Posted on 05/31/2014 10:52:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Move it to Seattle?
The reason of course is that Ballmer is a racist White bastard who would pay any amount to keep the team from falling into Black ownership! Well that’s what I heard from Al and Jesse.
I doubt that he will move the team to Seattle as the opportunity to recover his two billion dollar expenditure would not exist as it might in LA.
We've left free market economics behind. Now it's about power and emotion, just as it was in the age of the Monarchs. Some people don't have to "make money" and they turn their nose up at "profit". They simply "have" money and privilege. They are at the top, and their children will be at the top. It's just the way it's meant to be.
Now, back to the fields you serfs! There is work to be done! Your masters are hungry.
Sterling laughing all the way to the bank. And his opposition to the sale? Just laying groundwork for (a) proving it was a forced sale because of the ginormous tax ramifications (probably about $300 or so million worth) and (b) his lawyers to sue the crud out of everyone.
These idiots have been played by the Sterlings. It’s so obvious - except to agenda driven leftist idiots...
He has long wanted a basketball team and this was his chance to get one, pure and simple. So he overpaid, good on him. It’s his hobby and his money and if this was what he wanted, more power to him. Why try to create a conspiracy where there is not one? Think of classic cars, people overpay for them all the time because it’s about the emotion and not the price. M2C.
“Ballmer, who is worth an estimated $20 billion, certainly can afford to buy any toy he wants.”
Hello liberals! Rich guy playing again, where’s the complaining?
and put all team employees on minimum wage
I thought the NY Yankees were the most valuable sports franchise in the country at 1.9 billion. Seems like he paid way to much.
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I’ll buy me a basketball team.
As far as the price of the Clippers? I stated this on a previous thread: it's not unusual for a guy with a mid-life crisis to spend 10% (or more) of his life savings to get his favorite toy.
And meanwhile, the Sterlings can have some lawsuit fun with the NBA and others involved, if they want. And the owners won't have to worry about the repurcussions of a vote and a fear of someone going after their teams for the crime of being imperfect.
Or bring in some H-1B’s.
He’d better make a real big splash, because even though the Lakers are down, they are still LA’s team.
That’s why I expect Ballmer to go hard after LeBron James in the off season.
I remember when the Celtics went public.
Turned out to be an accounting nightmare as many of the fans that bought shares, especially a single share, framed, rather than cashed, the dividend checks.
Obviously that implies that the same fans took possession of the stock certificates...which were probably also framed.
The whole idea of paying that much is ludicrous. The fans are the ones that are going to suffer from inflated ticket and concession prices.
For some reason, Seattle is not a basketball city.
“Yeah!”
“Why does anyone do anything?”
“I don’t know, I was really drunk at the time!”
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