By Don Doxsie, Quad City Times (Photo by Andy Abeyta)

John Dawson and Ryan Mosley aren’t anything like the owners we’ve seen in the past with the Quad-City Mallards or some of our other local minor league sports franchises.

They’re not multi-millionaires who view this as some sort of toy. They’re not what some of us would derisively refer to as "carpetbaggers," deep-pocketed entrepreneurs who don’t live in the Quad-Cities but who see an opportunity to make a buck in a potentially hot market.

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