Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
December 14, 2005
Selling the Braves

The Atlanta Braves may be for sale soon.

Forbes magazine estimated the Braves' value at $374 million in 2004.

I suspect that price went up this year. With the Washington Nationals about to sell for $450 million, one would think the Braves and their national sports network would be worth a lot more. It's Time for Time Warner to cash in.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:24 AM | Management | TrackBack (0)
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Thank God. As a Braves fan, I'm about tired of Time Warner. Let someone buy the team who cares about it more than as a corporate holding. $20 mil more in salary and no one ever wins the East again. Where have you gone Ted Turner?

Posted by: Lew at December 14, 2005 11:48 AM

I just hope for a flesh and blood owner as opposed to another faceless, soulless corporation

Posted by: high&tight at December 14, 2005 12:57 PM

Someone spot me $450M and I'll guarantee a perennial contender! Oh wait...

Posted by: Mike A. at December 14, 2005 02:03 PM

move them to las vegas.

Posted by: colin at December 16, 2005 02:20 PM

re: the Braves

The Yankees are allegedly worth $1 billion. CBS, in one of the dumbest deals in recent history, dumped the team for less than $10 million in the 70s, and Steinbrenner put up less than $5million cash as a 50% partner, which ends up being a return on investment of unbelievable, staggering proportions, the greatest sports investment in history, better than buying Babe Ruth.

The Braves should be worth so much more with their "14 division straight titles" which is really 3 straight West titles 1991-93, including a tie with SF in 93, followed by Montreal winning the East in the strike year of 1994, followed by Atlanta winning the East 1995-2005 inclusive, which is 11 straight titles, not 14.

That math was always a little hinky.

And let's not forget, that's 1 for 14 in the World Series winning department. If the Yankees had done that poorly, batting .071 in World Series competition, Steinbrenner would have fired Bobby Cox about four years into the playoff run and inserted Joe Torre.

Bobby Cox is like those Dodger managers from 41-54 who won the pennant every year but coudn't win the World Series. He doesn't know how to manage in the post-season.

Jim Fregosi managed circles around him in the 1993 NL Championship Series, to take one example. Cox has been outmanaged many times in the postseason.

That doesn't take away from his greatness. He's just not the ultimate manager for my alltime ballclub.

--arthur j kyriazis

Posted by: arthur j kyriazis at December 16, 2005 07:30 PM
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