Times Co. joins bid for Sox (NY Times to own Red Sox???!!!)

Boston Globe ^ | November 28, 2001 | Meg Vaillancourt

[Mr. Mulliner]

The New York Times Co. said yesterday that it will enter the bidding war to buy the Boston Red Sox by joining an investment group headed by television producer Tom Werner and skiing entrepreneur Les Otten.

The late addition of the Times Co. to the Werner-Otten group comes as the process to sell the team enters its final phase. As many as seven groups may file formal bids for the team, due by noon tomorrow, in what has become one of the most competitive sales of a franchise in the history of Major League Baseball.

[Mr. Mulliner]

Feel free to post what this world would look like in the pages of the NY Times as part owner of the Red Sox.

[Mr. Mulliner]

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[Mr. Mulliner]

As a Yankee fan living in the heart of Red Sox territory, perhaps you'd care to comment?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Maybe they'd like a farm team in Minnesota, eh ?

[Mr. Mulliner]

The Twins always were the farm team for the rest of the American League anyway.

[Tacis]

I don't know. If the NYT owned a baseball team, the entire pitching staff, in order to ensure traditional doctrinal purity, would have to be left handers.

[Mr. Mulliner]

LOL!!!

[F16Fighter]

Heh -- "leftheanders", eh?

And we can just see The New York Times editorial page advocating arresting Yankees fans for "hate crimes" -- cursing at Bosox players at the Stadium...

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

Tantamount to Armegeddon.

[michaelje]

Im wiping tears from my eyes. LMAO !

[Cicero]

The Boston Globe is a wholly owned subsidiary of The New York Times. Presumably they would put the Red Sox in that subdivision of their company.

Frankly, I hope they go ahead. Then they would be saddled with an expensive, historical losing team, and they would PO their more sensible New York readers to boot, if there are any such left.

Maybe they can make Maureen Dowd the new manager. I'm sure she'd do a better job a that than what she's doing now.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think you're on to something.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

And some PC left winger for the TV play by play.

[Psalm 73]

"a long-term strategic plan to solidify the Globe's position as the leading news and advertising medium in New England.

Head for the hills, the end of the world draws nigh!
Ya' know, I hate myself already for being addicted to that God-forsaken poor excuse for a baseball team - now this.
If I wasn't a homicidal maniac, I'd probably kill myself.

[The Thin Man]

In comparison, contraction no longer seems so bad to this Twins fan.

[RJL]

If I remember correctly, the NYT and/or the Boston Globe laid off a bunch of folks a couple months ago.

Now they are buying a baseball team?

It's true once again, liberism only applies to others, it never applies to the liberals themselves.