Dodge r's on the endangered species list...

[Shuffler]

Dodger's file for bankruptcy.

Seems the league does not want owners to make money from the game.

That seems to be the gist of it anyway.

Story.... http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/27/news/companies/dodgers_bankruptcy/index.htm

[Krupinski]

[Shuffler]

lol I'm not really into watching baseball but I found the story odd.

[gyrene81]

i wonder if not paying the players extremely unrealistic salaries would make a difference...if they're not playing the game because they truly enjoy it, they have no business playing the game to earn money.

[Drano]

A Dodger fan from the heart of Phillies territory for about 40 years. Short story is when I was a kid the phils were horrid. Lost a hundred games one year and I dropped em for the Dodgers. Been followin the boys in blue ever since. The Phils did have a coupe of guys I'd take. That Lefty guy could start any game for me and they had a pretty good third baseman too.

I think the biggest problem is this McCourt guy was never a baseball guy. He was all about making the money but the trouble was between him and his old lady it was gettin spent faster than they could make it! I don't know how Selig's move blockin the TV deal is gonna stand up in court (and ya know it's goin there) but it's documented this guy has diverted massive ammounts of funds from the team for his own use and that's why he made the move he did. It blows me away that this can even happen. A long time solid franchise in a major major market and it's meltin down. Defies logic. This guy must really be a reject.

I hear Mark Cuban is considering it. But MLB pretty much blocked him last time he wanted to buy into the league. He'd be---interesting. I hear there's another group led by Steve Garvey that wants to buy the team too. Isn't there anybody named O'Malley that will come to the rescue here? It's all gone to hell since they sold the team to the AW community's favorite guy Rupert Murdoch.

[Babalonian]

Dodger's file for bankruptcy.

Seems the league does not want owners to make money from the game.

That seems to be the gist of it anyway.

Story.... http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/27/news/companies/dodgers_bankruptcy/index.htm

Oh, do we really need to go there?!


The McCourts need to do whats best for the team while there still is one.  Don't fool yourselves, they are maybe the worst owner and fans of the club in its entire history.  MLB is trying to save the team and its players, if the McCourts get their way, then less than half of the Fox money goes to the actual club and their already worst financial situation, the largest portion going to pay the McCourts' lawyers (including their own divorce case).

Mark my word, they'll likely get their way, because "MLB is the big mean bully trying to take away his team", pocket a few million and pay their lawyer bills, AND THEN shortly sell the team to whoever wants whatever shattered hulk remains.

I don't even think either the McCourts listed anywhere near LA County as a place of residence of theirs until it came time for them to tug over its ownership during their divorce and eventualy when MLB came around trying to save teh team.


Edit: Drano wins a free Dodger Dog from me some day. 

[Babalonian]

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[Drano]

Drano like! Drano like!





Hey Krup FWIW---I really miss Harry and Whitey.

[oneway]

The underlying irony of this whole story is the fact a California Iconic Business Franchise filed for BK in Delaware...

Read between the lines

[Drano]

Most of the world's fortune 500 companies and also thousands of smaller ones are incorporated in Delaware bro. It's a kind of mecca for corporate law. No kiddin.

[oneway]

Most of the world's fortune 500 companies and also thousands of smaller ones are incorporated in Delaware bro. It's a kind of mecca for corporate law. No kiddin.

I am aware of that

The irony is the state they are from and the condition that state is in financially

To a California Resident its ironic to me at least...

[Melvin]

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Bless you sir, you do wonderful things for your fellow man.

[CAP1]

Dodger's file for bankruptcy.

Seems the league does not want owners to make money from the game.

That seems to be the gist of it anyway.

Story.... http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/27/news/companies/dodgers_bankruptcy/index.htm

 BAHAHAHAHAHA!

 i thought you were messin with hajo about his dodges now!!   

[Devil 505]

i wonder if not paying the players extremely unrealistic salaries would make a difference...if they're not playing the game because they truly enjoy it, they have no business playing the game to earn money.

I disagree with your opinion. The fact is that the team owners would charge wicked high prices anyway, and pocket the profit for themselves. Read up on how things used to be, it was downright exploitation. It's only fair for the players to be paid well, they're the ones the fans pay to see.

[fudgums]

Buster olney said today that 29 mlb teams have rose their attendance by 200,000 combined this season. The dodgers have lost 375000 this season alone.