OT/Cuban and Gilbert Eliminated From Dodger Bidding

This doesn't mean he can't subsequently partner up with one of the remaining bidders, but what this means is at least 8 don't share Cuban's belief the Dodgers aren't worth a billion.

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What it really means is they're scared of Cuban.

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by NobodySpecial on Jan 28, 2012 1:33 PM CST reply actions

Yep...

…he’s a passionate sports fan with a bottomless checkbook…every OTHER owner’s worst nightmare.

by Easy Ed on Jan 28, 2012 1:36 PM CST up reply actions

McCourt is legally obligated to pick the highest ones pursuant to his bankruptcy case. If Cuban were the highest bidder, MLB would have a tough time telling the BK court they didn’t want him. Apparently all remaining bids are over $1.2B. Cuban is on record saying he doesn’t think the team is worth that much. What more than likely occurred is he bid what he thought it was worth.

Moreover, if MLB does truly influence the process, then the next step, the background check, is where the conspiracy theorists could point to for evidence.

Chicago. Enough said.

by BeerCub on Jan 28, 2012 2:36 PM CST up reply actions

On top of that

Frank won the right to choose the winning bid as part of the negotiations to sell. If Bud really didn’t want Cuban, he could have really screwed him over by selecting his bid. (In fact, it’s been speculated that is why Gilbert was eliminated. McCourt didn’t want to do a friend of Bud a favor.)

I’m pretty sure you’re right. Cuban just didn’t bid enough.

by Josh Timmers on Jan 28, 2012 11:06 PM CST up reply actions

I hope Cuban gets to be a baseball owner one day.

I think he catches a lot of flak for constantly calling Stern, and some of the refs, out on their BS. Really though, there needs to be someone out there to provide that type of balance. He hasn’t done a single thing to hurt his team while he’s owned the Mavs too, despite everything he has said. Baseball could use someone like that, but it’s also a prime reason why he’ll never get to be an owner, because Bud and his cronies don’t want that type of outspoken presence making them look foolish.

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by Craig in South Bend on Jan 28, 2012 2:40 PM CST reply actions

I think he will one day

He is doing them favors by keeping the bidding for the Cubs & Rangers honest, for example. Sooner or later they will find a fit for him.

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by SouthWabashSoul on Jan 28, 2012 3:21 PM CST up reply actions

The Pirates

Are the obvious choice. He grew up a Pirates fan.

He might actually be able to do something with that team.

by Josh Timmers on Jan 28, 2012 11:07 PM CST up reply actions

Weren't the Pirates just sold a couple of years ago?

And didn’t Cuban say he wasn’t interested at that time?

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by Al Yellon on Jan 29, 2012 7:52 AM CST up reply actions

Cuban...

tried to buy the team in 2005 and was denied.

I don’t know if he was offered an opportunity a few years ago, as (IIRC), the team was “sold” to a person who already had a minority stake in the ownership.

D98 mistaken, a hyperbole as in a funny or revisionism as in trying to make a new fact to confirm a prejudice

by Kansas25 on Jan 29, 2012 10:03 AM CST up reply actions

I'm just glad to see a Cuban thread that has nothing to do with Cespedes

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by Easy Ed on Jan 28, 2012 3:01 PM CST up reply actions

Agreed

I saw an article on SI.COM that was titled “Cuban bids on Dodgers” and my first thought was “Wow, Cespedes must have signed a REALLY large contract’”

by toppsmike on Jan 28, 2012 5:03 PM CST up reply actions

So, Cuban bid 999,999,999.00?

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Jan 28, 2012 8:55 PM CST reply actions

I suppose that's possible

But it wasn’t the apparent $1.2B threshold.

Chicago. Enough said.

by BeerCub on Jan 28, 2012 9:41 PM CST up reply actions

What I find disgusting

is that McCourt will wind up with a billion, pay his debt — still be quite wealthy, and will continue to own the land Dodger Stadium sits on.

How can this be allowed to happen? Must the parking lot king get to keep this land? Can you imagine what he’s going to hike the lot fee to?

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Jan 28, 2012 8:59 PM CST reply actions

There's talk........

…….. that whoever ends up buying the team with also negotiate to get the surrounding land. We’ll see what happens.

Chicago. Enough said.

by BeerCub on Jan 28, 2012 9:42 PM CST up reply actions

I don't believe that to be the case

Everything I have read says that McCourt will keep the land and the lots. I hope you are correct. Remember, before this fiasco, McCourt had a grand plan to develop the campus in CF to a “Dodgertown” entertainment area, with restaurants, shops, etc — with the field “open” for viewing.

If he keeps the lot, I can see him doing this. There’s also the chance that Dodger Stadium’s days are short-term. This probably depends on if the football project is built downtown.
(And I still think this project is a pipe-dream, anyway.)

The idea of moving the Dodgers to the area where the so-called “Farmers Field” is planned and building a football stadium in the Chavez Ravine parking lot makes more sense, at least to me.

The “LA Live” district would be usable more days with 81 baseball dates, along with the 2 basketball teams, and the Kings. Maybe this is too logical.

Somehow, I doubt if McCourt ever pays ALL that he owes.

Personally, I don’t want to see Dodger Stadium go.

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Jan 29, 2012 8:21 PM CST up reply actions