The McCourt divorce costs

Jamie McCourt alone will pay $2 million to her lawyers. I can't see how either one of them can avoid having to sell the team if their combined asset value has to be split in two.

I've always disliked Frank McCourt -- shortly after buying the Dodgers, he upped parking 50% and promised it would pay for a re-vamped parking system -- It was an ABSOLUTE disaster that created up to 2 hour lines getting in AND out of the parking lot.. His concession prices are a joke, and ticket service fees seem excessive. Most Dodger fans I talk to wouldn't mind seing him go.

Might there be a Fire sale on the horizon?

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Doubtful

The Dodgers print money as they open the gates. I don’t seem this messy leagl situation affecting the team as much as the Moores divorce made the San Diego small market situation even worse than it already was.

For all the posturing we hear, the object is probably to keep the team in the family.
What’s too bad about this mess is that the project to beautify the Dodger Stadium campus is all but dead.

I’m surprised that The Next 50 Years hasn’t been scrubbed from their web site.

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Nov 15, 2009 2:37 PM CST reply actions

Why?

Was that all Jamie’s idea?

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al Yellon on Nov 15, 2009 3:30 PM CST up reply actions

Joint effort...

and they were looking for sponsors to ‘contribute’ to the cause. I doubt if the couple could have financed the entire project on their own. The L-A press has speculated that this project is all but dead due to this new twist in the life of the McCourt’s.

Who’d want to become a ’co-sponsor, with the economy still slow and now with ownership in turmoil?

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Nov 16, 2009 4:12 PM CST up reply actions

Hard to figure out who to root for, or against

Neither one of them come off as charming people. Oh, and if history is any judge on these issues, Jamie McCourt didn’t wait for the separation to start diddling the help. At least we’ll get some juicy dish out of the proceedings.
I have to agree, the Dodgers are a money making machine still. They get to shed a lot of payroll in the next two years. Getting out from underneath Manny’s after next year is good enough. And, they do have some young, homegrown talent to build around that is still relatively cheap. Kemp, Loney, Martin wouldn’t be part of any fire sale.

by Nibbles on Nov 15, 2009 8:49 PM CST reply actions

Not so fast.....

…Whether or not there was a McCourt mess, they’d trade Martin right now for the right offer. He’s fallen out of favor, and Colletti is not in love with Loney, either.

"When they signed Fukudome, I knew they were trying to get me fired". - Ron Santo, January, 2008

by BeerCub on Nov 16, 2009 8:36 PM CST up reply actions