Posted on 06/27/2011 6:04:52 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa
LA Dodgers file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
headline only so far - CNBC says it's in a Delaware court...
Bit of an exaggeration there. Fenway tickets go from $12 to to $165. Bleacher seats are $28. Field boxes - in other words, infield seats, first to third, right on the field, are $135.
The $165 seats are the rare Green Monster seats.
Grandstand seats (upper level, first around to third) are $55.
Higher than when I was in school in Boston? Yep.
But not remotely $200.
And, by the way, you get to watch the Red Sox, so that on it's own makes them worth two to three times the price of any other team's tickets. < / tongue in cheek>
Ah, this is going to be a great day. It’s a wonderful day when the La Raza Dodgers go belly up and sink to the bottom of the division.
Sweeeeeeet. We always knew you could do it McCourt. Let the wrist slitting begin and the blue blood flow.
Michael Savage quotes a Chinese proverb: Happiness is watching your neighbor fall off his roof.
I’m happy. I’m damn happy. It is very good day. Bye bye Dodger blue. Boo hoo hoo.
LA is now Mexican territory, thanks to the Republicrat/Dumbocan Party, and I don’t think that the current residents of LA care that much for a baseball team made up of a bunch of gringos. If the Dodgers remade themselves as soccer team with Mexican players they wouldn’t have any problem filling the stadium.
No schadenfreude from you... :)
La Raza Dodgers? LOL! Good one!
Not many people know that the law firm for Frank McCourt scred up the post-nuptual agreement which was supposed to give him sole ownership of the Dodgers and all the real estate to Jamie. Apparently Jamie wanted that arrangement because she thought the Dodgers had some serious liabilities she didn’t want to be liable and the real estate was very valuable; at least it was prior to the real estate bust. That’s when she decided she owned a half interest in the Dodgers.
Frank’s former law firm is scared shitless they are going to get hammered in a lawsuit to be filed against them by Frank, if it hasn’t been filed already.
As a life-long SF Giants fan I can’t say anything nice so I’ll just be quiet for now.
I didn’t even no what baseball team you were talking about. I had to look it up on Bing. For anyone else who wants to know, PNC Park is the home of the Pittsburg Pirates.
PS. I live in Walnutport Pennsylvania and never heard of PNC Park.
As a native California who grew up listening to Vin Scully call the play-by-play in the era of Koufax, Hodges, Snider and Drysdale this makes me a little bit sad. That said, the Dodger organization has long since gone the way of most of California. I left there in the mid ‘80’s and never looked back. As the bumper sticker says: “I wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as fast an I could.”
Agreed. We are in Nevada.
P.S. FWIW, I've never heard of Walnutport, Pennsylvania either.
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/dodgers.pdf
Here’s the full list of creditors (see above link - it’s a PDF file). List of creditors is about half way into the file. Manny Ramirez is the #1 creditor at almost 21 million dollars. Number of ex-Dodgers on the list.
If the Dodgers can’t meet their payroll, do the players have an obligation to play?
Sweeeeeeet. We always knew you could do it McCourt. Let the wrist slitting begin and the blue blood flow.
Michael Savage quotes a Chinese proverb: Happiness is watching your neighbor fall off his roof.
I’m happy. I’m damn happy. It is very good day. Bye bye Dodger blue. Boo hoo hoo.
I'll bet you're a Frisco fan!
Back to Brooklyn.
It’s still the only way.
You must not follow baseball much. It is rated as the best ball park in baseball, and the Red Sox fans I talked to at the game on Friday night agreed with that.
I dropped my season tickets back in the second year of the McCourt’s ownership when prices were hiked and advertisements starting appearing everywhere inside the ballpark.
How are the Dodgers getting home from Minnesota now that they also owe Continental Airlines over $300K??
I’ll bet you’re a Frisco fan!
An astute guess. And a real fan, not a bandwagon fan. I first became a fan in 1985 when they lost 100 games watching Candy Maldonado drop easy catches in right field in the year before Roger Craig (not the football player) became Manager.
I was lucky to see 6 wins and 4 losses that year, freezing my ass off at the Stick. We used to clap just to stay warm, not because the Giants did anything worthwhile.
yep, as a 25 year Giants fan, it is a good day in the morning when the LA Draft Dodgers declare bankruptcy. A very good day. I hope McCourt owns the Dodgers forever and ever and ever.
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