Comments on: “No other owner has sacrificed so much of his team’s future for an immediate payoff”

By: ta192

ta192 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:20:46 +0000

Well, no other owner has been so OBVIOUS in sacrificing his teams future…

By: bloodysock

bloodysock — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:01:36 +0000

They needed that extra house. The McCourts have a lot of dirty laundry.

By: bleedgreen

bleedgreen — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:56:46 +0000

Not having anything is the PERFECT reason to get a pre-nup. If you make $60K a year, and your ex gets half… you have $30K to live on. If you make $3 million a year, and your ex gets half, you still have a million and a half dollars a year. Pretty sure you can get by on $1.5Mil a year.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:57:08 +0000

I’d heed the old adage about leaving sleeping scrooges lie.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:55:02 +0000

Shall I conjure up the spectre of Scrooge McLoria – or do I really want to risk setting all my goddamned brooms in motion again? Hmmmmm….

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:53:30 +0000

Looks can be deceiving. Jan Brewer is really 22 years old.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:52:08 +0000

On my list, she doesn’t hold a candle to Jan Brewer (though I have to question whether that is really a female – uh – face, or whether she isn’t just one of those parthenogenic Arizona lizards [Cnemidamorphus sexlineatus] in a latex fright mask a la V). Then comes Michelle Bachmann, who has managed to obscure yesterday’s trash, Sarah Palin, and climb over her into second place. Then there’s Old Vinegar Douche Michelle Malkin, and the rapidly-fading-into-vulgar-irrelevance Ty-rAnn-o-rex-ia Coulter. Long list. Jamie’s got quite a way to go. It’s highly possible that if Frank gets hit by a bus – not that they move fast enough in LA traffic to do much damage – she would mount up the list pretty quickly, unencumbered by the baggage of a substantially bigger asshole. Time will tell.

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:45:42 +0000

Sure. You’ll see tons of teams do it when they ship prospects out for help in the stretch run in the next week or so. McCourt’s discount rate, however, was astronomical.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:14:17 +0000

So…..based on that statement, MLB is admitting that owners have and do sacrifice the future of their team for immediate payoff and it is an acceptable, and perhaps a common, practice among owners as long as they are not so egregious about it….thanks, but we already knew that.

By: yankeesgameday

yankeesgameday — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:14:07 +0000

“fluff and fold, my friend. When i get really big I’m going fluff and fold.”

By: paperlions

paperlions — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:12:20 +0000

They are the same age, met in college, and married soon thereafter. Frank had not yet swindled his way into a large amount of borrowing power, there really wasn’t any need for a prenup because they didn’t have anything.

By: sasquash20

sasquash20 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:08:41 +0000

Frank’s biggest mistake was marrying that butt ugly older women. If you have money you marry younger hot chicks with a prenup. He gets whats coming to him.

By: Mr. Jason "El Bravo" Heyward

Mr. Jason "El Bravo" Heyward — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:51:41 +0000

For the record, Jamie will be the first female douchenozzle on my list. You see? I’m not biased! Congrats Jamie, your main indiscretion was marrying Frank, but you certainly must have plenty of your own issues if you did, in fact, marry that ‘nozzle.

By: 4d3fect

4d3fect — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:47:50 +0000

” But now we have the press to do our laundry for us, guess we don’t need that extra house.”

Well, someone had to say it.