Here's why, in the end, I'm happy the owners kept Rush Limbaugh out of the club:
Over the course of American sports history, few things have done more damage than racist team owners. Just last week, Sports Illustrated had a great piece about how the NFL, which was completely integrated throughout the '20s and '30s, suddenly threw out all the blacks and didn't allow them back in the league until after World War II, thanks largely to race-baiting Redskins owner George Preston Marshall.
There was also the Yawkey family, which refused to integrate the Boston Red Sox until 12 years after Jackie Robinson, and ex-Twins and Senators owner Calvin Griffith, who infamously told a Lion's Club dinner that he moved the team to the Twin Cities because "you only had 15,000 blacks here," all the way down to Nazi-memorabilia-collecting Marge Schott.
If a team wants to attract black players and black fans, it can't be owned by a man who's made dozens and dozens of comments over the years that are nothing less than hateful towards black people.