MLB takes over Dodgers -- Update 2; Magic Johnson group gets club for $2 billion

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It's not worse than the Expos because I bet the team is profitable, just not enough to service McCourt's debt. I'm guessing the team will file for bankruptcy just like the Rangers. McCourt won't get anything.

 

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The Fox years were OK, but the deterioration was clearly beginning.

I really hate that I support teams owned by McCourt and Al Davis. Jerry Buss is the classiest sports owner I root for.

Ah, Los Angeles.

 

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As a Padre fan, I suppose I should feel the same. But I don't.

It's a sad day for baseball. No matter how much I might dislike the Dodgers.

 

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Sympathy for the McCourt regime? No thanks. I'll save my tears and prayers for the family of Bryan Stow. If Frank McCourt doesn't think a paying customer getting beaten nearly to death in the parking lot is a big deal (until embarrassed into it by TJ Simers), than him losing the club isn't one to me.

 

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The Giants-Dodgers rivalry is as intense and fun as it has been since the glory days, or at least since Tommy ran around the field in '93. That love/hate thing is there, but it's more for the traditional figures -- Lasorda always gets good-natured booing in SF, for instance -- and the on-field hijinks like Bochy outsmarting Mattingly or Casey Blake mocking Brian Wilson's crossed-arms gesture. The main reason it has been intense the last couple of years is that both teams are playing for something. That has continued and will continue. The McCourts were a blip on that and nobody gave a crap.

This is actually a good sign for the rivalry because MLB, unlike the McCourts, might clean up Dodger Stadium. Otherwise I don't think nearly as many Giants fans are going to make the trip south for the next series.

 

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I actually think this is another sign of deep problems for MLB -- far deeper problems than whether Barry Bonds might have injected a steroid into his asscheek in 1998. I realize people insist that because the Pirates overpaid for Derek Bell one time that there cannot possibly be any financial discrepancies that affect competitive balance. But there are. This stuff should have been covered to death by now.

 

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MLB needs to be more concerned with all the empty seats they're seeing on a daily basis this season.

I realize it's still April but even with that the parks are looking awful barren right now.

 

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The saddest thing about that is that the announced crowd didn't even look close to the number of asses in seats. I was at the game Sunday; the sight of LAPD uniformed officers walking up and down each aisle at the end of every half inning in a 60%-empty Dodger Stadium was pretty disheartening. And I was there pulling for the visitors.

And as mentioned above, the ballpark is starting to get rundown. That place used to be like Disneyland, a spotless palace. Sad.

 

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Tonight alone therre were the following — 14,915 (for a defending division champ at home), 13,825, 13,339, 13,214, 10,112 and 10,080 (between the top two teams in the division and one with the best record in baseball)

 

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Just think how much different the last decade of baseball would've looked if the McCourts had gotten the Red Sox instead of John Henry and pals.