Transfer of Padres from Moores to Moorad may NOT get approved

He thought the deal was basically done, so he felt free to disclose information that he had been keeping off the air for a while. He said that there were a bunch of “people” (presumably including some other owners) who wanted to see Moorad fail. They assumed his ownership group wouldn’t be able to come up with all of the money to purchase the team and they don’t want an ownership group that’s just barely scraping by on funds.

He said the people (owners) that are against the Moorad group basically fall into two groups: (1) people who are gun-shy about letting a group own a team without significant financial backing because of what just happened to the Dodges and (2) people who don’t like Moorad for various reasons — he may have burned some of these other owners as an agent and they may be carrying a personal vendetta against him.

The other owners really like John Moores and it was presumed that if Moorad could come up with (a) the full amount of money and (b) an endorsement from Moores, that the transfer would be approved. Moorad had both as of Monday. It’s looking like even an endorsement from Moores isn’t enough to convince everyone.

Moorad must have tried a few of those burger places and didn’t grab napkins.

I guess that they do approve. But if they don’t it seems detrimental to baseball overall. Why force an owner who wants out to stay around when he approves of a new owner that has the money?

That’s why he’s not invited to “The Club”

Could be a problem, though, you’d think they’d have said it would be a problem a few years ago unless they were sure he wouldn’t complete a deal.

Say you’re the Steinbrenners or John Henry. Over the past three seasons the Padres group has put almost nothing into their on-field product. Meanwhile, they’re collecting tens of millions of dollars in revenue sharing. This ownership group is scraping together every last dime they have in order to pay for the team. Also consider that once they assume ownership of the team, it comes with something like 100 or 200 million dollars in stadium debt. Does it seem like payroll will be jumping up any time soon? No, they’ll probably be collecting revenue sharing dollars for the foreseeable future.

I can absolutely understand why other owners would be hesitant about this. Especially when you look at the mess that was just created by the Dodgers.

On the one hand, the owners don’t want someone like Mark Cuban who will spend like crazy in order to win, but on the other hand they don’t want to create a financially unstable franchise that will struggle to pay its bills and earn money for the league.

What happens if they kill the deal and the next guy offers Moores less for the team? That could get ugly.

but allowed a debt-ridden multimillionaire to buy the Dodgers. The Padres and their “layaway” consortium are NOW making them nervous? It’s a bell that cannot be unrung, so why not let the sale go through?

This could set them back five years.

Is maybe something that the rest of the group of owners see as being a bit out of Moorad’s league. Sure…. he made a few million as an agent, but there’s a big difference between him and, say, Jerry Jones, Mark Cuban, or John Moores. Maybe this is a case of a fraternity not necessarily wanting to let a guy in who doesn’t necessarily belong rubbing elbows with guys that are miles beyond him, class-wise. I’m not saying it’s nice of them… but I’d understand.

to get out of his ownership.

is that a question of approval by the other owners was never brought up previous to this…I smell a rat.

Leave it to Selig to make things difficult…

Is it plugged in?

Which may mean that the owners wanted to see the Fox money first……

THEY’RE ALL IN THIS THING TOGETHER!!!!

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Will they allow The Padres to conduct business and complete the television deal, or is that frozen until everything is resolved.

This is the second time in the past three owners’ meetings that the sale of an MLB club has been pulled from the agenda prior to it moving forward for approval. In August at Cooperstown, N.Y., Jim Crane’s proposed purchase of the Astros from Drayton McLane was tabled so that MLB could gather more information about the group Crane assembled to execute the deal. It was placed back on the agenda and passed unanimously in November in Milwaukee after Crane agreed to move the Astros from the National League Central to the American League West effective with the 2013 season.

Selig said he envisioned the Moorad purchase to be quickly concluded and approval could be accomplished via conference call rather than have it wait for the next owners’ meetings in May in New York.

Jerry fcuking Reinsdorf and the D-Bag organization.

My balls, Jerry. You may suck them. Long and hard. You piece of $hit.

Guess what, D-Bags? I rubbed my taint on your coffee mugs. That’s what gives your morning cup of joe that “earthy aroma.”