Tipsheet: Chapter 11 won't end well for Dodgers
: “At dawn Monday, hours after they’d sent their fans home from Dodger Stadium with a walkoff win, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced they were bankrupt, forced into it by Major League Baseball and commissioner Bud Selig . They are The Boys of Chapter 11, a once-glorious franchise and now collateral damage in standoffs between their owner Frank McCourt and the commissioner, between McCourt and his ex-wife Jamie, and, possibly, between a Delaware bankruptcy judge and baseball. Following months of maneuvering in the wake of his divorce and weeks of bickering over proposed television rights funding with Selig, McCourt chambered and fired his last live round, just days before Selig was poised to seize the Dodgers.”Danny Knobler , CBSSports.com : “Here in Southern California, Dodger fans are wondering if everything finally collapses this week when McCourt can't meet his payroll obligations. He needs to come up with $30 million by Thursday. The new debt includes a whopping deferred payment to ( Manny ) Ramirez , who still has a bundle coming on his two-year, $45 million pact. Dodgers vice chairman Steve Soboroff , hired by McCourt two months ago to reconnect the Dodgers with the Los Angeles community, resigned on Saturday. It's a complete disaster. Selig needs to untangle himself from the McCourts as fast as possible, but he's dealing with folks who love litigation as much as Charles Barkley loves cookies. Bet Frank sues MLB any day now.”
David Whitley , FanHouse: “The bankruptcy filing completes a triple crown for baseball. The three biggest markets are in financial and baseball ruin. Please take off your cap and observe a moment of silence for New York, Chicago and L.A. -- Larry, Curly and Moe. There are a million reasons why we’re here, but the explanation always starts at the top. Good franchises have good owners; bad ones have Frank McCourt.”
Ramona Shelburne , ESPN.com : “ ‘The Dodgers’ are bigger than Frank McCourt. They are a brand built by decades of great players, managers, executives and owners. They are a team with a storied history, having created memories a judge can never divide up. I've never been able to figure out whether McCourt just doesn't get that or whether he does and simply doesn't care.”
Bill Plaschke , Los Angeles Times: “The Dodgers are not broke. Do not believe the message coming from Monday's legal maneuverings. Do not get sucked into the horror of the word ‘bankruptcy,’ or the doom associated with their owner declaring it. The Dodgers are not broke. It is Frank McCourt who is broke. His schemes are broke. His understanding of this franchise is broke. His ties to Los Angeles are broke. The Dodgers are not broke. The Dodgers are bigger than broke. The Dodgers pulse too deeply through a city's soul to ever be broke.
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Busch led a race-high 76 laps at Infineon Raceway and beat Jeff Gordon by almost four seconds for his first win of the season. Busch was winless in 10 career starts at Sonoma and Watkins Glen, the only two road courses on the circuit.
BUSCH: AFTER LAST YEAR'S FINISH AND JEFF GORDON NOT APOLOGIZING, IS WINNING THE BEST REVENGE? “Yeah, and to see that he finished second. It was a definite boost at the end of the end day to see him come home second and to come out on top.
In his last-ditch attempt to maintain control of the Dodgers, cash-strapped owner Frank McCourt threw the whole enterprise into bankruptcy. Tim Brown, Yahoo!
Photo By Tricia SpauldingState Journal/Tricia Spaulding Jeff Gordon is an engineer on a tug boat and is a Frankfort resident. Jeffrey Gordon stands next to the engine of “The Walter Brunson” tugboat in the mid 1990s.
Gordon was in town the day before race weekend to hand off a check for $10000 on behalf of the Drive to End Hunger, an effort made up of Jeff Gordon, AARP and AARP Foundation, to the Food Bank of South Central Michigan. 06-16-2011 Jeff Gordon gallery
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