Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
January 29, 2004
The Balls in McCourt

Frank McCourt has been approved to buy the Dodgers:


"Welcome to a new era of Dodger baseball," McCourt said during a news conference at Dodger Stadium. "I intend to restore the glory days of Dodger baseball with a team worthy of support from our fans."

The price is the second-highest for a baseball team, trailing only the $660 million paid for the Boston Red Sox two years ago. The highly leveraged purchase, likely to be finalized within a week, probably will set off the third change in management in six years for the marquee franchise, which hasn't advanced to the playoffs since 1996.


He's missed most of the good free agents, so I wouldn't expect the Dodgers offense to get much better this season. My guess is that by the end of the season, this will be a very different Dodgers organization.


Posted by David Pinto at 06:50 PM | Management | TrackBack (1)
Comments

Make a run at Pudge!! Please! He still hasn't signed officially...at least make it interesting, for Pudge's sake!

Posted by: Daniel at January 29, 2004 10:29 PM

No Pudge nor Jeremy Giambi can fix humpty dumpty now. Although, Maglio Ordonez couldn't hurt. It's hard work being a Dodger Fan these days.

Posted by: hoyt at January 30, 2004 12:38 AM

hoyt, you couldn't have said a truer phrase. I'm reminded of the dearth of anything good between 1966 and 1974. Bleah.

Posted by: Linkmeister at January 30, 2004 01:05 AM