Two Weeks Ago…..
Bud Selig paced anxiously in his office, trying to come up with a better solution. The report in the New York Times was damning, and there didn’t seem to be any other option at this point. The Dodgers had been on their way up, back to one of the main forces in baseball. After the disastrous reign of Frank McCourt, Guggenheim Partners seemed to be bringing the team back to the spotlight and respectability. But now that it’s been found out that their CEO, Mark Walter has ties with the Russian mafia, the franchise looked to be put back in turmoil. It’s clear that this partnership had to end with immediate effect. He needed a buyer, someone willing to spend the $2.15 billion Guggenheim Partners paid for the team last year. There were only a few people that would be able to pay that kind of money, and might have interest in doing it.
He thought of Donald Trump, but Trump was a huge Yankees fan, and that just wouldn’t fly with Dodgers fans, and he didn’t think Trump would want the franchise anyway. Bill Gates is not a sports guy, so that was off the table. He could look to the oil money in the Middle East, but didn’t want to risk any more potential controversy. Sighing, he picked up the phone and made the call.
Present Day
Mark Cuban sat at the desk in his new office, and looked at the walls that were covered in photos of great Dodgers players of years past. He looked at the images of Sandy Koufax, Jackie Robinson, Orel Hershiser, Mike Pizza, and Don Drysdale, all smiling and wearing the Dodgers blue and white. Johnson got up, and went to each picture one by one, picking it off the wall, and placing them in an open cabinet. He was tired of this franchise looking back at the past and accepting that those were the glory days of the team. He was not here to appreciate the past, he was here to make something of the present.
He didn’t care about the history of the franchise and what they accomplished 40 years ago. He had spent $2 billion of his own money on this team to be part of a winner. Those photos would not go back on the wall until they were joined by pictures of present day World Champion Dodgers players. And damn it, that better be this year.
Bud Selig paced anxiously in his office, trying to come up with a better solution. The report in the New York Times was damning, and there didn’t seem to be any other option at this point. The Dodgers had been on their way up, back to one of the main forces in baseball. After the disastrous reign of Frank McCourt, Guggenheim Partners seemed to be bringing the team back to the spotlight and respectability. But now that it’s been found out that their CEO, Mark Walter has ties with the Russian mafia, the franchise looked to be put back in turmoil. It’s clear that this partnership had to end with immediate effect. He needed a buyer, someone willing to spend the $2.15 billion Guggenheim Partners paid for the team last year. There were only a few people that would be able to pay that kind of money, and might have interest in doing it.
He thought of Donald Trump, but Trump was a huge Yankees fan, and that just wouldn’t fly with Dodgers fans, and he didn’t think Trump would want the franchise anyway. Bill Gates is not a sports guy, so that was off the table. He could look to the oil money in the Middle East, but didn’t want to risk any more potential controversy. Sighing, he picked up the phone and made the call.
Present Day
Mark Cuban sat at the desk in his new office, and looked at the walls that were covered in photos of great Dodgers players of years past. He looked at the images of Sandy Koufax, Jackie Robinson, Orel Hershiser, Mike Pizza, and Don Drysdale, all smiling and wearing the Dodgers blue and white. Johnson got up, and went to each picture one by one, picking it off the wall, and placing them in an open cabinet. He was tired of this franchise looking back at the past and accepting that those were the glory days of the team. He was not here to appreciate the past, he was here to make something of the present.
He didn’t care about the history of the franchise and what they accomplished 40 years ago. He had spent $2 billion of his own money on this team to be part of a winner. Those photos would not go back on the wall until they were joined by pictures of present day World Champion Dodgers players. And damn it, that better be this year.
Greinke Was Dominant In His Dodgers Debut
Hanley Ramirez Had The Only Home Run For The Dodgers In The Series
Adrian Gonzalez hit his first home run of the season in the series opener
Game 3 was the Matt Kemp show
Venable was the hero in the series opener
Hitting 3 home runs was not enough for the win 
Gonzalez is finally heating up
Dodgers hitters were frustrated until the 8th inning
Kershaw was brilliant through 7 innings
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