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Malcolm Glazer has a tentative deal to buy the Dodgers and Dodger Stadium from News Corp., reports Reuters and CBS Sportsline. The price is said to be between $400 and $450 million. The deal still needs approval from baseball owners and the NFL, whose Tampa Bay team Glazer owns. I'm not sorry that the winner isn't Alan Casden, who wanted to demolish the stadium and move it downtown, but Jeff Smulyan might have been interesting. Not just because of the Los Angeles Magazine connection (he owns it through Emmis Communications), but think of the synergy potential with Emmis' hottest asset here: Big Boy at Power 106 (KPWR).
Assuming the cross-ownership rules get ironed out with the NFL, this figures to be good news for LA sports fans. News Corp. has been an unqualified disaster running the Dodgers, and, as the previous poster noted, Glazer will probably use his ownership of the stadium land to build a football-only stadium next door. One way to get around the parking problems (and there will be problems) is to start a shuttle service with the new Gold Line stop a half mile away.
Posted by: Steve Smith at July 29, 2003 12:49 PMThe big downside to Glazer -- I meant to say this in the post -- is that he's a football guy. In my opinion, the baseball mentality and the NFL mentality should never mix.
Posted by: Kevin Roderick at July 29, 2003 12:49 PMI agree, Steve. Can hardly do worse running the team than Rupert's minions did.
Posted by: Kevin Roderick at July 29, 2003 01:02 PMGlazer would be an improvement on NewsCorp, but there's an irony here no one has commented on--
Didn't the O'Malley family want to build a football stadium at Chavez Ravine, and wasn't the city's refusal to allow it one of the reasons they sold the Dodgers to Murdoch?
Posted by: smirkin at July 29, 2003 01:12 PMPlease.Let us not have anyone,I mean anyone tear down Dodger Stadium and build a football stadium at Chavez Ravine.One can see the powers at work here.Build a football stadium at the Dodger Stadium site and you might have more events for that horrid sport called soccer more than NFL games there.You would all kinds of soccer matches there for the large latino populace that surrounds Dodger Stadium.The NFL would be an afterthought.The Los Angeles Times,no doubt,might have a hand in all of this.The paper was solidly behind the Alan Casden fiasco.
Just where would one build the new ballpark for the Dodgers if they left Chavez Ravine for downtown Los Angeles?There is hardly any room for an outdoor ballpark there.Would public funds be needed to build the park?How is Glazer going to pull that off?An 42,000 seat ballpark for the Dodgers means higher ticket prices for the games and less seating for the real Dodger fans.This kind of ballpark might work in Cleveland or San Francisco but not here.
That is why major league baseball is getting cold feet about giving the Dodgers to Glazer.The owners see all the negatives about selling the team to him and the current legal problems about cross ownership is just a smoke screen.If Glazer or Casden get their way baseball would die in Los Angeles,and the owners aren't willing to risk that kind of an gamble on the game's future in this way.
Posted by: Bob at September 24, 2003 05:04 PM
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On these websites it shows Paul signing balls - not sure what it means but this
person who built the site is probably in violation of several things by doing
this.
www.monsterbuilt.com
www.satdepot.com
Thanks!
"A Loyal Fan"
ps: Have Paul let them have it!!
This Brett character is out for revenge. Earl has permission and personally filmed the COA, created the footage and developed the web code.
The content was filmed in person with Paul LoDuca on Nov 24th 2001 for the purpose used.
http://www.modemnet.com/coa.htm
Regards.
Posted by: Earl - Web Developer at October 23, 2003 03:09 PM
of LA Observed
According to the article, Glazer is considering building a football stadium on Chavez Ravine. To this I say: NO!!! Dodger Stadium is one of the nicest parks in all of baseball, it would be a tragedy to replace it with some stupid football stadium. But perhaps they just mean to build it next door, there is probably room if they get creative with the parking...
Posted by: Ted at July 29, 2003 12:15 PM