.”

Evans figured he would get a second chance as a general manager. After 22 years, he is getting that chance, but with a twist: The team might never exist.

In the same year Evans left the Dodgers, the Expos left Montreal, traveling south to emerge as the Washington Nationals. If the guy trying to revive the Expos as an expansion team succeeds, Evans is his choice for president of baseball operations.

“I love the idea of trying to put together something from the beginning,” said Evans, 66. “I just think it would be a really wonderful place to call my final spot in baseball, to make a difference and bring a team back and set up a franchise for the next 20 years.”

After major league owners and players reach a new collective bargaining agreement, probably sometime next year, baseball is expected to invite bids for two expansion teams.

In Montreal, the civic leaders most likely to lead bid groups distanced themselves from baseball after the 2022 collapse of a shameful effort by the Tampa Bay Rays to secure a new Florida ballpark by pitching a team-share concept between Montreal and St. Petersburg, Fla. When the leverage play failed, major league owners ditched the two-city notion.

Into the breach stepped Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, a Montreal technology entrepreneur and founder of Watch Mojo, a pop culture brand with 26 million subscribers on YouTube. His net worth — he posted it on social media — is $250 million.

That’s nowhere close to what one would need to buy an expansion team, but it’s enough to start a conversation. And the sentiment in Montreal is much the same as it is in Los Angeles: Public funds should not be used to build professional sports venues.

“If we go out there and say we need a billion from taxpayers, it’s not going to go anywhere,” Karbasfrooshan said.

The average value of an MLB team today: $4 billion, according to CNBC. The projected fee for the coming NBA expansion team in Las Vegas: $7 billion to $10 billion. As baseball owners prepare for a lockout, in a push for the salary cap that would drive franchise values higher, insiders anticipate the MLB expansion fee could settle around or even above the $4 billion range.

Then, say, another $2.5 billion for a ballpark with a retractable roof, and billions more for the surrounding development: not just the usual restaurants and shops but also, according to a vision Karbasfooshan posted online, an immersive technology pavilion, an entrepreneurship academy, even a “live beer-making process tied to Montreal’s brewing heritage.”

So Karbasfrooshan has started the conversations, with old money and new money in Montreal, with corporations there and elsewhere, with private equity funds from all over — and with sports industry veterans who can tell him what he doesn’t know. He might end up with a small stake in the team, or none at all.

“I’m not coming at this like some kind of social dilettante billionaire who thinks he’s God’s gift,” he said. “I’m just a guy.

“I’m a nobody in many ways, but I’m a guy who built a world-class company and executes and fundraises and all that.”

Karbasfrooshan is optimistic he has generated enough interest to pull all that capital together, but he spoke this week with a sports investment banker in the hope of “turning that interest into commitments.” He has a former NFL executive interested in becoming president of business operations and has spoken with a former MLB executive about running stadium operations.

He has Evans too, although the person proposed to run baseball operations is pretty low on the list of priorities for MLB.

“They wouldn’t care if the capital wasn’t there,” Karbasfrooshan said. “But, if all factors are equal — if Salt Lake has capital and we have capital; if Raleigh has a stadium and we have a stadium — you can then show you have these people committed. In a way, it’s doing a bit of their due diligence.

“They’re going to maybe take you a little more seriously than if you’re just a guy making noise.”

For now, MLB is keeping an eye on him. Without billions in funding and a stadium site, the rest is flowery prose, but there is no sense in dismissing any potential bidder a year or two before the bidding opens.

Montreal boasts the largest market of any of the projected expansion contenders, with a rich history of baseball even beyond the Expos. After Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to break the color barrier, he dispatched Robinson to the Dodgers’ triple-A team in Montreal.

The oft-cited lack of fan support for the Expos is largely a myth. It was the same playbook the Athletics ran in Oakland: trade away your best players and tell fans the ballpark is terrible, and then shrug and say the fans aren’t showing up. Montreal is a great sports town, with room to embrace a good ballclub.

Maybe Montreal does not get a team, or maybe Karbasfrooshan lands a billionaire who has someone else in mind to run baseball operations. Even if Evans does not get an opportunity to construct Version 2.0 of the Expos, life has been good since McCourt sent him packing.

For the next five years, Evans scouted for the Seattle Mariners.

“It kind of control-alt-deleted me and put me in a really good place,” he said.

Since then, lots of really good places: player agent; mentor in a sports management training program; Toronto Blue Jays front office; president of the board of directors of the Society for American Baseball Research; chief operating officer of the company that turned the Field of Dreams site from a movie set to a year-round tourist attraction.

“When your day is evaluated by thousands of people coming through on a daily basis, from all over the world, and they just want to enjoy it and play catch, it really improves your quality of life,” he said.

“It’s not winning and losing anymore, which was a bit of a shock to the system. But I actually won every day.”

That’s what the Dodgers do these days, just about every day of every year. They just tied the major league record for consecutive postseason appearances with 14.

In every one of those years, save for the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, they have won at least 90 games. They have come a long way from the days of McCourt, who took the team into bankruptcy.

“It’s remarkable,” Evans said. “For a lot of people, they don’t remember that Dodger franchise, because they see today’s. You and I know what it looked like, and it was embarrassing. What he did was ransack the team.”

Harsh, but the league said the same. In a bankruptcy court filing, MLB accused McCourt of “looting” $189 million in team revenue. (McCourt denied the allegations and said the league had approved the organizational restructuring that facilitated that accounting.)

Evans chuckles at the suggestion that today’s Dodgers are bad for the sport.

“Now, for a lot of people, the franchise is the scourge of baseball,” he said. “And, folks, if you only had a little memory.”

In Montreal, Major League Baseball is only a memory. Nos amours, the good people of Montreal called their team. Our loves.

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KINDER, La. (KALB) - Country music star Sara Evans brought her “We Got the Beat” tour to Louisiana on August 22, rocking the Entertainment Center at Coushatta Casino Resort with nearly three decades of hits.

The Grammy-nominated artist kicked off the show with a cover of The Go-Go’s “We Got the Beat,” which also serves as the name of her current tour.

From there, Evans kept the energy high during the hour-and-a-half set, performing around 17 songs and connecting with fans throughout the night.

Evans has been a familiar voice in country music since the late 1990s, and her performance showed why she continues to draw crowds nearly 30 years into her career.

The country star performed several of her biggest hits, including “Perfect,” which peaked at No. 2 on the U.S. Hot Country Songs chart.

She closed out the night with two fan favorites, “Suds in the Bucket” and “Born to Fly,” both of which topped the country charts.

After the show, KALB’s Jay McCully caught up with Evans for an exclusive interview.

Evans said she always enjoys performing in Louisiana and praised the Central Louisiana crowd.

“I feel great. Tonight was an amazing show. The crowd was incredible. I always love coming to Louisiana, and I’m just as happy as I could be,” she said.

When asked what she thought about performing in Central Louisiana, Evans said the experience was “awesome.”

“The crowd was so great. And we come to Louisiana — not enough — but we come here often. And it’s great,” she said.

Evans also had a message for her Central Louisiana fans.

“Oh my gosh. Well, thank you for being fans. And you guys are amazing. And what a great community you have. And...buy my records,” she said.

McCully also asked Evans about the possibility of one day performing in Alexandria.

Evans said the chances are possible, but said her booking agency ultimately handles those decisions.

“I mean, they’re good. But, you know, William Morris is my booking agent, and I have no idea what they’re scheming up. So hopefully. That would be great,” she said.

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LA QUINTA — When it comes to endorsements, Mayor Linda Evans is one of the most highly sought after politicians in the Coachella Valley. Her endorsement can easily translate into votes at the ballot box and increase candidate visibility and credibility.

Against that backdrop, Evans, who is seeking reelection in November, is withholding her endorsement of Sean Webb, 48, one of four candidates seeking a four-year term on the Desert Recreation District Board of Directors, from District 4 .

Desert Recreation District (DRD) is the largest park and recreation district in California, covering 1,887 square miles and serving more than 432,000 residents across the greater Coachella Valley. The DRD’s adopted FY 2025?26 budget totals about $34.6 million in total fund balances, with $33.0 million in revenue and $17.1 million in expenses

This is Webb’s first attempt at running for the Board of Directors. He currently serves as a Commissioner on the La Quinta Art and Community Services Commission

Evans, first elected Mayor in 2014, told Uken Report that “many people” have asked why she will not endorse Webb, executive director of the Read with Me Program, for the DRD District 4 board position due to issues of integrity.

“The answer is simple: Sean serves as a Commissioner on the La Quinta Art and Community Services Commission and recent due diligence revealed significant integrity concerns.,” Evans said. “Specifically, Sean has operated a property service business in La Quinta without a required business license since 2020. Furthermore, this led to discovery that he repeatedly failed to disclose this business, other income, and his spouse’s income on his mandatory Form 700 (Statement of Financial Interest) filings across multiple public roles for years.

“It was only after these issues were uncovered and he filed to run for the DRD board that he moved to pay six years of back business license fees and amend his past financial disclosures.”

Public officials must set the example and earn the voters’ trust, Evans said.

“Repeatedly failing to adhere to mandatory disclosure and licensing requirements is unacceptable,” Evans said. “While I respect those who have chosen to endorse him, I cannot join the majority of the council in endorsing a candidate under these circumstances. The Form 700 documents are available for community review.”

Webb told Uken Report Tuesday evening that he submitted the corrected paperwork “immediately upon learning of the inadvertent administrative oversight.”

(Parenthetically, Webb told Uken Report he traveled to Riverside to file the corrected paperwork on Friday, Oct. 2. The date stamp on the document is Aug 5, 2026 . Does that make sense to you? Elizabeth Florer, public information officer for the Registrar’s office, said. “This is the only form we have which was received on Aug 5, 2026.”)

“There is an election underway, and voters should distinguish between legitimate questions about a candidate’s disclosures and an effort by political opponents to manufacture controversy from matters that were identified, disclosed and corrected” Webb said in a statement.

“I am running for the Desert Recreation District because I feel like I can contribute to the meaningful work Desert Recreation provides to the communities it serves and I’ll continue to talk about the issues of fiscal responsibility, Safe parks and recreation for every family,” Webb concluded.

An official seven count complaint has also been filed with the Fair Political Practices Commission. It was filed on Sept. 28 at 4:15 p.m., so the steam has been building toward Webb for a while. It was only a matter of time before the lid blew off. The complainant was anonymous. The complaint, which you can read here, alleges that Webb:

Fitzpatrick said she usually remains neutral in Valley races, But, when I heard that La Quinta has a commissioner running for a public office that hasn’t taken his reporting responsibility seriously, I felt it was incumbent upon me to comment.

“I’m very disappointed to learn that Mr. Webb, who is an educator and a commissioner, has failed to take the requirements to report income seriously,” Fitzpatrick said in a statement. “And that he has operated two businesses in La Quinta for a number of years before he recently secured business licenses. The same rules apply to each (and) all of us. I would not be comfortable having someone who has ignored the rules representing our residents in La Quinta.”

Former City Councilor Robert Radi reviewed all of the forms Evans did.

These two additional forms reinforce the perception that a candidate for public office has settled into a pattern of “incomplete disclosure. The pattern, not any single filing, makes this a matter of public interest,” Radi said.

While it is reasonable to infer that a pattern exists, the next question matters for public office, Radi said. What holds such a pattern in place, and is it relevant to holding public office?

“Leadership behavior offers a useful lens through the two classic errors of judgment. An Error of Omission is failing to do something that should have been done. An Error of Commission is actively doing something but doing it incorrectly. Both are germane to executive leadership and public office. Here, both appear. Interests were left off the form, and a form was completed and certified, yet completed incompletely. The effect is the same. The public loses the visibility the form is meant to provide, as illustrated in my previous comments.”

No date has been set as to when the FPPC might act on the Webb complaint.