Dodgers’ owner
MLB's appointing of keep track of Tom Schieffer to oversee the Los Angeles Dodgers will most likely result in their sale. It's been a tough period for Dodgers fans like me, but I believe the move by MLB will be the initial step within the healing procedure, like an intervention. It could only go uphill from right here.
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There are a lot of names circulating as possible new owners, and the one I think is most interesting is Mark Cuban. Bloomberg News has reported that Cuban is selling off a number of businesses, including his Landmark Theatres chain of theaters and his Magnolia Photos movie company. The total worth of those two companies is most likely equal to or higher compared to approximate selling price of the team. This would allow him to stage in to make a cash provide for the Dodgers when and when it does turn out to be available.
Cuban has an indirect baseball connection to Schieffer, as Schieffer was president with the Texas Rangers through the early 1990s till 1999, once the group was offered to Tom Hicks. Hicks ran into monetary problems, like Frank McCourt, and MLB stepped in to take manage of the Rangers and oversee the sale procedure. The group was sold to former pitching star Nolan Ryan and his companion, whose bid for your team beat out Mark Cuban and his partner's offer. Cuban also formerly and unsuccessfully attempted to buy the Chicago Cubs and has expressed curiosity in other groups once they have grown to be obtainable.
As a Dodger fan, I such as the concept of Mark Cuban buying the team, but I did have some preliminary reservations. Cuban is definitely an over-the-top super-fan and owner, who loves publicity, which is good for the franchise. He continues to be fined for operating on the court and for yelling at referees during Dallas Mavericks games, an NBA group he owns.
All his fines had been triggered by enthusiasm, for fighting for your team, so he annoys fans like me, but additionally gets our assistance for his enthusiasm. Some consider his antics all self-promotion, and he has even been involved with expert wrestling and UFC events where he appears to like making himself the center of attention and actually taking part within the drama. A couple of many years back I noticed him fighting in a WWE match, within the ring.
In the end the controversy surrounding the final yr and Dodgers owner Frank McCourt's divorce drama, now the MLB monitor appointment, fans like myself just want McCourt to place the group up for sale so we are able to all transfer forward and get back to baseball.
The Los Angeles Times is reporting two other high profile possible proprietors, or leaders of ownership groups. Legendary Dodgers owner Peter O'Malley, son with the great Walter O'Malley, 1 of the greatest proprietors in MLB history. Walter O'Malley moved the group from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Los Angeles in 1958 as well as broke MLB's color line when he started Jackie Robinson, and continued to always feature minority players in higher profile management positions all through the Dodger organization. The O'Malley title is sacred amongst Dodger enthusiasts like myself and we'd be ecstatic if they returned towards the Dodgers.
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An additional high profile possible ownership group is headed by Los Angeles Lakers icon Magic Johnson, who's currently a partial owner with the Lakers. While I really like Magic, I would wish to see the management group he puts together before becoming enthusiastic about his purchasing the team
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