Being an SF Giant fan, all I can say is “please pass the popcorn”!
Seling is correct.
Allowing McCourt to collect millions in advance payments on a new TV contract, only so he can bail himself out of debt & pay off his wife in dovorce court, will only continue to hurt the financial viability of the Dodgers.
It’s time to get rid of him and his carpet-baging wife...
Dodger fans are boycotting this year, deservedly so. I know I'm not attending. That alone should force out the happy couple.
I thought you folks might be interested to know what OpenSecrets.Org turned up:
MCCOURT, FRANK
LOS ANGELES,CA 90012 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/OWNER 8/31/07 $25,000 Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte (D)
MCCOURT, FRANK
LOS ANGELES,CA 90067 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/OWNER 6/30/09 $10,000 Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte (D)
MCCOURT, FRANK
BEVERLY HILLS,CA 90212 LA DODGERS/OWNER 11/3/09 $2,400 Leahy, Patrick (D)
MCCOURT, FRANK
LOS ANGELES,CA 90024 3/31/07 $2,300 Clinton, Hillary (D)
MCCOURT, FRANK
LOS ANGELES,CA 90024 MCCOURT COMPANY/FOUNDER 10/30/08 $2,300 Markey, Edward J (D)
MCCOURT, FRANK
LOS ANGELES,CA 90067 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/OWNER 10/31/08 $2,300 Becerra, Xavier (D)
MCCOURT, FRANK
LOS ANGELES,CA 90067 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/OWNER 4/4/08 $2,300 Boxer, Barbara (D)
MCCOURT, FRANK
LOS ANGELES,CA 90067 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/OWNER 4/4/08 $2,300 Boxer, Barbara (D)
MCCOURT, FRANK
LOS ANGELES,CA 90067 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/OWNER 5/2/09 $1,187 Becerra, Xavier (D)
MCCOURT, FRANK H
LOS ANGELES,CA 90024 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/OWNER 3/31/07 $1,150 Lautenberg, Frank R (D)
MCCOURT, JAMIE
LOS ANGELES,CA 90024 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/VICE CHAIRMAN 2/9/05 $5,000 Major League Baseball Commissioner’s Ofc
MCCOURT, JAMIE
LOS ANGELES,CA 90024 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/VICE CHAIRMAN 3/21/06 $5,000 Major League Baseball Commissioner’s Ofc
MCCOURT, JAMIE
LOS ANGELES,CA 90024 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/VICE CHAIRMAN 3/19/07 $5,000 Major League Baseball Commissioner’s Ofc
MCCOURT, JAMIE
LOS ANGELES,CA 90024 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/VICE CHAIRMAN 7/15/08 $5,000 Major League Baseball Commissioner’s Ofc
MCCOURT, JAMIE
LOS ANGELES,CA 90067 LA DODGERS/CEO 3/9/09 $5,000 Moving Phoenix Forward PAC
MCCOURT, JAMIE
LOS ANGELES,CA 90067 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/PRESIDENT 6/12/09 $2,400 Becerra, Xavier (D)
MCCOURT, JAMIE
LOS ANGELES,CA 90067 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/PRESIDENT 6/12/09 $2,400 Becerra, Xavier (D)
MCCOURT, JAMIE
LOS ANGELES,CA 90067 LA DODGERS/OWNER 3/5/08 $2,300 Barnes, Kay (D)
MCCOURT, JAMIE
LOS ANGELES,CA 90067 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/VICE CHAIRMAN A 4/4/08 $2,300 Boxer, Barbara (D)
MCCOURT, JAMIE
LOS ANGELES,CA 90067 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/VICE CHAIRMAN A 4/4/08 $2,300 Boxer, Barbara (D)
MCCOURT, JAMIE
LOS ANGELES,CA 90024 THE MCCOURT COMPANY/VICE PRESIDENT 10/30/08 $2,300 Markey, Edward J (D)
MCCOURT, JAMIE
LOS ANGELES,CA 90024 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/PRESIDENT 9/15/06 $2,000 Becerra, Xavier (D)
MCCOURT, JAMIE
LOS ANGELES,CA 90024 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/PRESIDENT 8/27/07 $500 Becerra, Xavier (D)
MCCOURT, JAMIE L
LOS ANGELES,CA 90024 LA DODGERS/CHAIR/VICE CHAIR 3/31/07 $2,300 Clinton, Hillary (D)
MCCOURT, JAMIE L
LOS ANGELES,CA 90024 NONE/HOMEMAKER 3/31/07 $1,150 Lautenberg, Frank R (D)
MCCOURT, JAMIE L MRS
LOS ANGELES,CA 90012 LOS ANGELES DODGERS/OWNER 3/31/07 $2,300 Dodd, Chris (D)
Hubby and wife are BIG-TIME Democrat supporters.
Great news.
Selig doesn’t want McCourt to have the Dodgers.
McCourt may have his warts, but he signed a valid contract which would only increase the value of the Dodgers' franchise. Selig's only causes for seizing a team from an owner should be financial instability or bankruptcy, or criminal behavior on the part of the ownership. McCourt is in none of these categories.
I'm looking forward to the Emperor With No Clothes being sued and losing, if that's the way he wants to play the game.
His entire tenure as baseball commissar has been an abomination to fans with a respect for the history and tradition of the game. Selig is a typical crony capitalist (of course, a big time Democrat) who favors tyranny over freedom!
McCourt may have his warts, but he signed a valid contract which would only increase the value of the Dodgers' franchise. Selig's only causes for seizing a team from an owner should be financial instability or bankruptcy, or criminal behavior on the part of the ownership. McCourt is in none of these categories.
I'm looking forward to the Emperor With No Clothes being sued and losing, if that's the way he wants to play the game.
His entire tenure as baseball commissar has been an abomination to fans with a respect for the history and tradition of the game. Selig is a typical crony capitalist (of course, a big time Democrat) who favors tyranny over freedom!
Selig had a different approach toward the the Wilpon’s who own the Mets who he allowed to take on a new owner to bail themselves out of Ponzi Scheme. He also allowed the Wilpon’s to borrow 25 million from MLB to make payroll but denied McCourt the same loan. I guess Selig and the baseball gods prefer Ponzi schemes over divorces. PS. I am not a McCourt or Dodger fan either.
Move em’ back to Brooklyn.
McCourt has lost all credibility. I no longer go to Dodger games. When Steve Garvey leads a group that buys the team, I’ll be back.
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When I was a kid growing up in Southern California, I bled Dodger Blue. So last year the hubby and I decided to fly down to LA to see my boys play the Yankees. I was shocked, Dodger Stadium is a run down rat’s nest. I.C.E. could have come in and deported half the crowd. The other half the gang squad could have arrested. The rudest people I’ve ever been in a crowd with, sat around us. It was down right scary. I’ve never been so glad the see the end of a ball game and the 110 freeway in all my life! I’ll never go back to that hell hole again.
The McCourts already burned through all the current revenue and were trying to burn through future revenue to pat themselves off.
Nothing about the deal was good for the Dodger’s team or any future owner if that deal went down IMO.
For the record, I suspect that any other large business whose owners used it as their personal ATM machine would find those owners facing a small boatload of litigation and possible criminal charges. The Dodgers in the McCourt era wouldn't be the only sports team who managed to make a few postseason trips in spite of the house of cards of their ownership, and alas they probably won't be the last. Saying the McCourt ownership has thus been better than the former Fox ownership is something like saying you have a better chance of surviving a bite from a great white shark than an attack by a school of piranha.
All of which is enough to make you mourn the loss of A. Bartlett Giamatti (what a concept: a commissioner who really was a baseball fan, and---unlike Bowie Kuhn, who loved the game as deeply as Giamatti did but too often ignored the forest when he stopped to ponder a tree---seemed to have a firm grasp of the big picture in hand with the small details) and the mistakes of Fay Vincent (a good man in somewhat over his head and often enough blind to certain rules and maneuverings) even more.
Not to mention mourning the absence of Peter O'Malley, who was forced to sell the Dodgers because Los Angeles insisted that the NFL's only recourse to return to Los Angeles was the Coliseum and refused to allow him to think about building a more modern football facility on Chavez Ravine land the Dodgers already owned, a move that might have enabled the O'Malleys to keep the Dodgers.
(Now, that's what I call perverse poetic justice---it was Robert Moses's refusal to sanction a privately built and owned ballpark that ended up pushing the Dodgers out of Brooklyn in the first place . . .)