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Who do you want to win the Worls Series this year?
LA Dodgers 29%  29%  [ 7 ]
Los Angeles Dodgers 71%  71%  [ 17 ]
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:twisted: Don't get too excited JizzFlo, the Yankees are going to go Cujo on the Fillies. :twisted: :P :P They even have the umps on their side. :wink: :lol: :lol:


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HikerTom wrote:
: the Yankees are going to go Cujo on the Fillies. :twisted: :P
Is that some type of anal reference? :? :wink:

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HikerTom wrote:
: the Yankees are going to go Cujo on the Fillies. :twisted: :P
Is that some type of anal reference? :? :wink:


Wouldnt mind seeing that Philly fanatic get reamed on National TV :P


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I think the instructor may have been a Dodger fan (and was thinking about game 5) :P

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4621695


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:02 am 
:D well there is always next year for Dodgers to make the playoffs and lose again :!:


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 4:27 am 
:D i just found out that they are moving back to Brooklyn :D stadium will be on Robinson ave #42 , seating at least 100,000 to be completed by spring trn 2012 :D


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if that whore and the pillsbury doughboy manage to wrest away control of the team anything is possible. i remember a different whore that murdered her husband and stole my football team. :twisted:


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things looking more grim by the day. i know the fox news rights helped force this carpetbagger into the ownership role but now all signals pointing to a miserable end. too bad no one managed to find this guy prior to approval. dodger fans are phucked

They say those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
The Los Angeles Dodgers could be in for a really tough time, because it appears that neither Frank or Jamie McCourt, MLB, or the News Corp, who have loaned much of the money used to buy their own ball club, have learned any lessons from the past.
Recently, two top-ranking Dodger officials resigned from their posts, allegedly after reviewing the McCourt financial plan for the Dodgers, which, due to their massive debt load, leaves no room for error. In order to meet the financial needs of the club, everything must go perfectly according to plan. As we all know, in baseball, this is nearly impossible.
For me, this revelation is “déjà vu all over again.”
I moved to Baltimore in 1988 as a manager for Opryland, USA, whose entertainment management arm had been engaged to run a new nightclub/restaurant venue just off Baltimore's Inner Harbor, to be called "Baltimore's Fishmarket" (the large building that housed the complex was once the city's public fish market). The owner of said project was none other than then boy-wonder parking lot and condo maven, one Frank McCourt from Boston.
As the Director of Operations for the facility, I attended a number of meetings with Frank, and his lovely wife Jamie, and found them to be earnest, but incompetent. Their ideas were useless, and we had to spend many hours explaining to them why such concepts as selling hot dogs and peanuts in the large concert venue, having the ticket takers working in character and costume (Babe Ruth, Edgar Allen Poe, etc.), buying $50 logo-embossed golf umbrellas for each VIP (2000 of them) for the grand opening in case of rain on Opening Night, etc, were just not practical or viable ideas.
Still, I assumed they were basically harmless, and they had hired a quality company like Opryland because they recognized that they couldn't do this themselves. No real harm done.
Imagine my surprise when we began to have delays because, among other things, the diner for the building was sitting on a flatcar in New Jersey because Frank didn't have the money to pay for it. Or that most of the custom signage for bathrooms, exits, etc, remained in a warehouse because the vendor insisted on payment prior to delivery. The $23M project could not even place the electronic signage for the main entrance into place, because the money wasn't available to get it delivered.
I was pulled aside one day by the controller, a personal friend who had originally called me in Ohio to tell me about the job. He was ashen. He told me he had just finished a meeting with the McCourts and their financial people, and that the project was doomed.
I asked how he could know that, when we hadn't even yet opened the doors (the delayed opening, which had finally been settled when we informed Frank that he could not open the facility without the diner, since the liquor laws were going to require the eatery for us to get our license, was still about a month away)...and he said "for us to make this work, everything's going to have to be perfect. We're going to have to turn a profit within six months, and we told Frank that this was not realistic; our people had projected it would take 12 to 18 months. This place has to be a cash cow right off the bat, because the debt load is huge. I'd never seen those numbers before, I'd only seen Opryland's numbers. I swear that if I had seen McCourt's, I'd have never called you to fly in here for that interview."
So, we opened the doors, and the place was packed all the time, overflowing, through November and December. But, of course, then winter came, and with it diminished numbers, within Opryland's expectations, but not what Frank needed.
Opryland turned over the bill paying to the McCourt organization in May, 1989, after six months of operation, per their agreement, and within two months, vendors were telling me they were not being paid. Finally, Opryland went to McCourt, and said if Frank would get a bank note guaranteeing return within two years, Opryland would foot all the operating losses for up to one million dollars for the next 12 months. (Opryland had a lot of management know-how, prestige, and money tied up in the project, including using it as a venue for the Nashville Network for filming shows like "Wolfman Jack's Rock N Roll Memories", etc. They did not want it to go down, and thought it was still possible to make the venue work with some trimming.)
McCourt was either unwilling or unable to do so, and so, in August 1989, Opryland called his bluff, and closed the doors. McCourt was never able to reopen the facility, he and Opryland sued each other, lots of Baltimore businesses lost a lot of money in unpaid bills (a personal friend who was my rep for our paper supply company told me they lost $45,000), and no other firm was able to move in and make it work (he tried to reopen the doors twice, but never managed to do so.) Frank finally "sold" the building back to the city of Baltimore for one dollar, after years of fruitless attempts to reopen. (It is now the city's Ch*ldren's museum.)
It's chilling to read that Dodger execs resigned because the McCourt/Dodger plan, as they see it, requires everything to follow a best case scenario, because of the massive debt load of McCourt's purchase.
It reminds me of the day 16 years ago an ashen-faced friend came to me to tell me how our own project was going to go under because of the financing of one Frank McCourt.


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:31 am 
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if that whore and the pillsbury doughboy manage to wrest away control of the team anything is possible. i remember a different whore that murdered her husband and stole my football team. :twisted:
:D Damnit Da Dodgers are pissing LaDiablo off :!: sorry that they suck , they do not play the game like there mgr Joe Torre did :!: Torre was one Hell of a ball player and is a good human being :!:


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now we dump pierre for scrap and pay half his salary. tell me this is not happening. a once proud franchise being decimated by a divorce. Phuck mannion, mccourt and the whores they rode in on. :twisted:


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PostPosted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:38 pm 
:D good news Ding Dong just got hired on to consult for Da Dodgers :D so now you can count on them knowing everything :D :lol: :lol:


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heres pieces of an interview of ding dong by Bill Shaikin (LA Times). Mannion is slippery, but really doesn't provide any answers to the following:

We hear from you and Ned that it is "business as usual." Yet, that is becoming increasingly difficult for fans to believe, given the actions of a major-market team that just about broke even last season. In the last two years, in addition to the Wolf decision, the Dodgers have:

* Deferred more than $45 million in player salaries, most of that with Manny Ramirez

* Traded top prospects in lieu of picking up contracts

* Declined to bid on virtually every top free agent

* Declined to bid on top international prospects

* Spent fewer dollars than any other club in the last two drafts

* Delayed playoff ticket refunds this year

* Fired more than a dozen employees

* Didn't re-invest $19 million from the Jason Schmidt insurance payment and the Manny Ramirez suspension into baseball operations

* Deferred renovations to the loge and reserve levels, beyond center field and in the clubhouses

No one action raises a red flag, but doesn't the totality of events suggest the Dodgers are experiencing financial trouble?

Answer - blah blah blah: I think that you have to look at the degree of all those things and how big of an issue they really are... etc etc etc...
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Dark days for Dodger Blue! :evil:

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 8:37 pm 
:D Damn what a pathetic organization them and acorn are a disgrace to man kind :!: they will continue to win the west because it is the Weakest division :!: :idea: they are corrupt and crooked just like the fraudulent actions of our coward of the year noble peace prize for being worthless and actions unbecoming of a commander in chief of this great country :!:


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