October 23, 201213 yr I'll start it. He's gotta f***ing go. And all of his cabbage patch kids in the FO.
October 23, 201213 yr time for the commish to step in and dole out the franchise to everyone on this board
October 23, 201213 yr time for the commish to step in and dole out the franchise to everyone on this board Would love for this to happen.
October 23, 201213 yr Pretty dang difficult to fire the owner. :| Even Steinbrenner wasn't fired, just suspended.
October 23, 201213 yr Loria has got to be the worst owner in MLB history. I'm surprised the MLB let him buy another baseball team after what he did to the Expos. Folks, as long as Loria owns this team, we are going nowhere. We deserve a better owner.
October 23, 201213 yr Loria has got to be the worst owner in MLB history. I'm surprised the MLB let him buy another baseball team after what he did to the Astros. Folks, as long as Loria owns this team, we are going nowhere. We deserve a better owner. Expos.
October 23, 201213 yr Loria has got to be the worst owner in MLB history. I'm surprised the MLB let him buy another baseball team after what he did to the Astros. Folks, as long as Loria owns this team, we are going nowhere. We deserve a better owner. Expos. I fixed it. I'm so pissed off right now that I can't think straight. I thought my hated of Loria could not get any worse, but I was wrong. I can't even stand to look at a picture of the man.
October 24, 201213 yr Loria isn't a bad owner. He's just too meddlesome for his own good sometimes. John Henry was a bad owner, Wayne Huizinga was a horrible owner when he didn't get his way. Pittsburgh's owner is horrible, so is the Mets with the Wilpons. Frank Mccourt was a bad owner, as well as MLB as owner of the Expos. Drayton McClane is a bad owner, so is Peter Angelos, as well as the guy in Seattle who has never seen his own team play- ever. Loria isn't a bad owner- he's a bad manager. I'd take Loria over every single one of the guys previously mentioned- including the guy in Seattle. There are only a handful of guys who are great owners, you can only hope yours falls just below them. I feel Loria is behind the Steinbrenner Family, Arte Moreno, Henry in Boston, Reinsdorf, the Guy in TB, Nolan Ryan Express. Loria is in the top 15 to me, which is better then you guys give him credit for.
October 24, 201213 yr Except for that one time his team won a World Series. There is some truth to that, for sure, but it's worth pointing out that he was very far from building that World Series team from scratch.
October 24, 201213 yr Aren't there financial penalties in place if Loria sells the team so soon after the completion of the stadium?
October 24, 201213 yr Well the A's have Cisco Park. They should sell the team to Oracle, SAP, Citrix or maybe....Microsoft. They all have offices here.
October 24, 201213 yr Nintendo owns Seattle. the guy who owns Nintendo owns Seattle Source: http://sports.yahoo....-175857749.html "He'll be watching on TV," (Mariners CEO Howard) Lincoln said after a press conference at the Tokyo Dome Hotel. "Given all the years he's been involved with the Mariners, he's really looking forward to see the team play. He's very excited." How do you own something and never set your eyes on it.
October 24, 201213 yr How does a team become publicly owned, anyway? Can't anymore, but it was kind of like War Bond's I'd imagine. As far as publicly owned in the sense the Fox Broadcasting owned the Dodgers at one point? They need to make money, and assign a board to run the team.
October 24, 201213 yr Nintendo owns Seattle. the guy who owns Nintendo owns Seattle Source: http://sports.yahoo....-175857749.html "He'll be watching on TV," (Mariners CEO Howard) Lincoln said after a press conference at the Tokyo Dome Hotel. "Given all the years he's been involved with the Mariners, he's really looking forward to see the team play. He's very excited." How do you own something and never set your eyes on it. you hire capable employees and let them do their jobs and hope for the best
October 24, 201213 yr Nintendo owns Seattle. the guy who owns Nintendo owns Seattle Source: http://sports.yahoo....-175857749.html "He'll be watching on TV," (Mariners CEO Howard) Lincoln said after a press conference at the Tokyo Dome Hotel. "Given all the years he's been involved with the Mariners, he's really looking forward to see the team play. He's very excited." How do you own something and never set your eyes on it. you hire capable employees and let them do their jobs and hope for the best Yeah, but to not ever watch the team play---- that's kind of sad.
October 24, 201213 yr How does a team become publicly owned, anyway? Other than the Packers, there are no publicly-owned major league sports teams in the U.S. If it weren't against league rules (de facto or de jure,) it would be the same way any private business goes public. Find a securities underwriter (Goldman Sachs, for instance, but any investment bank capable of selling and supporting the offering will do) file the securities registration and offering documents with the SEC and conduct an initial public offering of shares. Of course, the current owner has to want to sell, so that ain't gonna happen with the Marlins. Plus, MLB effectively has a rule against publicly-owned teams because changes in ownership have to be approved by 20 of the other 29 owners (3/4 majority of the affected league, plus a majority of the other league.) The Packers are the only publicly-owned franchise. But those shares aren't publicly-traded and ownership and transferability is severely restricted, so not even the Packers are publicly-owned in the usual sense of the word. No other NFL teams will be publicly-owned under current rules because the NFL has a rule limiting the number of owners of any team to 32. But, just as almost all brokers and investment banks were private partnerships 30 years ago and all of the larger ones went public over time to raise capital, so might pro sports franchises evolve in the future. The Packers initially sold shares (in 1950) to raise money to support the team and later to build and improve a stadium. They had the right idea, that's how teams and stadiums should work. Maybe someday that will become the norm.
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