Posted on 04/20/2011 3:23:51 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig says he will appoint a trustee to oversee the team's business affairs while investigating the 'operations and finances of the Dodgers and related entities.'
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig stripped Dodgers owner Frank McCourt of financial control of the club Wednesday, saying he would appoint a trustee to oversee the team's business affairs while investigating the "operations and finances of the Dodgers and related entities."
Selig intervened after McCourt required a $30-million loan from Fox last week in order to meet the team's first payroll of the season.
Selig said he would identify the trustee "in the next several days."
Photos: Dodgers' home opener
McCourt has been under financial pressure since at least 2009, when he was rebuffed in at least three attempts to gain additional financing, according to court documents filed in his divorce case.
Season ticket sales have fallen from 27,000 in 2007 to just more than 17,000 this season, according to court documents and baseball sources.
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Yeah having gangbanger beat SF Giants fan on opening day into COMA didn’t helped EITHER
My impression was that McCourt was a wannabe multi-millionaire...and someone finally figured things out. A couple of players probably got a check late...word got out....and finally baseball dug into the finances.
It’s on L.A. sports radio this afternoon. Nice break from the normal Kobe Bryant ass-kissing and judging from my 5 times going to Dodgers Stadium, the operations is run like a high school committee. An anonymous Dodger source said that indeed, checks were not delivered on time but it’s sports radio.
Besides, no one would want to hear my non-pc reason why not to go back. It’s a LA RAZA festival. There should be a gringos only’ exit and entrance because it’s overwhelmingly mexican.
Is this the guy who had a high profile divorce not long ago...I remember reading an article about a baseball team-owning couple a few years back at the dentists office.
yes,
and his divorce is currently in the courts.
his ex to be wants a $1,000,000 a month
plus luxurious homes on the ocean.
Jamie won the first round, much to delusional Frank’s surprise. He should have checked into California marriage and divorce law before moving out here... just sayin’.
50/50, it’s the law.
Quite a comedown from the days of Branch Rickey and the O’Malleys. The Dodgers need new ownership capable of getting a new Dodgers stadium built fast.
Do you have her contact info by any chance?
Pics?
This franchise is in the toilet.
Its fan base is nothing more than the Mexican Ku Klux Klan. Note it was Mexicans that beat the hell out of the White Giants fan
If MLB does not get rid of its political correctness and address the issue.....they will lose white fans like they have basically lost black fans
The L.A. Dodger hat is a typical hat worn by Sureno Gang Members from Southern California (you might know them as MS-13). It can also be a sign of Crip affiliation.
Trade places with the Padres and change their name to The Vatos.
The 42-year-old Santa Cruz man remained in critical condition at a Los Angeles hospital Friday after two men wearing Dodgers attire beat and kicked him in the stadium parking lot Thursday night, police said.
Los Angeles police Detective P.J. Morris said there is a gang that favors Dodgers caps and that the caps have become a gang symbol for them.
“We’ve seen a lot of gang members wearing it, but I don’t know if that’s related,” he said.
The Dodgers get a Designated Critter.
yes, i used to live in l.a. and own one.
i wear it occasionally and i’ve had threats
and mostly warnings from locals not to wear it.
i’ll probably trash it.
Merely a reflection of the demographics of the area
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