Posted on 04/30/2014 5:01:04 PM PDT by dennisw
To heck with Oprah, Larry Ellison, Magics Johnsons, David Geffen and the others. We freepers can do a better job. TV just said the Bunny Ranch owner is putting in a bid. If he can then so can Free Republic. Lets get in on the action before AlGore and Rush Limbaugh put in their bids!
And best of all we would not run the team like a plantation!
It would show him that if you are the right color racist you can do whatever you want!
The NBA would never allow a Conservative group to buy one of their teams..just like the NFL didnt allow Rush Limbaugh to buy a team
NYC has one too many teams...
There should be no NHL Teams below the Mason-Dixon Line.
Thanks Helicopter Ben!!! (Bernanke)
Last time I checked they strongly suggested he sell it. He may want to anyway. That doesn’t mean he won’t get top dollar. Two moderate franchises just went for really high prices.
Ping...
Please note: I didn’t say he wouldn’t get a lot for it. I said that the sale would be below market value, by definition. By that, I meant that Sterling was not a willing seller. He never gave any indication of being interested in a sale before this scandal broke, and was consequently ordered to divest himself of the franchise. That may change, and he might become a willing seller — in which case the sale is no longer forced (again, by definition).
This isn’t about free speech, so much as it is about property rights.
You need to read more closely. Sterling hasn’t been forced to sell anything. The commissioner said he was going to suggest Sterling sell the team. Silver did not say he was going to be forced to sell the team. So your contention is inaccurate.
At what point does “strongly suggested” become “ordered”. Perhaps I made too many assumptions there. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. There are a lot of very rich franchise owners — they won’t like actions that could turn around and bite them.
I was composing #31, while you were composing #30.
The middle class aren’t attending games very much these days.
Most of the pro attendance is business expense accounts and politicians with “comp” tickets.
Is that downpayment on your first ticket??
We'll see. Doesn'tr Sterling have the right to appeal this whole decision? Maybe his lifetime will be banned?
I see your 100 and raise you 500.
I suggest we stay out of the big 4 pro sports, baseball, basketball, hockey and football, and instead buy a racehorse at a yearling sale and name him Jimrobinson.
Yeah, you’re right, and that probably squelches my idea on post #37 about the FR thoroughbred. We would inevitably have to deal with comments by the loathsome Bob Costas at Kentucky Derby time.
I tried to pool FReepers together to buy Smith & Wesson years ago. Only $38 million then. Only 380 of us in for $100,000 each.
A big no go.
That same 380 would have to pony up $2 million each for this hot load.
> The middle class aren’t attending games very much these days.
Most of the pro attendance is business expense accounts and politicians with “comp” tickets.
Hell who can afford the tickets except rich liberals and presidential, elitest types....: )
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