Why does Jeffrey Loria even own a baseball team?

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Is this guy the worst owner ever (post-free agency anyway)?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:47 (twenty years ago)

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Huh?

― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:53 (twenty years ago)

He really is a horrible bastard.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:07 (twenty years ago)

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Bud Selig wants to dip his balls in it

― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:10 (twenty years ago)

This latest "garage sale" (as Keith Hernandez called it yesterday) is entirely defensible in baseball rebuilding terms.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Except for the fact that his team's payroll is almost less than his team's revenue sharing reimbursement.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, there's that angle too. Rev sharing broke.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

I don't mind the firesale (as you say those things are often very sensible in baseball rebuilding terms although in Florida's case with fan interest being what it is it gets a little more complicated) but threatening to trade Willis AND Cabrera and trying to hold it over the city's head and having a payroll that is half the lowest in the league and nearly half as much as you get gratis from revenue sharing =s you are a Grade A Scumbag. Not to mention he already did more than his part to fuck up baseball completely in Montreal before he ever even got to south Florida.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the firesale is defensible if you're rebuilding the team, but it's indefensible if you're trying to punish Floridians for not buying a new stadium for the team.

The whole Florida-Montreal-Boston musical chairs fiasco might have been the shadiest transaction in baseball history.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

I mean, you really have to separate the excellence of Larry Beinfest's maneuvering from the shittiness that caused it.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

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