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Soros Joins Ledecky's Bid For Nationals
washingtonpost.com ^ | Thursday, June 2, 2005 | Thomas Heath, Washington Post Staff Writer

Posted on 06/02/2005 10:13:11 AM PDT by Che Chihuahua

Billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros has joined Washington entrepreneur Jonathan Ledecky's bid to purchase the Washington Nationals, Ledecky said in an interview yesterday.

"The Soros family shares my belief that the Washington Nationals are a community trust that can serve as a positive platform for the economic development of the inner city," Ledecky said.

Soros spokesman Michael Vachon declined to comment. The Soros announcement is the latest in a flurry of activity in recent days as at least seven groups have filed initial bids for the Nationals with Major League Baseball, according to baseball sources. Several groups have added major partners in recent days: former secretary of state Colin L. Powell joined the Fred Malek-Jeffrey Zients group; Sallie Mae Chairman Albert L. Lord took over the William Collins-led group on Tuesday, and former Illinois senator Peter Fitzgerald became part of the Lord group...

...MLB, which owns the Nationals, is hoping the team will fetch up to $400 million, which would be one of the highest prices ever paid for a baseball team. The Nationals, formerly known as the Montreal Expos, are scheduled to move into a publicly built, $535 million stadium project along the Anacostia River waterfront in April 2008...[Emphasis added]

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; colinpowell; community; dc; development; economy; majorleague; mlb; nationals; nats; opensociety; rfkstadium; soros; trust; washington; washingtonnationals
Is there anything sacred that this twisted little satanic bastard can't or won't try to corrupt?
1 posted on 06/02/2005 10:13:13 AM PDT by Che Chihuahua
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To: Che Chihuahua
Another reason to pull against the Nationals (Expos).
2 posted on 06/02/2005 10:20:15 AM PDT by AlGone2001 (I'm still waiting to hear from the RNC Chairman)
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To: Che Chihuahua

Keep your eyes on his kids. The name Soros will pollute the political/ecomomic atmosphere in the USA for years to come.


3 posted on 06/02/2005 10:28:26 AM PDT by gaspar
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To: AlGone2001

He hasn't bought em yet, Fred Malek Pres Nixon's old buddy has the inside track as all the prospective buyers but two are outsiders. C'mon the Nats colors are Red, White and Blue and they'll play in Armed Forces Stadium in a few years but you may be right if Soros gets the team we might just have red uniforms.


4 posted on 06/02/2005 10:29:02 AM PDT by lmc12
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To: Che Chihuahua

Soros is an uber-creep.

In other news, I think this Jon Ledecky might have been my friend from high school in CT! He was a big sports fiend even then, and did the high school play by play. He knew his stuff even then.


5 posted on 06/02/2005 10:30:34 AM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: lmc12
That's great. I'll have to root against Angelos and Soros alike.
6 posted on 06/02/2005 10:30:42 AM PDT by GAB-1955 (Proudly confusing editors and readers since 1981!)
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To: Che Chihuahua

Well, Ledecky is off my list of acceptable owners.

After what Sore-ass did in the campaign and the anti-American things he has sid, can't he be denaturalized and deported?


7 posted on 06/02/2005 10:30:47 AM PDT by TBP
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To: Che Chihuahua

ARGH! Just saw in the article that he thinks Soros is a GOOD thing?! Yikes! Now I'm embarrassed.


8 posted on 06/02/2005 10:31:08 AM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: lmc12
No offense, but DC really can't (for an extended time) turn any team that's great.

Having the Nationals play in DC is just an example of the politicians in DC trying to fix everything else in our lives.

Two teams have already miserably failed in DC.

I think that MLB should have contracted a few teams, starting with the Expos. They only went to DC because of political pull.
9 posted on 06/02/2005 10:33:28 AM PDT by AlGone2001 (I'm still waiting to hear from the RNC Chairman)
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To: Che Chihuahua
If so, their nickname will not be the Washington 'nats, but the Washington NAZI's
{Nationals + Socialism}
10 posted on 06/02/2005 10:35:21 AM PDT by TeleStraightShooter (When Frist exercises his belated Constitutional "Byrd option", Reid will have a "Nuclear Reaction".)
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To: Che Chihuahua

Well, if he gets to be the owner, he'll have the right name for his team, the Washington NATIONALS. Because the NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S ABORTION PARTY wants to NATIONALIZE everything like the Soviets and Communists do. Or, he will name them the D.C. Treehuggers, D.C. Abortionists, The Washington Liberals, The Washington Hillaries, something like that.


11 posted on 06/02/2005 10:36:53 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Two books, the Koran and Mein Kampf, advocate violence, murder and hate!)
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To: Che Chihuahua

Did a little Google research, and yes, that's him. Wish I kept in touch so I could talk him out of it. Maybe he'll show up at our 30th HS reunion...


12 posted on 06/02/2005 10:48:36 AM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: Che Chihuahua

I want to see him wearing a red hat with a big white W on it. That's good enough for me.

And, since my team is in the NL East, I'll have 9+ opportunities a year to go down there with giant, hate-filled signs directed at that commie.


13 posted on 06/02/2005 10:58:40 AM PDT by AbeKrieger (Islam is the virus that causes al-Qaeda.)
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To: AlGone2001
Two teams have already miserably failed in DC.

Taht isn't quite accurate. On a fans-per-victory basis, Washington was an outstanding baseball city.

The first SZenators moved to Minnesota because Calvin Griffith would be going from owner and landlord at Griffith Stadium to tenant at DC Stadium (now RFK) and becaue the city was getting blacker. It didn't really have to do with attendance, as the fact that they immediately put another team in DC established.

The second Senators moved out because the owner, Bob Sh*t, had a prearranged deal to move the team out before he bought it. Had he bought another team, he would hav trashed that team and moved it. This was confirmed to me by one of the Senators' players.

The attnedance in 1971 (the last season before the second Senators moved) was higher than the attendance for Les Expos in 2001. And the attendance in Texas, where they moved, was essentially the same for the first three years as it had been in DC for the last couple of years. It only started to go up when the team started to get good.

The Senators, in their last three years in DC, outdrew 8 other teams.

14 posted on 06/02/2005 11:04:46 AM PDT by TBP
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To: Che Chihuahua

Fred Malek and his partners, known as Washington Baseball Club, are the heavy front-runners for the team. They will get it; Ledecky and Sore-ass won't.


15 posted on 06/02/2005 11:05:50 AM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP
"Taht isn't quite accurate. On a fans-per-victory basis, Washington was an outstanding baseball city."

That is ridiculous. A team either competes in the post-season, or they don't.

The Senators didn't.
16 posted on 06/02/2005 11:11:00 AM PDT by AlGone2001 (I'm still waiting to hear from the RNC Chairman)
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To: AlGone2001

Actually, fans per victory is a nice way to measure attendance. We know that in any city a winning team draws more than a losing one does in the same city. So one way of "normalizing" attendance figures is to divide the total attendance by the number of wins for the team.

For example, if a team wins 100 games and draws 3 million, their FPV is 30,000. If a team wins 80 games and draws 2.4 million, their FPV is also 30,000.

It's one way of measuring fan support.

And on a fans-per-victory basis, Washington was an outstanding baseball city.


17 posted on 06/02/2005 11:38:24 AM PDT by TBP
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To: AlGone2001
"The Soros family shares my belief that the Washington Nationals are a community trust that can serve as a positive platform for the economic development of the inner city"

IOW, 'We can exploit cheap minority labor'
18 posted on 06/02/2005 11:52:06 AM PDT by HEY4QDEMS
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To: TBP

You're right - calculating the fans per victory is perhaps one of the best indicators of fan support we can use.

I didn't know that DC scored so highly.

I'm not a fan of the weasels in Congress, but I have no particular gripe against Washington itself. I'm not looking for the Nationals to fail just because they happen to share a city a bunch of people who waste our money. After all, those people theoretically represent lots of other cities and towns....


19 posted on 06/02/2005 2:08:55 PM PDT by highball
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