Faced with the potential loss of the Dash, Winston-Salem is poised to ink a new lease with the minor-league baseball team that will make a major cut in the team's annual lease payment. The team lease payment would drop from $1.55 million to $750,000 initially, and an annual ticket surcharge the city gets â to the tune of $175,000 â would be eliminated. The changes would force the city to dig into reserves to continue paying off the city's stadium debt of $20 million. If that's a blow, a bigger blow would be losing the team, Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines said. "It came down to this: If we lose the team, the city would be responsible for the whole payment," Joines said.