Sad day for Dodger fans

[skyhoya]

Don't you Just love divorces, the Dodgers filed for bankruptcy today

[HometownHoya]

Quick question for all you lawyers: Why is it that they filed in Delaware?

More favorable bankruptcy laws?

As for the team, as long as they are playing well, I think they will be fine. Baseball needs the Dodgers in LA. Someone out there will want to buy the team. I really wish that the MLB would be allowed to "buy out" the Dodgers and sell them to new ownership.

[BubbleVisionBiff]

It would be fine with me if Jay-Z brought them back to Brooklyn.

[Boz]

5....4....3....2....1....

[skyhoya]

They are a Delaware Corporation, therefore they should file in Delaware. Delaware has traditionally had the most favorable corporation laws and courts

[hoyasaxa2003]

Jun 27, 2011 10:34:29 GMT -5 HometownHoya said:

Quick question for all you lawyers: Why is it that they filed in Delaware?

More favorable bankruptcy laws?

One possibility is that the Dodgers are incorporated in Delaware, which would allow for filing in Delaware. Many major corporations incorporate in Delaware, even if their operations have absolutely no connection to the state. Delaware's corporate laws tend to be more developed and established than other states, which is beneficial from a business perspective.

[HometownHoya]

Ah, I think I've heard that before...thx sky and 2003

[hoyarooter]

It's a disgrace, and the McBrokes are a disgrace to proud Hoyas everywhere.

[FromTheBeginning]

If Dodger fans are lucky, Mark Cuban will pick up the pieces and do the same thing he did with the Mavs. He says he'll only be interested if he can see a way to succeed both financially and on the field.

[DanMcQ]

Just Manny seeking his $21M

[SFHoya99]

Jun 27, 2011 12:12:53 GMT -5 FromTheBeginning said:

If Dodger fans are lucky, Mark Cuban will pick up the pieces and do the same thing he did with the Mavs. He says he'll only be interested if he can see a way to succeed both financially and on the field.

He'd have to do it over Bud Selig's dead body.

[CTHoya08]

In other baseball news tangentially related to the Hoyas, I saw that Old Timers' Day at New Yankee Stadium was also "Syracuse University Appreciation Day."

WTF?

[nychoya3]

Jun 27, 2011 13:13:44 GMT -5 SFHoya99 said:

Jun 27, 2011 12:12:53 GMT -5 FromTheBeginning said:

If Dodger fans are lucky, Mark Cuban will pick up the pieces and do the same thing he did with the Mavs. He says he'll only be interested if he can see a way to succeed both financially and on the field.

He'd have to do it over Bud Selig's dead body.

Bonus!

[hoyarooter]

I saw an interview with Fay Vincent not long ago in which he said that Cuban would be a poor owner for MLB, because he causes trouble and focuses on himself so much.

I say booshwa. If MLB can tolerate George Steinbrenner, it can certainly handle Cuban. Come on down, Mark.

[TBird41]

Here's a good breakdown on the situation and why the Dodgers are why they are. As 'rooter said, Frank McCourt is a disgrace to Georgetown.

itsaboutthemoney.net/archives/2011/06/21/commissioner-selig-frank-mccourt-must-go-a-petition/

And regarding Selig's dead body, well, I'm no expert in bankruptcy, but I really hope that somehow the Dodger's filing takes the choice of who buys the Dodgers out of Selig's hands (I'm pretty sure that MLB had to pull some shenanigans to ensure that the Rangers didn't actually enter bankruptcy to avoid just that possibility, though I don't remember the details).

For a commissioner who has actually managed to make baseball better, it's pretty pathetic how hard it is to choose which of the many major scandals was the worst thing that happened under his watch. Just off the top of my head, there's this scandal (by a guy Selig picked to own one of the signature franchises), Steroids, the '94 strike, the Expos-Red Sox-Marlins sale, the tie All Star game. The fact that Selig seems to be so adamantly opposed to Cuban is why it's very obvious that Cuban would be a great owner since Selig cares more about picking his friends and people who will kowtow to him then he does about picking people that can actually afford to own a team and will attempt to win.

[DFW HOYA]

The sporting press has given Allen (Bud) Selig a pass through much of his tenure as baseball's worst commissioner since William Eckert. Never mind that he was essentially a member of the cabal that threw out Fay Vincent, or the huge conflcit of interest in that he de facto ran the Brewers while he was commissioner, Selig has stubbornly clung on to the job for about 10 years more than was absoutely necessary and no sucesssor has been cultivated.

[AustinHoya03]

Jun 27, 2011 23:18:13 GMT -5 TBird41 said:

Here's a good breakdown on the situation and why the Dodgers are why they are. As 'rooter said, Frank McCourt is a disgrace to Georgetown.

itsaboutthemoney.net/archives/2011/06/21/commissioner-selig-frank-mccourt-must-go-a-petition/

And regarding Selig's dead body, well, I'm no expert in bankruptcy, but I really hope that somehow the Dodger's filing takes the choice of who buys the Dodgers out of Selig's hands (I'm pretty sure that MLB had to pull some shenanigans to ensure that the Rangers didn't actually enter bankruptcy to avoid just that possibility, though I don't remember the details).

For a commissioner who has actually managed to make baseball better, it's pretty pathetic how hard it is to choose which of the many major scandals was the worst thing that happened under his watch. Just off the top of my head, there's this scandal (by a guy Selig picked to own one of the signature franchises), Steroids, the '94 strike, the Expos-Red Sox-Marlins sale, the tie All Star game. The fact that Selig seems to be so adamantly opposed to Cuban is why it's very obvious that Cuban would be a great owner since Selig cares more about picking his friends and people who will kowtow to him then he does about picking people that can actually afford to own a team and will attempt to win.

All this from a Twins fan and no mention of "contraction?"

news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/200203/26_collinsb_mlb/

[TBird41]

Jun 27, 2011 23:51:06 GMT -5 AustinHoya03 said:

Jun 27, 2011 23:18:13 GMT -5 TBird41 said:

Here's a good breakdown on the situation and why the Dodgers are why they are. As 'rooter said, Frank McCourt is a disgrace to Georgetown.

itsaboutthemoney.net/archives/2011/06/21/commissioner-selig-frank-mccourt-must-go-a-petition/

And regarding Selig's dead body, well, I'm no expert in bankruptcy, but I really hope that somehow the Dodger's filing takes the choice of who buys the Dodgers out of Selig's hands (I'm pretty sure that MLB had to pull some shenanigans to ensure that the Rangers didn't actually enter bankruptcy to avoid just that possibility, though I don't remember the details).

For a commissioner who has actually managed to make baseball better, it's pretty pathetic how hard it is to choose which of the many major scandals was the worst thing that happened under his watch. Just off the top of my head, there's this scandal (by a guy Selig picked to own one of the signature franchises), Steroids, the '94 strike, the Expos-Red Sox-Marlins sale, the tie All Star game. The fact that Selig seems to be so adamantly opposed to Cuban is why it's very obvious that Cuban would be a great owner since Selig cares more about picking his friends and people who will kowtow to him then he does about picking people that can actually afford to own a team and will attempt to win.

All this from a Twins fan and no mention of "contraction?"

news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/200203/26_collinsb_mlb/

I knew I was forgetting something. Probably just my subconscious trying to protect my sanity by suppressing that memory

[lichoya68]

tbird subconscious repressed memory HUH whats all that psycho bablle man whats THAT go hoyas dodgers sounds like a mess for sure

[skyhoya]

why didn't the dodgers build a practice facility on campus to support the HOYAS? That would have been a much better use of the funds than buying mansions near the playboy mansion.