It was reported last night that 'Magic' Johnson a Hall of Fame Basketball Player with the Los Angeles Lakers, a studio analyst for ESPN, and a business mogul. Now in the portfolio of one Magic Johnson is countless Fat Burgers, Starbucks, and Movie Theaters, are the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Very happy to Dodger fans everywhere as now they have an owner to be proud of and an owner who ultimately help the Dodgers to become relevant (by relevant, I mean competitive) in baseball. Major League Baseball is better when the Dodgers are relevant. However, it has to be a bittersweet day for Dodger fans. Because yes... the bad man Frank McCourt can't hurt you anymore... but... he definitely got over on you.
McCourt bought the Dodgers, used them as an ATM Machine, financed a wealthier lifestyle than his previous Boston Based Parking Garage would have ever allowed him, gave his kids jobs earning millions for nothing. Basically he treated your beloved franchise like a woman of the night, without so much as leaving a tissue paper to clean up the mess. He didn't spend to keep your team competitive, he put your safety in jeopardy, he really hurt the credibility of the Dodgers. Magic really does have his a lot of work to do to help restore the image. Plunking down 2 Billion Dollars is just the beginning. But where McCourt gets over is, he will walk away a richer man for pissing on the heritage of the Dodgers than he did before he purchased the team. And he'll continue to get paid for you Dodger fans when you frequent the shopping centers, or the parking lot.McCourt paid $430 million in 2004 to buy the team, Dodger Stadium and 250 acres of land that include the parking lots, from the Fox division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., a sale that left the team with about $50 million in cash at the time. The team's debt stood at $579 million as of January, according to a court filing, so McCourt stands to make hundreds of millions of dollars even after a $131 million divorce payment to former wife Jamie, taxes and legal and banking fees.Yahoo Sports
Frank McCourt says to you Dodgers, the City of Los Angeles, and more importantly Dodgerfans... "I drink your Milkshake, I drink it up!!!"
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