Comments on: The McCourts may settle soon. And then Frank would have to deal with Bud Selig

By: monsieurbear

monsieurbear — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:43:43 +0000

I imagine that Bud says that the Fox deal is fine so long as all of the money goes to the Dodgers and none to either of the McCourts, which is certainly a defensible position to take regarding a team up to the wazoo in debt. If none of the Fox money can be diverted to settle the divorce, the Dodgers will need to be sold to finance any settlement.

With respect to koufaxmitzvah, LA Dodgers fans can and were “taken for a ride by out of towners who think they can be part of the Southern California culture”. And they reveled it for five seasons.

By: Utley's Hair

Utley's Hair — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:24:12 +0000

Damn, BC, that’s extreme even for a Mutts fan.

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:58:19 +0000

You want the McCourts? Good god man, how much capacity for punishment do you have?

By: hep3

hep3 — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:02:33 +0000

A lawsuit between McCourt and Selig might get rid of baseball’s bogus Antitrust Exemption that they have had since 1922 because the Supreme Court ruled Baseball is a sport, not a business.

It also brings to mind the quote by the late Edward Bennett Williams:

“What is dumber than the dumbest football owner? The smartest baseball owner.”

By: BC

BC — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:43:42 +0000

Can the Wilpons just trade the Mets for the Dodgers? Is that allowed?

By: koufaxmitzvah

koufaxmitzvah — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:44:22 +0000

Man, they are ugly people.

By: koufaxmitzvah

koufaxmitzvah — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:42:52 +0000

“It seems to me that it could be more than wanting to squeeze McCourt out that would animate Selig to reject the deal. Rather, it could be that baseball would really, really like a marquee team in a major market to do what the Yankees, Sox and Mets have done and form its own cable network someday.”

What’s funny is that Bud Selig spearheaded the McCourt ownership because he wanted to control the spending of the large market teams. Hence, the Dodgers move from Shawn Green and Adrian Beltre at the corners to Hee Seop Choi and Jose “I lost the ball in the chalk” Valentin– basically mere pennies on the dollar.

The bad news is that McCourt actually had to borrow money from Fox to buy our team from Fox. The really bad news is that Frank and Jamie want to pass along their bounty to their children.

But the really, really bad news is that this makes Bud Selig and the rest of MLB look like fools. Folks say that the LA fans are laid back and not into their sports. Wrong. LA fans don’t like to be taken for rides by out of towners who think they can be part of the Southern California culture (yes, there is some). See, no NFL in LA. The reason isn’t because the Raiders and Rams didn’t draw. The reason is more because the NFL has wanted LA taxpayers to shell out cash for another billionaire to pocket off a new stadium, and City Council has said many times, “No dice.”

Hopefully, Dodger fans will continue to not show up to the Ravine, and Bud can restlessly toss in that bed he made.