in late 2003, 2004. few bidders. frank mccord put together a bid basically leveraged to the hilt, his entire construction career in boston is built on leverage and litigation. we should point that out. darren is right there. he is litigious. society the only other bid was a late 12th hour bid by eli in los angeles for the dodgers. fox wanted to dump that piece of property, the dodgers, bay it didn t fit with them so badly that s how he got it. darren, if at some point we know baseball just did this with the texas ranger, then created an auction. how nolan ryan led a group there, now owns, runs the texas rangers, a part owner there. what is the dodgers value as long as that tv contract doesn t get approved? what is the dodgers real world value? forget the mess right now that mccourt s created and how much money he actually has in the team. if they put it on the auction block? you know the business of sports well. it s what someone will pay for
i am, where i m at so i can find a way to get to my hotel here in san francisco. i m just saying. some parts of it we like. a long time coming, but yesterday the commissioner of major league baseball used a clause called in the best interests of baseball, bud selig, initiated a hostile takeover of the los angeles dodgers. the team had been in financial limbo thanks to mismanagement on the parts of the controversial owners who are locked in a bitter divorce battle with the dodgers caught in the middle. we re joined now by msnbc contributor baseball enthusiast mark barn icle and darren rovel. thank you both. mark, start with you. a long time coming as far as bud selig is concerned. he used a part of the baseball rules, clause called the best interests of baseball. i would ask this. what took him so long? well i think it was building,