KLAW on F McCourt
by Ray Guilfoyle on Dec 2, 2009 1:54 PM PST
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PrintThe Dodgers just threw away four draft picks by failing to offer arbitration to Randy Wolf or Orlando Hudson. I spoke to one front office executive with another club who inferred from the non-moves that "they're broke." There's little baseball logic to it -- Wolf is headed for a multi-year deal elsewhere, and getting Hudson back for a year would have been a boon should he accept.
Wonderful!!! How soon before the judge demands he sells the team?
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were not gonna go to a world series
with Frank McCheap running this team
hes too greedy to try to keep the cogs that have made this team contenders
or make the changes needed to get us past the phillies…
i wish mark cuban would buy the team and sign some talent…
Leave Chad Billingsley alone!!!
Do you really think that the reason the Dodgers lost in the NLCS the last two years
was because of Frank McCourt?
by Michael White on Dec 2, 2009 3:37 PM PST up reply actions
not at all
im saying if the team wants to improve now and in the future
we need to get rid of mccourt
no one notices anything now cause we went to the NLCS twice in a row
but down the road it will matter…
Leave Chad Billingsley alone!!!
the arbitration offers
would have been rejected, and the Dodger would have received 4 draft picks as a result. These 4 draft picks would have made the trades of Carlos Santana and Josh Bell a little easier to swallow, but FMac had to screw that up as well.
raygu
F McCourt- I like that
I hope that sticks. “McCheap” no longer comes close to really capturing his true essence. We’re way past that after Tuesday’s fiasco.
McCourt shouldn't have bought the team given his financial situation.
To make things worse he overpaid for declining or injury prone veterans in Pierre, Jones and Schmidt in 2006/2007. Then to try an compensate for his shortage of funds, he back-loaded contracts. He also gave away good prospects to avoid paying what should be considered trivial amounts of money to players acquired in trades. His financial situation has forced the Dodgers to make several bad decisions.
MLB shouldn’t have approved the sale to him based on his financial situation and the highly-leveraged nature of the deal. Cynics might claim that Bud Selig and the small-market owners might have relished the idea of screwing the big-market team this way, but I think that they didn’t because that is cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Yeah, I not much for conspiracy theories either.
I agree that there wasn’t any nefarious scheme to stick the Dodgers with a financially unstable owner who would run the team into the ground.
Nobody said it was nefarious
Selig just didn’t want another large market driving free agent prices even higher and higher.
by Chad Moriyama on Dec 4, 2009 2:48 PM PST up reply actions
I think he intended that comment to be a reply to mine “on Dec 3, 2009 7:14 PM PST” just above, where I attributed such a notion to “Cynics”.
Couldn’t your scenario be at least semi-nefarious?
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I suppose
But it seems logical that he makes decisions based on the league success and not the success of any one franchise
Otherwise I don’ t see why Cuban would encounter so much resistance
by Chad Moriyama on Dec 4, 2009 2:54 PM PST up reply actions
I agree with you; however, it is not good for the league as a whole when teams in major media markets suck; they need them to be good to get the biggest national TV deal they can. The small-market owners outnumber the large-market owners and they fear exactly what you are suggesting: Mark Cuban driving up salaries. But a Mark Cuban plowing salary money into a big-market franchise that might suck otherwise should mean MORE income to the small-market teams via media revenue, merchandising income, luxury tax, increased box office when his team comes to town, etc.
Funny that McCourt drove up FA prices anyway, to some extent, with the Pierre, Schmidt, Jones, Furcal (his first), and maybe Kuroda contracts. Arte Moreno probably cursed McCourt for the Pierre deal every time he cut Gary Matthews, Jr.’s paycheck the last couple years.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
That is certainly plausible given Selig's motives.
Any attempt to repress player contracts would not surprise me. I was just saying that I don’t believe Selig wasn’t trying to devise a plan that would ruin the Dodgers. It was a response to the “screwing the big-market team” idea.
Frank McCourt was at today’s USC game
he was at the sidelines standing close to pete carroll
i guess hes trying to bring misery to more LA sports teams….
Leave Chad Billingsley alone!!!
Is he ever NOT standing near someone with celebrity status?
It’s as if by doing so, he thinks he’ll increase his own.
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