Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
January 12, 2009
Deal or no Deal

Jeff Moorad's buy of the Padres doesn't look like a real buy to Shysterball.

So Moores is still going to call the shots and still be Selig's man in San Diego. I'm no expert, but from where I'm sitting, this is less a sale than it is a simple cash infusion for the Padres. I wonder if Moorad's bid would have been approved if he actually wanted to run the team now. I kind of doubt it, and all of this strikes me as Moorad being allowed to enter a kind of ownership training program in exchange for bailing out the cash poor Moores. As everyone knows, the impetus for the sale is Moores' divorce. In light of Moores selling but kinda not really selling, I wonder if the Mrs. Moores divorce attorneys won't try to blow up or at least slow down this deal so that they might determine if any financial shenanigans are involved.

I have to agree here. While I would think Mrs. Moores would be happy to get the cash equivalent, she may want to inflict as much pain on her husband as possible and get him out of the Padres altogether. The drama is not over.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:43 AM | Owners | TrackBack (0)
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