ClipperBlog’s Arnovitz: I’m Not Going to Pay a Lot for this Z-Bo
Clean and classy and redolent of that new ballpark smell though they might be, New York’s new stadiums are already monuments to the (now disproved) belief that there would always somehow be a limitless...
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Cub Update: Suddenly, $500 Mil Looks Like a Lot of Money to the Recublicans
[Is this man the new owner of the Chicago Cubs? Tonight, $500 mil is the buy-in.] As I write this, the Cubs are currently 6-1 over Houston. Milton Bradley, his agents, and Cub GM Jim Hendry (on...
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Milton Bradley to Rangers, Rays, Mets, UFC?
[Cubs GM Jim Hendry, demonstrating just how much of Bradley's contract he could eat.] Who wants to pay Milton Bradley $21 million over two years? Or, how much of that $21 mil will Jim Hendry eat to...
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Can’t Stop the Bradley: Was Dumping MB More Important to Jim Hendry Than...
[Please pass the mustard: Milton Bradley's contract in hand, Cub GM Jim Hendry gets ready for a big lunch.] UPDATE (9:10 AM PST) rumor mill for Bradley now involves the Padres Heath Bell and Rockies...
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Investopedia, Your Sociopath to Success
[Lenny Dykstra: Hit with charges of sexual harassment, racism, and financial chicanery, yet claiming this week to be worth $100 million “ ah, nothing an hour of Suze Orman couldn't fix.] Hey, I like...
View ArticleD’Alessandro: NBA’s Newest Oligarch is “NBA Dumb,” And Everyone Seems Cool...
It’s not necessarily surprising, the combination of gawking curiosity and giddy suck-uppery with which not-so-faintly sketchy oligarch and new Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov has been greeted in the...
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Pay Mickey: Rangers Declare Voluntary Bankruptcy, Reveal Extent of...
I have pretty much gotten all the what’s-the-deal-with-owners ranting out of my system by this point, but the Texas Rangers’ voluntary declaration of bankruptcy today is a nice reminder that...
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Annals of Oligarch Outreach: Nets’ Billionaire-In-Chief Seeks To Tap S.N.O.B....
I burned a lot of pixels a few months back puzzling over the adulation that greeted the stateside arrival of shady Russian oligarch turned Avery Johnson-hiring, Travis Outlaw-overpaying shady Russian...
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“We Gave You The Beatles And This Is How You Repay Us:” Liverpool Fans Begin...
(if they wanna get nitpicky about it, we gave them Chrissie Hynde and Rich Hall, too) I don’t get a lot of emails from readers of the Wall Street Journal’s Daily Fix — the freelance gig at which I...
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Say It Ain’t So, Joad: The Wrigleyvillebillies Can’t Pay Off the Farm
(Pictured: The Ricketts family on Sunday, watching the Cubs lose in St. Louis, 3-2.) I expect this will sound familiar. An over-valued property is sold to a family who can’t afford it. They drown in...
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ClipperBlog’s Arnovitz: I’m Not Going to Pay a Lot for this Z-Bo
Clean and classy and redolent of that new ballpark smell though they might be, New York’s new stadiums are already monuments to the (now disproved) belief that there would always somehow be a limitless...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cub Update: Suddenly, $500 Mil Looks Like a Lot of Money to the Recublicans
[Is this man the new owner of the Chicago Cubs? Tonight, $500 mil is the buy-in.] As I write this, the Cubs are currently 6-1 over Houston. Milton Bradley, his agents, and Cub GM Jim Hendry (on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Milton Bradley to Rangers, Rays, Mets, UFC?
[Cubs GM Jim Hendry, demonstrating just how much of Bradley’s contract he could eat.] Who wants to pay Milton Bradley $21 million over two years? Or, how much of that $21 mil will Jim Hendry eat to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Can’t Stop the Bradley: Was Dumping MB More Important to Jim Hendry Than...
[Please pass the mustard: Milton Bradley’s contract in hand, Cub GM Jim Hendry gets ready for a big lunch.] UPDATE (9:10 AM PST) rumor mill for Bradley now involves the Padres Heath Bell and Rockies...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Investopedia, Your Sociopath to Success
[Lenny Dykstra: Hit with charges of sexual harassment, racism, and financial chicanery, yet claiming this week to be worth $100 million “ ah, nothing an hour of Suze Orman couldn’t fix.] Hey, I like...
View ArticleClik here to view.
D’Alessandro: NBA’s Newest Oligarch is “NBA Dumb,” And Everyone Seems Cool...
It’s not necessarily surprising, the combination of gawking curiosity and giddy suck-uppery with which not-so-faintly sketchy oligarch and new Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov has been greeted in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pay Mickey: Rangers Declare Voluntary Bankruptcy, Reveal Extent of...
I have pretty much gotten all the what’s-the-deal-with-owners ranting out of my system by this point, but the Texas Rangers’ voluntary declaration of bankruptcy today is a nice reminder that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Annals of Oligarch Outreach: Nets’ Billionaire-In-Chief Seeks To Tap S.N.O.B....
I burned a lot of pixels a few months back puzzling over the adulation that greeted the stateside arrival of shady Russian oligarch turned Avery Johnson-hiring, Travis Outlaw-overpaying shady Russian...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“We Gave You The Beatles And This Is How You Repay Us:” Liverpool Fans Begin...
(if they wanna get nitpicky about it, we gave them Chrissie Hynde and Rich Hall, too) I don’t get a lot of emails from readers of the Wall Street Journal’s Daily Fix — the freelance gig at which I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Say It Ain’t So, Joad: The Wrigleyvillebillies Can’t Pay Off the Farm
(Pictured: The Ricketts family on Sunday, watching the Cubs lose in St. Louis, 3-2.) I expect this will sound familiar. An over-valued property is sold to a family who can’t afford it. They drown in...
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