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LA Times: Peter O’Malley joins list of potential bidders for Dodgers

O’Malley, 73, spoke out last fall, urging McCourt to sell. At the time, O’Malley said he had no interest in returning as owner or president of the team.

He has changed his mind about that.

“The health of the organization has deteriorated in the last 12 months,” O’Malley said. “The standing of the organization in the community has deteriorated.

“I am confident I can restore it to respectability quicker, sooner and probably better than, or at least as well as, anyone else.”

Andere Richtingen Posted: November 03, 2011 at 01:53 PM | 22 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Heinie Mantush (Krusty) Posted: November 03, 2011 at 02:48 PM (#3985698)

*Likes this*

2. Jose Can Still Seabiscuit Posted: November 03, 2011 at 03:04 PM (#3985718)

Just out of curiousity who is left that isn't expressing interest in the Dodgers? Is there a descendent of Chris Von Der Ahe that could get in on this? At this point I think the winner of that celebrity boxing thing is going to get the team. "And now Bud Selig will present the Commissioner's Trophy to Bombshell McGee..."

3. Guapo Posted: November 03, 2011 at 03:14 PM (#3985727)

He should buy the team and move them to Brooklyn.

4. JE (Jason Epstein)

Posted: November 03, 2011 at 03:58 PM (#3985773)

He should buy the team and move them to Brooklyn.

Alas, the area by the Atlantic/Flatbush intersection has been taken.

5. Crispix Attacks 2: Swag Airlines Posted: November 03, 2011 at 04:19 PM (#3985791)

Okay, Hoboken then.

6. Ted Williams Carlos Williams Posted: November 03, 2011 at 04:40 PM (#3985805)

Come on. LA doesn't have an NFL team. You can't take its baseball team, too. Even though fans get there late and leave early, there are still fans.

7. musial6 Posted: November 03, 2011 at 04:41 PM (#3985807)

Chris Von Der Ahe was one of the few MLB owners who crashed and burned worse than McCourt...

With losses still piling up, von der Ahe resorted to selling off his best players, mostly to Brooklyn. In 1898, part of the ballpark burned down during a game with Chicago, his second wife divorced him, and his bondsman kidnapped him for not paying his debts. In a highly publicized trial connected with the fire, von der Ahe lost his baseball team.

8. Gamingboy Posted: November 03, 2011 at 04:46 PM (#3985810)

I predict, that, should the O'Malley family get it back, a 80+ year old columnist in Brooklyn will complain.

9. Jolly Old St. Nick Done Jumped The Ship

Posted: November 03, 2011 at 04:48 PM (#3985814)

He should buy the team and move them to Brooklyn.

Alas, the area by the Atlantic/Flatbush intersection has been taken.

Classy looking joint, but what happened to the monorail?

10. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: November 03, 2011 at 04:53 PM (#3985822)

Come on. LA doesn't have an NFL team. You can't take its baseball team, too. Even though fans get there late and leave early, there are still fans.

They can have the A's.

11. Heinie Mantush (Krusty) Posted: November 03, 2011 at 04:55 PM (#3985824)

Classy looking joint, but what happened to the monorail?

I hear Ogdenville, North Haverbrook, and Brockway have one.

12. zachtoma Posted: November 03, 2011 at 05:00 PM (#3985829)

#7, it's a lot closer than it looks. Wasn't there a fire in Dodger Stadium sometime last year? There will at least be a couple highly publicized trials relating to a fan getting beat nearly to death (the criminal and the lawsuit). McCourt's got the divorce down pat. And I wouldn't be surprised if he was kidnapped for failure to pay debts in the near future.

13. Heinie Mantush (Krusty) Posted: November 03, 2011 at 05:04 PM (#3985834)

5. Crispix Attacks Posted: November 03, 2011 at 12:19 PM (#3985791)
Okay, Hoboken then.

There's just no room. Moreover, traffic getting into/out of Hoboken or Newport (the nice, new part of Jersey City) would be horrid. Exapnding the existing stadium in Newark makes the most sense to me. It's not too far from the PATH/Newark Penn/Newark Broad. There are plenty of open roadways. I could talk myself into this, except that I just don't think there'd be adequate fan support.

14. fra paolo Posted: November 03, 2011 at 05:52 PM (#3985898)

And I wouldn't be surprised if he was kidnapped for failure to pay debts in the near future.

McCourt might get in on the foundations of some parking-garage deal at Atlantic and Flatbush after all!

15. 'Spos Posted: November 03, 2011 at 07:31 PM (#3985970)

McCourt might get in on the foundations of some parking-garage deal at Atlantic and Flatbush after all!

He could be a supporter of a new stadium, too.

16. Lassus Posted: November 03, 2011 at 07:37 PM (#3985977)

17. Sam M. Posted: November 03, 2011 at 07:50 PM (#3985986)

Alas, the area by the Atlantic/Flatbush intersection has been taken.

What, you've never heard of multi-purpose arenas? If they can play arena football, why not arena baseball? Nothing is sacred under Commissioner Bud, and they can justify it by saying that they are at last realizing Walter O'Malley's dream of having the Dodgers play in an indoor facility at that very intersection. So we'll just come up with some funky ground rules to work around the baskets in center field and around the plate, and it'll be "Play Ball!" for SeligBall.

18. Sean Forman Posted: November 03, 2011 at 08:07 PM (#3985997)

Classy looking joint, but what happened to the monorail?

I hope that arena only looks like it is made from layered corrugated cardboard.

19. The Well-Tempered Javier Vasquez (loungehead) Posted: November 03, 2011 at 10:40 PM (#3986099)

So we'll just come up with some funky ground rules to work around the baskets in center field and around the plate

"Hit it here and win the game"

20. Sam M. Posted: November 03, 2011 at 10:50 PM (#3986102)

West Side Stadium Redux!

I assume that, since they couldn't be called the Brooklyn Dodgers playing in Manhattan, we'd go all-in on the Broadway angle and rename them either the Jets or the Sharks. Leonard Bernstein could be the conductor/manager. The marketing slogan for the first year? "Could be! Who knows?"

21. Lassus Posted: November 03, 2011 at 10:55 PM (#3986109)

Leonard Bernstein could be the conductor/manager.

He'd currently be more animated and understandable than Charlie Manuel at least.

22. Sam M. Posted: November 03, 2011 at 11:03 PM (#3986116)

He'd currently be more animated and understandable than Charlie Manuel at least.

And there are at least two New York baseball teams that employed a certain Old Perfessor long past the time he was absolutely less animated than Lenny. Iconic status in New York is a job requirement; current ambulatory condition is optional.

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