Comments on: Frank McCourt will try — and fail — to work the halls at the owners’ meetings http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Mon, 20 May 2013 01:56:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: BC http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-136924 Wed, 11 May 2011 19:45:13 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=56536#comment-136924 McCourt is a chipwich. Sorry it took so long.

]]> By: craigbhill http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-136877 Wed, 11 May 2011 18:46:06 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=56536#comment-136877 1) not gonna happen, owners don’t want a free-spender steinbrenner-type they cannot control

2) negative. brooklyn loved the dodgers so much, they couldn’t bear to go to the games. opening day 1956 they raised the only championship flag in brooklyn’s sad history: 10,000 empty seats. opening day 1957, another pennant in ’56 and even more empty seats. o’malley could not get out of that dump fast enough, after five years of fighting the city blocking every attempt he made to build, on his own dime, what would have been the first domed stadium, IN brooklyn. they wanted the brooklyn dodgers to move to queens under the flight path mets fans then got to suffer with. o’malley said f*ck you very much and LA won the prize ny did not want to see any more.

there is as much chance the dodgers will return to brooklyn as there is frank mccourt will be elected mayor of LA. sorry, but the mets wouldn’t draw the flies in their dumpsters if that happened and the mets OWN THE NL FRANCHISE. stop dreaming, reality’s better.

]]> By: dogsweat1 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-136861 Wed, 11 May 2011 18:30:31 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=56536#comment-136861 The Dodgers need two things,

1.Mark Cuban as owner.

2. Dodgers back in Brooklyn.

]]> By: tuftsb http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-136750 Wed, 11 May 2011 16:13:31 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=56536#comment-136750 I’m hoping that McCourt does the Cleavon Little routine from “Blazing Saddles” and takes himself hostage during the owner’s meetings.

“Won’t someone helpt that poor man?”
“Hush, Bud, that’s a sure way to get him killed”

]]> By: tomemos http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-136718 Wed, 11 May 2011 15:27:11 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=56536#comment-136718 You’re right. You are wrong.

]]> By: jvaz511 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-136712 Wed, 11 May 2011 15:23:33 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=56536#comment-136712 No He doesn’t he has a responsibility to the Fans!……………The People
who pay his Salary!

]]> By: craigbhill http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-136698 Wed, 11 May 2011 15:05:16 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=56536#comment-136698 The fact that MLB would do no such thing as disallowing McCourt access is indicative of their unity. An owner who would cause a fan revolt against him, who had drained the well so dry he had to pay people out of a tv contract today that wouldn’t begin for 2 years—WHAT has he done with all the money from the CURRENT contract?!—that guy put himself in persona non grata territory and every owner thinks that. What are they gonna do, let ANY team limp along with the owner continuing to get drunk on every million dollars he’s given?

On the other hand, if they’d ban him it would show they felt they needed to, to win their case. That their case is a fait accompli is shown by how they will let him exhaust himself begging the others for mercy. He has to go and the bottom line is they all know it.

I would expect McCourt to return to LA and order his lawyers to file his last-ditch case against MLB and that Selig and MLB’s lawyers have already figured that into their equation. This is a business, a big one, and they have laid out their moves to checkmate him several moves ahead of his. He really doesn’t stand a chance, and didn’t the day Selig declared MLB was taking over his offices.

]]> By: decimusprime http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-136681 Wed, 11 May 2011 14:31:29 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=56536#comment-136681 As a life long fan who loves the Dodgers i would have to agree with MLB here, if you dont have the money to pay your main employees month to month and everywhere you go, everyone you see turns into; “oh boy, its mccord… everyone act busy and broke” then its definitely time for a change. i dont want to see the team run into the ground because at the end of the day its not his team, its the fans.

]]> By: paperlions http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-136680 Wed, 11 May 2011 14:28:40 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=56536#comment-136680 No you don’t, it’s a franchise and when you buy in you agree to certain standards. You can’t open up a Burger King and then make up your own menu. Those constraints are the price of buying into the particular business…..and allowing owners to run franchises into the ground is not good for anyone.
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If an owner can’t afford to (or isn’t smart enough to) run a team properly, and can’t come to the realization that he needs to sell on his own, then baseball should step in to protect the team.

]]> By: Panda Claus http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-136677 Wed, 11 May 2011 14:19:42 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=56536#comment-136677 What applies here is good old BIOB, the Best Interest of Baseball clause. I haven’t been a Selig supporter over the years, but agree that the takeover of the Dodgers was necessary before McCourt was allowed to totally bleed that once-proud franchise bone-dry (and that may already be too late).

If I were Selig, I’d find a way to not even let McCourt into the meetings and I’d claim BIOB as the reason why.

I realize this is normally BC’s area, but has anyone called McCourt a chipwich today? If not, it’s a bit overdue.

]]> By: sdelmonte http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-136675 Wed, 11 May 2011 14:17:18 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=56536#comment-136675 I bet any chats between McCan’t and the Wilpons will be interesting.

]]> By: Concretepiggy http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-136660 Wed, 11 May 2011 13:52:19 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=56536#comment-136660 I believe (based on Craig’s writing on the subject iirc) owning a team is like joining an exclusive club, and you agree to abide by certain rules/’guidelines’ that (hopefully) precludes any running into the ground of said team. Teams going belly-up would be a nightmare for MLB.

]]> By: 4d3fect http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-136659 Wed, 11 May 2011 13:52:06 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=56536#comment-136659 “Bud Selig knew what he was doing”

-I’m going to remember that quote fondly.

]]> By: BC http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-136656 Wed, 11 May 2011 13:49:17 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=56536#comment-136656 This sums it up:
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk11/5982/darth-vader-epic-fail.jpg

]]> By: lawyermalloy http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-136655 Wed, 11 May 2011 13:45:33 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=56536#comment-136655 I may be wrong but this is America, doesn’t an owner have an absolute right to run his team into the ground if he wishes?

]]> By: The Common Man/www.platoonadvantage.com http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/11/frank-mccourt-will-try-and-fail-to-work-the-halls-at-the-owners-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-136649 Wed, 11 May 2011 13:40:27 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=56536#comment-136649 As little as I care for Bud Selig on a personal level, he may be the single best consensus builder in baseball history.

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