Comments on: Report: Feds open SEC probe into Marlins’ stadium deal

By: stex52

stex52 — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:22:55 +0000

Perhaps, then, McLoria will be sentenced to 100 years in solitude.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:35:55 +0000

Sorry, this ain’t Chicago. This is Macondo.

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:59:15 +0000

I hear that springtime in Rio is delightful.

By: stex52

stex52 — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:58:19 +0000

But do they remember the taste of ice, or is only 100 years of losing baseball?

By: Chipmaker

Chipmaker — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:17:52 +0000

Miami has an international airport. Hmm, which nations do we not have a reciprocal extradition treaty with?

By: henryd3rd

henryd3rd — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:03:53 +0000

Pay to play? I am shocked! Who would have thought that this could happened in this day and age? The possibilities of politicians and people with deep pockets doing something that might be considered underhanded. Come on man! This never happens?

The saddest part about this entire story is that that new stadium doesn’t even guarantee that there will be fannies in the seats

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:32:36 +0000

….except neither of them looked at the proposed logo and snorted, “naahhh, it’s too good.”

By: gvots

gvots — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:57:00 +0000

Shenanigans!

By: thegonz13

thegonz13 — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:47:27 +0000

Loria and Selig involved in something shady… who woulda thunk it???

By: PanchoHerreraFanClub

PanchoHerreraFanClub — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:44:22 +0000

It sounds like the perfect environment for Pujols’ agent to work in.

By: badmamainphilliesjamas

badmamainphilliesjamas — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:31:57 +0000

…but their accountants were Bialystock & Bloom.

By: mattjg

mattjg — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:02:01 +0000

The worst part of this whole stadium debacle is that I find myself on the same side as Norman Braman. You’d think skinflint owners would stick together. I guess the difference is that while Miami may have overpaid for the Marlins bonds, Braman gave Miami Keith Jackson and Keith Byers for nothing.

By: 1972wasalongtimeago

1972wasalongtimeago — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:42:58 +0000

Nicely done

By: lyon810

lyon810 — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:28:28 +0000

I’m sure there will be quite a few Expos caps along the firing line.

By: mondzy805

mondzy805 — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:05:53 +0000

Feds. No good. They must think the funding is coming from Drugs. No good, Miami.

By: crisisjunky

crisisjunky — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 08:30:25 +0000

The new dome may be impervious to rain,
apparently though, not to windfall.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 06:04:59 +0000

Yanqui….

All of which notwithstanding, this couldn’t have come for a (take your pick) better/worse time for the Feesh, since it’s not going to be much of an enticement for any of the free agents they are supposedly “courting” to sign with a team that might be crippled by legal problems.

MLB is just about finished pumping out the Dodgers cesspool, and now this….Consider that if Scrooge McLoria gets indicted (much less convicted) for illegal campaign contributions (who knew there was still such a thing?), what does Bud Light do about it? Suspend him as Steinbrenner was suspended? Force him to sell the team and go back to hawking Picassos at Christie’s? Could this get so badly septic that Scrooge has to sell the team? Boy, there’d be a lot of fin-wringing over that, wouldn’t there? But it’s safe to say that this comes at a pretty horrible time for Larry Beinfest, heading to the weenter meetings to prospect for free agents and trades just as it hits the fan.

Of course, if the bright side of this is that a bunch of Macondo politicians get nailed to a hot tin rood over accepting illegal payments and/or deliberately misrepresenting the value behind the bonds, whoopeeeeee.

By: cur68

cur68 — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:45:05 +0000

You trying to say the shooters will be wearing Yankee caps?

By: yankeesgameday

yankeesgameday — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:35:06 +0000

Just remember what happened to gadaffi…

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:25:31 +0000

Many years later, as they stood before the firing squad, Scrooge McLoria and the Chihuahua were to remember that distant afternoon when their accountant first explained to them financial misrepresentation….