Comments on: Potential buyers for the Dodgers emerge

By: craigbhill

craigbhill — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:32:30 +0000

Selig knew exactly what he was thinking: He publicly said he did not want a ‘Yankees of the West’, another team with deep resources spending money on free agents and raising their pricetags for everyone but the team that could afford them, the Yankees. Selig awarded the Red Sox to people with actual cash money to compete with NY, and threw McCourt the Dodgers knowing he could only buy a team on loans, therefore stopping a Yankees-West to emerge. In further corroboration of this fact, he publicly stopped McCourt from going after star free agent Vlad Guerrero in 2003, stating his pursuit of a guy who was going to get a huge payday violated McCourt’s purchase agreement, which came out in divorce court PROMISING Selig and the MLB that the Dodger payroll would be progressively reduced to a mediocre amount. Before the situation in court could be wrapped, McCourt two weeks ago met with MLB lawyers regarding his desire to keep the Dodgers, AND kowtow to their plan, for their support, possibly financial.

SO: Bud is not a benign old fart who tries to referee. Bud is the go-to man for the owners to keep payroll down by suppressing spending by the Dodgers, among other teams also saddled with the kind of debt the MLB says they do not like—but intall, and allow.

The Players Association should come out and make this claim, which is conspiracy and illegal, unless, like the terrible NFL Players union, they too are in tight with the owners, corrupt at the top. Just as the AFL-CIO worked quietly with the Bush adminstration to keep workers’ salaries stagnant, which is exactly how, in this highly profitable depression, they got to where they remain.

SO: Selig is like the President with the nice smile and the happy talk who is screwing his audience behind their backs like a rapist.

By: craigbhill

craigbhill — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:04:43 +0000

Ya know what? We’ve had it with Bostonians.

FUCK the Red Sox.

By: Brian Murphy

Brian Murphy — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:25:34 +0000

“I just hope that when they take over baseball teams they do the right thing and plow an insane amount of money into players, try to keep a lid on beer prices, make sure the team’s announcers aren’t awful and at least pretend to be happy when the team wins.”

I don’t know about most of that stuff, but as long as Mr. Scully’s around, at least the announcers part will be safe.

By: koufaxmitzvah

koufaxmitzvah — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:37:34 +0000

Awesome photo, too, by the way. You guys rock.

By: koufaxmitzvah

koufaxmitzvah — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:36:12 +0000

What a wonderful headline. I hope to see this story develop more in the not-too-distant future.

Someone should ask Bud Selig what he was really thinking when he okayed the sale of the Dodgers to a couple from Boston who were deemed unable to own the Saux.

That’s the real joke, folks. I hope the real Dodger fans decide not to show up this year and we have a sub-2.5 million attendance. The lower the better, Bud.

By: thinman61

thinman61 — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:43:07 +0000

Thank God these clowns weren’t able to get their grubby paws on the Soxm or we’d now be up to 92 years without a championship.

By: ThatGuy

ThatGuy — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:32:18 +0000

A light rail or a monorail?

By: Dan in Katonah

Dan in Katonah — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:51:24 +0000

+1 for Ralph Wiggum quote

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:24:55 +0000

Well, if someone is enamored of light rail, I say let him buy the Feesh instead. When Macondo Banana Massacre Field (or whatever four names they're going to call if they actually go ahead with the Chihuahua's plans to sell multiple naming rights to different sections of it, with which they will go ahead if Scrooge McLoria still owns it) opens to the public, there's no way in and out of the neighborhood except by local streets and one very inconveniently sited set of small expressway ramps that already clog to the gills every rush hour without the fifteen or twenty extra cars that the average Feesh game will generate. We should have a light rail system serving the new stadium - in at least HO scale to serve the anticipated crowds.

By: clydeserra

clydeserra — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:16:39 +0000

Knowing nothing more than what I read here, I like train guy better than Stallone guy.

I choo choo choose him.