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June 28, 2011
Bring the Dodgers Home
The New York Sun
A loopy editorial from The Sun (which we thought had gone extinct a couple years ago) about bringing the Dodgers back to Brooklyn gets at least one geographical fact wrong (see the comment from Norman Oder), and includes this gem:
The idea behind the Marchman Plan, its author cabled us this morning, is that Mr. McCourt was able to run the team the way he has because he had no ties to it or to Los Angeles, where the Dodgers are currently based. Mr. McCourt was, after all, a parking lot magnate from, of all places, Boston. Mr. Marchman argues that New York “would never have tolerated the importation of some random undercapitalized guy from another city.”
NoLandGrab: Right, we'd never accept having some guy from, say, Cleveland, buy a team from, say, New Jersey, and then have to sell it to an oligarch from, say, Russia, in order to keep his boondoggle afloat. Nope, New York would never have put up with that.
Posted by eric at June 28, 2011 10:28 AM