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| Da Mets |
   
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0 | 0% |
| Da Yanks |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Les Expos |
  
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4 | 22.22% |
| Houston Minute Maids |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Sox (either or both) |
  
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1 | 5.56% |
| Florida (in general) |
  
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5 | 27.78% |
| SF Giant Atheists |
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0 | 0% |
| Philly Fillies |
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0 | 0% |
| Nintendo M's |
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0 | 0% |
| KC's sunshine band |
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2 | 11.11% |
| Zelig and the brew crew |
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2 | 11.11% |
| Other NL |
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2 | 11.11% |
| Other AL |
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2 | 11.11% |
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#2
07-11-2002, 01:28 PM
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The Tigers. Brand new stadium, which Illitch paid for, with no one coming to watch this awful team. They were dumping salary when they traded Weaver. Higginson will be next.
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07-11-2002, 01:35 PM
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Arizona Diamondbacks. MLB made several loans to the Dbacks last year to help them make payroll, so I'm guessing MLB is going to refuse to help them out.
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#4
07-11-2002, 01:43 PM
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http://espn.go.com/mlb/news/2002/0710/1404343.html
Run-down: A "highly-placed source" has said one of the teams is the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Zelig has said one of the teams will surprise you (there's two in trouble)... I'm guessing this is not the surprising one. But maybe it is? Furthermore, the article says Detroit says "not us."
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#5
07-11-2002, 01:43 PM
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That's why rich people and corporations own baseball teams. Perhaps someone needs to check the financial backgrounds.
Do any of these owners think that a baseball team is always independently viable? What a load of crap. Selig says this, but doesn't back it up. Assuming it's true, I'm guessing Tigers and Pirates. Two new places, not selling as well as they should, and interest payments must be made.
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#8
07-11-2002, 04:09 PM
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Wait until the accounting scandals hit the paper from this mess.
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07-11-2002, 05:23 PM
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What accounting scandal? This is about real money.
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07-11-2002, 05:44 PM
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I too was wondering what Bud would consider the surprising team.
D-Backs might be surprising, but they've had cash flow problems already. Maybe Bud thinks we'd be surprised, shows how little he respects the interested fans. They should have pulled a Marlins if they were only in it for the one trophy. Whoever buys them (no, they're not for sale, but if they can't meet payroll, perhaps someone needs to buy the franchise -- at a nice discounted rate, heh-heh) should look at the deferred salaries. Paying off the World Champion's season 10 years from now might be difficult to swallow. Expos would be surprising, since we expect their payroll will be paid by MLB. Unless of course that's what MLB wants. And of course it is. Others I consider surprising: Yankees, Mariners, Dodgers, Angels, Red Sox, Cubs, Astros, Rangers (Rangers folding? That would be sweet. How much of A-Rod's salary is guaranteed even in bankruptcy?), Indians, Mets, Cardinals, Reds. Not surprising: Twins, Devil Rays, Marlins, Padres (are they drawing at all?), A's, Giants (big debt load -- not a seat can be empty). If a team can't pay its payroll, then MLB takes over and auctions it off to the highest financially qualified bidder.
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