Comments on: Billionaire hedge fund manager Steven Cohen is going to bid on the Dodgers

By: jimeejohnson

jimeejohnson — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:13:29 +0000

Be careful, or you’ll upset all the useful idiots (i.e. Republicans) who serve these pencil pushers.

By: tn16

tn16 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:35:37 +0000

The dodgers could have a Paid roll like the Yankees

By: martyb59

martyb59 — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:21:14 +0000

Hasn’t the Dodgers organization had it’s fill of east coast (or is it New England) businessmen types? Isn’t a Hedge Fund manager another name for a professional gambler?

By: pogodog7

pogodog7 — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:48:37 +0000

It never amazes me to see people who become extremely wealthy without actually producing anything.

By: ta192

ta192 — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:01:31 +0000

Sounds like just the kind of owner that baseball needs. Right.

By: birdman6824

birdman6824 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:52:28 +0000

Magic Johnson ? First time I’ve seen that one.

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:12:38 +0000

Steve Cohen would be, by far, the wealthiest person to own a baseball team. Forbes puts his worth at $8.3B. Hiroshi Yamauchi is next at $4.2B.

Obviously, the owners of corporate owned teams have higher market caps (Rogers, $20.2B; Liberty Media, $11.9B)

By: foreverchipper10

foreverchipper10 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:58:24 +0000

Yay Vonnegut!

By: hank10

hank10 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:00:51 +0000

You said ‘Beavers’. Hehe..heh..hehheh…heheh…

By: Charles Gates

Charles Gates — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:29:23 +0000

Then sign Mike Trout, call him Kilgore instead, and have your marketing slogan be ‘Wide Open Beavers,’ which ties in nicely to Beavis and Butthead etc.

By: cur68

cur68 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:02:10 +0000

So we start our day off with lifestyles of the Octobillionaires do we? Ok then, I’ll bite. If I was an octo-bil I’d spend my days in humble servitude to my fellow human, doing good works while inventing cures for things…well actually I’d buy the rights to Bevis & Butthead, Ren & Stimpy & Jessica Rabbit and self produce the greatest comic strip movie known to man…which, as I look that over, seems to be 2 very similar, laudable endeavors. Then I’d buy The Mets, move them to Vancouver, rename them the Beavers and set about buying up the rights of the 4 best starting pitchers available: a recipe for sure fire success.

By: cur68

cur68 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:55:13 +0000

Hey, he forbore all comment involving Howard Stern’s wedding tackle, so lets not get too picky with the Mick.

By: mondogarage

mondogarage — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:50:39 +0000

Well, the Youk has looked a bit chin scraggly at times.

By: Francisco (FC)

Francisco (FC) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:42:55 +0000

Guerilla suit? Did I miss a post on a Red Sox team member dressing up as Fidel Castro or Che Guevara in the dugout last September?

By: oldpaddy

oldpaddy — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:38:11 +0000

I’m sooooooo happy selig blocked McCourt from buying the Red Sox.
I’ll take chicken, beer and a guerilla suit over that mess any day.

By: koufaxmitzvah

koufaxmitzvah — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:14:10 +0000

The first step to owning the Dodgers should be to make sure Frank McCourt doesn’t hold onto the parking lots. I don’t care if the new owner is an octobillionaire or an octopus, if FMC keeps the parking lots (or anything else he had restructured into a separate entity from the actual team) then the boycott will continue.

Extra props to the new owner of the Dodgers for special clauses in the deal that involves tar and feathering FMC and parading him down Sunset Blvd during Cinco de Mayo.